h50 HISTOIRE DES PLANTES. 
sum, ima basi subglandulosum; loculis 2, œ-ovulatis ; stylo apice stig- 
matoso minutissime 2-lobo. Capsula receptaculo inelusa, oblonga mem- 
branacea, loculicide 2-valvis. Semina æ, parva, extus papilloso-pilosa ; 
embryone cæterisque Lythri. — Frutex ramosus, pube grisea punctisque 
glanduliformibus nigris plus minus conspersus ; foliis oppositis subsessi- 
libus integris, subtus albidis ; stipulis 2, minutis, caducissimis ; floribus ! 
axillaribus, solitariis v.sæpius cymosis glomerulatisve ; bracteis oppositis. 
(Asia trop. austro-or., Malacassia, Africa trop. or. ° 
9. Cuphea P. Br.° — Flores irregulares; receptaculi tubo elon- 
gato, 6-19-costato,basi postice gibboso v. calcarato. Sepala 6, or1 obliquo 
tubi inserta, valvata; dentibus accessortis totidem (v. 0), Petala 6 v. 4-2 
(nune 0), aut subæqualia, aut inæqualia ; posticis majoribus. Stamina 
plerumque 14, 2-seriata ; oppositipetalis 6, minoribus; alternipetalis 
autem 5 ; postico deficiente ; filamentis inæqualibus (posticis brevioribus); 
antheris parvis basifixis v. sub-2-dymis *. Discus cirea germen brevis v 
sæpius postice in glandulam calcariformem descendentem productus. Ger- 
men sessile, imo receptaculi tubo liberum, incomplete 2-loculare ; loculo 
postico sæpius minore, nunc sterili effæto ; stylo gracili incurvo, apice 
stigmatoso obtuso © v. capitato, obscure 2-lobo. Ovula in placenta septo 
adnata v. superne plus minus alte libera ‘, adscendentia *; micropyle 
extrorsum infera #; aut subdefinita (2-4), aut sæpius œ. Fructus tubo 
receptaculi inclusus, rectus v. obliquus, siceus, indehiscens v. hine de- 
hiscens, plerumque sub-1-locularis. Semina placentæ spurie liberæ 
inserta 1- >, adscendentia, compressa lævia ; embryonis exalbuminiosi 
cotyledonibus suborbiculatis v. obcordatis crassis, basi sæpe auriculats ; 
radicula infera brevi conica v. lobata. — Fruticuli, suffrutices v. sæpius 
1. Coccineis, fere Cupheæ 294, — BARCIANU, in Sch. und Luerss. Mit. 
2. Spec. 1. W. flor unda SALISB.— HIiERN . d. Bot., Bd Il, Hft 1,479. — Melanium 
in Odiv. FL, trop. Afr., I, 481. — ps de. . BR., Jam., 215. = SPRENG.., pt IT, 443. 
mentosa RoxB., PI. corom., 1, 29, t. 31. — RAS ren nd BR., 0p: Crk., 199 , 21, fig. 2 
DC., Prodr., il, 92, n: Fe 7 M0. 7 w ind. — Duvernaya DESP. (ex ENDL.). = Banksia 
5 
tala M 
— Jaco., ne, “te. I, 
” er. — " Diet 
VI, 462; + 1 ne ; U., t. 407. — DC., 
Prodr. LL, = Sea on. : Buffon, LA 
422, — “he Gen., n. 6151. — PAYER, 
M L 95. D pe Ge 778 n.9. 
— HE 
E. KOEHNE, 
Payer Fi 
in Bot. Zeit. (1873), . sx 
Dows. (ex ENoL., nec R. Br.). 
VANDELL., ex Ræm. Script, 110. — __—. 
ANDERS., A g— Arts and Sc. (ex LiNDL., 
Bot, Reg 852). 
4. ve S depresso - ne ao 3-plica- 
tum, 3-papillosum, humectatum pr 
(H. Mon. BL, in Ann. sc. nat. sér. 2, Il, 3 31.) 
5. Nunc tubuloso cavoque 
jnde pro parte libera spurieque centralis 
in species  . D 
erectis qualibus : superiori- 
vs . aie sir longioribusq ue. 
8. Integumento du 
