THY^IELjEAOE^. 131 



.brieate, generally puberulent within ; throat esquamate. Stamens 8, 2- 

 seriately subsessile to throat ; anthers ovate or ellipsoid (in female 

 flower effete or rudimentary, sometimes 0). Female calyx i deciduous 

 from base or persistent. Germen sessile (in male flower rudimentary or 

 0), girt at base with hypogynous membranous subentire or 4-fid or 

 partite disk; style very short terminal, apex stigmatose capitate 

 or subclavate. Fruit drupaceous (or sometimes baccate), slightly 

 fleshy or finally dry, naked or girt with calyx, 1-spermous ; seed 

 exalbuminous. — Trees or shrubs ; ^ leaves alternate flat ; inflorescence^ 

 capitate or umbellate pedunculate, sometimes solitary, sometimes in 

 ramose, 2-chotomous corymbs or cymes. (Both trop. Jmericas^) 



19. Lagetta J.^ — Flowers (nearly of Lasiadenia) hermaphrodite, 

 4-merous; tube (coloured) ovoid-oblong, often finally above the 

 germen, circuraseissously deciduous, above at the throat narrow 

 esquamate, but there often furnished with a somewhat thickened disk 

 lining the tube, otherwise densely hirsute ; lobes of limb 4, valvate. 

 Stamens 8, 2-seriate ; four inferior, alternating with the lobes ; 

 anthers subsessile ovate, introrsely rimose. Germen sessile hirsute ; 

 ovule 1 , descending ; style terminal, apex stigmatose subclavate or 

 capitate.^ Fruit clothed with the entire calyx, finally unequally 

 divided, or by its persistent base, dry, externally very pilose ; embryo 

 of externally somewhat fleshy seed thick fleshy ; albumen oftener 

 scanty, sometimes wanting above. — A tree ; branches alternate 

 glabrous ; liber (textile) reticulate ; leaves alternate, cordato-ovate, 

 nitid reticulate ; flowers '^ in terminal simple ebracteate few-flowered 

 spikes. [Antilles.^) 



20. Funifera Lbande." — Flowers (aearlj of Lasiadema) polygamo- 

 dicecious, 4-merous ; calyx tubular or campanulate, pubescent or 



' In the male often not the same. ' White or slightly green. 



' Habit of Daphne or Funifera. ' Spec. 1. L. Untmria Lamk. — Hook. Kew 



' Flowers white or greenish. Gard. Misc. ii. t. 4. — Lindl. Paxt. Fl. Gard. i. 



■• Spec, about 15. Sw. Prodr. 63 ; Fl. hid. a. 60, Icon.— Lbm. Fl. Jard. t. 19.— A. Eich. 



Oce. ii. 683 {Daphne). —'S.. Synops. i. 446 Cm*, xi. 192.— GriSeb. Ca*. PI. Cub. III.— Bot. 



{Daphne). — H. B. K.. Nov. Gen. et Spec. ii. 151 Mag. t. Id.—Lagetto Lunan, Sort. Jam. i. 473. 



{Daphne). — Benth. PL Sartweg. 147 {Daphne, — Daphne Lagetto Sw. Prodr. 63 ; Fl. Ind. Oce. 



Tht/melcea). —Gms^B. Cat. PI. Cub. 110. i. 680. 



* Gen. 77.— Lamk. Diet. iii. 376, 440 ; Suppl. ^ Ex. C. A. Mey. Pull. Acad. S.-Pelersb. iv. 



iii. 236; III. t. 289.— Wikstii. Act. ffolm. n. 4.— Endl. e««. u. 2106'°.— Meibsn. JSfart. «. 



(1818), 293.— G^EKTN. Fruci. iii. t. 21f.— Space, Bras. xiv. 67 ; Prodr. 525.— Neesia Makt. MSS. 



Suit, a Buffon, x. 437. — Endl. Qm. n. 2106 ; ' (Meissn. not Bl.). — Boscia Velloz. Fl. Ftum. 



Suppl. iv. p^ ii. n. 2106'"'. —Meissn. Prodr. 526. iv. 150, t. 11 ? 



^ With adherent glandular disk.. 



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