460 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



foliaceous, imbricate, excrescent. Tube of funnel-shaped-campaniilate 

 pilose corolla short; lobes of limb 4-6, thick, 3-gonal, valvate. 

 Stamens 8-12,' inserted under throat of corolla; filaments short; 

 anthers (in female flower small or sterile) oblong basifixed acuminate. 

 Germen inferior, 4-10-celled (in male flower sterile) ; disk hemi- 

 spherical rugose ; branches of erect style ^ 4-10, linear radiating 

 recurved. Ovules oo, inserted on a branched placenta affixed to the 

 internal angle of each cell. Fruit ''baccate ;" cells filled with mucilage 

 pilose; placentas branched, oo-spermous; testa of minute seeds 

 crustaceous foveolate ; epidermis thin ; albumen fleshy ; embryo 

 pear-shaped. — A small tree ; final twigs pilose ; leaves opposite sub- 

 lanceolate, the younger pilose, petiolate ; stipules intrapetiolar oblong 

 (rather large), persistent ; flowers^ axillary ; males cymose, 3-6-nate; 

 female solitary ; bracts and bracteoles wide foliaceous imbricate and 

 conformed to sepals.'^ {Borneo J") 



IX. OLDENLANDIE^. 



129. Oldenlandia Plum. — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 concave. Calyx gamophyllous, entire or oftener 5-dentate or lobed ; 

 teeth sometimes 4, or more rarely G. Corolla rotate, funnel-shaped 

 or shortly hypocrateriform ; lobes 4-6, valvate or rarely reduplicate ; 

 throat glabrous or variously pilose. Stamens 4-6, inserted at throat 

 or higher; filaments short ; anthers dorsifixed, oftener short, exserted, 

 introrse, 2-rimose. Germen adnate to receptacle, inferior or more or 

 less free at apex ; disk epigynous various ; branches of short or 

 elongate style 2, stigmatose, various, obtuse or pointed, sometimes 

 recurved. Ovules in cells oo, more rarely few or sometimes 1, 2, 

 inserted on a generally ascending and very shortly stipitate, globose, 

 obovoid or shortly clavate placenta affixed at base of septum or more 

 rarely higher. Fruit 2-coccous, capsular or coriaceous, more rarely 

 externally rather fleshy subglobose, sub-2-dymous, oblong or turbinate, 

 indehiscent or loculicidally or septicidally dehiscent ; cocci sometimes 

 indehiscent, solute. Seeds l-oo , globose, angular, alate or marginate, 

 externally smooth, spotted or granular ; albumen copious horny or 



^ Of which 4-6 alternipetalous, as many oppo- ^ A genus analogous to none but Sabicca ; 



sitipetalous. spui-ious capitules nearly as in Morindo, &c. 



' "Nearly joi Sab krct. ^ Spec. 1. P. dtn^-'ijlora Kouth. — Miq. Fl. 



3 " White," moderate. id. -Bat. ii. 225. 



