494 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



sometimes clavate, persistent or deciduous. Corolla funnel-shaped- 

 tubular ; tube slender ; throat glabrous or pilose ; lobes of limb 5, 

 furnished at back sometimes to apex with a bacillar appendage/ val- 

 vate (Mitragijiie,^ Adina ^), subvalvate (Micradina ^) or highly imbricate 

 (Eimauclea, Adiniiim^). Stamens inserted at or below throat ; fila- 

 ments long, short or ; anthers oblong, dorsifixed, introrse, oftener 

 muticous, exserted. Germen 2-celled ; disk small annular or cupular, 

 sometimes subnil ; style slender exserted, at stigmatose apex fusiform, 

 clavate, capitate or mitre-shaped. Ovules in cells oo, or few (Adinium), 

 very few or subsolitary {Micradina)^ inserted on a placenta adnate to 

 septum or oftener affixed under apex of cell and descending ; micropyle 

 generally superior. Compound fruit congested in a spurious globose 

 capitule, free, capsular, 2-coccous ; cocci separable, generally 2- 

 partible. Seeds oo, few or 1, imbricate, winged (oftener narrow-) on 

 both sides, albuminous. — Trees or shrubs ; wood often hard ; leaves 

 opposite, often coriaceous glabrous, petiolate ; stipules inter- or intra- 

 petiolar, oftener large,^ deciduous; flowers in compound contracted 

 globose-capituliform terminal and axillary sometimes racemose glo- 

 merules; bracts and bracteoles between flowers paleaceous {Adina, 

 Mitragijne), in fruit hardened persistent, sometimes small or 0. 

 (Trop. and suhtrop. Africa, Asia and Oceania J) 



189. Cephalanthus L.^— Flowers spuriously capitate (nearly of 

 Nauclea), 4, 5-merous f receptacle obconical or obpyramidal. Calyx 

 gamophyllous short-tubular, lobes or teeth sometimes unequal 4, 5, 

 slightly imbricate ; small (stipular) glandules often interposed. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube rather long ; throat glabrous or pilose ; 



1 As in Corynauthe (otherwise not unlike in Mies. Lugd.-Bat. iv. 181 {Stephegyne), 183 {Adi- 



flowers). no). — Benth. Fl. Hovgk, 146 {Adina).— Bis-dd. 



' KoRTH. Ohs. Naucl. Ind. 19 (not R. Br.)— Ic PL Ind. Or. i. t. 18 {Stephegyue), 19, 235 ; FL 



H. Bn. Ada7isoniajXU. 313. — Siephegyne'KoMin. Sylv, t. 29, 33-35, cxxvi. {Adina), cxxviii. {Ste- 



Verh. Nat. Gesch. (1839-42) 160, t. 35.— B. H. phegyne).—THW. Fnum. PL ZeyL 137.— Kirz, 



Gm. ii. 31, n. 5. For. FL Brit. Burm. ii. 64.— Hiern, FL Trop. 



3 Salisb. Par, Lond. t. 115.— DC. Prodr. iv. Afr. iii. 39 {Adina), 40 {Mitragyne).—Bot. Peg. 



349.— B. H. Gen. ii. 30, n. 4.— Hook. FL Ind. iii. t. %%o.—Bot. Mag. t. 2613.— Walp. Pep. ii. 511, 



24. 513 {Stepheyyne) ; vi. 70 {Stephegyne) ; Ann. ii. 



^ H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 314. 791 {Stephegyne). 



« H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 284, 314. 8 Qen. n. 113.— J. Gen. 209; Mem. Mus. vi. 



* Sometimes membranous and enclosing the 402. — Gjertn. Fruct. ii. 41, t. 86. — Lamk IlL t. 



top of a ramule. 59.— Eich. Pnh. 75.— DC. Prodr. iv. 538 (part). 



7 Spec, about 50. G^rtn. Fruct. i. 161, t. 30. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, viii. 462.— Endl. Gen, 



— RoxB. PL Corom. i. t. 52-54.— Korth. Gesch. n. 3138.— B. H. Gen. ii. 30, n. 3.— Hook. FL 



Verh. ^'at. 150, 156. — Benth. Niger FL t. 37. — Ind. iii. 23. — Platanocephalus Vaill. Act. Acad. 



Hook. Icon. t. 787 {Piatanocarpum).—^!^. FL Par. (1722) 191. 

 Ind.-But. ii. 136, 342; Suppl. 214,538; Ann. » Rarely 6-merou8. 



