LYTIIRARIACEM. 451 



4. Ginora L. 1 — Flowers nearly of Nescea; receptacle turbinate. 

 Sepals 5, 6, ovately acute ; accessory teeth 0. Petals corrugately 

 imbricate. Stamens 12-24, inserted in tube of receptacle ; filaments 

 corrugate ; anthers oblong, reniform or hippocrepiform recurved. 

 Germen short depressed globose ; cells oftcner 4 ; style slender, 

 finally erect exserted, at apex stigmatose capitellate. Ovules in cells 

 co , inserted in axil of tumid placenta, ascending. Fruit girt at base 

 with calyx, capsular, globose coriaceous, loculicidally 4-valvate. 

 Seeds on tumid placentas co , small obovately cuneate ; testa thick ; 

 cotyledons of exalbumiuous embryo plano-convex auriculate ; radicle 

 short. — A glabrous shrub ; ramules 4-gonal ; leaves opposite, entire 

 petiolate ; flowers 2 axillary solitary pedunculate ; peduncle under 

 flower 2-bracteolate. (Cuba. 3 ) 



5. Dodecas L. 4 — Flowers nearly of Ginora, 4-merous ; receptacle 

 obconico-suburceolate, thin. Sepals 4, 3-angular, valvate ; accessory 

 teeth hardly perceptible or 0. Petals 4, inserted in hollows, obovate, 

 very thin, corrugate imbricate. Stamens 8-20, inserted at middle of 

 receptacular tube ; filaments corrugate-plicate, finally exserted ; 

 anthers oblong introrse, finally erect. Germen free, enclosed in re- 

 ceptacle, 4-locular; style slender plicate, presently erect, at apex 

 stigmatose subentire. Ovules in cells co , inserted on thick placenta, 

 co -seriate. Fruit capsular, finally sub-1-locular ; seeds co , inserted 

 on spuriously central placenta, ascending, falcate, scobiform ; testa 

 hispid, produced on both sides ; cotyledons of slightly fleshy embryo 

 plane linear; radicle terete. — Glabrous shrubs or small trees ; leaves 

 opposite entire ; flowers 5 axillary, solitary or few cymose, 2-parous ; 

 pedicels under flower 2-bracteolate. (Shores of trop. S. America. 6 ) 



6. Adenaria II.B.K. 7 — Flowers nearly of Ginoria, 4-5-merous; 



Guill. et Perk. Fl. Smeg. Tent. i. t. 69, 70.— * Suppl. 36, 245.— J. Gen. 323.- E. Met. Nov. 



GrMSEB. Fl. Brit. W.-lnd. 271.— Tul. Ann. Sc. Art. Nat. Cur. xii. 800.— DC. Prodr. iii. 91.— B. 



Nat. sér. 1, vi. 130.— Hiehn, Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. H. Gen. 780, n. 13.— Crenca Aubl. Guian. i. 523, 



ii. 470.— Haht. and Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 517.— t. 209.— Lamk.Z>jc<. ii. 177 ; III. t. 407.— J. Gen. 



Walp. Sep. ii. 103 ; v. 674 ; Ann. iv. 688. 332.— DC. Prodr. iii. 90.— Endl. Gen. n. 6153. 



1 Gin. n. 605. — B. H. Gen. 780, n. 14. — Gino- ' White, sometimes rather large. 



ria Jacq. St. Amer. t. 91.— J. Gen. 331.— DC. 6 Spec. 2 (?). G. F. W. Mey. Prim. Fl. Esseq. 



Prodr. iii. 91.— Endl. Gen. n. 6165.— Gmoria 186.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Iud. 270.— Walp. 



Pers. Synops. ii. 9. Rep. ii. 112. 



2 Bluish, generally showy. < Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. 185, t. 549. — DC. Prodr. 



3 Spec. 1, 2, of which 1, G. amcricana Jacq. iii. 91.— Endl. Gen. n. 6157.— B. H. Gen. 777, 

 (Rosa del Rio inco!.) is most known. n. 6. — H. Bn. Payer Fain. Nat. 354. 



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