EUBIACJEJE. 



473 



[Stemisia ^) 6-8-merous; receptacle subglobose or more rarely obovoid. 

 Calyx lobes lanceolate or linear acute, equal or unequal, persistent ; 

 denticules (stipules ?) sometimes interposed. Corolla funnel-shaped 

 or hypocrateriform ; tube generally elongate slender ; throat glabrous 

 or variously villose, often thickened to a more or less prominent 

 glandular ring; lobes of limb obovate-obtuse, imbricate, patent. 

 Stamens equal in number to lobes, inserted in throat ; filaments short 

 or very short ; anthers enclosed oblong dorsifixed, introrsely 2-rimose. 

 Germen 2-celled ; disk epigynous thick annular or depressed conical ; 

 lobes of slender style 2, stigmatose, short, linear or eUiptical, patulous. 

 Ovules in cells oo, inserted on thick sometimes globose short-stipitate 

 placentas affixed to septum. Fruit capsular various, oblong or globose, 

 coriaceous or chartaceous, loculicidal; valves 2-partible. Seeds ex, 

 minute, various in form, angular, subcubical or sometimes compressed, 

 marginately winged or fusiform ; coat produced both ways to a point ; 

 embryo small albuminous. — Trees or shrubs, glabrous pubescent or 

 white-arachnoid-villosulous {Arachnothryx ^); leaves opposite or rarely 

 verticillate, sessile or petiolate, membranous or coriaceous ; stipules 

 interpetiolar, simple or 2-nate (Rogiera ^), sometimes minutely glan- 

 duliferous, deciduous or persistent ; flowers ^ in compound racemose or 

 corymbiform, axillary or rarely terminal cymes. (Both tr op. Americas.^) 



151 ? Ehachicallis DC.^ — Flowers oi Rondeletia, 4-merous; tube 

 of receptacle short. Lobes of persistent calyx 4, elongate ; minute 

 denticules interposed. Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube straight or 

 slightly curved; throat glabrous; lobes of limb 4, thick, imbricate. 

 Stamens 4, enclosed ; filaments short inserted in throat ; anthers 

 dorsifixed oblong. Germen adnate to receptacle below, above free, 



Lakk. III. t. 162. — Gjertn. f. Fruct. iii. 38, t. 

 184.— Rich. Hub, 190.— DC. Prodr. iv. 406 

 (part). — Endl. Oen. n. 3254. — B. H. Gen. ii. 

 224, 1228, n. b%.—Petesia P. Br. Jam. 143, t. 2, 

 3 (part). — DC. Prodr. iv. S95. — Liffht/ootia 

 ScHREB. Oen. 122 (not Lher.). — Willdenowia 

 Gmel. Syst. ii. 362 (not Cay. nor Thunb). — 

 Arachfiimorpha Desvx. Mam. Prodr. 28. 



i Voir. Ann. Mus. iv. 235, t. 60 (not Neck.).— 

 G^RTN. F. Fruct. iii.t. 97. — DC Prodr. iv. 349. 

 —Rich. Rub. 205.— Endl, Gen. n. 3279.— Turp. 

 Diet. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. 101.— Ghiseb. Fl. Brit. 

 W.-Ind. 328. 



2 Pl. fl des Serres, v. sub t. 442. 



3 Pl. loc. cit. t. 442. 



4 Moderate, showy, white, pink, yellow, 

 coccineous or red, sometimes odorous. 



^ Spec, about 50. Jacq. Amer. t. 42. — Vahl, 

 Si/mb. iii. t. 54.— H.B.K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. t. 

 290, 291.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 325 ; Cat. 

 Pl. Cub. 127.— Hemsl. Biaff. Pl. Mex. 25.— Kst. 

 Fl. Col. t. 96.— LiNDL. Bot. Reg. t. 1905.— ^o^ 

 Mag. t. 3953, 3977, 4579, 5669, 6290.— Walp. 

 Rep. ii. 505, 943 ; vi. 59 ; Ann, i. 377 ; v. 117. 



6 Prodr. iv. 434, n. 2 (excl. 1, 3).--B. H. Gen. 

 ii. 49, u. 59. 



