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OIKDSH XCIII. SlPHONAND^ACilii:. 



Trees, shruts or undershrubs : buds scaly : corolla gamope* 

 ftalous, Tegular, deciduous : leaves alternate : anthers at last 

 introrse, cells separated at the apex, dehiscing from the apex in 

 front by a pore or more or kss elongated foramen : fruit infe" 

 rior or superior, baccate, drupaceous or loculicidally capsular. 



TRIBE I. VACCINlEiE. 



Calyx adherent, limb epigynous, 4-7-partite, decidiious or 

 persistent : corolla epigynous, gainopetalous, 4-7-divided, deci- 

 duous, imbricated in aestivation : stamens double the number of 

 the segments of the corolla, epigynous, in one row, filaments 

 connate into a tube or free : anthers 2-celled, introrse, affixed 

 by the back, cells parallel, divided at the apex, tubulose : ovary 

 inferior, or half-inferior, 4-10-celled : placentae adnate to the 

 central column, l-many-ovuled : style single, stigma capit&,te.^— 

 Branched shrubs : branches and branchlets terete or irregularly 

 angled : leaves alternate, simple, entire, jileciduous or persistent : 

 flowers solitai7 or racemose, rarely spiked. 



GENirS I. AGAPBTBS. 

 Deeandria IHonogynia. Sex.- Systi 



Deriv. A Greek term in reference to the plants being showy. 



Gen. Char. Calyx campanulate ; limb 5-partite, segments acute: 

 corolla tubulose incurved, hairy outside, lobes narrow, suberect : 

 stamens slightly incurved towards the apex: filaments short, dis- 

 tinct : anthers 2-ceIled, hirsute, produced into two combined forked 

 small tubes, dehiscing at the apex in front : style ascending, stigma 

 depresso'-capitate, 5-lobed : berry fleshy, crowned by the limb of 

 the calyx and cup-shaped disc, 5-celleJ, many-seeded : seeds angu- 

 lar, affixed to central placentae.-^Erect shrubs ': leaves alternate, 

 coriaceous, large, evergreen : racemes axillary at the tops of the 

 branchlets : flowers large, hirsute or pubescent. 



(1) A. VARiEGATA. (D, Don.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. Vll. p. 554. 

 " Syn. Ceratostema variegatum', Roxb. fl. Ind. III. i». 413.—; 

 Thibaudia variegata, Boyle. 



Engrav: Royle III. t. 79. f. 1. 



