58 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



the disk. Corolla campanulate, 5-lobed, "07 to ■! in. long, greenish- 

 white, lobes short, rounded. Stamens 5, ioserted at the base of the 

 corolla-tube ; filaments short dilated ; anthers 2-celled, rounded, about 

 as long as filaments. Ovary semi-inferior, 2-celled ; placentas axile, 

 stalked, bearing many ovules ; style short, stigma obscurely 2-lobed. 

 Capsule depressed-globose, circumsciss at the margin of the calyx-tube^ 

 the crown and calyx-lobes deciduous. Seeds very numerous, oblong, 

 minute, scabrous ; testa reticulate with rectangular cells. Wall. Cat. 

 1516 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. I. 507, Fl. Ind. ed. Carey and Wall. II. 116 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 569 ; Kui'z in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLYI. ii. 

 209 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 438; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 519; 

 Bahlon Hist, des Plantes, YIII. 327, t. 158-161 ; Cooke Bomb. Flora, 

 II. 75; Prain Beng. Plants I. 635; Schonl. in Engl, and Pr. Pflz— Fam. 

 IV. 5, 61, fig. 38. S. Pongatium, A. DC. Prod. VII. 548 ; Wight 111. t. 

 138. Pongatium indiciim, Lamk. 111. II. 444 ; Encyc. Meth. Bot. V. 

 564. Gaertnera Pangati, Eetz Obs. VI. 24. Bajnnia herbacea, Lour, 

 Fl. Cochinch. (ed. WiUd.) I. 157. Sphenoclea, Griff. Notul. IV. 276. 

 "Pongati," Eheede Hort. Mai. XL 47, t. 24. 



Malacca : Griffith. — Disteib. Swampy places and wet fields, and 

 along river banks in tropical regions of both hemispheres. 



Order LXV. VACCINIACE^. 



Shrubs or small trees, often epiphytic, with stems swollen at th& 

 base. Leaves alternate or in pseudo- whorls, entire dentate or serrate, 

 evergreen, ex-stipulate. Flowers in terminal or axillary racemes, or 

 solitary and axillary, hermaphrodite, usually regular ; pedicels 1-brac- 

 teate and also often with 2 bracteoles, often articulate beneath the 

 ovary. ■ Calyx campanulate or cupular, the tube adherent to the ovary, 

 its limb persistent on the fruit, usually 5-toothed. Corolla tubular 

 (sometimes inflated), campanulate or globose, 5-toothed or 5-lobed, 

 usually imbricate, deciduous. Stamens 10, epigynous, inserted at the 

 base of the corolla-tube ; anthers opening by apical pores, or often pro- 

 duced into 2 tubes, opening by slits, filaments flattened, free or connate 

 by their bases. Ovary inferior, crowned by an epigynous disk, 5-celled 

 or falsely 10-celled ; style cylindric ; stigma simple ; ovules many 

 (rarely few), the placentas axile or pendulous from the upper inner 

 angle of each cell. Fruit baccate, rarely dry, 5- or falsely 10-celled. 

 Seeds numerous or few (rarely only 1) in each cell, small, compressed, 

 albuminous. Species about 350, natives chiefly of cold and temperate 

 regions throughout the world. 



