CELA8TBAGE2E. 47 



ascending, dorsally inserted, oftener produced below to a membranous 

 •wing and imbricate ; raphe produced to a wing from base to apex ; 

 testa of nucleus coriaceous or crustaceons, sometimes rugose; 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo flesby conferruminate ; radicle 

 short inferior. — Small trees or climbing shrubs ; leaves opposite 

 entire or serrate ; petiole articulate ; stipules small, caducous ; 

 flowers in axillary or terminal simple or oftener compound racemose 

 cymes. {All tropical regions). See p. 13. 



S6. SalaciaL.^ — Flowers of ^^joocrafea ; petals 5, open imbricate. 

 Anthers 2-dymous, 2-locular ; cells transversely rimose {Tontelea '^) or 

 longitudinally dehiscent {Eusalaeia), Diplesthes^^) sometimes confluent 

 in 1 transversely elongate and finally 1-rimose cell {Anthodon^) 

 Gyusecium and other characters of Hippocratea. Fruit baccate, 

 spherical, ovoid or obovoid, thickly corticate; pulp mucilaginous. 

 Seeds l-c» , oftener angular, sometimes arillate; cotyledons of 

 exalbuminous or more rarely ( Calypso ^) albuminous embryo ^ thick, 

 free or conferruminate ; radicle short inferior. — Erect sarmentous or 

 climbing glabrous shrubs ; leaves opposite or more rarely (Diplesthes) 

 alternate, entire, or crenate or serrate ; stipules very small or ; 

 flowers '^ axUlary, solitary, 2-nate or oftener cymose-co , sometimes 

 in terminal compound cymiferous racemes.^ (All tropical regions.^) 



37. Campylostemon Welw^". — " Flowers (nearly of Hippocratea) 

 6-merous ; petals open. Stamens 5, inserted in scarcely visible disk ; 

 filaments incurved; anthers 4-locellate, introrsely transversely rimose. 

 Germen 3-locular ; stigma sessile 3-fid ; ovules in cells 6-8, 2-seriate. 



' Matitiss. 293. — J. Gen. 424. — PoiB. Diet. Ti. 'A genus distinguished from Hippocratea 



450. — DC. Prodr. i. 670. — Spaoh, Suit, d, Buffon, only by the nature of its fruit, 



ii. 400.— Ekdl. Gen. n. 7602.— B. H. Gen. 370, ^ Species about 60. Wight, Booh Bot. Misc. 



n. 37.— H. Bn. Payer, Fam. Nat. 326.— Hook. iii. Suppl.t. 36 ; III. t. 46; /cm. t. 962.— Wight 



M. Ind. i. 626. and Ahn. Frodr. i. 104.— H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et 



= AcBL. Guiaii. i, 31, t.— Lamk. III. t. 26.— Spec. v. 140, t. 443 {^Tontelea).— &.. S. H. Fl. 



Eniil. Gen. n. 6701. — Tonsella Sohreb. Gen. n. Bras. Mer. ii. 104, t. 104 [Calypso).— Qjj. Bijdr. 



74. — Siceliimi P. Bb. ex Pom. op. cit. v. 146. — 218. — Tui. Ann. So. Nat. ser. 4, viii. 93. — 



Johnia EoxB. Fl. Ind. i. 168. — Anthodiscus Guillem. et Perk. i?;. &''. re«i. i. 113, t. 27. 



Mabt. Sehult. Mantiss. i. 263, (not Mey.). Habv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 230. — Oiiv. Fl. 



' Haev, SooTc. Bond. Journ. i. 19. Trop. Afr. i. 372. — ^A. Gray, Amer. Expl. Mxp. 



* E. et Pay. Fl. Per. et Chil. i. 45, t. 74.— Bot. i. 286.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Lid. 148.— 



Clercia Velloz. Fl. Fhtm. 29, t. 73, 74. — Bad- Korth. Yerh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 38. — Miq. Fl. 



dma Leandr. Miinch. Denischr. -vii. 244, t. 16 Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 697. — F. Muell. Fragm. v. 



(Endi.). 202.— Tr. Ann. Se. Nat. loe. cit. 373.— H. Bn. 



' Dup.-Th. Sist. Vig. lies Afr. Amtr. i. 29, Adansonia, x. 184 ; xi. 272.— Walp. Sep. i. 400, 



t. 6. 401; T. 146; Ann. i. 130; ii. 193; iv. 368; 



' Sometimes green. vii. 684. 



' Small, yellowish or white. i» Ex B. H. Gen. 998, n. 36 a. 



