442 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



gamophyllous, entire, dentate or lobed. Corolla funnel-shaped, 

 hypocrateriform or subcampanulate ; tube glabrous within or variously 

 pilose ; lobes of limb 4-6 (often 5), closely contorted ; throat glabrous 

 or villose, sometimes very densely barbate (Empogona, Eriostoma), 

 Stamens as many, inserted in throat or mouth of corolla ; filaments 

 short or subnil, rarely rather long ; anthers dorsifixed, 2-fid at base, 

 generally elongate, versatile, exserted or semienclosed ; connective 

 sometimes produced in an oblong or subspathulate lamina beyond cells 

 {Kramsia, Empogona). Germen inferior (adnate to receptacle), 2- or 

 rarely 3-celled ; cells sometimes incomplete ; disk epigynous various, 

 oftener dejDressed, sometimes minute; style slender, rather thick or 

 rarely thick fusiform, longitudinally sulcate (Nargedia); branches very 

 rarely 3, or generally 2, more or less connate, recurved, often linear, 

 papillose or hispid, often glabrous in front (and there nigrescent) ; 

 one sometimes smaller or aborted, the other 2-dentate at apex (Zygoon). 

 Ovules in cells few, rarely 6-10 (Biplospora, Hyptianthera) , or oftener 

 2-5, rarely 1 {Kraussiella,^ Nescidia), incompletely anatropous,^ ver- 

 tical or oblique, sometimes 2-seriate ; micropyle generally extrorse 

 and inferior; placenta thickened around nestling ovules or more 

 rarely not or slightly dilated (Zygoon, Nescidia, Feretia). Fruit baccate 

 (small) ; seeds 1 or few ; albumen copious fleshy ; radicle of various 

 embryo various, often inferior. — Erect or rarely climbing shrubs, 

 glabrous or variously clothed; leaves opposite, oftener elliptical or 

 oblong ; petiole generally short ; stipules interpetiolar or intrapetiolar 

 (Feretia), oftener small acute, deciduous or persistent ; flowers^ axillary 

 solitary or oftener oo , cymose or glomerulate ; bracteoles 2, or 4-8, 



Tricalf/sia Kick. Bub. 144. — DC. P/Wr. iv. 445. cospermum Dalz. Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 257. — 

 — Endl. Gen. n. 3221.— B. H. Gen. ii. 95, n. 185. Empogona Hook. r. Icon. t. 1091 ; Gen. ii. 94, n. 

 — H. Bn. loc. cit. 206. — Bimburya Meissn. Flora 182. — H. Bn. loc. cit. 204. — Diplocrater Hook. f. 

 (1844), 553. — NaialantJie Sond. lumcea, xxiii. G^^^. ii. 96, n. 187. — Zygoon 'H.iek^, Fl. Tr. Afr. 

 o2.—Rosea'KL. Monatsb. Akad.Wiss. Berl.{l%5Z) iii. 113 (1877).— H. Bn. loc. cit. 204:.— Xargedia 

 501 ; Pet. Moss. Bot. 293, t. 45, AQ.—Kraussia Bedp. Fl. Sylv. t. 328, cxxxiv.— Hook. i^/. Lid. 

 Harv. Hook. Bond. Journ. i. 21. — B. H. Gen. ii. iii. 122. — Pentaspora Bvn. (ex H. Bn. loc. cit. 

 95, n. 184.— H.Bn. Ice. cit. 206.—Carpothalis 208).— PriostoniaBYS . (ex H. Bn. foe. ctV.). 

 E. Mey. exs. Prig, (ex Harv. and Sond.). — ^ H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 204. 

 Feretia Del. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xx. 92, t. 1, ^ ;g^piie ventral and superior, generally very- 

 fig. 4. — B. H. Gen. ii. 95, n. 183. — H. Bn. loc. cit. short, so that the ovule often appears spuriously 

 211. — Ht/ptiant her a WiGRT and An^. Irodr. i. descending. Ovules (?) sometimes {Zygoon) 

 399 (1834).— Endl. Gen. n. 3303.— B. H. Gen. sterile 1, 2, inserted in side of fertile. 

 ii. 94, 1228, n. 180. — Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 121. — ^ Small or very small, sometimes precocious 

 Piplospora DC. Prodr. iv. 477 (1830). — Endl. {Zygoon, Feretia), v^hite ot yellowish, sometimes, 

 Gen. n. 3176. — B. H. Gtn. ii. 96, n. 186. — H. as said, very odorous. But all characters nearly 

 Bn. loc. cit. 211.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 122.— Lit- as in the Coffees. 



