4f>2 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



receptacle obconical or subcampamilate. Sepals 4, 5, 3-angular, 

 valvate ; accessory teeth 0. Petals 4, 5, inserted in intervals, elon- 

 gate subspathulate. Stamens 8-10, 2-seriate ; the oppositipetalous 

 a little longer ; filaments inserted alternately higher on receptacle, 

 or all above the bottom of the receptacle and there connate in a short 

 scarcely prominent ring, finally exserted ; anthers oblong ; connective 

 sometimes incrassate. Germen inserted at bottom of receptacle, free, 

 very short or rather long stipitate, like the sepals and stamens covered 

 with plinctiform glandules, 2-locular; style subcapitate shortly 2- 

 lobed at apex. Ovules in cells (sometimes incomplete above) oo , 

 inserted oo -seriately on thick placenta. Fruit capsular, partly or 

 nearly quite enclosed by persistent calyx, finally sub-1-locular; peri- 

 carp thin fragile ; placenta subfree. Ovules oo , obcuniate and nearly 

 globular, narrower at base ; testa thick hard ; cotyledons of somewhat 

 fleshy embryo subplane; radicle short. Glabrous or tomentose trees ; 

 branches terete ; leaves (with flowers and germens) dark glandular- 

 punctuated, opposite, ovately or oblong-acute membranous penni- 

 nerved; flowers^ axillary in umbelliform or corymbiform cymes.^ 

 (Trop. Gent. America.^) 



7. Grislea Loefl.* — Flowers nearly of Adenaria (larger), 4-5- 

 merous ; sepals intermixed with as many accessory teeth. Petals 4, 

 5, rather large or small, sometimes very narrow or 0. Stamens 8-10, 

 inserted around base of gynsecium at bottom of receptacle. Other 

 characters of Adenaria.^ Fruit capsular globose coriaceous, enclosed 

 in receptacle. — A shrub ; habit and leaves of Adenaria ; flowers in 

 axillary subumbelliform cymes ; bracts inserted at base of pedicels, 

 subfoliaceous. (Columbia, Venezuela.^) 



8. Woodfordia Salisb.''' — Flowers irregular; tube of receptacle 

 oblique at base and mouth, slightly curved. Sepals 5-7, oftener 6, 

 continuous with tube, short, 3-angular, valvate; accessory teeth 

 same in number minute. Petals same in number inserted in hollows, 

 rather large or very small (sometimes 0). Stamens 10-14, declinate, 

 2-seriate, 5-7 larger, oppositipetalous ; filaments free, springing 



1 Small, white or yeUowish. 438.— Endl. Gen. n. 6156 (part).— B. H. Gen. 



" Habit nearly of Decodas. 778, n. 7. 



3 Spec. 2, 3. Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 474 {An- ' Eather perhaps a section of Grislea, the in- 



thenjlium).—B.oo-K.. Icon. t. 116.— Walp. iJijp- sertion of the stamens somewhat different, 



ii- 112. ^ Spec. 1. G. secunda Lcefl. loc. cit. — H. B. K 



* It. 245.— L. Qen. n. 474.— J. Gen. 331.— Nov. Gen.et Sp.yi. 185. 



Lamk. Diet. iii. 46; Suppl.ii. 853 (part).— DC. 7 Far. loud. t. 42.— B. H. Gen. US, n. 8.— 



Frodr. iii. 92 (part). — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iv. Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 672. 



