RUB I ACE M 4«5 



obconical, costate. Lobes of persistent calyx 4, 5, obtuse. Lobes of 

 tubular funnel-shaped corolla 4, 5, valvate, sometimes induplicate ; 

 throat glabrous or pilose. Stamens 4, 5, inserted in tube and enclosed. 

 Germen 2-celled ; disk epigynous tumid, 2-4-lobed ; style slender, at 

 apex stigmatose capitately 2-lobed. Ovules in cells (complete or 

 incomplete) oo, inserted on an ascending stipitate placenta. Fruit 

 capsular, cylindrical or obovoid, loculicidal; valves sometimes 2- 

 partible. Seeds oo, angular reticulate; embryo small, rich in albumen. 

 — Annual herbs, glabrous or pubescent; leaves opposite,^ lanceolate 

 membranous ; stipules subulate, solitary on both sides ; flowers ^ in 

 racemiform axillary or terminal long-pedunculate cymes, 1 -lateral. 

 {Java, trop. south. Asia,^) 



137. Lerchea L.* — Flowers (nearly of Oldenlamlia) 4, 5-merous ; 

 receptacle subglobose or obconical. Calycinal teeth or lobes erect, 

 persistent. Corolla tubular-funnel-shaped; tube sometimes rather 

 short ; throat barbate or glabrous (Xanthophytum ^) ; lobes valvate, 

 open. Stamens 4, 5, inserted at various height in throat or tube of 

 corolla, enclosed ; anthers dorsifixed enclosed, sometimes at apexpeni- 

 cillate ; cells free at base or also at apex.^ Germen 2-celled ; disk 

 tumid, cylindrical or obconical; lobes of short style 2, stigmatose thick 

 (Xanthophytum) or more rarely linear- subulate papillose throughout. 

 Ovules in cells oo, inserted or a subglobose placenta affixed more or 

 less mdely to septum. Fruit globose or sub-2-d3^mous, separable into 

 2 crustaceous or coriaceous cocci. Seeds oo, small angular; testa 

 reticulate, punctate or foveolate; embryo small albuminous. — Shrublets 

 or undershrubs, or red-sericeous ; leaves opposite, petiolate ovately or 

 oblong-lanceolate membranous ; stipules interpetiolar, persistent ; 

 flowers ^ cymose, shortly pedicellate or glomerulate ; cymes either 

 axillary to leaves sessile or pedunculate (Xanthojjhytimi), or axillary 

 to bracts of an elongate filiform axillar or oftener terminal ramule, 

 bracteolate. (Java, Borneo, Feejee is.^) 



* Or spuriously verticillate. Bartl. mss, (ex DC). 



- Minute, white or yellow. " Connective sometimes dilated to a small 



3 Spec. 2. MiQ. Fl. Iiid.-Bat. ii. 160. oblong- spathulate dorsal lamina. 



* Mautiss. loo.— Benn. Horsf. Fl. Jav. Ear. ' Small or very small. 



98, t. 23.— Endl. Gen. n. 32511.— B. H. Gen. ii. * Spec. 5, 6. Bl. Bijdr. 958 {Chio€ocea).—DC. 



53, n. ll.—Codaria L, mss. Frodr. iv. 436, n. 10 {Metaholos\—^\Q.. Fl. Ind.- 



5 Reinw. Bl. Bijdr. 989.— Rich. Rub. 195.— Bat. ii. 175 {XavthophyUnn), 176; Suppl. 216; 



DC. Prodr. iv. 413.— B. H. Gen. ii. 63, n. 73.— Ann. Mm. Lugd.-But. iv. 128, 223.— A. Gbat, 



Metabolos DC. (part, not Bl ). — Sckrococcoi Proc. Amer. Acad. iv. 311. 



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