BOTANICAL NOTES. 231 



The discovery of a second species of the following genus 

 renders necessary some modification of the generic charac- 

 ter. In habit the species are very unlike, the first being 

 a herbaceous annual, with widely separated leaves, the 

 second a shrubby perennial, with small crowded ones. 



They agree, however, in two important particulars — the 

 calyx throat is closed by a glandular disk, below which the 

 pistil is adnate to the tube — at least it is not free in the cav- 

 ity — and the ovary is developed within a leafy branch. 



Gongylocarpus Cham. & Schl. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate. Flowers axillary, 

 solitary. Base of the calyx- tube adnate to the branch, 

 slender, 4-lobed, long-produced, closed at the throat by a 

 fleshy glandular disc; limb 4-lobed. Petals 4, inserted 

 with the stamens below the margin of the annular disc. 

 Stamens 8, the alternate ones shorter. Anthers ovate; 

 ovary 2-3-locular; style filiform; stigma capitate; ovule 

 solitary in the loculus. Fruit woody, enclosed within the 

 branch. Embryo white, filling the seed. 



G. KUBRiCAULis Cham. & Schl. 



G. FRUTESOENS. — Shrubby, diffusely branched, 1-3 feet 

 high; bark shreddy; leaves alternate, often many-ranked b}^ 

 slow development of the axis, entire, fleshy, oblanceolate, 

 tapering into a short petiole: calyx rose-colored; tube slen- 

 der, about an inch long; sepals reflexed, linear-lanceolate, 

 about as long as the petals; tips free in the bud: petals 

 paler, obovate-ov^al, a half-inch or more in length : stamens 

 shorter than the corolla; filaments filiform : ovary irregularly 

 angled, 2-celled: fruit an aggregation of 3-20 ovaries 

 enclosed within a terminal twig at first densely covered 

 with leaves and flowers, which falling leave it marked only 

 by the small protuberances to which the calyx-tubes were 

 attached. 



