412 NATURAL RISTOBY OF PLANTS. 



stem short tuberous, echinate or rugose, hollow (and the abode of 

 ants ') ; leaves ^ opposite, sessile or petiolate ; ^ stipules interpetiolar, 

 entire, deciduous (Hydnophytum) or more or less persistent, 2-fid; 

 flowers ^ axillary solitary, glomerate or cymose/ (Trop. Oceania.^) 



42. Gsertnera Lamk/ — Flowers nearly of Uragoga, 5-merous; 

 receptacle hardly concave or subcampanulate. Calycinal lobes or 

 teeth 5, sometimes large or accrescent. Tube of corolla more or less 

 elongate, subhypogynously or somewhat perigynously inserted ; lobes 

 of various limb 5, valvate. Stamens &c. of Uragoga; filaments 

 generally short. Germen quite or in greater part free, 2-celled, ovate, 

 obovate or obcordate ; style 2-lobed at apex. Ovules in cells solitary ; 

 micropyle extrorsely inferior.® Fruit drupaceous subglobose, obovoid, 

 2-dymous, oblong or rather long fusiform, inserted at bottom of 

 receptacle, free or subfree ; putamens 1, 2; albumen of ascending 

 seed copious, fleshy or cartilaginous ; radicle of short straight axile 

 embryo inferior. — Trees or shrubs, oftener glabrous ; leaves, habit &c. 

 of Uragoga; stipules various, often connate sheathing intrapetiolar 

 setose ; flowers ^ in terminal compound racemose cymes ; inflorescence 

 either very elongate, or contracted subcapituliform.^° (Trop, east, ins. 

 and ivest. Africa; East India}^) 



43 ? Pagamea Aubl.^^ — Flowers nearly of Gcertnera, 4, 5-merous; 

 calyx dentate or shortly lobed. Corolla subrotate, deeply 4, 5-lobed, 

 valvate, often densely barbate within. Stamens inserted in throat. 

 Germen free except quite at the base (of Gmrtnera) ; cells 2, or more 

 rarely 3-5 ; style branches same in number papillose. Fruit 



* And of various other animals. 28. — H. Bn. Bttll. Soc. Zin>f. Par. 209. — Ander- 

 2 With, habit of some Rhizophorece. sonia W. ex R(em. et Sch, Syst. v. 21. — Fructesca 

 ' Sometimes peltately inserted. DC. Meissn. Gen. 259; Comm. 168. — Sykesia 



* Small, white. Arn. Nov. Acta Nat. Car. xviii. 351. 



' Rather a sect, of Uragoga ? * Hilum generally situated a little below the 



* Spec, about 5. Rumph. Herb. Amb. vi. 119, insertion of the perianth. Hypogyny hence 

 t. 55 {Nidus germinans). — Spreng. Syst. i. 423 spurious. 



{Lasiostoma). — Bl. Bijdr. 955 (Rgdnophgtum), ' White. 



1001.— Gaudich. Freycin. Voy. Bot. 472, t. 95, ^^ Sect. 4 (Endl. Gen. Suppl. i. 1395). 



96.— A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. iv. 43.— Miq. ^^ Spec, about 20. Wight, Icon. t. 1318.— 



Fl.Ind.-Bat.M.ZQ% {Ht/dnophytum),Z09; Suppl. Mia. Fl. lud.-Bat. ii. 382; Suppl. 227, 551.— 



224.— Car. N. G'wrn.Bot. Ital. iv. 170, t. 1. Bak. Fl. Maur. 230.— Thw. Fnum. PL Zeyl. 



7 III. ii. 278, t. 167 (not Retz. nor Schreb. 201.— H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 237, 238.— Walp. 



nor RoxB.). — G^ktn. f. Fruct. iii. 58, t. 191. — Ann. iii. 76. 



DC. Prodr. ix. 32, 35.— Boj. Nouv. Mem. Soc. 12 Giiian. i.ll2,t.4i.—'Ej^DL. Gen. n.Z371.-^ 



Helv.yiii. t. 1, 2 (Neuchat. 1847). — Endl. Gen. Bur. Loganiac. 51 y fig. 37-42. — Benth. /ojtr. 



n.3370.— BuR.Z:o^a>im(;.57,fig.35, 36.— Benth. Linn. Soc. i. 109.— B. H. Gen. ii. 798, n. 29.— 



Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 111.— B.H. Gen. ii. 798, n. H. Bn. Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 210. 



