Pentapyxis.'] Lxxiv. capeipoliace^. (C. B. Clarke.) 17 



are shorter than the ovary and ovate-subulate. The stipules are entirely absent or 

 more or less developed into a small semicircular coriaceous lamina. In the " Genera 

 Plantarum," this species, of which the flower and fruit were then unknown, was 

 supposed to be a Pentapyxis on account of the presence of stipules. 



8. PEKTAFYaCXS, Eooh./. 



A -woolly erect shrub with solid stems and branches. Leaves opposite, 

 distichous, coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, sinuate-toothed; 

 stipules very large leafy, orbicular margins recurved. Flowers in axillary 

 peduncled or sessile rarely terminal woollen spikes, with short bracts and 

 braeteoles. Calyx funnel-shaped, subequally 5-cleft, persistent. Corolla fuimel- 

 shaped, gibbously swollen at the base ; limb stibequally 5-lobed. Stamens 5, 

 inserted on the throat of the corolla. Ovary 6-celled; style slender, stigma 

 capitate ; ovules many, 2-seriate in each cell. Berry ellipsoid, 5-celled,' many- 

 seeded. Seeds minute ; testa crustaceous, shining. 



Closely allied to Leycesteria, but differing in the solid branches, calyx, and habit. 



1. P. stipulata, Sooh. f. Lonicera stipulata, Hk. f. ^ T. in Jouiti, 

 Linn. See. ii. 165 ; Gard. C/irm. 1858, 700, with fig. 



SiKKiM Himaxata; at Darjeeling, alt. 6-10,000 ft., J. D. H. 



A shrub, 6-8 ft., densely clothed except the leaves above with soft, white wocl. 

 Leaves 4-8 by 2-3 in., base rounded, subentire or sinuate-toothed, puberulous above 

 or glabrate with deeply impressed nerves. Stipule J-§ in. diam., erect or reflexed. 

 Heads dense, rarely subspicate ; peduncle very stout ; bracts about equalling the calyx, 

 ovate. Flowers f in. long, woolly, white. Berry hairy, J in., pulp thin. Seeds 

 ellipsoid. — Flowers sometimes 4-meroug. 



Oedeb LXXV. RUBXA.CEH:. (J. D. Hooker.) 



Trees, shrubs or herbs, rarely annual, erect or twining, unarmed or spiny, 

 rarely truly priekly. Leaves simple, opposite or whorled, quite entire, 

 stipulate (except in Oaliets). Inflorescemce various. Cdh/x-tvbe adnate to the 

 ovary ; limb various. Corolla regular, usually 4-5-lobed, lobes valvate, imbri- 

 cate or contorted (to the left as seen from outside). Stamens as many as the 

 lobes, inserted on the mouth or tube of the coroUa, filaments short or long ; 

 anthers 2-celled, usually dorsifiied and dehiscing laterally or in front. Disk 

 epigynous, usually annular or cushion-shaped. Ovary wholly inferior, 2-10- 

 ceUed ; style simple or cleft, stigmas various ; ovules 1 or more in each cell. 

 Fi-uit berried, capsular, drupaceous or of dehiscent or indehiscent cocci, 2-10- 

 celled. Seeds various, albumen fleshy or horny. Embryo straight or curved ; 

 cotyledons flat or semiterete, radicle superior or inferior. — Disteib. Genera 

 about 840 and species 4000, chiefly tropical and subtropical. 



Seeies a. Ovules numerous in each cell (rarely solitary in Cephalanthus and 

 a few Hedyotideai). 



Tribe I. Kaucleeae. Flowers collected into dense globose heads. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped ; stigma simple. 



* Ovaries confluent ; frmts fm-ming a globose fleshy masi ; corolla-lobes 

 imbricate in hud. 



Ovary 2-eelled, ovules mimerous 1- Saecocephalus. 



Ovary 4-celled above, 2-celled below, ovules many ... 2. Anthocephalus. 



Ovary 2-celled, ovules solitary in each cell 3. Cephalanthus. 



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