THE GENUS CERATOSTIGMA 5 
India to Arabia and Socotra, ad occurs again in South Africa, 
species of ea 
The gene B dooce of Cer ne given in this paper is 
based on an gee of the material in the Herbaria of Kew 
hyaline membranous web which stretches between and unites the 
contiguous margins of the individual sepals is, owing to the conni- 
vent position which thes e rigid green parts of the calyx assume 
look quite li At the base of the calyx these five 
pias we ator are united e same hyaline tissue ; being here 
w, this hyaline tissue, especially tig examine rans- 
mitted light, gives to the calyx as a whole appearance of bein 
Ciel shi (1834). 
m. Pl. Chin. 55; Endl. Gen. n. 2175; Meisn. Gen. i. ed 
and ii. 297 : Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 628 ; Oliv. in Flor 
Afr. iil. 487 ; gee in Flor. Brit. Ind. iii. 481 ; Pax in Engl. Nat. 
Pflanzenfam 122. 
Valoradia THoohat. (1842). Flora. xxv. 2, 289; Meisn. Gen. 
er 368 ; Boiss. in DC. Prod. xii. 694; Hook. in Bot. Mag. sub 
t. 4487. 
Calyx angus uste tubulosus, breviter 5-fidus e sepalis 5 glumaceis 
angustis strictis conniventibus co mpositus ; sepala singula 1-nervia, 
nervis in mucronem _acicularem and ten lyali valvatim isposita 
ern ins minusve 5-gonum vel 5-sulcatum, apice conicum, 1- 
loculare; stylus terminalis filiformis, apice in rsum 
papilloso-stigmaticos, alabastro dextrorsum contortos, mox expla- 
partie ovulum 1, _ Capsula calyce inclusa, ima basi cireum- 
, in valy. vers eben ‘albumen en parcum. 
Fridions vel suffrutices, innovationibus persistentibus vel herbaceis ; 
