418 NATURAL HISTORY OT PLANTS. 



inserted at top of erect placenta at bottom of internal angle, more or 

 less completely anatropous ; micropyle extrorsely inferior. Fruit 

 capsular or coriaceous, dehiscing unequally, few-seeded ; seeds 

 ascending ; albumen . . . ? — Shrubs or undershrubs, erect or ramose ; 

 leaves opposite nervose, sometimes linear ; stipules cuspidate or setose 

 more or less connate with petioles ; flowers in terminal compound 

 corymbiform or more rarely capituliform cymes. (East. trop. Africa, 

 Madagascar,^) 



53. Jackia Wall.^ — Flowers nearly of Carphalea ; receptacle 

 obconical ; calyx lobes 3-5, of which 3 are generally larger patent 

 excrescent foliaceous scarious venose ; the others much smaller 

 dentiform intermixed. Corolla tube slender ; throat pubescent ; lobes 

 of limb 5, induplicate-valvate. Stamens 5 ; anthers subsessile semi- 

 exserted. Germen 2-celled ; disk pilose ; lobes of very slender style 

 2 stigmatose, free or connate. Placenta suberect (of Carphalea), 

 bearing 2 ovules at apex. Fruit coriaceous, crowned with accrete 

 calyx; seeds 1, 2, erect; albumen...? — A *Mofty ramose" tree; 

 leaves (large) opposite oblong- or obovate-lanceolate nervose ; petioles 

 short ; stipules interpetiolar large sheathing pilose-setose ; flowers in 

 long-pedunculate pendulous oppositely branched racemes, subsessile ; 

 branches richly cymiferous ; cymes secund, 1 -parous above ; bracts 

 subfoliaceous sub-2-stichous, sometimes connate at base.^ (Malaya, 

 Borneo ^) 



54. Phyllomelia Griseb.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 long obconical. Calyx wide membranous orbicular, scarcely concave 

 above, at margin entire or obtusely lobed, finally accrete above fruit 

 reticulate. Corolla subinfundibular ; tube short, somewhat dilated at 

 base ; limb 4-6-lobed, imbricate.^ Stamens same in number, inserted 

 in tube ; filaments rather short ; anthers at apex broader obtuse, at 

 base 2-fid, finally exserted. Germen inferior, 2-celled ; disk depressed- 

 orbicular hispid ; style rather thick, divided above into 2 papillose- 



1 Spec. 8, 9. Walp. Ann.\. 107 [Dirichletia). natural characters; flowers nearly and nature 

 — H, Bn. loc. cit. 188. of placentation quite the same ; diftering chiefly 



2 Roxh. Fl. Ind. (ed. Gar.) ii. 321 (not Bl. nor in habit and size of parts. 



Spreng.).— RiCH.iZwA. 119.— DC. Frodr. iv. 621. " Spec. 1 v. 2 (?). Wall. PL As. Ear. t. 293. 



— Endl. Gen. n. 3329.— B. H. Gen. ii. 99, n. 19o. — Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. ii. 237 ; Suppl. 220, 543 ; 



— H. Bn. Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 185.— Hook. Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ix. 135. 

 Fl. Ind. iii. l2o.—Zuccannia Sprexg. Sijst. Cur. * Cat. PL Cub. 139.— B. H. Gen. ii. 116, n. 224 



Post. 50 (not Bl.). fi Lobes rather, where 6, 2-seriate ; 3 exterior 



3 A genus quite agreeing with Carphalea in valvate ; 3 alternate, interior. 



