RUB I ACE jE. 485 



terminal spikes, simple or ramose below ; bracteoles 2, often sessile 

 under germen. (Trop. and cent, America.^) 



172. Cosmibuena R. and Pav.^ — Flowers 5, 6-merous; receptacle 

 obconical or oblong. Calyx tubular or subcampanulate, oftener 

 circumscissous ; teeth or lobes 5, 6, sometimes unequal. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped or hypocrateriform ; tube very long ; lobes of limb 

 oblong 5, 6, contorted to right or left, more rarely imbricate. Stamens 

 5, 6, inserted under throat ; filaments short ; anthers oblong basifixed 

 introrse enclosed. Germen 2-celled ; disk conical or cupular ; style 

 clavate, 2-fid above ; branches broad obtuse stigmatose. Ovules oo, 

 inserted on revolute 2-lobed placentas affixed to septum, interior, 

 ascending, imbricate, produced on both sides to a rudimentary wing. 

 Fruit oblong-cjdindrical, septicidal ; exocarp solute from endocarp ; 

 valves 2, patulous or more or less contorted. Seeds oo, produced on 

 both sides to a narrow wing ; embryo albuminous. — Glabrous some- 

 times climbing shrubs ; ^ leaves opposite rather fleshy, petiolate ; 

 stipules broad interpetiolar, deciduous ; flowers ^ terminal cymose few 

 (often 3) or solitary, more rarely compound cymose, bracteate and 

 bracteolate. (Trop. America.^) 



173. FerdinandusaPoHL.^ — Flowers4-merous; receptacle oftener 

 obovoid. Calyx short cupular, 4-dentate, sometimes persistent. 

 Tube of funnel-shaped or hypocrateriform corolla narrow, glabrous 

 within, somewhat dilated to throat ; lobes of limb 4, often unequal 

 oblique, emarginate or 2-lobed, contorted, finally open. Stamens 4, 

 inserted in tube ; filaments unequally elongate ; anthers oblong- 

 elliptical introrse, recurved or revolute dorsifixed, 2-rimose. Germen 

 2-celled ; disk rather thick ; lobes of slender enclosed or exserted style 

 oblong or subspathulate stigmatose. Ovules oo, sometimes few, 

 inserted on placentas adnate to septum, imbricate. Fruit capsular 

 obovoid or oblong, sometimes narrow- cylindrical, septicidal ; valves 

 2, concave or patulous. Seeds oo, peltate, imbricate, dilated to an 



1 Spec. 3, 4. Hemsl. Dicrffn. PL Nov. Mex. 30. — V^alp. Rep. vi. 62 (part). 



3 R. et Pav. Fl. Per. iii. 3, t. 226.— Endl. « PL Bras. Icon. ii. 8, t. 105-108.— Endl. 



Oen. n. 3275.— B. H. Gen. ii. 40, n. ZZ.—Buena Gen. n. 3277^ ; Suppl.i. 1393 ; ii. 53, n. 3277.— 



PoHL, Plaut. Bras. Icr.n. i. 8 (part). Wedd. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, i. 77.— B. H. Gen. 



3 Often "epiphytal." ii- 40, n. 34. — Ferdinandea Pohl, Flora (1827), 



^ Large, showy. 153. — Gomphosia Wedd. Ft. Quinq. 95, t. 26 B. 



« Spec. 4, 5. R. et Pav. F/. Per. t. 198 {Cin- — Aspidanthera Benth. Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. 



eItona).—Kh. Hayn. Arzn. Oew. xiv. fig. 15 217.— Endl. Gen. n. 3286i (Suppl. ii. 64). 

 {Ciuchd'na). — Benth. Su'ph. But. t. 38 {Bucna). 



