452 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



receptacle obconical or subcampanulate. Sepals 4, 5, 3-angular, 

 valvate ; accessory teeth 0. Petals 4, 5, inserted in intervals, elon- 

 gate subspathulate. Stamens 8-10, 2-seriate ; the oppositipetaloua 

 a little longer ; filaments inserted alternately higher on receptacle, 

 or all above the bottom of the receptacle and there connate in a short 

 scarcely prominent ring, finally exserted ; anthers oblong ; connective 

 sometimes incrassate. Gormen inserted at bottom of receptacle, free, 

 very short or rather long stipitate, like the sepals and stamens covered 

 with punctiform glandules, 24ocular; style subcapitate shortly 2- 

 lobed at apex. Ovules in cells (sometimes incomplete above) co , 

 inserted oo -seriately on thick placenta. Fruit capsular, partly or 

 nearly quite enclosed by persistent calyx, fiually sub-14ocular ; peri- 

 carp thin fragile ; placenta subtree. Ovules co , obcuniate and nearly 

 globular, narrower at base ; testa thick hard ; cotyledons of somewhat 

 fleshy embryo subplane ; radicle short. Glabrous or tomentose trees; 

 branches terete ; leaves (with flowers and germens) dark glandular- 

 punctuated, opposite, ovately or oblong-acute membranous penni- 

 nerved ; flowers 1 axillary in umbelliform or corymbiform cymes. 2 

 {Trop. Crut. America}) 



7. Grislea Loefl. 1 — Flowers nearly of Adenaria (larger), 4-5- 

 merous; sepals intermixed with as many accessory teeth. Petals 4, 

 5, rather large or small, sometimes very narrow or 0. Stamens 8-10, 

 inserted around base of gyncecium at bottom of receptacle. Other 

 characters of Adenaria. 5 Fruit capsular globose coriaceous, enclosed 

 in receptacle. — A shrub ; habit and leaves of Adenaria ; flowers in 

 axillary subumbelliform cymes; bracts inserted at base of pedicels, 

 subfoliaceous. (Columbia, Venezuela. 6 ) 



8. Woodfordia Salisb. 7 — Flowers irregular ; tube of receptacle 

 oblique at base and mouth, slightly curved. Sepals 5-7, oftener 6, 

 continuous with tube, short, 3-angular, valvate; accessory teeth 

 same in number minute. Petals same in number inserted in hollows, 

 rather large or very small (sometimes 0). Stamens 10-14, declinate, 

 2-seriate, 5-7 larger, oppositipetalous ; filaments free, springing 



1 Small, white or yellowish. 438. — Endl. Gen. n. 6156 (part). — B. H. Gen. 



2 Habit nearly of Décodai, 778, n. 7. 



3 Spec. 2, 3. Spreng. Sy.it. Yey. ii. 474 {An- ' Rather perhaps a section of G listen, the in- 

 thertjlium). — Hook. Icon. t. 116. — Waip. Sep- sertion of the stamens somewhat different. 



ii. 112. 6 Spec. 1. G. secunda Lœfl. loc. cit. —H. B. K. 



4 It. 24.5.— L. Gen. n. 474.— J. Gen. 331.— Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. 185. 



Lamk. Diet. iii. 46; Suppl. ii.853 (part).— DC. ' Par. loud. t. 42.— B. II. Gen. 77S, n. 8.— 



Prodi: iii. 92 (part). — Spach, Suit, n Bnjfhit, iv. Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 572. 



