456 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



connate in a large wide-campanulate involucre ^ under inflorescence. 

 (Ceylon.^) 



120. Didymochlamys Hook, r.^ — Flowers spuriously capitate; 

 receptacle obconical. Folioles of 5-partite calyx subunequally lan- 

 ceolate acuminate. Corolla tubular- campanulate ; tube having a ring 

 of hairs within ; throat glabrous ; lobes of limb 5, very induplicate 

 and introflexed undulate at margins. Stamens 5, inserted at base of 

 corolla tube; filaments very unequal (2 longer); anthers introrse 

 dorsifixed at base apiculate enclosed, 2-rimose. Germen 2-celled ; 

 disk short-conical ; style slender clavate at 2-dentate stigmatose 

 apex. Ovules oo , inserted on rather thick ascending placentas. 

 Fruit . . . ? — A low glabrous herb ; leaves alternate, 2-stichous, oblique 

 lanceolate acuminate ^'rather fleshy;" petiole short; stipules '* 2- 

 form ; some minute clawlike bulbous at base, inserted at base of 

 petiole, entire or 2-cuspidate; others (?) remote from petiole lanceo- 

 late solitary or 2-nate;" flowers^ in terminal pedunculate contracted 

 capituliform cymes ; involucre under flow^ers consisting of 2 ovate- 

 cuspidate large membranous (coloured?) bracts mixed with a few 

 narrow lanceolate bracteoles. (Goluinhia.^) 



121. Hippotis R. and Pav.^ — Flowers generally hermaphrodite ; 

 receptacle obovoid. Calyx gamophyllous spathaceous, sometimes 

 fissous or unequally-2, 3-lobed, sometimes large foliaceous and un- 

 equally 2-lobed {Taminsia'^), or unequally 3-5-lobed (Somnieni ^), 

 persistent. Lobes of funnel-shaped campanulate corolla 4-6, valvate 

 or more or less reduplicate. Stamens as many, inserted at greater 

 or less height in tube ; filaments sometimes villose, more or less 

 unequal ; anthers more or less highly dorsifixed, introrsely 2-rimose, 

 enclosed or exserted. G-ermen 2-celled ; cells complete or incomplete ; 

 disk epigynous orbicular or shortly cupular; branches or lobes of 

 erect style 2, stigmatose obtuse, more or less dilated. Ovules oo, 

 inserted on more or less tumid and often 2-lobed placentas. Fruit 



^ Membranous, "white." Mas. vi. 393. — Rich. Eub. 17-5. — DC. Prod) . iv. 



2 Sj)ec. 1. L. reticuldtum Gardx. — Thw. 391.— Endl. Gen. n. 3297.— B. H. Oen. ii. 70, 

 Enum. PL Zeijl. 138.— Bedd. Icon. PL Ind. Or. n. 115. 



i. t. 94. 7 Karst. FL Colomh. 179, t. 89.— B. H. Gen. 



3 Icon. t. 1122 ; Gtn. ii. 67, t. 105. ii. 79, n. 144. 



^ Small, subsessile. ^ Schlchtl, Linuaa, ix. 602. — Exi>l. Gen. n. 



•■* Spec. 1. D. Whitei Hook. v. 3316.— B. H. Gen. \\, 79, n. 143 (seeds not or 



6 Prar. 33 ; FL Per. ii. 55. t. 201.— J. Mem. rather large). 



