nzrBIACjEJE. 



475 



lobes 4, 5, equal or unequal, elongate or subulate. Tube of funnel- 

 shaped or hypocrateriform corolla narrow, sparsely pilose within, short 

 or long ; throat glabrous or pilose ; lobes of limb 4, 5, oblong obtuse, 

 imbricate, or rarely contorted, finally open. Stamens 5, inserted in 

 throat ; filaments long short or subnil ; anthers small dorsifixed 

 versatile, introrsely rimose, enclosed or exserted. Germen 2-celled; * 

 style slender, dilated at stigmatose apex, ovoid or subpiriform, sub- 

 entire, 2-dentate or 2-lobed. Ovules oo, inserted on subglobose placenta 

 affixed to septum. Fruit capsular subglobose, loculicidal or septicidal. 

 Seeds oo, compressed reticulate, albuminous, sometimes narrow- winged. 

 Other characters of Rondeletia,^ — Small trees or shrubs ; leaves oppo- 

 site or 3-nate, petiolate or sessile, ovate or oblong ; stipules inter- or 

 intrapetiolar, entire, sometimes foliaceous, or 2-lobed, deciduous or 

 persistent ; flowers ^ in terminal very ramose glomeruliferous racemes, 

 1-3-bracteolate. {Warm Asia.'^) 



154 ? Chalepophyllum Hook, f.^— Flowers 5-merous ; receptacle 

 long-obovoid. Calyx lobes 5, unequal oblong-subspathulate obtuse 

 coriaceous, persistent. Throat of funnel-shaped corolla villose; lobes 

 of limb 5, oblong obtuse, attenuate at margin, imbricate or contorted (?). 

 Stamens inserted in throat ; filaments subulate ; anthers linear-acute, 

 dorsifixed at base, enclosed ; connective thickened at back. Germen 

 2-celled ; disk epigynous thick ; branches of slender style 2, short 

 stigmatose. Ovules oo, inserted on placentas adnate to middle of 

 septum. Fruit '' capsular, crowned with calyx, crustaceous, septici- 

 dally 2-valvate. Seeds oo, angular rather compressed subalate reti- 

 culate ;" embryo . . . ? — A rigid shrublet ; ramules puberulous, resinous 

 at apex ; leaves opposite, petiolate elliptico-obovate coriaceous fuscate 

 tomentellose beneath, nervate and thickly reticulate ; stipules inter- 

 petiolar short, persistent ; flowers axillary solitary ; peduncle short, 

 2-bracteolate.'' ( Guiana J) 



155. Augusta Pohl.^ — Flowers 5-merous; receptacle longer or 



1 Rarely 3-celled. :Enum, PL Zeyl. 159.— Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. 10.— 



2 To which very near. Walp. Rep. ii. 504 ; vi. 58. 



3 Small, yellow, white or pink. * Icou. t. 1148.— B. H. Gen. ii. 50, n. 63. 



"* Spec, about 12. Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 133, 140, * A genus apparently very near RoncUUtiay 



141, 142 {Rondeletia).—BL. Bijdr. 974 (Rondele- differing chiefly in habit. 

 iia). — Don, Frod7'.Fl. Nepal. 138 (Rondeletta). — ' Spec. 1. C.guianense Hook. f. loc. cit. 



Wight and Arn. Prodr. i. 402. — Wight, Icon. ^ PI. Bras. Icon. ii. 1, 1. 101-105 (not Leand.). 



t. 1033.— MiQ. FL Ltd.- Bat. ii. 157, 345 ; Ann. — B. H. Gen. ii. 51, n. ^Q.—Ai'gustea DC. Prodr. 



Mus.Luffd.-BuLix. 221.— BE-D-D.Fl.S!/lv.t.29A, iv. iOi.—Schreibersia Pohl, Flora (1825), 183 



cxxx.— KuRZ, For. FL Brit. Bwm. ii. 73.— Thw. (not Schrcibera Retz.).— Emdl. Qen. n. 3259. 



