RVBIACE2E. 



297 



is 5 -celled, surmounted by a hollow style. It becomes a fleshy fruit 

 with f^\Q putamens enclosing each an albuminous seed. The calyx 

 is gamophyllous, 5-dentate, and the corolla has five contorted lobes ; 

 at its throat are inserted five stamens with dorsifixed apiculate and 

 versatile anthers. They are shrubs of eastern tropical America, 

 having flowers in terminal spikes with connate bracteoles forming a 

 calicule under the flower. 



YII. CHIOCOCCA SERIES. 



In the flowers of Chiococca ^ (fig. 282-285), which are generally 

 hermaphrodite and pentamerous,^ the inferior ovary is surmounted by 



Chiococca racemosa. 



Fig. 283. Flower. 



lit 

 Fig. 282. Bud G). 



Fig. 285. Long. sect, of flower. 



a short dentate calyx and a funnel- or bell-shaped corolla, the limb 

 of which is divided into five lobes ^ marginally imbricate in the bud. 

 The stamens, epigynous, are scarcely united with the base of the 



' p. Br. Jam. 174.— L. Gen. n. 231.— G^rtn. 

 Fr.i. 125,t.26.— Lamk. III. t. 160.— Bicn. Bub. 

 106.— DC. Prodr. iv. 482 (§ i.).— Spach, Stdt. d 

 Jiufon,\m. 437.— ExDL. Gen. n. 3167.— B.H. 

 Gen. ii. 106, n. 211.— H. Bn. JBuH. Soc. Linn. Par. 

 IS2.—? Marffaris DC. Prodr. iv. i83.~ Desclcsa 

 Sess. et M09. (ex B. ll.).—Siphonandra Turcz. 



Bull. Mosc. (1848) i. 581. 



2 There are some with four and six parts. 



3 The margins, very thin, slightly overlap. 

 They have been thought valvate, perhaps be- 

 cause the angles of the corolla have been con- 

 founded with these margins. 



