444 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



A shrub with virgate velvety stem ; leaves shortly petiolate, oblong- 

 lanceolate acuminate, pale villose beneath; stipules lanceolate -subulate 

 undivided, connate with petioles at dilated base ; flowers in contracted 

 axillary 2-parous cymes, often 3-nate, sometimes more numerous ; ^ 

 bracteoles conformed to stipules.^ {Madagascar.^) 



101. Scyphiphora G^rtn. f.* — Flowers hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamous ; receptacle tubular, obconical at base. Calyx short, inserted 

 at top of tube, gamophyllous, unequally dentate or truncate, near 

 anthesis generally dividing longitudinally, persistent. Corolla hypo- 

 crateriform ; tube cylindrical ; lobes of limb 4, 5, contorted, presently 

 open-recurved. Stamens 4, 5, inserted in throat of scantily pilose 

 corolla; filaments short ; anthers dorsifixed at middle; cells 2, introrse, 

 apiculate to produced connective, free below, pointed, longitudinally 

 rimose (in female flower sometimes efi'ete or 0). Germen inferior, 

 2-celled, crowmed wdth epigynous orbicular or lobed disk ; style erect, 

 2-ramose towards apex ; branches linear-subulate papillose. Ovules 

 in cells 2, 3, of which 1, 2, upper generally ascending, rarely obliquely 

 descending ; the lower 1 oftener descending ; raphe dorsal ; funicle 

 short thickened above micropyle. Fruit drupaceous oblong, cylindrical- 

 compressed ; flesh scanty ; pyrenes crustaceous, 5-costate. Seeds in 

 each 1-3, slightly albuminous ; either all fertile or part sterile ; embryo 

 of the upper ones oftener erect ; radicle inferior ; of the lower one 

 superior; cotyledons plano-convex fleshy; endocarp transversely 

 thickened between seeds in spurious dissepiiments. — A glabrous shrub ;^ 

 branches terete nodose, gummy towards apex ; leaves short opposite, 

 petiolate, entire, coriaceous ; flowers ^ in dense axillary short- 

 pedunculate cymes, articulate at base. (Geijlon, Inch Archip., Australia, 

 N. Caledonia^) 



1 Specific name hence improper. 174. — Hook. Fl. Lid, iii. 125. — Epithinia Jack, 



2 A genus imperfectly known from imperfect Malay. Misc. i. w, v. 12. — Hydrophylaz Banks 

 flowers and immature fruit, corolla certainly not (ex DC), not L. f. 



valvate (as in Sabicea). ^ Habit and leaves of some H/tizophoracece. 



3 Spec. 1. F. trijlorum H. Bx. — Triosteum ^ Small, whitish ? 



trijlorum Vahl, Symb. iii. 37. — Poir. Diet. viii. 7 Spec. 1. S. hydrophilacea G-ertn. f. — Bl. 



109, n. Z.— Sabicea? trijlora DC. Frodr. iv. 439, Bijdr. 955.— Benth. Fl, Austral, iii. 417. — A. 



n. 6. Gray, Froc. Amer. Acad. iv. 307. — Miq. Fl. Ind.- 



^ Fruct. iii. 91, t. 196.— Eich. Rub. 79.— DC. Bat. ii. 238 ; Suppl. 220, 543.— F. Muell. Frag, 



Prodr. iv. 577. — Exdl. Gen. n. 3112. — B. H. ix. 187. — Fpithijita malaya/m Jack. — Griff. /c. 



Gen. ii. 99, n. 194.— H. Bn. Bull. Soc. Linn. Far, FL As. iv. 478.— Tiiw. Emm. Fl. Zcyl. 157. 



