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calyx short, 4-dentate, persistent. Corolla funnel -shaped- tubular ; 

 lobes 4, valvate or subimbricate ; throat glabrous. Stamens 4 ; fila- 

 ments inserted at bottom of tube, connate at the base with each other 

 and with the style in a short tube, free above ; anthers basifixed 

 elongate enclosed subs agitt ate, rimose or slightly extrorse at margin. 

 Germen 2-celled ; disk epigynous short ; branches of slender style 2, 

 linear stigmatose. Ovules in cells solitary ; raphe dorsal, continuous 

 with rather long sometimes dilated funicle ; micropyle introrsely 

 superior. Fruit drupaceous, by abortion 1-pyrenous, 1-spermous ; 

 embryo of descending seed . . . ? —A glabrous ramose shrub ; branches 

 resinous at apex; leaves (small) oblong or ovate glossy coriaceous ; 

 stipules interpetiolar short; flowers' in dense axillary cymes ; pedicels 

 very short, bracteolate.^ (Brazil.^) 



72 ? Phialanthus Griseb/ — Flowers nearly of Salzmannia,^ 4, 

 5-merous ; calyx lobes subspathulate foliaceous obtuse venose, sub- 

 equal or unequal, imbricate, persistent, somewhat accrescent. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped-subcampanulate; lobes 4, 5, valvate or shghtly imbricate 

 at apex. Stamens inserted at base of corolla ; filaments compressed ; 

 anthers dorsifixed at base ovate-oblong, exserted. Germen obconical, 

 2-celled ; disk epigynous annular small ; style slender, clavellate at 

 stigmatose apex. Ovules &c. of Salzmannia. Fruit '^drupaceous; 

 seeds...?" — A shrublet (resinifluous) ; leaves opposite (small) 

 coriaceous elliptico-lanceolate ; stipules intrapetiolar connate ; flowers® 

 axillary cymose or glomerulate ; bracts sometimes connate in an 

 involucel. (Antilles^) 



73. Cremaspora Benth.® — Flowers 4, 5-merous ; receptacle 

 obconical or obovoid. Calyx tubular or campanulate, persistent ; 

 lobes pointed, closely contorted ; throat glabrous or pilose. Stamens 

 4, 5 ; filaments short ;- anthers dorsifixed elongate, acute or acuminate 

 or apiculate. Disk epigynous small or rather thick. Style slender 

 exserted hirsute ; branches 2, free or connate. Germen 2-celled ; 

 ovule in cells soHtary descending ; micropyle introrse superior or more 



» Minute, yellow ? ' B. H. Gen. ii. 106, n. 212. 



' A genus, on the one hand, very near to * To which the genus is very near ; Chioeocca 



Cremaspora by its inflorescence, on the other appears closely allied also to Chione. 



hand, by floral characters rather closely allied ^ Minute, crowded, 



to ISculomnthus, J^rithalis^ if not to Chioeocca. ' Spec. 3, 4. 



3 Spec. 1. iS. nitida DC. loc. cit. » Nic/er Ft. 412.— B. H. Gen. ii. 108, n. 220.— 



* Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 336 ; Cat. PI. Cub. 139.— H. Bn. Bull. S. Linn. Par. 206 ; Adam. xii. 321. 



