Agapetes.| VACCINIACE 4. 637 
ovary ; limb 5-fid, rarely entire, usually persistent. Petals con 
nate in a tubular or urceolate 5-toothed or shortly campanulate 
5-fid, deciduous corolla. Disk epigynous. Sissies 10, epigynous, 
an 
inferior 5-celled or spuriously 10-celled ovary; ovules usually 
many at inner angles of cells; style cylindric; stigma simple. 
Fruit a 5- or falsely 10-celled berry, rarely dry and indehiscent. 
Seeds several or many, rarely one in each cell, small, compressed ; 
albumen fleshy; embryo minute, clavate. 
511. Agapetes D. Don. 
hrubs, often epiphytic; stems often greatly thickened at we 
base; leaves alternate, sometimes falsely whorled, from linear t 
elliptic, entire or toothed, sessile or shortly Ree: ie) with 
glands at the apex of the petiole, usually cori 
axillary, corymbose, fascicled or gamgcl pedicel Ee teed 
or articulate under the ovary; bracts small, Sepals connate in a 
globose calyx, with a persistent 5-fid or sen limb. Petals 5, 
connate in a shortly or deeply 5-lobed corolla; red, but often with 
transverse marks or the lobes greenish-white. Stamens 10; fila- 
ments usually short; anthers elliptic, produced upwards in 2 long 
aks opening by apical pores or slits, often spurred behind 
Carpels connate in a 5-celled or spuriously '10-celled inferior ovary ; 
ovules very many at the inner angles of the cells ; style cylindric ; 
stigma capitate. Fruit a globose, succulent, or almost dry berry, 
5-celled or spuriously 10-celled, often opening by 10 pores round 
the disk within the calyx-teeth. Seeds very many, ellipsoid, with 
very lax testa. 
variegata. 
Anthers with spurs on their beaks 
Anthers without spurs on their beaks .... -macrantha, 
1144, Acaprres vARIEGATA D. Don; F. B. I. iii. 446. 
Chi 
agon 
An splay shrub. Beng. Jalamut. 
1145. Acaperes macrantHa Hook. f.; F. B. I. iii. 446. Cerato- 
stema variegatum F, I. ii. 413. 
Chittagong. 
An epiphytic shrub. Beng. Jalamut. 
