BUBIACE^. 491 



183. Molopanthera Turcz.' — Flowers (nearly of EnLijUsUi) 4, 

 5-merous ; receptacle subglobose. Teeth of deciduous calyx 4, 5. 

 Corolla in clavate bud curved upwards ; tube short, glabrous within ; 

 lobes of limb 4, 5, somewhat unequal, closely imbricate, finally patu- 

 lous, recurved. Stamens 4, 5 ; filaments inserted at base of corolla ; 

 anthers introrse, dorsifixed to base, apiculate and pointed at base, 2- 

 rimose. Germen inferior, 2-celled ; disk small epigynous ; lobes of 

 short rather thick style 2, stigmatose, obtuse. Ovules oo (few), inserted 

 on a subglobose transversely or ascending stipitate placenta. Fruit 

 capsular, globosely 2-dymous, coriaceous, loculicidal. Seeds few 

 peltate orbicular, imbricate, produced at margin to an unequally dentate 

 wing. — Trees or shrubs, glabrous or pubescent ; leaves opposite, ovate 

 or oblong, petiolate ; stipules interpetiolar small, caducous ; flowers 2 

 in terminal and axillary brachiate-ramose cymiferous racemes, brac- 

 teate and bracteolate. (Brazil.^) 



184. Thysanospermum Champ. ^ — Flowers (nearly of Goptosa- 

 pelta) 4, 5-merous; receptacle turbinate. Sepals free truncate, 

 imbricate, persistent. Tube of sericeous hypocrateriform corolla 

 glabrous within ; lobes of limb 4, 5, short obtuse, villose within, sub- 

 sinuate at margins, imbricate or contorted. Stamens same in number; 

 filaments short pilose inserted between lobes ; anthers elongate in- 

 trorse, sometimes contorted apiculate exserted versatile. Germen 

 2-celled ; disk conical truncate ; style slender, fusiform above sulcate 

 papillose exserted. Ovules 00, or few, inserted on a subglobose peltate 

 placenta. Fruit capsular, 2-dymous, loculicidal. Seeds inserted on 

 subglobose foveolate placentas peltate orbicular compressed, produced 

 at margin in a lacero- dentate wing ; embryo . . . ? — A slender creeping 

 shrub ; ^ branches adpressed pilose ; leaves oppositely 2-stichous, 

 ovate, shortly petiolate ; stipules interpetiolar subulate, persistent ; 

 flowers ^ axillary solitary ; peduncle 2-bracteate. (Hongkong J) 



185. Exostema Pers.^ — Flowers generally 5-merous ; receptacle 



GmsEB. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 325 {Warscewiczia).— ^ Hatit of some Loniceri(B. 



Wedd. loc. cit. 72 ( Warscewiczia). — Walp. Ann. ^ Small, white. 



V. 122 (Warscewiczia, Pallasia), I2i {Enkylista). ^ Spec. 1. T. diffusum Champ.— Benth. Fl. 



1 Bull. Mosc. (1848) i. 580.— B. H. Gen. ii. 41, Honglcong. 146. 



n. 37, 8 Synops. i. (1805) 196 {Cinchona sect.). — 



3 Small, white (?). L.-C. Rich. H. B. PI. ^quin. i. 131, t. 38.—- 



3 Spec. 2. Walp. Ann. ii. 799. Exostemma DC. -Diss. (1806) ex Frodr. iv. 358 



< Hook. Ketc Journ. iv. 168.— B. H. Gen. 43, (1830).— A. Eich. Bub. 200, t. 14, n. 2.— Spach. 



n. 43. Suit, a Bufon, viii. 394.— Endl. Gen. n. 3269 



