128 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



top of the tube, subssessile, the 4, 5 upper, oppositisepalous generally 

 semi-exserted, sometimes abortive ; the inferior same in number 

 enclosed ; anthers of all linear or oblong obtuse, introrse. Hypo- 

 gynous disk short membranous or very short annular, often obsolete. 

 Germen sessile ; style lateral, equalling tube, at apex stigmatose 

 capitate. Fruit nucular, enclosed by base of persistent calyx ; seed 

 sparsely albuminous. — Shrubs or undershrubs, either ericoid, or 

 furnished with herbaceous or sub-coriaceous leaves alternate or oppo- 

 site ; x flowers ~ terminal, shortly spiked or oftener capitate ; receptacle 

 often pedunculate sometimes hemispherical, often (Lasiosiphon) 

 villose, involucrate with floral leaves (few or cc ) imbricate (some- 

 times larger). [India, south, and trop. east, and west. Africa and 

 adjacent islands?) 



12. Lachnea Roy. 4 — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-merous, regular 

 or sometimes irregular ; tube of perianth straight or curved, slender 

 or infundibuliforra, sometimes suburceolate ( Cryptadema), 5 narrowed 

 above the germen and finally circumscissile deciduous ; lobes of limb 

 equal or irregular in 2-labiate limb ; the posterior lip smaller 

 (1-lobed) ; the anterior larger open-recurved (3-lobed) ; imbricate in 

 prefloration. Stamens 8, inserted at top of tube, 2-seriate ; the upper 

 4, oppositisepalous and exserted ; filaments slender short, sometimes 

 barbate ; anthers ovate or oblong obtuse. Squamules 8, G alternating 

 with stamens, sometimes very small, either partially concealed in the 

 hairs of the throat, or inserted at or below the middle of the tube 

 (Cryptadenia) and much lower than the anthers. Hypogynous disk 0. 

 Germen sessile ; style lateral capillary, apex stigmatose capitate 

 oftener exserted. Fruit nucular, enclosed by persistent base of 

 calyx ; seed oftener sparsely albuminous. — Shrubs or small shrubs 

 often ericoid branched ; branches slender ; leaves alternate or opposite, 

 linear or acerose, glabrous or variously pilose ; flowers 7 sometimes 

 terminal solitary or oftener capitate involucrate or naked. — {South. 

 Africa?) 



1 The leafy branches are said to resemble 408 ; Prodr. 574. — Lachara L. Sijst. ed. 2, 22. — 



the compound leaves of Psilea (of the LegumU Gonophylla Eckl. et Zeth. MSS. (Meissn.) — 



nosœ). Radojitskya Turcz. Bull. Mosc. (1852), 176. 



- White, yellow, lilac or reddish. 5 Meissn. Linnosa, xiv. 404 ; Prodr. 573. — 



3 Spec, about 65 L. p. Suppl. 225. — Wikstr. Endl. Gen. Suppl. iv. p. ii. n. 2101. -Calysericos 

 Thymel. 315.— Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 757.— Done. Eckl. et. Zeyh. (Meissn.). 



Yog. Jaequem. Bot. {Lasio.siphori). — Miq. Anal. 6 Staminodes ? 



Bot. Ind. ii. 3, t. 1. — Walp. Ann. i. 587 {La- ' Oftener rosy or lilac. 



siosiphou), 687 (Eiikleia), 588 {Psilosolena). 8 Spec, about 22 L. Spec. ed. 1, 660. — Burm. 



4 L. Gen. ed. 2, n. 382.— J. Gen. 77.— Afr. t. 46, 48 (Thymelcea).— Thunb. Fl. Cap. 

 Gjertn. Fruct. iii. 195, t. 215.— Lamk. Diet. 375 (Pasesrina), 378 (Gnidia). — Andr. Bot. 

 iii. 373; III. t. 292.— Endl. Gen. n. 2094; Pepos. t. 104— Turcz. Flora (1853), 743 (Ra- 

 Ruppl. iv. p. ii. n. 2193. — Meissn. Liivirza, xiv. dojitshya). — Bot. Mag. t. 1295, 4143 (Passtrina.). 



