476 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



shorter obovoid, costate or angular ; lobes of calyx angular, persistent. 

 Corolla long-funnel-shaped ; tube straight or oftener curved, glabrous 

 within ; lobes of limb 5, contorted, open. Stamens 5 ; anthers sub- 

 sessile dorsifixed oblong, exserted. Germen 2-celled ; disk epigynous 

 annular ; style thin thickened at apex ; lobes 2 ovate- obtuse. Ovules 

 00, inserted on placenta longitudinally adnate to septum. Fruit 

 capsular oblong-cylindrical, loculicidal; valves 2-partible ; exocarp 

 separable from hard endocarp. Seeds oo, inserted on thick foveolate 

 placentas, angular, albuminous. — Glabrous trees or shrubs; leaves 

 opposite oblong-lanceolate coriaceous ; stipules connate in an intra- 

 petiolar sheath, deciduous ; flowers ' in axillary and subterminal 

 3-flowered cymes; pedicels bracteolate. {Warm Brazil.'^) 



156. Lindenia Benth.^ — Flowers 5-merous; receptacle obconical, 

 angular or costate. Sepals 5, subfree, lanceolate or subulate. Corolla 

 long-hypocrateriform ; tube slender very elongate ; throat glabrous ; 

 lobes of limb oblong, contorted, open. Stamens inserted in throat ; 

 anthers subsessile oblong, introrsely 2-rimose, exserted. Germen 2- 

 celled ; disk epigynous orbicular very inconspicuous ; style slender 

 subclavate above; lobes 2, stigmatose-papillose within. Ovules oo, 

 inserted on elongate short-stipitate placentas affixed to septum. Fruit 

 capsular clavate, crowned with sepals, septicidal ; exocarp separable 

 from endocarp ; valves placentiferous at margin. Seeds go, unequally 

 angular, albuminous. — Glabrous or pubescent shrubs ; leaves opposite, 

 lanceolate ; petiole short ; stipules intrapetiolar subfoliaceous, oblong 

 or lanceolate, sometimes cuspidate, free, persistent, or connate in a 

 sheath ; flowers * in short terminal few-flowered cymes ; pedicels 

 bracteolate. [Mexico, Feejee is., iV. Caledonia.^) 



157. Elseagia Wedd.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle small 

 hemispherical or shortly obconical. Calyx cupular gamophyllous, 

 persistent ; lobes short obtuse. Corolla very short-funnel-shaped or 



* Resembling those of Gardenia ; tube longer "* Long, showy, white, nearly of Exostema, 



obconical ; showy, coccineous or purplish. but corolla not imbricate. 



Closely allied, apparently, also to Exostema, * Spec. 2. Hook. Icon. t. 475, 476 ; Bot. Mag. 



3 Spec. 3, 4. Spreng. Sijst. i. 761, ex Cham. t. 5258.— Seem. Fl. Vit. t. 24.— Ad. Br. Bull. 



et ScHLCHTL, Linncea (1819), 181 (Ucriana). Soc. Bot. Fr. xii. 407 ; Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, vi. 



3 P/. Hartweg. 84, 351.— Endl. Gen. n. 3259» 258. 



(Suppl. iii. 53).— B. H. Gen. ii. 61, n. 64.— « Hist. Nat. Quinq. 94, not.— B. H. Gen. ii. 



Siphonia Benth. loc, cit. (not Rich.V 50, n. 61. 



