346 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



solitary or terminal and united in three-flowered cymes, are those of 

 a Gardenia, with hypocrateriform, contorted, 4, 5-lobed corolla, but 

 the siliquiform fruit is said to be septicidal, with ovoid seeds having 

 a long caudile prolongation at each end ; Coptosa^pelta, climbing 

 shrubs of the Indian Archipelago, whose clusters of cymes are 

 terminal and pendent, and the flower also that of a Gardenia, with a 

 contorted hypocrateriform or tubular corolla, a globular locuhcidal 

 fruit and seeds with broken marginal wing; Orossopteryx, from 

 tropical Africa, the corolla of which has 4-6 contorted lobes, the 

 two ovarian cells enclose a peltate placenta bearing, like that of 

 Tarenna, several hollows in which the ovules are imbedded, and the 

 fruit of which is also a globular and locuHdal capsule ; Mussaendopsis, 

 from Borneo, the characters of which are those of a Randia, with 

 the flower, fruit and seeds of a Oahjcophyllum, but with a corolla 

 contorted and polypetalous or nearly so. 



Hillia is also the type of a separate subseries (Hilliece), in which 

 the corolla is generally contorted instead of valvate or imbricate. It 

 is regular or slightly irregular, 3-7-lobed, with the same number of 

 enclosed stamens, and almost sessile anthers. The fruit is capsular 

 and septicidal, folliculiform ; and the numerous seeds are furnished 

 below with an elongate tail and above with a long tuft of hairs. 

 They are shrubs of the Antilles and South America, glabrous, often 

 epiphytal, with radicant branches, opposite slightly fleshy leaves and 

 large terminal solitary flowers, nearly sessile. 



In Calycophyllum, the short flower has a valvate corolla and a 

 caljx the five teeth of which are more or less unequal. One or two 

 of them are developed into large leaflike plates, petiolate and 

 coloured, as in Pinchuya. The fruit is a loculicidal capsule, and the 

 seeds, small and numerous, are prolonged at each end to a narrow 

 wing, which may disappear completely or nearly so in those named 

 Pallasia and Warsceiciczia. They are trees and shrubs of the Antilles 

 and South America, with opposite leaves, interpetiolar stipules, 

 flowers in clusters of cymes more or less ramified, often uniparous, 

 scorpioid. One, named Schizocalyx, diflers from the others in that 

 its calyx, entire and valvate, breaks irregularly at anthesis ; it has 

 not unfrequently however a leaflike expansion. The latter is always 

 wanting in those species of Gakjcoplujllmn named Enhylista. 



Molop anther a, a Brazilian shrub, has nearly the characters of 

 Enkylista, that is an imbricate corolla with 4, 5 narrow lobes ; it is 



