BIXACEÆ. 321 
ceptacle shortly cupuliform. Sepals 4, valvate. Stamens ©, some- 
times subdefinite in number (8-15) (4pherema’); filaments inserted 
within receptacle, 2—-#-seriate, slightly perigynous, filiform ; 
anthers oblong or shorter (Æaleïghia’) extrorse, finally versatile, 
longitudinally rimose ; filamentous hairs* at exterior of androceum 
inserted at throat of receptacle, crowded (Hwabatia), or thinner 
(Raleighia), sometimes 0 or very few (4phærema). Germen free, 
central, l-locular; style slender, tubular, apex stigmatiferous, entire 
or shortly 3-lobed; placentas parietal 2-4, m-ovulate. Capsule 
globose, accompanied by base of calyx, subcoriaceous, loculicidal. 
Seeds o, more or less winged; testa crustaceous ; albumen fleshy; 
embryo axile straight; cotyledons short.—Glabrous shrubs, or more 
or less clothed with fasciculate hairs ; leaves opposite or verticillate, 
serrate, exstipulate ; flowers in erect terminal racemes, bracteate 
(Zrop. and Subtrop. America’). 

IV. LACISTEMEÆ. 
25. Lacistema Sw.— Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous ; 
receptacle minute convex. Sepals 4-6, free, sometimes very short 
or 0, often unequal, incurved at apex in bud, persistent. Disk 
unequally-cupulate, obtusely lobed, regular or anterior usually much 
larger; margin sometimes variously inflexed. Stamen 1, interior 
within disk anterior ; filament free, hypogynous, apex dilated in 2- 
crurate connective; anther cells separate, terminating each branch 
marginally or inwardly rimose. Germen superior, subsessile or shortly 
stipitate, 1-locular ; style erect, apex divided in 3 lobes, slender, re- 
curved, unequal, stigmatiferous ; lobes 2 anterior ; the third posterior ; 
parietal placentas 3, alternating with style lobes; each 1, 2-ovulate 
(sometimes 1, 2 sterile) ; ovules descending, incompletely anatropous ; 
micropyle introrse superior. Fruit drupaceo-capsular,. finally locu- 
licidal, 3-valved ; interior of valves placentiferous at middle; fertile 
usually 1, 1-spermous. Seed descendent; exterior fleshy; testa crusta- 

476, t. 16.—B. H., Gen., 199, 1007, n. 9.— 2 GARDN., in Hook. Lond. Journ., iv. 97.— 
H. BN., in Adansonia, x. 255.—Myriotriche  B.H., Gen., 799, n. 10. 
Turez., in Bull. Mose. (1863), i. 554.—Gra- 3 Perhaps in sterile stamens filaments much 
niera Mann. & Wepp., Pl. And. Boliv. Exs., n. attenuated; stamens either all fertile or partly 
1511 (ex B. H.).- antherless ? 
Miers, in Proceed. Hort. Soc. (1863), 4 Spec. ad 8. H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec., v. 
294.—B. H., Gen., 799, n. 11. 358, t. 486.—H. BN., in Adansonia, x. 256.— 
Watp., Rep., v, 834 (Raleighia). 
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