454, NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo thick suborbiculate or obeordate, 

 often auriculate at base ; radicle inferior short conical or lobed. 

 Small shrubs, undershrubs, or oftener herbs, sometimes viscous, 

 glandular pilose; branches terete; leaves opposite or verticillate, 

 sometimes alternate, entire penninerved ; flowers ' solitary or race- 

 mose; peduncle axillary, lateral or oftener interpetiolate,^ bracteolate.^ 

 {Both trojp. and subtrop. Americas^) 



10. Antherylium Rohe and Vahl.^ — Flowers nearly of Orislea, 

 4-merous ; tube of receptacle obconical. Sepals 4, valvate; accessory 

 teeth 0. Petals 4, oblong, corrugately imbricate. Stamens 12-xi , 

 inserted at margin of thin disk lining tube ; filaments free slender ; 

 anthers curved. Germen free at bottom of receptacle ; cells 4, com- 

 plete or incomplete above, oppositipetalous ; style slender flexuose, 

 at apex stigmatose truncate. Ovules in cells oo , inserted on thick 

 placenta. Fruit capsular, at base stipate with calyx, large nozzled 

 above, membranous, sub-1-locular, septifragal; seeds close minute. — 

 Glabrous trees or shrubs ; branches sometimes armed at nodes with 

 4 small spines ; leaves opposite or alternate petiolate entire ; flowers 

 axillary cymose, spuriously umbellate; pedicels under flower 2- 

 bracteolate. (Antilles, Mexico.^) 



11. Tetrataxis Hook, f.' — Flowers nearly of Antherylium (or 

 Qrislea) apetalous, 4-merous ; calyx subcampanulate and externally 

 vertically angularly alate between lobes, 5-fid,. valvate, more or less 

 persistent. Stamens 4, alternating with lobes of calyx and inserted 

 in the hollows within it; filaments thick free exserted; anthers oblong, 

 2-locular. Germen free, sessUe, 4-locular, 4-lobed above; style 

 simple, at apex stigmatose entire. Ovules in cells oo , oo -seriately 

 inserted on thick placentas, incompletely anatropous. Fruit exserted 



• Eed, yellow, orange, violet, pink, sometimes t. 404.— A. S.-H. Fl. Bras. Mer. iii. 94, t. 182- 

 pale purple or -white. 185 ; Mem. Mm. ii. 37, t. 4, fig. 26-28.— H. B. 



2 Equi-distant from totli leaves and super- K. Nov. Gen. etSp.-n. 196, t. 550-652. — Hook. 

 posed to axil telow. Exot. Fl. 1. 161.— Geiseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 269. 



3 A genus very near to Lythrum, notwith- — Bot. B.eg. t. 862. — Bot. Mag. t. 2201, 2580, 

 standing the irregularity of the flower, inter- 4208, 4362. — Walp. Ap. ii. 105 ; v. 674 ; Ann. 

 mediaries being Anisote on the one hand, on the i. 294 ; ii. 640 ; iv. 689. 



other species of Cuphea in which the flower is * Sh: Nat. Selsk. Safn, ii. p. i. 211, t. 8. — 



scarcely irregular. Subgenera 2 {Lythroetq>hea, DC. JProdr. iii. 91. — Endl. Gen. n. 6158. — B. H. 



Fucuphea), ex Koehne {App. alt. sem. Sort, be- Oen. 782, n. 20. 



rol. ann. 1873), hy whom the characters of the * Spec. 1, 2. Walp. Eep. ii. 112. 



sections and subsections are carefully enume- ' Oen. 783, n. 23 (name being changed). — 



rated. Baker, Fl. Maurit. 100. — Tetradia Dup.-Th. 



* Spec, about 88. Jaoq. .Hbrt. FiK(Zo5. ii. t. 177. ex Tul. Ann. So. Nat. ser. i, vi. 137 {not K. 

 — Cav. 7c. t. 380-382.— R. et Pat. Fl. Per. iv. Br.). 



