128 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



top of the tube, subssessile, the 4, 5 upper, oppositisepalous generally 

 semi-exserted, sometimes abortive; the inferior same in number 

 enclosed ; anthers of all linear or oblong obtuse, introrse. Hypo- 

 gynous disk short membranous or very short annular, often obsolete. 

 Germen sessile ; style lateral, equalling tube, at apex stigmatose 

 capitate, ^ruit nucular, enclosed by base of persistent calyx ; seed 

 sparsely albuminous. — Shrubs or undershrubs, either ericoid, or 

 furnished with herbaceous or sub-coriaceous leaves alternate or oppo- 

 site '} flowers ^ terminal, shortly spiked or oftener capitate ; receptacle 

 often pedunculate sometimes hemispherical, often (Lasiosiphon) 

 villose, involucrate with floral leaves (few or oo ) imbricate (some- 

 times larger). (India, south, and trop. east, and west, Africa and 

 adjacent islandsF) 



12. Lachnea Rot.* — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-merous, regular 

 or sometimes irregular ; tube of perianth straight or curved, slender 

 or infundibuliform, sometimes suburceolate ( Cryptadema),^ narrowed 

 above the germen and finally circumscissile deciduous ; lobes of limb 

 equal or irregular in 2-labiate limb; the posterior lip smaller 

 (1-lobed) ; the anterior larger open-recurved (3-lobed) ; imbricate in 

 prefloration. Stamens 8, inserted at top of tube, 2-seriate ; the upper 

 4, oppositisepalous and exserted ; filaments slender short, sometimes 

 barbate ; anthers ovate or oblong obtuse. Squamules 8,^ alternating 

 with stamens, sometimes very small, either partially concealed in the 

 hairs of the throat, or inserted at or below the middle of the tube 

 {Cryptadenia) and much lower than the anthers. Hypogynous disk 0. 

 Germen sessile; style lateral capillary, apex stigmatose capitate 

 oftener exserted. Fruit nucular, enclosed by persistent base of 

 calyx ; seed oftener sparsely albuminous. — Shrubs or small shrubs 

 often ericoid branched ; branches slender ; leaves alternate or opposite, 

 linear or acerose, glabrous or variously pilose ; flowers ^ sometimes 

 terminal solitary or oftener capitate involucrate or naked. — {South. 

 Africa.^) 



1 The leafy branches are said to resemhle 408 ; Prodr. 57i.—Zachara L. Si/at. ed. 2, 22.— 



the compound leaves of Psilea (of the Legwni- Gmophylla Eokl. et Zeyh. MSS. (Memsn.)— 



»"'«'^)- Badojitskya Tcrcz. £uU. Mosc. (1852), 176. 



' White, yellow, lilac or reddish. s Meissn. Zinnaa, xiv. 404 ; Prodr. 573.— 



-! Spec, ahout 66 I,, p. Suppl. 226.— Wikstr. Eroi,. Gen. Suppl. iv. p. ii. n. 210\.- Calt/smeos 



Thymel. 315.— Lindl. Bot. Beg. t. 757.— Done. Eckl. et. Zeyh. (Meissn.). 



Voy. Jacquem. Sot. {Lasiosiphon). — Mia. Anal. « Staminodes ? 



Bot. Ind. ii. 3, t. 1.- Waip. Ann. i. 587 (£«- J Oftener rosy or lilac. 



siosiphon), 687 (Bnkleia), 688 {Fsilosolena). s gpeo. about 22 L. Spec, ed 1 660 — Bcrm 



4L. Gen. ed. 2, a. 382.-J. Gen. 77.- A/r. t. 46, 48 {Thymelm).-TR^B.' Fl. Cap. 



Gjertn. Fnict. iii, 196, t. 216.-^Lamk. Diet. 376 {Paaearina), 378 (Gnidia). — Ande Bot 



m. 373 ; HI. t. 292.— Endl. Gen. n. 2094 ; Sepos. t. 104.-TrKOz. Flora (1863), 743 (JJa- 



Suppl. iv. p. ii, n. 2193.— Meissn. Unnaa, xiv. dnjitshya).—Bot. Mag. 1. 1 296, 4143 (i>««seri«<i.). 



