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OcHTHOCHARis. Calyx terete. and smooth. Stamens 10, equal. Ovary and cap- 

 sule adnate to the calyx, the latter globular, smooth. Cymes often axillary, or rarely 

 collected into terminal panicles. 



Anekincleistus. Calyx terete. Anthers 8, equal. Capsule 4-valved at the top, 

 almost free. Flowers in axillary fascicles or umbellcts. 



Trib. 3. S0NEEILE2E. Ovary broadly carved out and depressed at the 3- to 5- 

 cornered top. Connective rarely produced at the base. Capsule opening at the top 

 into triangular valves, 3— 5-cornered, rarely terete. Seeds minute, straight, angular 

 (never cochleate). 



SoNERiLA. Flowers 3-merous. Stamens 3 or 6. Capsule 3-cellcd. Herbs, or 

 rarely undershrubs, sometimes stem-less. 



Sarcopye,4.mis. Flowers 4-merous. Stamens 8. Capsule 4-celled, included in the 

 succulent calyx. Succulent glabrous herbs. 



X X Berry sappy or coriaceous, irregularly rupturing. 



Trib. 4. MEBINILLE^. Ovary wholly, or only its angles, adnate to the calyx, 

 the convex or conical top free. Stamens conform, or the alternating ones reduced to 

 curiously shaped staminodes, inserted on the limb or thrust into the cavities formed by 

 the adhesion of the ovary-angles to the calyx ; anthers usually recurved. 

 X Stamens very unequal. 



DissocH^LA. Anthers 4 or 8, the connective with 2 bristles or lamellEe in front, 

 often spurred behind. Panicles terminal. 



Anplectrum. Anthers 4 or 8, the connective usually not appendaged in front, 

 shortly spurred behind. Ovary 4-crested at the top. Panicles often axillary. 

 X X Stamens almost equal. 



Medinilla. Calyx-tube not or barely produced beyond the ovary. Anthers 8, 

 10, or 12, 2-lobed or 2-spurred in front, often bristly, 1 — 2-lobed or 1-spurred behind. 

 Ovary 4 — 6-celled. Erect or scandent shrubs. 



* * Placentas inserted to the base of the axial angle or to the zvalls of the cells. 



Anthers opening by longitudinal slits, 



Trib. 5. ASTE0NIE2E. Ovules numerous. Berry coriaceous or succulent, many- 

 seeded, the seeds minute. 



Pternandra. Calyx smooth or scaly, the limb truncate, obscurely 4-lobed. Sta- 

 mens 8. Trees or shrubs. 



8ulord. II. 3IEMECYLEM. 0vai7 l-celled, with a free central 

 placenta to which 6 or more ovules are attached in a whorl. Berry succulent 

 or coriaceous, 1-seeded. Embryo large, the cotyledons much folded and 

 leafy. 



Memecylon. Anthers 8, equal. Trees or shrubs, with penninerved or very rarely 

 3-nerved leaves. 



Oslbeckia, L. 



Consjpectus of Species. 



* * Petals 8. Stamens 3. 



X Flowers small. Calyx-tube bell-shaped. Anthers short, truncate or 

 abruptly beaked. 

 Calyx not ribbed, glabrous or more or less covered with long fringed scales ; anthers 



prolonged into a bristle-like beak, , , 0. Chinensi^. 



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