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fusiform. Ovules oo, inserted on rather prominent placentas affixed 

 to middle of septum. Fruit capsular rather fleshy, crowned with 

 calyx, ** dehiscing at base between its lobes in 5 valves, exposing the 

 placenta." Seeds oo, oblong imbricate albuminous; '* cotyledons of 

 small cylindrical embryo subconnate."-^A glabrous ramose shrub; 

 ramules terete ; leaves ^ opposite, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate acumi- 

 nate unequidentate, exstipulate ; flowers ^ in dense axillary subsessile 

 cymes, shortly pedicellate, bracteate ; bracts oblong obtuse.^ [Mount, 

 India. ^) 



X. PORTLANDIE^. 



144. Portlandia P. Br. — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4, 5-merous ;• 

 receptacle saclike obconical, obovoid or campanulate, enclosing adnate 

 germen. Calyx lobes 4-6, elongate subulate or subfoliaceous, glan- 

 dulose-denticulate at margins sometimes incurved below, persistent or 

 deciduous (Coutarea, Coiitaportla), valvate or induplicate. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped-campanulate or subclavate; tube generally 5-gonal, 

 straight or sometimes curved ; lobes of straight or sometimes oblique 

 limb 4, 5, more rarely 6, at attenuate margin imbricate or subvalvate 

 (Isidorea) or reduplicate ; throat glabrous. Stamens 4-6, inserted at 

 bottom of corolla tube or higher ; filaments generally free except at 

 base where connate in a small ring ; anthers basifixed linear-elongate 

 apiculate or muticous, introrse, enclosed or shortly exserted. G-ermen 

 inferior; cells 2, complete or incomplete; disk epigynous entire or 

 2-lobed ; style filiform, at apex stigmatose entire, 2-dentate or shortly 

 2-lobed. Ovules in cells go, or few, some descending, others ascending 

 (Coutaportla), inserted on a rather prominent placenta affixed more 

 or less widely to septum. Fruit capsular, obovoid or obconical, 

 sometimes obcordate, more or less compressed contrary to septum, 

 septicidal (Tacourea, Isidorea) or locuhcidal; valves generally 2-fid 

 or 2-partible above. Seeds oo, or few, compressed or obtusely angular ; 

 margin attenuate (Eujwrtlandia, Isidorea, Coutaportla) or wing mar- 

 gined (Coutarea, Tacourea) ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of rather 

 large embryo ovate or suborbiculate. — Glabrous trees or shrubs; leaves 



1 "Large." * Spec. 1. S. bracteatus Hook. f. — Psychotria 



' Eather large, " purplish." "Wall. Cat. n. 8367. — ? Neurocalyx Griff, herb. 



^ Rather a sect, of Carlemannia ? n. 2880. 



