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bricate, generally puberulent within ; throat esquamate. Stamens 8, 2- 

 seriately subsessile to throat; anthers ovate or ellipsoid (in female 

 flower effete or rudimentary, sometimes 0). Female calyx l deciduous 

 from base or persistent. Germen sessile (in male flower rudimentary or 

 0), girt at base with hypogynous membranous subentire or 4-fid or 

 partite disk; style very short terminal, apex stigmatose capitate 

 or subclavate. Fruit drupaceous (or sometimes baccate), slightly 

 fleshy or fiually dry, naked or girt with calyx, 1-spermous ; seed 

 exalbuminous. — Trees or shrubs; 2 leaves alternate flat : inflorescence 3 

 capitate or umbellate pedunculate, sometimes solitary, sometimes in 

 ramose, 2-chotomous corymbs or cymes. (Both trop. Americas. 4 ) 



19. Lagetta J. 5 — Flowers (nearly of Lasiadenia) hermaphrodite, 

 4-merous ; tube (coloured) ovoid-oblong, often finally above the 

 germen, circumscissously deciduous, above at the throat narrow 

 esquamate, but there often furnished with a somewhat thickened disk 

 lining the tube, otherwise densely hirsute ; lobes of limb 4, valvate. 

 Stamens 8, 2-seriate ; four inferior, alternating with the lobes ; 

 anthers subsessile ovate, introrsely rimose. Germen sessile hirsute ; 

 ovule I , descending ; style terminal, apex stigmatose subclavate or 

 capitate. Fruit c'otked with the entire calyx, finally unequally 

 divided, or by its persistent base, dry, externally very pilose ; embryo 

 of externally somewhat fleshy seed thick tleshy ; albumen oftener 

 scanty, sometimes wanting above. — A tree ; branches alternate 

 glabrous ; liber (textile) reticulate ; leaves alternate, cordato-ovate, 

 nitid reticulate ; flowers 7 in terminal simple ebracteate few-flowered 

 spikes. (Antilles?) 



20. Funifera Leandr. 9 — Flowers (uearly of Lasiadenia) polygamo- 

 dicecii us, 4-merous; calyx tubular or campanulate, pubescent or 



1 In the mule often not the same. ' White or slightly green. 



! Habit of Daphne or Funifera. * Spec. 1. L. UnUaria Lamk. — Hook. Kcw 



3 Flowers white or greenish. Gard. Misc. ii. t. 4. — Lindl. Paxt. Fl. Gard. i. 



' Spec, about 1.5. Sw. Prodr. 63; Fl. Lid. n. GO, Icon.— Lem. Fl. Jard. t. 19.— A. Rich. 



Ocr. ii. 683 (Daphne). —K. Synops. i. 446 Cub. xi. 192.— Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. HI.— Bot. 



(Daphne).— H. B. K. Nov. Gin. et Spec. ii. 151 Mag. t. Vd.—Dageitn Lunan, Hurt. Jam. i. 473. 



(Daphne). — Benth. PL Harticeg. 147 (Daphne, — Daphne Lagetto Sw. Prodr. 63 ; Fl. Lid. Occ. 



T/igmetœa).—Gm&En. Cat. PL Cub. 110. i.'680. 



s Gen. 77.— Lamk. Diet. iii. 376, 440 ; Suppl. 9 Ex. C. A. Met. Ball. Acad. S.-Pélcrsb. iv. 



iii. 236; III. t. 289.— Wikstu. Act. Halm. n. 4.— Endl. Gen. n. 2106'».— Meissn. Mart. Fl. 



(1818), 293.-G.kutn. Fruct.m. t. 215 Spach, Bras. xiv. 67 ; Prodr. 525.— Neesia Mart. MSS. 



Suit, à Buffon, x. 437. — Endl. Gen. n. 2106; (Meissn. not Bl.). — Boseia Velloz. Fl. Fium. 



Suppl. iv. p. ii. n. 2106 16 .— SLeissn. Prodr. 526. iv. 150, t. 11 '( 



6 With adherent glandular disk. 



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