L Y Til R ARIA CEM. 453 



from small crown lining base of receptacle, incurved at apex; anthers 

 short, introrsely 2rrimose. Germcn enclosed, subglandular at base ; 

 cells 2, GO -ovulate ; style at apex stigmatose very minutely 2-lobed. 

 Capsule enclosed in receptacle, oblong membranous, loculicidally 2- 

 valvate. Seeds oo , small, externally papillosely pilose ; embryo, etc., 

 of Lythrum. — A ramose shrub, more or less sprinkled with grey hairs 

 and dark glanduliform spots ; leaves opposite subsessile entire, 

 white beneath ; stipules 2, minute, very caducous ; flowers ' axillary, 

 solitary or oftener cymose or glome rulate ; bracts opposite. [Trojp. 

 south-east. Asia, Malacca, trop. east. Africa.'^) 



9. Cuphea P. Be.^ — Flowers irregular ; tube of receptacle elon- 

 gate, 6-12-costate, at posterior base gibbous or spurred. Sepals 6, 

 inserted in oblique mouth of tube, valvate ; accessory teeth same in 

 number (or 0). Petals 6 or 4-2 (sometimes 0), subequal or unequal ; 

 the posterior larger. Stamens generally 11, 2-seriate; 6 oppositipe- 

 talous smaller ; 5 alternipetalous ; the posterior wanting ; filaments 

 unequal (the posterior shorter) ; anthers small basifixed or sub-2- 

 dymous.* Disk around germen short or oftener posteriorly produced 

 to a descending spur-like glandule. Germen sessile, free at bottom 

 of receptacular tube, incompletely 2-locular; posterior cell oftener 

 smaller, sometimes sterile efi*ete; style slender incurved, at apex 

 stigmatose obtuse^ or capitate, obscurely 2-lobed. Ovules on placenta 

 adnate to septum or more or less free above,^ ascending;^ with micro- 

 pyle extrorsely inferior ;'^ either subdefinite (2-4), or often go . Emit 

 enclosed in receptacular tube, straight or oblique, dry, indehiscent, 

 or occasionally dehiscent, generally sub-1-locular. Seeds 1-go , in- 

 serted on spuriously free placenta, ascending, compressed smooth ; 



^ Yellowish-red, nearly of Cuphea. 179.— Melanium P. Br. Jam. 215. — Spreng. 



2 Spec. 1. W.Jloribunda Salisb. — Hiern, Oliv. Syst. ii. 443. —JParsonsia P. Br. op. cit. 199, t. 21, 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 481. — Grislea tomentosa Eoxb. fig. I.—Duvernaya Desp. (ex Endl.). — Banksia 

 Fl. Corom. i. 29, t. 31. — DC. Frodr. iii. 92, n. 2. Dome, (ex Endl. not R. Br.). — Balsamona 

 — MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 620.— Ttjl. Ann, Vandell. ex Ronm. Script. UO.—Melvilla An- 

 Sc. Nat. ser. 4, vi. 135. — Bot. Mag. t. 1906. — G. deks. Journ. Arts and Sc. (ex Lindl. Bat. Beg. 

 punctata Buchan. — G. unijlora A. Rich. Fl. t. 852). 



Abyss. Tent. i. 281, t. 52.— G'. multiflora A. Rich. "* Pollen depresso-ellipsoid, 3-plicate, 3-papil- 



— G. micropeiala Hochst. lose, unchanged in water. (H. Mohl, Ann. Sc. 



3 Jam. 216.— Jacq Hort. Vindob. ii. 83, 1. 177. Nat. ser. 2, iii. 331). 



— J. Gen. 332. — Poir. Diet. vi. t62 ; Suppl. v. * Sometimes tubular and hollow. 



22 ; III. t. 407.— DC. Prodr. iii. 83.— Spach, ^ Whence apparently partly free and spuri- 



Suit. a Briffon^ iv. 422. — Endl. Gen. n. 6151. — ously central in some species. 



Payer, Organog. 477, t. 95. — B. H. Gen. 778, n. '' Funicles erect unequal ; but the upper often 



9. — H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 355, — E. Koehne, more slender and longer. 



Bot. Zeit. (1873) 110 ; (1875) 291.— Barcianu, » With double coat. 



Sch. und Luerss. Mit. Ges. d. Bot. Bd ii. Hft i. 



