486 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS, 



entire or unequally lobed wing, albuminous. — Climbing trees or 

 shrubs ; leaves opposite or verticillate, petiolate ; stipules interpetiolar 

 various, deciduous ; flowers ^ in brachiate compound cymiferous 

 racemes, bracteate and bracteolate. (Trop, America and Antilles,'^) 



174 ? Ravnia OErst.^ — Flowers 5, 6-merous; receptacle obconical. 

 Calyx lobes 5, 6, subulate, unequal. Lobes of slender curved tubular 

 corolla 5, 6, obtuse, contorted (?), finally open; throat glabrous (?) 

 '' Stamens as many, inserted in throat, filaments short ; anthers linear, 

 apex exserted." Germen 2-celled; disk rather thick; branches of 

 slender style 2, obtuse. Ovules oo, ascending, inserted on a placenta 

 adnate to septum. Fruit . . . ? — A climbing epiphytal shrub ]^ leaves 

 opposite ovate-lanceolate rather fleshy, petiolate ; stipules inter- 

 petiolar broad oblong; flowers at top of ramules cymose (3-nate) 

 subsessile. (Costa-Rica.^) 



175. Capirona Spruce.^ — Flowers 5, 6-merous; receptacle ob- 

 conical. Calyx cupular or short-tubular, 5, 6-dentate, persistent; 

 external tooth sometimes dilated to a petiolate foliaceous lamina. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped-campanulate, sometimes slightly irregular ; 

 lobes of limb 5, 6, equal or unequal, obtuse contorted; throat glabrous. 

 Stamens 5, 6, inserted in corolla tube ; filaments connate in a 

 membranous ring adnate to bottom of tube, remainder free ; anthers 

 basifixed elongate obtuse, enclosed, introrsely 2-rimose. Germen 

 2-celled;^ disk epigynous cupular; style branches 2, linear, stigma- 

 tose within. Ovules oo, inserted on thick placentas, imbricate. Fruit 

 capsular obovoid, septicidal. Seeds oo, peltate imbricate, dilated to 

 an unequally dentate or lacerate wing, albuminous. — Trees ; * leaves 

 opposite, obovate-oblong, petiolate; stipules intrapetiolar oblong, 

 sometimes concave within, connate at base ; flowers ^ in terminal 

 compound cymiferous racemes; the central sessile; the lateral 

 pedicellate, bracteate and bracteolate. {Peruy Cokimhia.^^) 



^ Small or rather large, white, greenish, pink, ^ Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 200. — B. H. Geft. ii. 



or purplish. 39, n. 29.—? Monadelphanthus Karst. FL Col. 



2 Spec, ahout 12. Walp. Ann. v. 131. 67, t. 33.— B. H. Gen. ii. 38, n. 28. 



^ Vidensk. Medd. Kjob. (1852) 49. — B. H. ? Rarely 3 -celled. 



Gen. ii. 40, n. 32. 8 Bark reddish or bright pink, sometimes 



■* Habit of JEschynanthus. partly deciduous. 



* Spec. 1. R. trifora (Erst. — Walp. Ann. v. ^ ^arge, purple, handsome. 



131. — Bouvardia Icevis Makt. et Gal. 1° Spec. 2. Spruce, loc. cit. 



