454 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo tliick suborbiculate or obcordate, 

 often auriculate at base ; radicle inferior sbort conical or lobed. — 

 Small shrubs, undershrubs, or oftener herbs, sometimes viscous, 

 glandular pilose; branches terete; leaves opposite or verticillate, 

 sometimes alternate, entire penninerved ; flowers ' solitary or race- 

 mose; peduncle axillary, lateral or oftener interpetiolate,^ bracteolate.^ 

 {Both trop. and subtrop. Americas.^) 



10. Antherylium Rohr and Yahl.^ — Flowers nearly of Grislea, 

 4-merous ; tube of receptacle obconical. Sepals 4, valvate; accessory 

 teeth 0. Petals 4, oblong, corrugately imbricate. Stamens l2-ao , 

 inserted at margin of thin disk lining tube ; filaments free slender ; 

 anthers curved. Germen free at bottom of receptacle ; cells 4, com- 

 plete or incomplete above, oppositipetalous ; style slender flexuose, 

 at apex stigmatose truncate. Ovules in cells oo , inserted on thick 

 placenta. Fruit capsular, at base stipate with calyx, large nozzled 

 above, membranous, sub-l-locular, septifragal ; seeds close minute. — 

 Glabrous trees or shrubs ; branches sometimes armed at nodes with 

 4 small spines ; leaves opposite or alternate petiolate entire ; flowers 

 axillary cymose, spuriously umbellate; pedicels under flower 2- 

 bracteolate. (Antilles, Mexico,^) 



11. Tetrataxis Hoox. f.^ — Flowers nearly of Antherylium (or 

 Grislea) apetalous, 4-merous ; calyx subcampanulate and externally 

 vertically angularly alate between lobes, 5 -fid, valvate, more or less 

 persistent. Stamens 4, alternating with lobes of calyx and inserted 

 in the hollows within it; filaments thick free exserted; anthers oblong, 

 2-locular. Germen free, sessile, 4-locular, 4-lobed above; style 

 simple, at apex stigmatose entire. Ovules in cells oo , oo -seriately 

 inserted on thick placentas, incompletely anatropous. Fruit exserted 



1 Eed, yellow, orange, violet, pijik, sometimes t. 404.— A. S.-H. FL Bras. Mer. iii. 94, t. 182- 

 pale purple or white. 185 ; Mem. Mm. ii. 37, t. 4, fig. 26-28.- H. B. 



2 Equi-distant from both leaves and super- K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. 196, t. 550-552. — Hook. 

 posed to axil below. Fxot. Fl. 1. 161.— Griseb. FL Brit. W.-Lid. 269. 



3 A genus very near to Lythrum, notwith- — Bot. Jieg. t. 852. — Bot. Mag. t. 2201, 2580, 

 standing the irregularity of the flower, inter- 4208, 4362.— Walp. i2^_p. ii. 105 ; v. 674; Ann. 

 mediaries being Anisote on the one hand, on the i. 294 ; ii. 540 ; iv. 689. 



other species of Cuphea in which the flower is ^ Skr. Nat. Selsk. FLafn. ii. p. i. 211, t. 8. — 



scarcely irregular. Subgenera 2 {Lythrocuphea, DC. Prodr. iii. 91. — Endl. Gen. n. 6158. — B. H. 



Eucuphea)^ ex Koehne {App. alt. sem. Hort. be- Gen. 782, n. 20. 



vol. ann. 1873), by whom the characters of the ^ Spec. 1, 2. Walp. Rep. ii. 112. 



sections and subsections are carefully enume- "^ Gen. 783, n. 23 (name being changed). — 



rated. Baker, Fl. Maurit. 100.— Tetradia Dup.-Th. 



^ Spec, about 88. J acq. Sort. Vindob. n. t. 177. ex Tul. Ann. Sc. Nat, ser. 4, vi. 137 (not R. 



— Cav, Ic. t. 380-382.— R. et Pav. Fl. Ber. iv. Br.). 



