446 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



conical or tumid ; style narrowly fusiform to apex, sometimes sulcate 

 contorted ; stigmatiferous lobes 2-6, often very short. Ovules oo , 

 inserted on slightly prominent axile placenta. Fruit fleshy, crowned 

 with disk and calyx; seeds oo, small angular reticulate; embryo 

 subclavate, richly albuminous. — Glabrous or pubescent shrubs ; leaves 

 opposite or verticillate, petiolate, ovate-oblong membranous; stipules 

 interpetiolar pointed, deciduous ; flowers ^ in terminal more or less 

 ramose and 1-parous cymes, sometimes sessile ; bracts minute or 0. 

 {Warm N, and S. America.^) 



104. BothriosporaHooK.F.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 obconical. Calyx lobes 4, 5, membranous obtuse, imbricate persistent. 

 Tube of subrotate corolla short; throat villose; lobes of finally 

 patulous limb 4, 5, somewhat unequal, imbricate (1 or 2 exterior). 

 Stamens 4, 5, inserted in throat ; filaments slender, pilose at base ; 

 anthers dorsifixed oblong, introrse, finally exserted, recurved, 2-rimose. 

 Germen 4, 5 -celled ; disk epigynous annular ; branches of erect style 

 4, 5, linear obtuse stigmatiferous. Ovules in cells oo, inserted on 

 subpeltate axile placenta. Fruit ^^ baccate (small) subglobose succu- 

 lent, 4, 5-celled polyspermous ; seeds minute oblong ; testa foveolate ; 

 albumen fleshy; embryo subcylindrical." — Small trees; '^ bark 

 deciduous;"* last ramules puberulous ; leaves opposite ovate-oblong 

 petiolate ; stipules intrapetiolar lanceolate, deciduous ; flowers ^ in 

 terminal 3-chotomous compound umbelliform cymes.^ (Guiana, north 

 BraziV) 



105. Hoffinannia Sw.^ — Flowers generally 4-merous;^ receptacle 

 obovoid or obconical, sometimes costate. Calyx gamophyllous ; lobes 

 short or elongate recurved {Xerococcus) ; sometimes small lacinise 



* Rather large or moderate, light or deep 7 Spec. 1. B. corymbosa Hook. f. — Evosmia 



yellow or rubicund. corymbosa Benth. Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. 219. — 



2 Spec, about 10. Plum. Gen. 17, t. 33 f^LonU Walp. Rep. ii. 489. 



c^/c).— R. et Pav. Fl. Per. ii. t. 221.— Sm. Exot. « Prodr. 30 (1788) ; Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 241, t. 5. 



Bot. t. 24.— Lher. Sert. t. 7.— Salisb. Par. t. — Rich. i2«J. 179.— Endl. (x^«. n. 3287.— B.H. 



65.— GuisEB. F!. Brit. W.-Ind. 320.— Ohapm. Gen. ii. 76, n. \Zb.—Ohigginsia R. et Pav. Fl. 



Fl. S. Unit. St. 178.— Clos, C. Gay Fl. Chil. iii. Per. i. bb, t. 9,b.~Eiggimia Peks. Synops.i. 133. 



20i {Tep€sia).—Bot. Reg.t.\\%b.—Bot.Mag.i. —Fuosmia H. B. PI. jEqtiiu. ii. 165, t. 134 



1894, 2533.— Walp. Pep. vi. 51. (1809).— Rich. Pub. 152.— DC. Prodr. iv. 438. 



3 Icon. t. 1069 ; Gen. ii. 76, n. 136. — Endl. Gen. n. 3222.— B. H. Gen. ii. 71, n. 118. 

 ^ Wood " veined." — H. Bx. Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 199.— Camp t/ 1 o- 

 5 White, small ; fruit " yellow." botrys Lem. Fl. Serres, iii. Misc. n. 37 ; v. t. 427 ; 

 ^ A genus in some respects very near Sabicea Jard. Fleur. i. t. 42. — Xerococcus (Erst. Vidensk. 



and Patima, but corolla imbricate not valvate ; Meddel. Kjob. (1852) 52.— B. H. Gtn. ii. 70, n. 



in other respects near MacJiaonia, but ovule not WQ.— OphryococcHs CEust. luc. cit. 70. 



solitary. 9 Rarely 5-merous. 



