454 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



flowers ^ in terminal slender oftener nutant racemes ; peduncles and 

 pedicels articulate, 2-bracteolate. [Mexico.^] 



6. Heladena A. Juss.^ — Flo-wers nearly of Echinopterys ; glands 

 of calyx 8, stipitate peltate. Stamens 10, at base l-adelpHous ; 

 anthers inappendiculate glabrous or puberulous. Germen 3-gonal, 

 3-locular; styles 3, unequal in length, agglutinate to each other, 

 finally solute, dilately truncate atstigmatose apex. Fruit 1-3 carpels, 

 longitudinally cristate at back, indehiscent.— Shrubs ; leaves oppo- 

 site, often glandulose-dentate at base; stipules subulate; flowers* 

 in axillary or terminal ramose racemes ; pedicels articulate, 2- 

 bracteolate.^ [South Brasil.^) 



7. Galphimia Cav.^ — Calyx mostly eglandulose. Petals generally 

 equal unguiculate, imbricate. Stamens 10 ; filaments free or connate 

 at base, glabrous or more rarely {Blepharandra *) densely villose ; 

 anthers introrse inappendiculate, glabrous or more rarely [Blephar- 

 andra) barbate at margin and incrassate at back. Germen 3-locular ; 

 styles 3, free subulate stigmatose to acute apex. Capsule 3-coccous ; 

 cocci dehiscent 1-spermous; testa of subglobose seed crustaceous ; 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo inflexed or incurved round fold 

 of testa incumbent, equal or unequal; radicle rather long. — Trees, 

 shrubs, or sometimes under-shrubs ; leaves opposite eglandulose or 

 oftener glandulose from sometimes dentate or crenate margin to the 

 top of the petiole ; stipules axillary, small or rather large, free or 

 connate in pairs ; flowers ^ in terminal racemes ; pedicels articulate 

 at base bracteate and 2-bracteolate. [Both Americas tropical and 

 subtropical}^) 



8. Thryallis Maet." — Calyx eglandulose, often subglobose in bud ; 



' YeUow. n. 14.- A. Gray, Gen. III. t. 173.— H. Bn. 



2 Spec. 1. IE. Lappula A. JusB. he. eit. — Payer Fam. Nat. 310. — Thryallis, L. Gen. n. 

 Walp. Sep. T. 194. — Bunehosia eglandulosa A. 633 (not Mart.). 



Jttss. Syn. Malpigh. ■ « Griseb. Zinnaa, xxii. 7. — B. H. Gen. 254, 



3 Malpigh. 93, t. 10.— Endl. Gen. n. 6686 1 n. 15. 

 (Selade»ia).—B. H. Gen. 263, n. 12. 9 Golden or ruddy. 



■• Small, white or golden. '° Spec. 10-12. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. t. 



* A genus very near Echinopterys, from which 172, t. 462.— A. Juss. A. S. H. Fl. Sras. Mer. iii. 



it differs chiefly in its plurilocular germen. 70, t. 178.— Griseb. Linnaa, xiii. 259 ; in Mart. 



« Spec, about 4. Walp. Rep. v. 197, Fl. Bras. Malpigh. 28 ; Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 115 



7 Icon. T. 61, t. 489. — A. Juss. Malpigh. 67, — Walp. Sep. y. 182 ; Ann. -m. 469. 

 i.T.—'DC.Prodr.i.6%2.~&SA.CB.,Smt.aBuffon, " Nov. Gen. et Spec. iii. 78, t. 230, 231 



iii. 134.— Endi,. Gen. n. 6590.— B. H. Gen. 254, 



