LYTHRARIACEJE. 451 



4. Ginora L.^ — Flowers nearly of Nescea ; receptacle turbinate. 

 Sepals 5j 6, ovately acute; accessory teeth 0. Petals corrugately 

 imbricate. Stamens 12-24, inserted in tube of receptacle ; filaments 

 corrugate ; anthers oblong, reniform or hippocrepiform recurved. 

 Germen short depressed globose ; cells oftener 4 ; style slender, 

 finally erect exserted, at apex stigmatose capitellate. Ovules in cells 

 00 , inserted in axil of tumid placenta, ascending. Fruit girt at base 

 with calyx, capsular, globose coriaceous, loculicidally 4-valvate. 

 Seeds on tumid placentas co , small obovately cuneate ; testa thick ; 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo plano-convex auriculate ; radicle 

 short. — A glabrous shrub ; ramules 4-gonal ; leaves opposite, entire 

 petiolate; flowers ^ axillary solitary pedunculate; peduncle under 

 flower 2-bracteolate. (Guba.^) 



5. Dodecas L.* — Flowers nearly of Ginora, 4-merous ; receptacle 

 obconico-suburceolate, thin. Sepals 4, 3-angular, valvate ; accessory 

 teeth hardly perceptible or 0. Petals 4, inserted in hollows, obovate, 

 very thin, corrugate imbricate. Stamens 8-20, inserted at middle of 

 receptacular tube; filaments corrugate-plicate, finally exserted; 

 anthers oblong introrse, finally erect. Germen free, enclosed in re- 

 ceptacle, 4-locular; style slender plicate, presently erect, at apex 

 stigmatose subentire. Ovules in cells oo , inserted on thick placenta, 

 GO -seriate. Fruit capsular, finally sub-1-locular ; seeds oo , inserted 

 on spuriously central placenta, ascending, falcate, scobiform ; testa 

 hispid, produced on both sides ; cotyledons of slightly fleshy embryo 

 plane linear ; radicle terete. — Glabrous shrubs or small trees ; leaves 

 opposite entire ; flowers ^ axillary, solitary or few cymose, 2 -parous ; 

 pedicels under flower 2-bracteolate. {Shores of trojp. S. America.^) 



6. Adenaria H. B. K.^ — Flowers nearly of Ginoria, 4-5-merous; 



GuiLL. et Perr. FL Seneg. Tent. i. t. 69, 70.— "* Suppl. 36, 245.— J. Gen. 323.— E. 1A.-ey.Nov. 



Gbiseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 271.— Tul. A^m. Sc. Act. Nat. Cur. xii. 800.— DC. Prodr. iii. 91.— B. 



Nat. ser. 4, vi. 130. — Hiern, Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. H. Gen. 780, n. 13. — Orenea Atjbl. Guian. i. 523, 



ii. 470.— Harv. and Sond. i?';. Cap. ii. 517.— t. 209.— Lamk.Dw^. ii. 177 ; /^/. t. 407.— J. ^m. 



Walp. Rep. ii. 103 ; v. 674 ; Ann. iv. 688. 332.— DC. Prodr. iii. 90.— Endl. Gen. n. 6153. 



1 Gen. n. 605. — B. H. Gen. 780, n. 14. — Gino- ^ White, sometimes rather large. 



ria Jacq. St. Amer. t. 91.— J. Gen. 331.— DC. « Spec. 2 (?). G. F. W. Mey. Prim. Fl. Esseq. 



Prodr. iii. 91.— Endl. Qen. n. eido.—Genoria 186.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 270.— Walp. 



Pers. Synops. ii. 9. Rep. ii. 112. 



' Bluish, generally showy. 7 Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. 185, t. 549. — DC. Prodr. 



I Spec. 1, 2, of which 1, G. americana Jacq. iii. 91.— Endl. Gen. n. 6157.— B. H. Gen. 777, 



sa del Rio incol.) is most known. n. 6. — H.Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 354. 



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