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number of its stamens and stigmata, and in the structure of the fruit. The number of 
sepals and petals are five, as in K?ppistia, with a similar æstivation ; and the cylindrical 
disk, on which the ovary is superposed, is furnished with five projecting lip-shaped cups 
(instead of three); and five stamens arise out of them, as in that genus; the columnar 
ovary is roundly truncated at its summit, where it is radiately sulcated by five immersed 
lines, whieh terminate in five free, projecting, somewhat deflected, teretely linear stig- 
mata, placed opposite to the stamens, and descending as far as the middle of the fila- 
ments, and they are also opposite to the sepals: the ovary is 5-locular, the cells being 
alternate with the stigmata, stamens, and sepals, and opposite to the petals; each cell 
contains two ovules attached to the axis. The fruit differs from that of Kippistia, and 
has been already described (ante p. 324). 
The generic name is derived from yetXoc, labrum, xAivn, lectus, from the lip-shaped 
supports out of which the stamens arise. 
CHEILOCLINIUM, nob. 
Sepala 5, parva, rotundata, carnosa, integra, æstivatione imbricata. Petala 5, alterna, triplo longiora, 
oblonga, apice incurva, crasse carnosa, intus a basi ad medium struma lata tumefacta, marginibus 
angustissime membranaceis eroso-denticulata, æstivatione umbiculatim quincuncialiter imbricata. 
Discus carnosus, breviter cylindricus, cum basin ovarii superpositi confluens, et hinc in labiis 5 sacci- 
formibus staminigeris interruptim laxatus, labiis linea transversa nexis. Stamina 5, intra labia 
disci inserta, petalis alterna, divaricatim adscendentia, ovarii fere longitudine ; filamenta subteretia, 
linearia; enthere parve, globose, apice filamenti æquilati subextrorsum immerse, bilocellatæ, rima 
obliqua transversali subbivalvatim paulo hiantes. Ovarium pentagone cylindricum, super discum 
æquilatum positum, et cum eo continuum, apice depresso-convexum, subumbilicatum, 5-loculare, loculis 
stigmatibus staminibusque alternis; ovula 2 in quoque loculo, horizontaliter superposita. Stylus 
nullus. Stigmata 5, libera, brevia, summo ovarii e sulculis radiantibus totidem protensa, compresso- 
teretia, obtusa, subdeflexa, staminibus opposita, et cum loculis alterna. Drupa ovata, nitida, inde- 
hiscens; pericarpio subtenui, duro, coriaceo, abortu 3—4-loculari, dissepimentis tenuibus, interdum 
fenestratis: semina angulato-ovata, pulpa mucilaginosa induta, abortione pauca, in quoque loculo 
unum vel duo, uno adscendente, altero dependente, axi affixa, hilo in extremitate sublaterali ; testa 
coriacea, rugulosa, rete vasorum intus repleta, vasis spiralibus albis creberrime longitudinalibus : 
integumentum internum membranaceum, subliberum ; embryo exalbuminosus, cotyledonibus 2, ob- 
longis, plano-convexis, commissura axem spectante, carnosis, glandulis oleiferis vasisque spiralibus 
numerosis repletis, radicula minima, iis occulta, hilo proxima, aut supera vel infera. 
Suffrutex Amazonicus, ramosus, ramulis tenuibus: folia opposita, oblonga, subserrata, breviter petio- 
lata: paniculæ axillares, breviter pedunculate, repetitim dicholome divise, dichotomiis bibracteolatis, 
ramulis ultimis 1-floris: flores subparvi, pedicellati, glabri. 
i. CHEILOCLINIUM ANOMALUM, nob.: ramulis tenuibus, subvirgatis, sub-4-gonis, fuscis, 
opacis, obsolete lenticellatis, ad axillas compresse dilatatis: foliis oppositis, elliptico- 
oblongis, imo obtusis, apice in acumen angustum lineare longiusculum obtusulum 
repente constrictis, marginibus revolutis, remote sinuato-serratis, glaberrimis, supra 
fusco-viridibus, nitentibus, subtus pallidioribus, opacis, utrinque nervis tenuibus ar- 
cuatim nexis venisque transversis reticulatis paulo prominulis; petiolo canaliculato, 
ruguloso, fusco, limbo 14-plo breviore: paniculis axillaribus, folio 4-plo brevioribus, 
