462 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Oldenlandia), 4-merous ; calyx lobes pointed or lanceolate, persistent. 

 Lobes of shortly funnel-shaped corolla 4, valvate. Stamens 4, inserted 

 in throat ; filaments short ; anthers oblong, dorsifixed above base ; 

 cells free at base, introrsely rimose, enclosed or shortly exserted. 

 Germen 2-celled ; disk epigynous 2-lobed ; branches of slender style 

 2. Ovules in cells oc, inserted on a subglobose short or long stipitate, 

 transverse or ascending placenta affixed at middle or base of septum. 

 Fruit' baccate or subdry, sometimes finally 2-partible. Seeds oo, 

 plano-convex ; hilum ventral ; testa smooth or granular ; albumen 

 fleshy ; embryo small, oblique or transverse. — Diffuse ramose creeping 

 herbs, glabrous or oftener tomentose or villose ; leaves opposite ; 

 petioles short or elongate ; stipules solitary on both sides ; flowers ^ 

 spuriously capitate at top of axillary peduncle, compound- glomerulate, 

 bracteate. {Trap. America.^) 



132. Synaptantha Hook, f.* — Flowers (nearly of OUenlandia) 

 4-merous ; receptacle concave hemispherical. Lobes of marginally 

 inserted calyx 4, linear, persistent. Corolla rotate ; tube very short ; 

 petals ovate-acute, free or scarcely connate at base, valvate. Stamens 

 4, alternipetalous ; filaments subfree, inserted in receptacle, subulate ; 

 anthers ovate dorsifixed introrse, 2-rimose. Germen adnate to 

 receptacle to middle, free above, 2-celled ; style erect, at minute apex 

 capitately 2-lobed stigmatose. Ovules oo, inserted on subglobose 

 peltate stipitate placenta affixed to middle of septum. Fruit capsular, 

 free to middle, girt to middle with persistent calyx and corolla, locu- 

 licidally 2-valved. Seeds oo, small angular plano-convex smooth, 

 albuminous ; cotyledons of terete embryo oblong. — Perennial ramose 

 puberulous herbs ; ^ leaves opposite linear-oblong ; stipules small, 

 2-dentate, connate with petioles ; flowers ^ axillary, solitary, 2-nate 

 or few cymose. (Suhtrop. Australia J) 



133. Mitreola L.^ — Flowers (nearly of Oldenlandia or HeMstocarpa) 



fsilum).—DG. Prodr. iv. 396.— Endl. Gen. n. ^ Icou. t. IU6.—B. U. Gen. ii. 61, n. 89. 



3291.— B.H. Gen. ii. 73, n. 126.— Sicelium P. ' Haloit of Saffina." 



Br. Icc.cit. 144. — Totitanea Al'bl. Guian. i. 108, ^ Minute, "reddish-white." 



t. '\:'l.— Hellardia^CKKV.'R. Gen.n.\12i.—Cot)da- J" Spec. 1. S. tillmacea Hook. v.— Hidyotis 



Ha R. et Pav. Prodr. 11, t. 2 (notCAV.) — Zi/'O- tillmncea F. Mdell. Fragm. Phyt. Aust. iv. 39. 



stnma Don, Edin. Phil. Joitrn. (1830) i. 168. — Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 405, n. 7. 



' Azure or violet. '^ Hort. Cliff. 492; Gni. n. 932 (ed. 1737).— 



2 Purple or bluish. R. Br. Prodr. Fl. N.-Holl. 450, not.— A. Rich. 



3 Spec, about 15. H. B K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. Mem. »S'/C. Bisf. Nat. Par. i. t. 3. — Endt,. Gei>. n. 

 403. — Ch. et ScHi.CHTL, Liimmi, iv. 138.— Gris. 3567. — A. DC. Prodr. ix. 8.— Bvr. Logan. 60. — 

 Fl. Brit. W.-Ii,>l. 2,'l'l.—Bot. Mi g. t. 2840 {He- Benth. Juurn. L'um. Soc. i. 90.— B. H. Gen. ii. 

 dyotis). — Walp. Rep. ii. 516 ; vi. 72. ■ 790, n. 5. — Cyncctovum Gmel. St^st 443 (part). 



