450 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



or less deeply in tube of corolla sometimes at its base, and by means 

 of hairs more or less coalite with tube as far as the throat ; ^ anthers 

 dorsifixed or subbasifixed/ enclosed, introrse, 2-rimose,free or coherent 

 at margin (Acranthera) ; connective acute or calcarate at apex. Disk 

 epigynous annular, conical or tumid ; style slender, at apex clavate, 

 obtuse or acuminate, entire (Acranthera) , more rarely 2-lobed. Germen 

 2- or rarely 3-celled; cells complete or incomplete; ovules oc, inserted 

 on subpeltate or 2-lobed placenta. Fruit oblong, indehiscent, fleshy 

 or coriaceous, more rarely dry and loculicidal. Seeds oo , small, 

 generally foveolate ; albumen fleshy or horny ; embryo terete or 

 clavate. — Shrubs, undershrubs or herbs, often pilose, rarely climbing ; 

 leaves opposite or rarely verticillate ; petiole often short ; stipules 

 interpetiolar, free or connate, entire or lacerate, deciduous or persis- 

 tent ; flowers ^ very rarely solitary terminal, generally in terminal 

 more or less compound-ramose cymiferous racemes ; cymes sometimes 

 contracted (Polysolenia) and crowded in a spurious capitule ; bracts 

 and bracteoles various, sometimes deciduous, rarely large or lacerate. 

 {Trop. reg. of Old WorlcV) 



110. Adenosacme Wall/ — Flowers^ {nearly of Miissaenda) 4-6- 

 merous ; receptacle subglobose. Calyx lobes narrow pointed, some- 

 times glandular- serrate. Corolla tubular ; tube pilose within ; throat 

 glabrous or pilose ; lobes of limb 4—6, 3-angular, valvate or reduplicate. 

 Stamens as many, inserted in tube or throat ; filaments short ; 

 anthers dorsifixed oblong obtuse, 2-rimose. Germen 2-5-celled ; 

 disk epigynous tumid ; style slender thickened above ; branches 2-5, 

 linear, stigmatose-papillose at sides. Ovules oo, inserted on peltate 

 placentas.^ Fruit baccate, fleshy or coriaceous; cells 2-5, oo-spermous; 



1 In Acranthera zeylaiiica the filaments, some- Ind. Or. i. t. 23-25 {Acranthera) ; Fl. Sylv. t. 



what dilated at hase and free, coalesce around 16, iii. ; cxxx. — Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 138. — 



style higher in the tube. The filaments of If. Kurz. F:>r. Fl. Brit. Bunti. ii. oo. — Guv. Fl. 



Landice can be easily traced to the bottom of Trop. Afr. iii, 65. — Bot. Reg. t. 517; xxxii. t. 



the tube. The same is the case in M. Beind- 24.— lint. \fag. t. 2099, 5573.— W alp. Rep. ii. 



wardAiona MiQ. and phiUppica Rich. (spec. 11 [Acranthera), 521; vi. 76 ; ^>i«. ii. 798 ; v. 



closely connecting Acroiithera with the legiti- 136. 



mate Musmeudee). * Cat. n. 6280-6282.— Exdl. Gen. n, 3253.— 



' Sometimes versatile. B. H. Gen. ii. 69, n. 112. — Hook. F/. Ind. iii. 95. 



^ White or oftener yellow, ochraceous, pur- — Lnuia Wight, Calc. Jourji. Nat. Hist. ; Icon. 



plish or azure. t. \^~i^. — Myceiia (sect, oi Btrt'ura) DC. Prodr. 



4 Spec, about 50. Wall. PL As. Bar. t. 180. iv. 2,d2.—Menestoria DC. Prodr. iv. 390 (part). 



—Wight, III. t 124. — Siem. Fl.Vit. 123. — ^ Small or very small, white, yellowish or 



MiQ. F'. Ind.-Bat. ii. 211; Suppl. 218, 541; greenish, sometimes, as in i?rt;/fl^ja, 2-morphou8 



Ann. Mks. Lugd.-Bd. iv. 187. — Bak. Fl. Maur. (Clarke). 



HO. — Benth. Fl. Hngk. 152. — Bedd. /r. P/. 7 Coat simple very short. 



