454 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Fruit baccate, crowned with disk. Seeds oo, small globose, externally 

 foreolate ; albumen flesh j ; ''embryo small pear-shaped." — Small 

 trees, glabrous or tomentose ; leaves opposite oblong petiolate ; stipules 

 interpetiolar sub-3-angular acute, caducous; flowers^ in pedunculate 

 axillary ramose corymbiform cymes.^ [Malacca, Java.^) 



116. Lecananthus Jack.^ — Flowers spuriously capitate; recep- 

 tacle ovoid or obconical. Calyx wide-campanulate gamophyllous very 

 irregular, 2-Hpped ; lips subentire or unequally 2, 3-lobed. Tube of 

 funnel-shaped corolla dilated at base ; throat glabrous or pilose ; 

 lobes of limb 5, thick above, valvate. Stamens 5, inserted at top of 

 tube ; filaments short; anthers dorsifixed narrow ; cells introrse, free 

 at base. Germen 2-celled ; disk rather thick ; apex of slender style 

 stigmatose incrassate, 2-lobed. Ovules oo, inserted on thick axile 

 placentas. Fruit "membranous, mucilaginous within, 2-celled; 

 placentas many-seeded throughout. Seeds obovoid-wedgelike, obtusely 

 angular ; testa rather thick smooth ; albumen fleshy ; embryo small 

 clavate, 2-fid." — Glabrous climbing shrubs ; leaves opposite, petiolate, 

 lanceolate- acuminate ; stipules rather large connate in pairs; flowers^ 

 compound-glomerulate in spurious axillary pedunculate or sessile 

 droopmg capitules ; involucre " monophyllous." (Ind, Archip,^) 



117. Schradera Yahl.'' — Flowers spuriously capitate; receptacle 

 obconical or hemispherical. Calyx short-tubular entire truncate. 

 Tube of hypocrateriform thickly coriaceous corolla more or less elon- 

 gate ; throat villose ; lobes of limb 4-10, valvate, incurved at apex, 

 often finally open. Stamens 4-10, inserted in throat; filaments short 

 or subnil ; anthers linear dorsifixed, enclosed or exserted ; cells 

 introrsely riraose, sometimes free at base. Germen 2-4-celled; disk 

 thick; branches of more or less thickened style 2-4, stigmatose 

 connivent. Ovules oo, inserted on thick placenta affixed to axis 

 within. Fruit baccate fusiform, 2-4-celled. Seeds oo, small granular, 



J Small, " ebracteate." ^ Spec. 2, 3. Miq. Fl. Iiid.-Bat n. 153, 199; 



^ A genus very near Urophijllum. Ann. -Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iv. 132. 



3 Spec. 2, 3. 7 Ed. Amer. i. 3o, t. 5.— Rich. Buh. 149.— 



^ Malay. Misc. ii. n. vii. 83.— Wall. Eoxb. Fl. DC. Prodr. iv. 443 — Exdl. Gen. n. 3230. — B.' 



Ind. (ed. Car.) ii. 319.— Rich. Rub. 213.— H. (?««. ii. 66, n. 104.— i^«eA.<i/« Sw. P/Wr. 62 ; 



Endl. Gen. n. 3323.— B. H. Gen. ii. 73, n. 127. Fl. In<1. Ocr. 674 (not lu.).— Ureeolaria Coth 



—Hook. Fl. Ind. iii, 100. DUp. Veg. 10 (ex W. Spec. ii. 238). 



»• " Pale reddish." 



