598 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Family LXXA^II. LOGANIACE^. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs, sometimes chmbers. Leaves opposite, 

 rarely ternate, simple ; stipules various or absent. Flowers herm- 

 aphrodite or, by abortion, subdioecious, in terminal or axillary, simple or 

 compound, cymes ; the cymes sometimes subcapitate or rediiced to 

 solitary flowers. Calyx small, inferior, its limb imbricately 4- or 

 5-toothed or -lobed. Corolla tubular, funnel-shaped or campanulate ; 

 limb with -i or 5 lobes or teeth, imbricate, valvate or contorted. Stamens 

 ■i or 5, inserted on the corolla-tube, alternate with the lobes ; anthers 

 2-celled, their dehiscence introrse, longitudinal, rarely 1-celled, divaricate, 

 with confluent tips. Carpels 2, connate into a free 2-celled ovary ; 

 ovules 1 or more in each cell ; placentas on the septum or basal at the 

 inner angle ; style simple ; stigma capitate, 2-fid or 2-partite. Fruit 

 a septicidal capsule or a berry, 1- to many-seeded. Seeds various ; 

 albumen fleshy or cartilaginous ; embryo straight. — Disteib. About 

 450 species ; tropical and sub-tropical. 



Ovary with many ovules in each cell (Tribe I. Euloganie^;) : — 

 Herbs ; corolla valvate ; capsule didymous : — 



Cymes 2- or 3-chotomous ; flowers 5-merous .. ..1. Miteeola. 



Flowers solitary or clustered, 4-merous . . . , 2. Mitrasacme. 



Shrubs (often scandent) or trees : — 

 Fruit dehiscent, capsular, 2-celled : — 



Corolla-lobes imbricate . . . . . . 3. Bdddleia. 



Corolla-lobes valvate . . . . . . . . 4. Noeeisia. 



Fruit indehiscent : — 



Corolla-lobes contorted in aestivation . . . . 5. Fage^ea. 



Corolla-lobes valvate in festivation . . . . 6. Stetchnos. 



Ovary with a single ovule in each cell (Tribe II. Gaeetneeie^) 7. Gaeetnera. 



1. Miteeola, Linn. 



Herbs with opposite membranous leaves and small or membranous 

 stipules. Cymes 2- to 3-chotomous, terminal, or peduncled and axillary. 

 Floivers small, white, often secund on the ultimate branches of the 

 cymes. Sepals lanceolate. Corolla urn-shaped, with 5 small valvate 

 lobes. Stamens 5, included. Ovary 2-celled ; styles 2, short, at first 

 connate and crowned by the small hairy stigma, ultimately divergent ; 

 ovules many in each cell, attached to peltate placentas. Capsule 

 obovoid, laterally compressed, truncate or 2-horned ; carpels dehiscing 

 by separating from above downwards from each side of the septum. 

 Seeds numerous, minute, globose or elongate ; albumen fleshy ; embryo 

 linear. — Disteib. Species 4 ; 2 of them American, 2 Asiatic. 



1. Miteeola oldenlandioides, Wall. Cat. 4350 (1829). Annual, 



