474 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



2-celled; disk epigynous thin, white-sericeous; style branches 2, 

 stigmatose, recurved rather obtuse. Ovules oo, or few, inserted on a 

 saucer-shaped placenta peltately affixed to septum. Capsule oblong, 

 semi-superior, septicidal. Seeds oo, angular foveolate, albuminous (?). 

 —A low ramose hoary shrublet;^ leaves opposite (small), rather fleshy, 

 imbricately compacted ; stipules connate with petioles in a coriaceous 

 sheath ciliate above ; flowers ^ axillary solitary subsessile, partly 

 immerged in sheath ; bracts 2, lateral, similar to lacinise of calyx. ^ 

 (A7itilles.^) 



152. Bathysa Peesl.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous ; 

 receptacle obovoid. Calyx short cupular, 4, 5 -dentate, persistent or 

 deciduous. Tube of funnel-shaped corolla short; throat villose ; lobes 

 4, 5, oblong, imbricate. Stamens as many, inserted at mouth of 

 corolla ; filaments subrulate elongate, glabrous ( Voightia ^) or barbate 

 (Schoenleinia '') ; anthers short dorsifixed exserted, introrsely 2-rimose ; 

 connective sometimes thickened at back. Germen inferior 2-celled ; 

 disk epigynous annular or 2-lobed ; style thick, attenuate to base ; 

 branches 2 short stigmatose. Ovules oo, inserted on a placenta adnate 

 to septum. Fruit capsular (small) obovoid-truncate, septicidal from 

 apex ; valves 2-fid above. Seeds oo, inserted on placentas finally free, 

 small compressed or angular reticulate, sometimes narrow marginate ; 

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

 oftener tomentose ; ^ leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate or lanceolate ; 

 stipules interpetiolar various, deciduous; flowers^ sessile or very 

 shortly pedicellate in the brachiate branches of a compound terminal 

 raceme, solitary or glomerulate. {Brazil?^) 



153. Wendlandia Bartl.^' — Flowers ^^ hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamous (nearly of Rondeletia) ; receptacle small subglobose. Calyx 



* Habit of Passerina. " Kl. loc. cit. 



2 Small, yellow, sericeous. * Leaves, calyx, bracts and fruit clothed with 



^ Perhaps, from its singular habit and germen same tomentum. 

 not quite inferior, better a sect, of Rondeletia, ^ Small, not handsome. 



by the intervention of R.phyUanthoides Griseb. ^o Spec. 5, 6. A. S.-H. PL Us. Bras. t. 3, A, B 



in which the fruit is quite inferior and seeds [Exostema). — Vell. FL Flum. 63, Atl. ii. t. 17 



pointed and winged on both sides ? [Coffea). — Rich. Rub. 200, 201 {Macrocnemum) . — 



■* Spec. 1. R. rupestris DC. — Guiseb. Fl. Brit. VlALV.Rep.vi. 59, 69 ( Voightia), 70 {Schoeiileinia). 

 W.-Lid. Z'iO.—Hedyotis rupestris ^-w. Prodr. 29. " Ex DC. Prodr. iv. 411 (part, not W.).— 



— H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. 391,— if. ameri- Endl. Gen. n. 3252.— B. H. Gen. ii. 50, n. 62.— 



cana Jacq. Jmer. 20. Hook, Fl. Ind. iii. 37. — Rhombospora Miq. Fl. 



^ Bot. Bern. %^.— B.Ii. 6r^n. ii. 49, n. 60. Ind.-Bat. ii. 3i5.—Se.Hinia Boiss. et Hohex. 



• Kl. Hai/n. Arzu. xiv. sub t. 15 (not Roth. Eotsch. PL Exs. n. 571. 

 nor Spheng,). " Often 2-morphous. 



