48 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



22. Oxyspora DC.^ — Flowers 4-meroas ; receptacle cylindrical or 

 subcampanulate, externally glabrous. Sepals 4, 5, sometimes with 

 a small dorsal tooth. Petals pointed. Stamens 8-10, more or less 

 unequal, or very rarely 4; anthers curved, 1 -porous at apex, shortly 

 2-lobed at base ; connective at base more or less (sometimes very 

 shortly) spurred posteriorly. Germen 3, 4-celled, deeply adnate to 

 receptacle by septa or only at base (AUomorphia ^) ; style slender 

 declinate, at apex stigmatose punctiform. Capsules obovoid or sub- 

 clavate, enclosed in costate receptacle, 3, 4-valved ; seeds straight 

 subclavate angular; raphe lateral or subbasilar. — Shrubs or under- 

 shrubs, sometimes subscandent, glabrous or furfuraceous ; leaves 

 long-petiolate, wide, entire, sinuate or dentate, 5-7-nerved ; flowers ^ 

 in terminal or more rarely subradicle very compound ramose cymi- 

 ferous racemes. (India, Malaya^) 



23. Bredia Bl.^ — Flowers 4-merous ; receptacle turbinate or 

 subcampanulate. Sepals 4, obovate, contorted. Stamens 8, unequal; 

 anthers incurved linear-elongate, 1-porous at apex, connective sur- 

 rounded anteriorly by two setose appendages, and posteriorly by a 

 rather large or short tubercular spur (Barthea,^) Germen adnate to 

 receptacle to middle or higher by means of septa, 4-celled ; style 

 declinate, at apex stigmatose punctiform. Capsule 4-valved ; 

 seeds . . . ? — Shrubs, • sometimes climbing, glabrous or hirsute ; 

 leaves unequal petiolate, ovate or lanceolate, serrulate, 3-5-nerved ; 

 flowers^ in terminal cymes, sometimes {Barthea) few-flowered. 

 {China, Japan.^) 



24. Blastus Lour.^ — Flowers 4, 5-merous; receptacle oftener 

 subcampanulate, sometimes sub-4-gonal (Driessenia.^^) Calyx oftener 



1 Frodr. iii. 123; Mem^Melast. i. 33, t. 4.— — Walp. RejJ. ii. 127 ; 143,918 {Allomorphin) ; 

 Endl. Gen. n. 6203. — Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. Ann. ii. 601.— Hook. Fl. lud. ii. 527. 



3, XV. 306.— B. H. Gen. 751, n. 61.— Tri. Mdast. ^ Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 25, fig. 4.— Naud. Anu. 



73, t. 6. fig. 62.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 525.— Homo- Se. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 284.— B. H. Gen. 753, n. 71. 



centria Naud. Igc. cit. xv. 308, t. 15. — AUoziigia — Tri. Melast. 73, t. 6, fig. 63. 



Naud. loc. cit. 309, t. \5.—Hylocharu Miq. Fl. « Hook. f. Gen. 751, n. 62.— Tri. Melast. 73, 



Ind.-Bat. Suppl. i. 319 (ex Tri.). t. 6, fig. 61. 



2 Bl. Flora (1831), 522. — Naud. loc. cit. xv. ' Pink or white externally. 



310.— B. H. Gen. 752, n. 64.— Tri. Melast. 74, » gpe^^ 3^ Hance, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 115 



t. 6, fig. 66. {BissochcBta?).—h^G.GartenJl.{l9,10) 193, t. 655. 



^ Moderate or very small, pink. ^ Fl. Cochinch. (ed. 1790) 526. — Seem. Journ. 



-» Spec. 8. RoxB. Fl. Ind. 404 {Melasfoma).— Bot. i. 281.— B. H. Gen. 752, n. 65.— Tri. Melast. 



Don, Mem. Wern. Sac. iv. 299 ; Frodr, Fl. Nep. 73, t. 6, fig. 65.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 528. . 



222 (Arihrostemma).—W AJ.1.. PI. As. Bar. i. t. 10 Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. 221, t. 53.— 



SS.—BiE^TH.FL Hoiiffk. U6 (Oxyspora).—'N\vi). Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 283, t. 4.— 



A. Gray Un. St. Fxpl. Fxp. Bot. i. 597 {Anplec- B. H. Gen. 753, n. 69.— Tri. Melaist. 73, t. 6, 



trtim). — Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4553 {Arthrostcmma). fig. 64. 



