liuniACj:^:. 4ci 



fleshy ; cotyledons of small straight or curved embryo ovat 3 or oblong. 

 — Shrubs, undershrubs or herbs ; leaves opposite or rarely verticillate, 

 very various, small or large, nerved or enervate ; stipules various, 

 often connate with petioles in a sheath, entire, dentate or ciliate- 

 dentate ; flowers in variously ramose or spicate, terminal or axillary, 

 sometimes 1 -parous cymes, sometimes cymose few or solitary. (^All 

 warm regions.) — See j). 323. 



130 ? Bouvardia Salisb.^ — Flowers 4-merous or more rarely 

 5-merous; receptacle obovoid or obconical. Calyx lobes 4, 5, ovate 

 or lanceolate, or spathulate ; sometimes denticules (stipules ?), soli- 

 tary or 2-nate, interposed. Lobes of tubular, funnel-shaped or 

 hvpocrateriform corolla 4, or more rarely 5, valvate ; tube straight or 

 slightly curved {HeterophijUcea -) glabrous within, or sparsely pilose, 

 sometimes encircled by a ring of hairs ; throat sometimes wide. 

 Stamens 4, or more rarely 5, inserted in throat or tube, sometimes at 

 bottom of tube (HeteropJiylhrn) ; filaments very short, short or 

 elongate ; anthers dorsifixed, oftener oblong, introrsely or at margins 

 rimose. Germen inferior, 2-celled; disk various, sometimes pilose; 

 style slender, at apex 2-dentate, 2-fid or 4-ramose, oftener papillose 

 throughout. Ovules 00, inserted on shortly stipitate obovoid or sub- 

 peltate or shortly clavate placenta affixed at middle or oftener at base 

 of septum. Fruit capsular, oftener sub-2-dymous, coriaceous, loculi- 

 cidal or more rarely septicidal (Hlndsia^), Seeds 00, peltate, imbricate, 

 expanded to a membranous or rather thick wing ; albumen fleshy ; 

 embryo small subclavate. — Herbs or oftener shrubs, sometimes 

 pustulate (HeteropliyLl(Ba) ; leaves opposite or more rarely verticillate, 

 entire or rarely crenate ; stipules entire, dentate, fissous or ciliate ; 

 flowers * in terminal generally corymbiform cymes. {Trop. N, and S, 

 America.^) 



131. Coccocypselum P. Br. ^'—Flowers dimorphous (nearly of 



^ Far. Loi d. ii. 88, t. 88. J. y.eni.. Miis. vi. white, yellow, pink, violet or red, sometimes 



383.— Rich. Eub. 191 (part).— DC. Proelr. iv. sweet-scented. 



365, — Endl. Gen. n. 3265. — B. H. Geti. ii. 36, n. * Spec, about 30. Jacq. Hart. Scloe.ibr. t. 257 



22. — ? Cliribtiina Rafin. Ann. Gen. Sc. Phi/s. v. (Izora). — H. B. K. Nov. Gen. ec Sp. iii. 383, t. 



'224:.—jEf/ij/etia Cav. Icon. vi. 51, t. 5"2 (notL.). 288. — Lindl. Joitrn. Hort. Sue. iii. 246. — Andu. 



- Hook. f. Icon. t. 1134.— B. H. G^n. ii 37, n. BU. Rep. t. 106 {Eou^tonia).—£ot. Rtg. (1840) 



2;i (stock imperfectly known and referred here t. 37 ; (1846), t. 32.— ^,,^ Mag. t. 1854, 3781, 



not without doubt). 3953, 3977 {R:>ndtletia), 4135 [Ronddttio), 4223, 



3 Benth. Lindl. Bot. Rty. (1844) t. 40.- B. H. 4579.— Walp. Rvp. ii. 507 ; vi. GO i^IIindsia), 



Gen. ii. 37, n. 25. — Mairobiphon MiQ. Limcca, 62; A'tn.i. '611 \ ii. 778; v. 125. 



xix. 442. ''Jain. 1 »4, t. 6, fiy:. 2 (^Coccccypsihim). — Sw. 



■* Rathm- large or large, generally showy, Fl. Ii,d. Occ. i. 245. — Rich. Rub. 179 {C>.ccui)P' 



