56 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



widely turbinate. Sepals 5, shorter, 3-angular. Stamens 10; anthers 

 oblong, 1 -porous, connective not produced at base much thickened 

 and posteriorly broadly appendiculate. Germen semiadherent to 

 receptacle, oo -ovulate. Fruit . . . ? — A hispid-pilose herb ;^ stems 

 slender creeping ; leaves ovately rotund (rather small), apiculate, 3-5- 

 nerved ; flowers ^ long-pedunculate terminal or inserted in dichotomy 

 of branches ; peduncle minute 2-bracteolate ^ to middle." {Peru}) 



35. Tococa Aubl.^ — Flowers 5, 6-merous; receptacle campanulate, 

 sometimes costate. Calyx membranous ; lobes 5, 6, short or acute, 

 externally bare or furnished with a more or less elongate tooth. Petals 

 5, 6, oblong or obtuse, contorted. Stamens 10-12, inserted with 

 perianth at dilated mouth of receptacle, 2-seriate, scarcely unequal ; 

 filaments much incurved; anthers pointed, 1 -porous at apex; con- 

 nective oftener posteriorly tubercular or shortly spurred at base. 

 Germen to middle adnate to receptacle, free above, at apex crowned 

 with hairs or a ring ; style rather thick erect, at apex stigmatose 

 depressedly capitate. Fruit baccate ; seeds straight, pyramidal or 

 obovoid, glabrous or wrinkled; raphe lateral slightly prominent. — 

 Glabrous or hispid shrubs ; leaves large petiolate, entire or dentate, 

 5 -nerved ; petiole often inflated at base to 2-plex vesicle ; cushions 

 sometimes setose ; flowers^ in compound cymiferous terminal or lateral 

 racemes, sometimes widely bracteate.' (Trop, east. S. America.^) 



36. Maieta Aubl.^— Flowers 4-8-merous (nearly of Tococa) ; re- 

 ceptacle externally glabrous, sometimes oftener setose ramosely aculeate 

 {Calophysa^^) or furnished externally with dentate wings {Microphysca^^). 

 Calyx sometimes (Myriaspora^^) dehiscent, oftener 4-6-merous ; with 



1 " In appearance like Anaffallis." t. 277, 278. — Benth. Book. Journ. Bot. ii. 303, 



2 " For the plant large." 313 {Miconia). — Walp. Hep. ii. 141; v. 711; 



3 A plant unknown to us, described as " in Ann. iv. 696. 



habit very like Heeria procimbens Naud. but, ^ Guian. i. 443, t. 176. — J. Gen. 330. — DC. 



diflfering in the character of the flower and the Prodr. \\i. 166. — Endl. Gen. n. 6234. — Naud. 



fruit being unknown, of doubtful place in the Ami. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xvi. 97. — B. H. Gen. 767, 



system." n- 116. — Tri. Melast. 141. — H. Bn. Adansouia 



* Spec. 1. G. linn<soides Hook. f. loc. cit. xii. 90. 



5 Guian. i. 437, t. 174.— J. Gen. 330.— DC. i" DC. Prodr. iii. 166.— Endl. Gen.n. 6235.— 



Prodr. iii. 165.— Endl. Gen. n. 6232. — Naud. Naud. loc. cit. xvi. 98. — B. H. Gen. 766, n. 114. 



Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xvi. 88 ; xviii. t. 3.— B. H. —Tri. Melast. 140. 



Gen. 764, n. 108.— Tri. Melast. ISl.—SpkcerO' ii Naud. loc. cit. xvi. 99; xviii. t. 3 {Mtcro- 



gyne Naud. loc. cit. xv. 331 ; xvi. t. 24. physa). — B. H. Gen. 767, n. 117. — Tri. Melast. 



* Rather large, white or pink. 141. 



7 '< A genus distinct in habit rather than in '' DC. Prodr. iii. 165.— Endl. Gen. n. 6231. 

 character from the sect. Diplochita of Miconia " — Naud. loc. cit. xvi. 100 ; xviii. t. 3. — B. H. 

 (B. H.). Gen. 769, n. 123.— Tri. Melast. 145. 



8 Spec, about 25. Makt. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. 



