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bent in the bud and slightly irregular. The stamens are inserted 

 near the base, and the two ovarian cells enclose a globular, few- 

 seeded placenta supported by an ascending foot. The fruit is a 

 globular- didymous capsule, loculicidal and few- seeded, enclosing 

 peltate seeds with a marginal wing. The in- 

 florescences are terminal and axillary, in clusters Exostema 



^ ^ canocBum, 



of cymes. Thysaiwspermum, a low creeping 

 shrub of Hongkong, with small leaves resembling 

 those of certain Gapnfoliece and small axillary 

 and sohtary flowers, has an imbricate or con- 

 torted, hypocrateriform corolla, glabrous inter- 

 nally, and a short didymous loculicidal capsule, 

 with orbicular peltate seeds bordered with a 

 slashed wing. In Exostema^ which are American, 

 chiefly from the Antilles, and of which one 



^. ' Fig. 343. De- 



Oceamc species has received the name of Badiisa, hisdng fruit. 



the corolla is equally imbricate, tubular-hypo- 

 crateriform, sometimes with a very long tube. The stamens, often 

 long exserted, have filaments inserted quite at the base of the 

 corolla and sometimes almost independent of it, often monadelphous 

 at the base for a very short extent, and basifixed or dorsifixed 

 anthers. The stigmatiferous summit of the style is ordinarily entire 

 or with shallow divisions, and the fruit (fig. 343) is septicidal with 

 entire or bipartite valves. The seeds are imbricate and prolonged 

 above and below in wings of very variable form. The flowers are 

 axillary and terminal, solitary or in cymes, most frequently 

 corymbiform. 



Luculia comprises Indian shrubs with opposite leaves and inter- 

 petiolar stipules, whose fine flowers are in terminal compound cymes 

 with short pedicels, the corolla hypocrateriform, imbricate ; stamens 

 inserted on the tube ; a two -celled ovary with revolute multiovulate 

 placentas, and an obovate, coriaceous, septicidal fruit with two 

 bipartite valves and small seeds prolonged at both ends to an 

 elongate and lacerate wing. 



Chimarrhis, exceptional in this group as they would be in any 

 other in which they might be placed, has numerous flowers in clusters 

 of cymes, generally small. The corolla, gamopetalous to a very 

 variable point, sometimes very high, bears five small lobes above, 

 rounded or obtuse, often contracted at the base and imbricate at the 



