L YTHRARIA CEM. 45? 



from small crown lining base of receptacle, incurved at apex; anthers 

 short, introrsely 2-rimose. Germen enclosed, subglandular at base ; 

 cells 2, CO -ovulate ; style at apex stigmatose very minutely 2-lobe'S. 

 Capsule enclosed in receptacle, oblong membranous, loculicidally 2- 

 valvate. Seeds cx; , small, externally papillosely pilose ; embryo, etc, 

 of Lythrum. — A ramose shrub, more or less sprinkled with grey hairs 

 and dark glanduliform spots ; leaves opposite subsessile entire, 

 white beneath ; stipules 2, minute, very caducous ; flowers ' axillary, 

 solitary or oftener cymose or glomerulate ; bracts opposite. (jProp. 

 south-east. Asia, Malacca, trop. east. Africa.^) 



9. Cuphea P. Be.^ — Flowers irregular ; tube of receptacle elon- 

 gate, 6-12-costate, at posterior base gibbous or spurred. Sepals 6, 

 inserted in oblique mouth of tube, valvate ; accessory teeth same in 

 number (or 0). Petals 6 or 4-2 (sometimes 0), subequal or unequal; 

 the posterior larger. Stamens generally 11, 2-seriate; 6 oppositipe- 

 talous smaller ; 5 alternipetalous ; the posterior wanting ; filaments 

 unequal (the posterior shorter) ; anthers small basifixed or sub-2- 

 dymous.* Disk around germeh short or oftener posteriorly produced 

 to a descending spur-like glandule. Germen sessile, free at bottom 

 of receptacular tube, incompletely 2-locular; posterior cell oftener 

 smaller, sometimes sterile effete; style slender incurved, at apex 

 stigmatose obtuse' or capitate, obscurely 2-lobed. Ovules on placenta 

 adnate to septum or more or less free above,^ ascending ;^ with micro- 

 pyle extrorsely inferior ;' either subdefinite (2-4),. or often co . Fruit 

 enclosed in receptacular tube, straight or oblique, dry, indehiscent, 

 or occasionally dehiscent, generally sub-1-locular. Seeds 1-co , in- 

 serted on spuriously free placenta, ascending, compressed smooth ; 



' Yellowisli-red, nearly of Ciiphea. 179. — Melartmm, P. Br. Jam. 215. — Spkenq. 



^ Spec. 1. W.floribimda Sahsb.— Hiern, Oliv. Syst. ii. 443. —Farsonsia P. Br. op. eit. 199, t. 21, 



Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. i%l.~~Grislea tomentosa fioxB. fig. i.—Dmernaya Desp. (ex Endi,.). — Banhsia 



Fl. Corom. i. 29, t. 31. — DC. Frodr. iii. 92, a. 2. Dome, (ex Bndl. not E. Br.). — Balsamona 



— MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 620.— Till,. Ann. Vandell. ex Eorni. Script. 110. — Melvilla An- 



Sc. Nat. ser. 4, vi. 135. — Bot. Mag. t. 1906. — Q. ders. Joum. Arts and So. (ex Lindl. Bot. Beg. 



punctata Buohan. — G. wtijlora A. Eioh. Fl. t. 852). 



Aigss. Tent. i. 281, t. 52.— G. muUifiora A. Eioh. '' Pollen depresso-ellipsoid, 3-plioate, 3-papi)- 



^-G. micropeiala Hoohst. lose, imohanged in water. (H. Mohl, Ann. Se. 



3 Jam. 216.— Jaoq Sort. Vindob. ii. 83, 1. 177. Nat. s&i. 2, iii. 331). 

 —J. Gen. 332.— PoiR. Diet. vi. t62 ; Suppl. v. ' Sometimes tubular and hollow. 



22 ; III. t. 407.— DC. Prodr. iii. 83.— Spach, ^ Whence apparently partly free and spuri- 



Suit. a Buffon, iv. 422.— Bndl. Gen. n. 6151.— ously central in some species. 

 Payer, Organog. 477, t. 95.— B. H. Gen. 778, n. ' Funicles erect unequal ; but the upper often 



9.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 355, — E. Kobhnb, more slender and longer. 

 Bot. Zeit. (1873) 110 ; (1875) 291.— Barcianu, » With double coat. 



Sch. und Luerss. Mit. Ges. d. Bot. Bd ii. Hft i. 



