488 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



imbricate, long caudate at both ends, albuminous/' — Shrubs ; leaves 

 opposite, petiolate, elongate membranous ; stipules interpetiolar, wide 

 subfoliaceous, deciduous ; flowers terminal and axillary, shortly 

 stipitate, 2, 3 cymose, or solitary. (Feejee is,'^) 



178. Coptosapelta Korth.^ — Flowers 5-merous; receptacle short 

 ovoid or obconical. Calyx short, 5-lobed, persistent. Corolla hypo- 

 crateriform coriaceous, sericeo-tomentose without ; tube terete or 

 obtusely 5-gonal ; throat villose ; lobes of limb elongate, closely 

 contorted. Stamens 5, inserted in throat or mouth ; filaments short ; 

 anthers subbasifixed elongate, sometimes contorted or flexuose, inserted 

 to base ; cells linear, free at base, introrsely rimose ; connective linear, 

 pilose at back. Germen 2-celled ; disk small depressed ; style erect 

 long fusiform, sulcate and angular, exserted. Ovules oc, ascending, 

 inserted on a placenta adnate to septum. Fruit capsular short sub- 

 globose, crowned with calyx, loculicidal. Seeds oo, imbricate peltate, 

 dilated at margins to a membranous unequally dentate wing ; radicle 

 of albuminous embryo inferior. — Climbing sericeous or tomentose 

 shrubs ; leaves ^ opposite, petiolate ; stipules interpetiolar, 3-angular, 

 deciduous ; flowers * in terminal compound racemose drooping cymes ; 

 pedicels short, 2-bracteolate.^ (Ind. Arcliip.^) 



179. Crossopteryx Fenzl.^ — Flowers 4-6-merous ; receptacle 

 obovoid or subsplierical. Calyx short, deciduous ; lobes 4-6, obtuse. 

 Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube rather short ; throat glabrous ; lobes 

 of limb 4-6, obtuse, contorted, open. Stamens as many, inserted in 

 mouth ; filaments short ; anthers dorsifixed oblong or sublanceolate 

 apiculate, introrse ; cells 2, sometimes pointed below free. Germen 

 2-celled; disk annular; style slender exserted, at apex obovoid or 

 shortly clavate, 2-lobed, stigmatose. Ovules go, inserted on a short 

 subglobose or obovoid placenta peltately afiixed to septum very shortly 

 stipitate, more. or less imbedded in hollow^s. Fruit capsular subglobose, 

 areolate at apex, loculicidal ; valves 2, very concave, internally sep- 

 tiferous at middle, 2-partible. Seeds oo, oftener few, inserted on a 

 thick rather prominent placenta, orbicular peltate, expanded at margin 



^ Spec. 2, 3. Seem. Fl. Vit. 121, t. 24. ^ A genus very near Crossopteryx^ at same 



2 Ned. Kruidk. Arch. ii. 112. — Hook. f. Icon, time somewhat resembling Coryna-dhe. 



t. 1089 ; Gen. ii. 35, n. 18.— H. Bn. Bull. Sac. e Spec, about 4. Miq. I'l. Ind.-Bat. ii. 155.— 



Linit. Par. 181.— Hook. Fl. Tud.iii. 34. W'alp. Ann. ii. 779. 



3 Sometimes yellow. 7 j^Tov. St. Mus. Vindob. Dec. 45, n. 51.— Endl. 

 * Moderate, " white." Gcii. n. 3279. 



