404 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



veined. Corolla funnel-shaped; lobes 5, acute, valvate, scantily 

 pubescent within. Stamens 5, inserted under throat ; anthers sub- 

 sessile dorsifixed, oblong, enclosed, introrsely 2-rimose. Germen 

 inferior, 4, 5-celled ; style girt at base with slightly prominent disk, 

 apex shortly exserted, 4, 5-branched, papillose throughout. Ovules 

 in cells solitary ascending; micropyle extrorsely inferior.^ Fruit 

 crowned with calyx; '* cocci 4, 5, indehiscent ; seeds . . . ? " — Low 

 pilose perennial herbs ; ^ rhizome creeping ; leaves opposite ovato- 

 cordate, petiolate; stipules interpetiolar short glandular-dentate; 

 flowers terminal solitary or cymose few.^ (Japan.*) 



29. Psederia L.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, 4, 5- 

 merous; calycinal lobes or teeth more or less deep, persistent. 

 Corolla tubular or funnel-shaped, often pubescent ; throat bare, gla- 

 brous or villose ; lobes 4, 5, attenuate at margin more or less indu- 

 plicate ; tube sometimes divided between staminal filaments. Stamens 

 4,. 5, inserted at variable height ; anthers introrse. Germen inferior, 

 compressed, 2-celled, more rarely 3-celled ; disk epigynous depressed 

 or tumid ; branches of (2-morphous) style slender papillose, sometimes 

 exserted, finally contorted. Ovules solitary suberect ; micropyle 

 extrorsely inferior. Fruit subglobular or oftener compressed parallel 

 to septum ; exocarp fragile smooth separating from pyrenes and 

 breaking irregularly, sometimes attenuate and aliform at margin ; 

 pyrenes finally solute and connected by branched fibrous bundles, those 

 interior to cocci scanty or 0, but the dorsal generally more evolved ; 

 pyrenes indehiscent, nucleus 1-seeded ; seed much compressed albu- 

 minous. — Climbing (foetid) shrubs or undershrubs ; branchlets flexible; 

 leaves opposite or verticillate, petiolate, ovato-acute or lanceolate; 

 stipules various, oftener deciduous ; flowers in compound axillary and 

 terminal cymes ; cymes sometimes 1 -parous ; bracts small or rather 



* Transversely plicate. Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 195. — Hondbessen Adaxs. 

 ' Habit of Ophiorrhiza or Coccocypselum and Fam. dts PL ii. 158. — Lygodisodea R. et Pay. 



some small Gessncriaceoi. Prodr. 32, t. 5; FL Per. et Chi/, ii. 48, t. 188. 



3 A genus of BoraginecB (Miq.), certainly of — Bartl. Ord. Nat. 208. — DC. Frodr. iv. 470. — • 



MubiacetB (Maxim.). Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. t. 2. — Endl. Gen. n. 3182. 



* Spec. I. P. depressa Miq. loc. cit. — B. H. Gen. ii. 134, n. 287. — Disodea Pers. 



* Mantiss. 7, 52. — J. Gen, 205 (part) ; Mem. Synops. i. 210.— J. Mem. Mas. vi. 381. — Sipho- 

 Mus. vi. 381.— Lamk. IU. t. 166, fig. 1.— meris Boj. Eapp. Soc. Hist. Nat. Maur. (1826, 

 G^RTN. F. Fruct. iii. 84, t. 195.— Eich. Bub. 1829) ex Boj. Hort. Maur. 170.— Lecontea Rick. 

 lli.— DC. Frodr. iv. 471.— Endl. Gen. n. 3180. Bub. 115, t. 10, fig. ].— DC. Prodr. iv. 470.— 

 — B. H. Gen. ii. 133, n. 286.— H. Bx. BulL Soc. Endl. Gen. n. 3181.— B. H. Gen. ii. 134, n. 

 Zinn. Far. 190.— Baker, FL Maurit. 158.— 288. 



