4-')2 NATUBAL ]i I STORY OF PLANTS. 



calyx siibequally-fitl. Corolla funnel-shaped ; lobes 5, valvate. 

 St:imens inserted at pubescent throat ; anthers sessile enclosed. 

 Germen 2 5-celled ; cells oo - ovulate ; disk tubular; style branches 

 2-5, linear. Fruit fleshy or coriaceous-membranous, 2- 5-celled ; 

 seeds oo, smooth, sometimes immersed in pulp ; embryo subclavate 

 albuminous and other characters of Sahicea. — Tomentose or sericeous 

 shrubs ; leaves shortly petiolate opposite elongate, oo-nerved, whitish 

 or fulvous beneath ; stipules interpetiolar developed ; flowers axillary 

 glomerulate, involucrate with membranous bracts drawn together in 

 a campanulate involucre. (Trap. west. Africa.^) 



113. Schizostigma Aen.- — Flowers oftener 5-merous ; receptacle 

 subspherical or obovoid. Calyx lobes foliaceous unequal lanceolate, 

 sometimes long-petiolate (PenUdoiiclKi ''), or some shorter unequal 

 subulate or sublanceolate ; others dilated foliaceous venose petiolate 

 (Temuoptcrix^), -pevsisient. Corolla tubular or funnel-shaped-hypo- 

 crateriform ; lobes of limb 5, valvate ; throat pubescent or rigidly 

 barbate (Temnopterix) ; tube sometimes surrounded below middle by 

 a barbate ring (Pentaloncha). Stamens 5, inserted at middle or top 

 of tube ; filaments short or subnil ; anthers dorsifixed, linear-oblong, 

 introrse, 2-rimose. Disk epigynous annular, sometimes depressed or 

 hemispherical. Germen 5-celled (or rarely 2-7-celled) ; style slender, 

 divided above into as many linear obtuse stigmatose branches. Ovules 

 oc) , inserted on more or less tumid placentas aflixed to axis of germen 

 and shortly stipitate. Fruit subspherical or ovoid, fleshy or coriaceous. 

 Seeds oc, small, externally reticulate, foveolate or mucilaginous; 

 albumen fleshy oily; embryo small subclavate. — Glabrous, fuscate- 

 sericeous or hirsute herbs, sometimes decumbent ; leaves opposite, 

 oblong, lanceolate or obovate, petiolate ; stipules interpetiolar, some- 

 times broad, entire or lacerate (Temnopter/jx), sometimes chartaceous 

 (Peittaloncha), often persistent; flowers^ axillary cymose or glome- 

 rulate, few or crowded. [Ceijlon, trap. west. Africa.^) 



114. Urophyllum Jack.' — Flowers hermaphrodite or 1-sexual; 



^ Spec. 3. HiERX, FL Trp. Afr. iii. 79. 6 Spec. 3. Bedd. Ico)i. PL I„d. Or. i. t, 95.— 



- Ai,n. ISat. Hi6t. iii. 20 (not DC.).— Endl. Thav. E,.u)n. Pi. Zeyl. 132.— Hierx, Fl. Troy. 



Ge,'. n. 3224^— B. H. Gen. ii. 72, n. 122.— Afr. iii. 78 {TtmnqAerix), 79 {Pentuloncho) .— 



Hook. FL L.d. iii. 100. \Vali>. R,p. vi. oO. 



'^ Hook. f. Gen. ii. 73, n. 124. ' Ex Wall. Po.vh. FL Lid. (ed. Car.) ii. 184. 



■ ■• Hook. f. Gen. ii. 72, n. 123. —Rich. Pub. 212.— DC. Prodr. iv. 441.— Endl. 



' Kather large or sometimes {Fei.faloi/c/ta) Gen. n. 3227. — B. H. Geii.ii. 71, n. 120. — Axan- 



small. this Bl. Bjdr. 1002.— DC. Prodr. iv. 440.— 



