458 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



stigmatose. Ovules oo, inserted on an oblong placenta affixed to 

 septum and very shortl}^ stipitate. Fruit baccate or drupaceous, with 

 thin putamen, elongate, sometimes shortly dehiscent at apex. Seeds 

 00 , small, compressed or angular sometimes subulate, foveolate or 

 smooth, albuminous. — Small trees or shrubs, glabrous or puberulous ; 

 leaves opposite petiolate coriaceous ; stipules intrapetiolar short 

 connate with petioles ; flowers ^ in axillary compound-ramose cymes, 

 sometimes few or solitary.^ {Sandwich is.^) 



124. Myrioneuron R. Br."^ — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle 

 subovoid. Calyx lobes 5, elongate-subulate rigid, erect or finally open, 

 persistent. Throat of tubular corolla (shorter than calyx) villose ; 

 lobes of limb 5, valvate, erect, externally hispidulous. Stamens 5, 

 inserted in tube ; filaments short ; anthers dorsifixed narrow obtuse 

 introrse enclosed. Germen 2-celled ; disk depressed suborbicular ; 

 branches of short style 2, stigmatose, oblong, coherent. Ovules oo, 

 inserted on a thickish placenta affixed to septum. Fruit baccate or 

 dry coriaceous, crowned with calyx ; cocci 2, finally dehiscing inwards. 

 Seeds (x, angular foveolate albuminous; embryo subclavate. — 

 Shrublets; "bark spongy;" leaves opposite wide petiolate highly 

 nervosa and venose ; stipules interpetiolar elongate ; flowers^ in 

 terminal or axillary drooping more or less capituliform cynies ; bracts 

 crowded lanceolate rigid. (India, " Borneo.'' ^) 



125. Pay era H. Bn.*^ — Flowers (nearly of Myrioneuron) oftener 

 5-merous ; receptacle oblong. Lobes of calyx 5, large foliaceous, 

 persistent, imbricate ? Lobes of tubular corolla 5, valvate. Stamens 

 5, enclosed. Germen 2-celled ; branches of slender style 2 stigmatose 

 filiform, not dilated. Ovules oo, inserted on a very shortly stipitate 

 and ascending placenta affixed to septum. Fruit dry (?) coriaceous; 

 seeds 00, ascending compressed subulate, imbricate;^ albumen. . . ? — 

 A glabrous glaucescent shrub (?) ; leaves opposite large, lanceolate 



1 Small or moderate. ■* JFdll. Cat.n. 6225. — F.hdi.. Gen. o66(obsery. 



2 A genus very near Oldenlandia sect. Kadua, on '• genera little known "). — B. H. Gen. ii. 69, 

 slightly differing in fruit being not or scarcely n. 113. 



dehiscent. Perhaps of a different genus is (B. ^ White ; fruit -white. 



H.loc.cit.l^) G^. jRow?«;/ro^a/iff, flowers solitary, ^ Spec. 6, 6. Kukz, For. Fl. Brit. Barm. ii. 



berry large. 54. 



3 Spec. 4, 5 ? Hook, and Arx. Beech. Voy.Bot. ' Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 178. 

 64 (Fetcsia). — Wawr. Flora (1875), 274, 294. ' Immature nigrescent. 



