42 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



rarely 12-16, the oppositipetalous oftener much smaller ; anthers 

 ovoid or oblong, sometimes Hnear, 1- porous at more or less tubular 

 apex,' connective more or less produced inwardly at base beyond the 

 insertion of the filament, curved and there generally dilated, entire or 

 more rarely 2-lobed. German either free, or more or less deeply 

 adnate within receptacle, either 3-5-celled (TremUeya),^ or 3-8-celled 

 (Eumicrolicia, Lavoisiera) ; style slender, often declinate or incurved, 

 sometimes thickened towards apex (Ehynchanthera) ; at top stigmatose 

 punctiform. Capsule 4-8-valved; seeds straight or more or less 

 curved, sometimes foveolate. — Shrubs, shrublets, or rarely herbs, 

 glabrous or pilose ; or with glandular pilose, sometimes (Lasiotrem- 

 hleya ') densely hoary indumentum ; leaves often small, imbricate ; 

 flowers* axillary or terminal, solitary or in compound cymiferous 

 racemes. (Trop. South America.^) 



10 ? Cetradenia G. Don.* — Flowers nearly of MicroUcia, 4- 

 merous ; sepals 4, shorter than receptacle. Stamens 8, unequal ; 

 anthers oblong, obtuse, erostrate ; connective produced at base in- 

 curved and compressed, clavate at bottom and there truncate or 2- 

 lobed. Germen, &c.,oi MicroUcia.'' — Herbs, sometimes subshrubby; 

 branches 4-alate or 4-gonal ; leaves of each pair ^ very dissimilar ; 

 one very small (or sometimes 0) ; the other larger unequally lanceo- 

 late ; flowers ' in corymbiform cymes. (South-west. North America.^") 



11 ? Chsetostoma DC." — Flowers neeirlj oi MicroUcia, 5-merous; 

 receptacle tubular-campanulate coriaceous sparsely setose. Sepals 5, 



'Often very long in Eyhnchanthera (DC. 250', i5l-25Z{f>emhleya),259,26(i {Ehynchan- 



Pj-of^r. iii. 106 ;—Tei. i!f«to<. 31, t. 1, fig. 13), thera), 265-272 [Lavoisiera) .—Roots.. Icon. t. 



but not constantly. It would be better, in our 502 {Lavoisiera). — B. Rhex. t. 69. — "W alp. -Rep. 



opinion, a sect, of JlficroWaa; not all the stamens ii. 125 ;, t. 690, 699 (TremHeya) ; Jim. ii. 5i3 



(oftener only 1-5) furniBhed -with perfect an- {Rhynchanthera), 545 {Lavoisiera), 646 ; 549 



tbers. {Trembleya). 



- DO. Prodr. jii. 125 ; Mem. i. 37.— Endl. « Gen. Syst. ii. 765.— Endl. Gen. n. 6178.— 



Gen. n. 6206.— Naud. loc. cit. xii. 264.— B. H. Naud. Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, xii. 270.— B. H. 



Gen. 738, n. 11.— Tei. Melast. 29, t. 1, fig. 11, Gen. 739, n. 15.— Tri. Melast. 32, t. 1, fig. 15.— 



' Sections of M. lanijiora, H. Bx. in Adan- Plagiophyllum Sohlchtl, Linneea, xiii. 429. 



sonia, xii. 95. — M. lanijiora Don, Mem. Wern. ' Of which perhaps better a section. 



Soc.iv. 292 (1823). — Trembleya Lychm'tis PC. * Properly opposite; the second often more 



Prodr. loc. cit. 126 (1828). — Tri. loc. cit. 29, fig. or less elevated on the branches. 



1 1 a. — Bhexia Lychnitis Schr. et Mart. — Py- " Pink, often crowded, small. 



'ramia Lychnitis Kl. — Hemiandra candidlssima '" Spec. 3. Sot. Reg. (1843) t. 20. — Bot. Mag. 



.A. EiCH. (ex Tri.). t. 6228.— W alp. Rep. ii. 118, 917; v. 682; 



* White, yellow, pink or purple, moderate or Ann. ii. 549. 



sometimes large, showy. " Prodr. ni. 112. — Endl. Gen. n. 6186. — 



° Spec, about 135. Avbl. Guian. 414, t. 160 Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xii. 227, — B. H. 



(Jfefetoma).- Mart. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. t. 249, Gen. 737, n. 8.— Tri. Melast. 24, t. 1, fig. 8. 



