130 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



l6ng barbate; style eccentric thin, apex stigmatose thick ovoid- 

 capitate obtuse, 10-costate. Emit drupaceous, finally dry, enclosed 

 by perianth; putamen osseous thin; seed exalbuminous. — A low 

 divaricate ramose sericeo- pilose shrub; leaves alternate, ovate or 

 ovato-lanceolate ; flowers terminal few (2-6) sabcapitate at top of 

 slender twig, ebracteate. {Guiana, Venezuela, North. BraziV) 



16. Hargasseria A. Rich. s— Flowers polygamous, 5-merous 

 (nearly of Gnidia) ; calyx hypocrateriform, straight or incurved, 

 throat"esquamate. Stamens 10, exserted. Hypogynous squamules 5, 

 long sericeo-pilose. Fruit . . . ?— Trees or shrubs ; liber textile (of 

 Lagetta) ; branches virgate ; leaves alternate ; flowers capitate, some- 

 times few ; capitules pedunculate arranged in terminal corymbose 

 racemes, exinvolucrate ; receptacle discoid with long and dense white 

 hairs.* ( Cuba?) 



17? Goodallia Benth.^—" Flowers dioecious, 5-merous; calyx 

 wide tubular ; tube villose within, 5-fid ; throat esquamate. Stamens 

 (in female flower 0) inserted in throat ; the oppositipetalous a little 

 longer than the calyx ; the 5 alternate shorter. Squamules 10, 

 perigynous near the base of the tube, linear glabrous. Germen (in 

 male flower very small or 0), highly hirsute, girt at base with very 

 small hypogynous long-haired scales ; style short slender, apex 

 stigmatose thick capitate ; ovule 1, descending. Fruit ovoid hispid or 

 fleshy, enclosed by somewhat enlarged calyx ; testa of exalbuminous 

 seed crustaceous. — A divaricate much-branched shrub ; leaves alter- 

 nate, elliptical, herbaceous, at base cuneate or rotundate, glabrous, 

 thinly and densely veined, very shortly petiolate ; flowers in few- 

 flowered sessile terminal capituliform spikes. ( Guiana?) 



18 ? Daphnopsis Mart, and Zucc.® — ^^Flowers dioecious; male calyx 

 infundibuliform or campanulate ; limb not separable, 4-fid ; lobes im- 



' Greenisli white, half inch. * Sook. Loud. Journ.iy. 633 (not BowD.)- — 



'Spec. 1. L. rupestris Benth. — Meissn. Endl. ff«».n. 2106*. — Meissn. P»-(«?r. 527. 

 Mart. Fl. Bras. Thymel. 69, t. 29. ' Spec. 1. G. guianensis Benth. — Meissn. 



» Cuh. xi. 193 (not Schied. et Deppe). — m Mart. Fl. Bras. Thymol . &&. 

 Linodendron A. Gkay, PI. Wright, i, 187. * N^ov. Gen. et Spec. i. 65. — Endl. Gen. Suppl. 



* A genus distinguished from Lasiosiphon, a iv. p. ii. u. 2106 ''. — Meissn. Prodr. ^520, 700. — 



section of Gnidia, only by the esquamate throat Bargasseria Schied. et Deppe, ex C. A. Mey. 



of its perianth. Bull. S.-Pltersl. iv. n. 4 (not A. Rich.). —Endl. 



' Spec, i (flowers in 1 species said to he loc. cit. n. 2106 *. — Nordmannia EiscH. et Mey. 



white. MMissis.Prodr, 522,-n. 10 (Daphnopsis !). — loc. cit. 

 — &KISEB. Cat. PI. Cub. 109. 



