50 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



binate, campanulafce or ovoid, sometimes (Pachycentna ^) constricted 

 beyond germen, lageniform. Calyx more or less dilated, 4-6-dentate, 

 sometimes furnished externally below the margin with small or rarely 

 elongate- subulate {Carionia ^) teeth, sometimes after an thesis free at 

 base {Fachycentria). Petals 4-6, pointed, much contorted, often 

 deciduous, somewhat fleshy. Stamens 8-12, 2-seriate, subequal or 

 slightly unequal; anthers various in form, 1, 2-porous or shortly 

 rimose at apex; connective not or very slightly produced at base, 

 internally 2-tuberculate or shortly 2-lobed at base, externally short- 

 and oftener thick- spurred. Germen 4-G-celled, by septa more or less 

 adnate to receptacle, at apex crowned with a more or less depressed 

 ring or with scales ; style slender, sometimes dilated to base, at apex 

 stigmatose truncate or punctiform. Fruit baccate, crowned with 

 calyx, ovoid or globular ; seeds straight, ovoid or dimidiate, smooth 

 or rough; raphe sometimes incrassate arillose. — Erect or climbing 

 shrubs, sometimes rather fleshy or epiphytal ; pubescence sometimes 

 starred {Hypena7ithe) ; branches glabrous or scurfy, generally nodose ; 

 leaves opposite or verticillate, sometimes unequal or alternate, entire 

 fleshy, 3 - 5-9-nerved, sometimes but rarely penninerved ; flowers ^ in 

 terminal or lateral more or less compound-ramose, sometimes corym- 

 biform or few-flowered (Carionia) cymes. {India, Malaya, warm 

 Oceania, trop, west. Africa, Malacca,^) 



27 ? Pogonanthera Bl.^ — Flowers nearly of Medinilla, smaller, 

 4-merous ; receptacle lageniform or cyathiform, externally pulverulent. 

 Petals 4, longer than calyx, acuminate, dilated to middle or 1 -dentate. 

 Stamens 8, scarcely unequal; anthers oblong straight, at apex 

 pointed 1-porous ; connective not produced, not or obscurely spurred, 



iii. 167.— Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 285, moderate, showy, sometimes [Fachycentria) 



1. 12, 13.— Endl. Gen. n. 6236.— B. H. Gen. 750, small. 



n. 93.— Tri. Melast. 85, t. 7, fig. 94.— Hook. Fl. ^ 8pec. about 60. BL.Ftimphia i.t. 1-3.— Miq. 



Ind. ii. 546. — Triplectrum Don, ex Wight et Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i, 538, 550 [Fachycentria^. — 



Arn. Prodr. i. 324. — Biplogenea Lindl. Brand. Korth. Verh.Kat. Gesch. t. 61, 63 [Fachycentria). 



Quart. Journ. (1828) 122.— Naud. he, cit. xv. —Seem. Fl. VU. 88.— A. Gray, Unit. St. Expl. 



297, t. IZ.—Frpetina Naud. loc. cit. xv. 299, t. Fxp. Bot. i. t. 75.— Naud. loc. cit. xv. 303, t. 15 



14. — Hypenanthe Bl. Mus. Ludg.-Bat. i. 21, — [Aplectrum). — Thw. Enum. Fl. Zeyl. 106. — 



Bactyliota Bl. loc. cit. 21. Hook. f. Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 460. — Hook. 



1 Bl. Flora (1831), 619; Nat. Wett. 260; Bot. Mag. t. 4231, 4533, 4569, 4650.— Walp. 

 Mus.Lugd.-Bat.i.22.—ET^T)-L. Gen. n. 6238.— Rep. ii. 142, 143 [Fachycentria); v. 711, 712 

 Naud. loc. cit. xv. 209.— B. H. Gen. 760, n. [Fachycentria); Ann. ii. 604, 605 [Hypenanthe), 

 95.— Tri. Melast. 89, t. 7, fig. 95.— H. Bn. 606 [Bactyliota, Fachycentria) ; iii. 875 ; iv. 808. 

 Adansonia, xii. 92. 5 piora (1831), 520 ; Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 24. — 



2 Naud. loc. cit. ser. 3, xv. 311, t. 15. — B. H. Endl. Gen.n. 6239. — 'NwD.Ann.Sc.Nat. ser. 3, 

 Gen. 769, n. 94.— Tri. Melast. 85, t. 7, fig. 91. xv. 302, 1. 15.— B. H. 6^^«.760, n. 96.— Tri. Me- 



3 Pink or whitish, large [Carionia), often last. 89, t. 7, fig. 86 —Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 650. 



