336 NATURAL BISTORY OF PLANTS. 



or nearly entire. They are shrubs of tropical Asia and Oceania ; 

 one growing as far as Kurdistan. The leaves are ojjposite or rarely 

 verticillate. The flowers are in clusters of cymes and the capsular 

 fruit is sometimes loculicidal, sometimes septicidal. 



Chalepoj)hyUum guianense is also very near Eondeletia, Its axillary, 

 solitary and pedunculate flowers have an ovary with two multiovulate 

 cells, surmounted by a persistent cal^^x with five oblong and rigid 

 lobes and an imbricate or contorted corolla bearing enclosed stamens. 

 The fruit is a septicidal capsule with angular and very short-winged 

 seeds. It is a shrub with small opposite obtuse coriaceous leaves, 

 resinous at the points and greyish on the surface when dry. 



In Augusta, glabrous trees and shrubs of southern Brazil, the 

 flowers have a long tubular corolla, straight or curved, with five 

 short and contorted lobes. In other respects, the flower closely 

 resembles those otPortlandia and Bikhia with narrow corollas. The 

 fruit is also, as in the latter, a capsule the coat of which unfolds in 

 two layers and the endocarp divides into four curled pannels. The 

 seeds are cubical or polyhedral. The flowers are in three-flowered 

 axillary cymes. In Lindenia the corolla is still longer and more 

 slender, particularly the tube which is very narrow. The limb is 

 hypocrateriform with five contorted lobes. The stamens are exserted 

 and the coat of the pericarp unfolds, as in the preceding genus. 

 They are elegant shrubs of Mexico and New Caledonia with lanceo- 

 late leaves, connate intrapetiolar stipules and flowers in terminal 

 cymes. 



In the following genera the flowers are small and the corollas 

 short, as in liondeletia, Batliysa, kc. That of Eheagia is subrotate, 

 with five contorted lobes, afterwards recurved. The exserted stamens, 

 with filament geniculate and hairy below, recall those of Chimarrhis 

 and SicMngia, the analogues of Eheagia among the types with 

 imbricate corolla, as well by their flowers as by their small loculicidal 

 capsules with bifid valves, and their inflorescences, still more com- 

 pound and ramified in Ekeagia, large trees of Peru and Columbia 

 with resinous sap. Grecnea comprises erect or climbing shrubs of 

 tropical Asia and Oceania, glabrous or pubescent, wdiose small 

 capsules are similar to those of Eheagia, with angular compressed or 

 short- winged seeds, and whose flowers, in long compound clusters of 

 cymes, partly uniparous, are small, sessile or nearly so, as in some 

 Oldenlandias (HeJdstocarpa, Lejjtoscehi, &c.). But the short corolla 



