THYMEL.EACEJE. 129 



13. Dais L. 1 — Flowers hermaphrodite, 3-merons (nearly of 

 Gnirfia); limb of infundibuliform (coloured) calyx patent; throat esqua- 

 niate. Stamens 10, exserted 2-seriately in throat ; filaments setaceous 

 rather longer, all or only the upper exserted ; anthers oblong obtuse. 

 Germ en girt at base with cup-shaped membranous disk ; style lateral, 

 apex stigmatose capitate or subclavate truncate. Fruit baccate 

 (sometimes dry ?), enclosed by persistent base of calyx. — Shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate or opposite flat membranous rather large veined; 

 flowers 2 capitate terminal ; capitules solitary pedunculate, involu- 

 crate with 4, 2-cussately imbricate bracts. (Madagascar, South. 

 Africa?) 



14 ? Coleophora Mikrs. 4 — " Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-5-merous ; 

 calyx coloured infundibuliform ; tube contracted from base to 

 middle and there hirsute within, above and externally glabrous ; 

 throat esquamate ; limb 4- or more rarely 5-fld ; lobes acute reflexed 

 fimbriately ciliate. Stamens 8-10, inserted 2-seriately iu throat 

 exserted ; filaments short indexed ; anthers ovately rotundate sub- 

 versatile ; connective dorsal thick. Hypogynous cyathulus sur- 

 rounding filiform stem of germeu, springing from small glandular 

 bed adnate to base of calyx, infundibuliform petaloid glabrous, 

 equalling half of calyx, 4-fid ; lobes linear erect. Germen stipitate 

 oblong gibbous pilose ; ovule pendulous from apex of cell ; style 

 terminal (?) filiform, equal in length to germen, enclosed glabrous ; 

 stigma capitate. Fruit. . . ? — A lofty tree ; trunk gemmuliferous ; 

 gemmules aggregate, imbricately multibracteate ; leaves. . . ? ; 

 flowers racemose." {South. Brazil. 5 ) 



15. Lasiadenia Benth. r — Flowers hermaphrodite, 5-merous ; 

 tube of persistent green calyx cylindrical ; throat bare ; lobes of 

 limb 5, very imbricate, patent. Stamens 10, enclosed ; 5 superior, 

 oppositipetalous inserted much higher than the rest and below the 

 throat. Germen very hispid, girt at base with 5 squamules, minute 



1 Gen. n. 540.— J. Gen. 77.— G.uutn. Fruct. Curt. Bot. Mag. t. Ill— Herb. Amat.t. 214. 



i. 187, t. 3d, fig. 3.— Lamk. Diet. ii. 2,54; III. 4 Ann. Nat. Hist, ser. 2, vii. 196.— Meissn. 



t. 368.— Endl. Gen. n. 2093 ; Suppl. iv. p. ii. Prodr. 548. 



n. 2106. — Meissn. Linnœa, xiv. 388 (part.) ; 6 Spec. 1, to us quite unknown, viz. C. gem- 



Prodr. 528. miflora Miebs, loe. vit. — Meissn. Mart. Fl. Bras. 



- Rosy or white? Thymel. 70. 



3 Spec. 2, 3. Wikstr. Act. Holm. (1S18), 270, « II,,,,/.: Land. Jour», iv. 632.— Endl. Gen. n. 



348 (part.).— C. A. Met. Bull. S.-Pétersb. iv. 2106 ".—Meissn. Prodr. 527. 

 n. 4. — Dcne. Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 2, xx. 61. — 



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