498 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



stamens ; lobes of limb 5, imbricate. Stamens 5, alternipetalous ; 

 filaments inserted under throat, subequal ; anthers oblong dorsifixed 

 introrse, 2-rimose. Germen inferior, 2-celled ; cells alternating with 

 calycinal lobes ; style slender exserted, at apex stigmatose depressed- 

 capitate entire or slightly lobed. Ovules oo, inserted on axile placentas, 

 2-seriate. Fruit fleshy ovoid, crowned with calyx. Seeds oo, small 

 compressed, albuminous ; embryo minute. — A shrub branched from 

 base ; branches fistular between nodes ; leaves opposite, ovate-acumi- 

 nate, sometimes cordate, entire or dentate (sometimes pinnatilobed on 

 younger branches) membranous ; petioles connate at base ; flowers in 

 terminal spikes axillary to uppermost leaves, drooping ; bracts large 

 {coloured) bearing solitary or few or glomerulate cymose flowers in 

 axil. {Mount. India.) — See p. 354. 



195 ? Pentapyxis Hook, f.^ — Flowers nearly of Leijcesteria ; recep- 

 tacle ovoid. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-lobed, finally deciduous. Corolla 

 subcampanulate ; tube equal or occasionally slightly gibbous at base ; 

 lobes of limb 5, equal, contorted or imbricate. Stamens 5, inserted 

 in throat ; anthers oblong introrse slightly exserted. Germen inferior, 

 5-celled; style slender, thickened to base, at apex stigmatose capitately 

 5-lobed. Ovules in cells (complete or incomplete) oo, inserted on 

 rather prominent placenta. Fruit baccate ; seeds oo, angular smooth, 

 albuminous; embryo minute. — Shrubs; leaves opposite, petiolate, 

 ovate-lanceolate serrate- dentate ; stipules large orbicular foliaceous, 

 recurved ; flowers ^ in axillary pedunculate bracteate (spurous ?) 

 capitules.2 {Temp. Himalayas^) 



196. Symphoricarpos Dill.^ — Flowers regular ; receptacle sub- 

 globose. Calyx short cupular; teeth 4, 5, equal or unequal, sometimes 

 subniL Corolla funnel-shaped, campanulate or suburceolate ; tube 

 short ; throat glabrous or pilose ; limb 4, 5-lobed, imbricate. Stamens 

 as many short, inserted in throat ; anthers introrse. Germen 4-celled ; 

 disk epigynous cupular ; style straight, at apex stigmatose truncate, 



^GeH.\x.Q,n.\2.—Rooiii.FLlnd.i\i.n. ^ Hort. JEltham. 375. — J. Gen. 211. DC. 



2 Rather large, " white." Frodr. iv. 333.— Tukp. Diet. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. 106. 



' A genus scarcely distinguishable from Let/' — Spach, Suit, d Bujhn, viii. 361. — Endl. Gen. 



cesteria on the one hand ; on the other closely n. 3334.— Payer, Organog. 617, t. 128.— H. Bn. 



connecting the Zonicerea with the Rubiaccoe Adantonia, i. 360, t. 12.— B. H. Gen. ii. 4, 1227, 



proper. n. e.—Sgmphoricarpa Neck. £lem. n. 220.— 



* Spec. 1 (v. 2?). Hook. f. et Thoms. Jouni. Sgrnphoria Pbks. 6'//». i. 2li.—Aiiisa)it/itis W. 



Zinn. Soe. ii. 165 j^Zonicem). (ex RcEM. et Sch. Sytt. v. xiv.). 



