428 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



2, 3-nis, shortly pedunculate, free bracteolate/ (Mount. India, China, 

 Japan}) 



69. Mitchella L/ — Flowers^ of Daninacanthus, 4, 5-merous (or 

 more rarely 3-6-merous), 2-nate at top of axillary or terminal peduncle 

 and connate with germens (receptacles). Germen 4- celled ; style 

 branches same in number ; ovules in cell solitary descending sub- 

 orthotropous ; micropyle introrsely subapical. Fruit externally fleshy/ 

 consisting of two 4-pyrenous drupes ; pyrenes hence 8, rather thick, 

 1-spermous; radicle of richly albuminous embryo inferior. Other 

 characters of Damnacanthus. — Creeping herbs or undershrubs ; leaves 

 (small) opposite, ovate or suborbicular ; petiole short ; stipules small 

 interpetiolar. (N. America, Japan. ^) 



70. Dichilanthe Thw.'' — Flowers 5-merous ; receptacle oblong, 

 often curved. Calyx gamophyllous ; lobes 5, sometimes unequal, 

 elongate-acuminate rigid, entire or denticulate; minute denticules 

 sometimes interposed. Corolla irregular, 2-labiate, valvate ; throat 

 villose. Stamens 5, inserted in throat, enclosed ; anthers oblong, 

 obtuse at produced base, pointed at apex. Germen 2-celled ; disk 

 epigynous thick, sometimes crenate ; style exserted, incrassate to apex ; 

 at top of apex stigmatose, 2-lobed. Ovules in cells 1, descending, 

 cylindroidal. Fruit ** crowned with unequal calyx coriaceous, gibbous 

 at back; seeds elongate cylindroid albuminous;" embryo...? — 

 Eigid resinous trees ; leaves opposite coriaceous acuminate reticulate- 

 veined ; stipules intrapetiolar connate ; flowers in a spurious capitule, 

 glomerate sessile free; '* resinous fructiferous calyces rather promi- 

 nent rigid." (Ceijhn, Borneo.^) 



71. Salzmannia DC.^ — Flowers oftener hermaphrodite, 4-merous; 



^ To be reduced perhaps to a sect, of lf/^c^(?^/<7, ^ Spec. 2. Lodd. £ot. Cab. t. 979. — A. Gray, 



as Lonicerce with 2 connate flowers to congene- Man. (ed. 2) 172. — Chapm. Fl. S. Unit. St. 176. 



ric species with free germens Authors have — Walp. Ann. i. 985. 



noted the affinity with J «^^o«j!9enwMm. "* Hook. Keiv Journ. viii. 279, 376, t. 8A 



2 Spec. 2. Walp. ^»«. i. 984. {CaprifoliactcB) ; Envm. PI. Zeyl. 136. — B.H. 



3 Gen. n. 134.— J. Gen. 205 ; Mem. Mus. vi. Gen. ii. 103, n. 204.— Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 15, iv. ; 

 373.— Lamk. III. t. 63. — G^rtn. f. Fruet. iii.t. cxxxiv. 5. — Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 128. 



192.— PticH. i?wJ. 140.— DC. Prodr. iv. 452.— « Spec. 2 : one J), arborea Thw. : the other 



Endl. Qen. n. 3188.— B. H. Gen. ii. 137, n. 296. hitherto apparently undescribed, viz. D. borne- 



— H. Bn. Adanaonia, xii. 321. — Chawadaphne ensis (Becc. exs. n. 3431). 



Mitch. Gen. 17 (not Buxb.). 9 Prodr. iv. 617.— Endl. Gen. n. 3143.— B. 



4 White, odorous, small. H. Gen. ii. 106, n. 213. 

 * " Coccineous." 



