448 ' NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



elongate to stigmatose apex, straight or curved, 2-dentate. Ovules 

 in cells oo, sometimes few,^ descending from placenta, sometimes 

 2-seriate. Fruit ovoid or globose (small), baccate coriaceous ; seeds 

 compressed or angular ; testa often granular ; albumen fleshy ; embryo 

 small. — Glabrous spinous shrubs ; branches spinescent rigid terete or 

 sometimes {Fhyllamiitlm) straight, vertically compressed, 3-angular ; ^ 

 leaves opposite small, very small or (Phyllacantha) ; stipules inter- 

 petiolar minute, deciduous ; flowers ^ axillary solitary, pedunculate, 

 erect or oftener pendulous.* (Antilles.^) 



107. Gonzalagunia R. and Pav.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or 

 polygamous, 2-morphous ; receptacle campanulate or subglobose. 

 Teeth of often short calyx 4, 5, equal or unequal. Tube of funnel- 

 shaped or hypocrateriform corolla short or long ; throat constricted 

 or dilated, pubescent or villose ; lobes of limb 4, 5, variously imbricate, 

 sometimes valvate at base, finally open. Stamens 4, 5, inserted in 

 tube or throat ; filaments short ; anthers dorsitixed ; cells free at base, 

 introrsely rimose. Germen 2-4-celled ; cells complete or incomplete ; 

 disk more or less elevated, often crenate; style slender, at apex 

 stigmatose enclosed or exserted, 2-4-lobed. Ovules oo, inserted on 

 axile peltate -placenta. Fruit fleshy or coriaceous subglobose ; ^ cells 

 or pyrenes 2-4, oo-spermous. Seeds small, variously foveolate or 

 reticulate; embryo short richly albuminous. — Small trees, shrubs or 

 herbs, erect or twining, glabrous or variously clothed ; leaves opposite 

 entire or subcrenulate ; stipules interpetiolar ; flowers ^ in terminal, 

 simple or ramose, generally elongate spikes or racemes ; pedicels 

 bracteolate.^ (Trop. N, and S. America}^) 



108. Isertia Schkeb.^^ — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle sub- 



1 To 8 in C. parvijfora. Nat. ii. 279 (not Pohl) ; Icon. vi. (1801), 50, 



2 As in some Colletins. t. 571 (1801). 



* Large or very small, white. ^ Sometimes finally septicidal. 



^ Flowers as regards perianth like those of ^ Small ; colour various. 



C'hiococca, as also co-ovulate germen. ^ A genus, except in habit, agreeing pretty 



5 Spec. 6, 7. Lamk. ///. t. 67.— Poir. Diet. closely with. Iseriia a,nd separated only on arti- 

 Supi>l. yii. 10 {ScolosautIttis).—YAiiL, Ed. Aoier. ficial grounds ; for the smaller flower is some- 

 t, 10.— Gkiseb. FL Brit. W.-Ind. 317 ; Cat. Fl. times almost quite the same. 



Cub. 122.— LiNBL. Fat. Reg. t. 858.— Sms, Bot. i" Spec. 10-12. Pav. Suppl. Quiuol. Si, t. 1, 



Mag. t. 131. f. a.— H. B. Fl. jEquin. t. 64 {Buena).~E.. B. K. 



6 Prodr. 12, t. 3 ; Fl. Per. et Ch'il. i. 56, t. 86 Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. 406 {Coccocypselum). — 

 (\ni).—Gonzalea Peiis. 6>2oj9s. i. 132 (1805). Gktseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Lid. 321 {Gonzalea).— 

 —J. Mem. Mus. vi. 400.— EiCH. Eub. 156.— DC. Walp. Eep. ii. 490 ; vi. 53 (Gonzalea). 



Frodr. iv. 436.— Endl. Gen. n. 3235. B. II. i' Gen. 234.— G.ertn. f. Fruct. iii. 60, t. 191. 



Gen. ii. 65 n. 102.— Buena Cav. Atial. Cienc. —J. Mem. Mus. vi. 399.~Ricii. Rub. 155, t. 11, 



