LYTHRARIACE.E. 453 



from small crown lining base of receptacle, incurved at apex; anthers 

 short, introrsely 2-rimose. Germen enclosed, subglandular at base ; 

 cells 2, co -ovulate ; style at apex stigmatose very minutely 2-lobcd. 

 Capsule enclosed in receptacle, oblong membranous, loculicidally 2- 

 valvate. Seeds <x> , small, externally papillosely pilose ; embryo, etc., 

 of Lythrum. — A ramose shrub, more or less sprinkled with grey hairs 

 and dark glandulifurm spots ; leaves opposite subsessile entire, 

 white beneath ; stipules 2, minute, very caducous ; flowers ' axillary, 

 solitary or oftener cymose or glomerulate ; bracts opposite. (Trop, 

 south-east. Asia, Malacca, trop. cast. Africa. 2 ) 



9. Cuphea P. Be. 3 — Flowers irregular ; tube of receptacle elon- 

 gate, 6-1: 2 -cost ate, at posterior base gibbous or spurred. Sepals 6, 

 inserted in oblique mouth of tube, valvate ; accessory teeth same in 

 number (or 0). Petals 6 or 4-2 (sometimes 0), subequal or unequal; 

 the posterior larger. Stamens generally 11, 2-seriate; 6 oppositipe- 

 talous smaller; 5 alternipetalous ; the posterior wanting ; filaments 

 unequal (the posterior shorter) ; anthers small basifixed or sub-2- 

 dymous. 4 Disk around germen short or oftener posteriorly produced 

 to a descending spur-like glandule. Germen sessile, free at bottom 

 of receptaoular tube, incompletely 2-locular; posterior cell oftener 

 smaller, sometimes sterile effete ; style slender incurved, at apex 

 stigmatose obtuse 5 or capitate, obscurely 2-lobed. Ovules on placenta 

 adnate to septum or more or less free above," ascending ; 7 with micro- 

 pyle extrorsely inferior ; s either subdefinite (2-4), or often co . Fruit 

 enclosed in receptacular tube, straight or oblique, dry, indéhiscent, 

 or occasionally dehiscent, generally sub-1-locular. Seeds 1-co , in- 

 serted on spuriously free placenta, ascending, compressed smooth ; 



1 Yellowish-red, nearly of Cuphea. 179. — Melanium P. Bk. Jam. 215. — SrRENQ. 



2 Spec. 1. W.Jkribmda Salisb.— Hiern, Oliv. Syst. ii. 443. —Panonsia P. Bk. op. cit. 199, t. 21, 

 FI. Trop. Afr. ii. 481.— Grislca tomentosa Roxb. fig. 2.'— Duvernaya Desp. (ex Endl.). — Bankêia 

 PI. Coram, i. 29, t. 31. — DC. Frodr. iii. 92, n. 2. Domb. (ex Endl. not R. Bk.). — Bahamona 

 — Mio.. FI. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 620.— Tul. Ann. Vandell. ex Rœm. Script. 110. — Miivilla An- 

 Sc. Nat. sér. 4, vi. 135. — Bot. Mag. t. 1906. — G. deks. Journ. Arts and Se. (ex Lisdl. Bot. Feg. 

 punctata Buchax. — G. unifiera A. Rich. FI. t. 852). 



Aài/ss. Tent. i. 281, t. 52.-67. multiflora A. Rich. 4 Pollen depresso-ellipsoid, 3-plicate, 3-papil- 



— G. micropetala Hochst. lose, unchanged in water. (H. Mohl, Ann. Se. 



3 Jam. 216.— Jacq Hort.Vindob. ii. 83, t. 177. Nat. sér. 2, iii. 331). 



— J. Gen. 332. — Pom. Diet. vi. 462 ; Suppl. v. * Sometimes tubular and hollow. 



22; III. t. 407. — DC. Prodr. iii. 83. — Sfach, 6 Whence apparently partly free and spuri- 



Snit. à Bnffon, iv. 422. — Endl. Gen. n. 6151. — ■ ously central in some species. 



Payer, Organog. 477, t. 95. — B..H. Gen. 778, n. ; Funieles erect unequal ; but the upper often 



9.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 355 — E. Koehne, more slender and longer. 



Bot. Zeit. (1873) 110 ; (1875) 291.— Barcianu, 8 With double coat. 



Seh. und Lverss. Mit. Ges. d. Bot. Bd ii. Hft i. 



