44 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



14. Castratella Naud.' — Flowers (nearly of Lithohium?) 4- 

 merous; receptacle ovoid. Sepals 4, short obtuse, persistent.. 

 Petals 4, contorted, 1-setiferous at apex. Stamens 8, sub-equal ; 

 anthers oblong, attenuate at base, connective shortly produced at 

 base, not or very slightly appendiculate, Germen free beyond middle, 

 4-celled. Capsule 4-valved ; seeds subovoid glabrous. — A villose 

 hispid herb ; leaves all radicle rosulate, subsessile entire, 5-7-nerved ; 

 flowers ^ cymose at top of scape, often few ; pedicels 2-bracteolate ^ 

 under flower. {Columbia^) 



15. Eriocnema Naud.' — Flowers (nearly of Gastratella) 4-5- 

 merous ; receptacle subcampanulate villose. Sepals 4-5, broad, 

 3-angular, dorsally 1 -dentate. Petals 4-5, acute, contorted. Stamens 

 8-10 ; filaments incurved above ; anthers linear basifixed, 1-porous, 

 connective not produced nor appendiculate. Germen free, 3-celled. 

 Capsule 3-celled, 3-valved to base ; seeds straight or curved. — A 

 perennial hirsute herb ; rhizome thick ; leaves radicle petiolate 

 cordate, 3-9-nerved; flowers^ cymose at top of scape, spuriously 

 corymbose; pedicels bracteolate ' at base. (South. Brazil.^) 



16. Bertolonia Radd.' — Flowers 5-merous ;'» receptacle cam- 

 panulate more or less turbinate or tubular, externally glabrous, sulcate 

 or costate, sometimes 3-9-alate." Sepals 5, entire, serrate, or ciliate; 

 sometimes (Diplarpea^^) with as many small teeth interposed. Petals 

 5, ovate, obovate or oblong, much contorted. Stamens 10, 2-seriate, 

 subequal; anthers various in form, often linear-subulate, 1, 2-porous 

 at apex, or spuriously rimose (Diolena '') from the pore running 

 downwards; connective not or scarcely produced at base, spurred 

 posteriorly downward, and furnished with an ascending appendage 



1 Ann. Sc. Kat. ser. 3, xiv. 139. — B. H. Gen. » Spec. 2. Cham. Linncea, ix. 383 {Sertolonia) . 

 736, n. 3.— Tri. Melast. 23, 1. 1, fig. 3. — Walp. Sep. v. 683. 



2 Yellow, rather large. o Ait. Soc. Ital. Scienz. xviii. 5, fig. 3 (not 



3 Flowers nearly of some TibonchiniB, habit Speeng. not Eahn. not DC.) — DC. Prodr. iii. 

 Bometimes also the same. In leaves and inflo- 113 ; Mem. i. 25. — Endl. Gen. n. GIQO.^Natjd. 

 rescence the genus presents a transition to the Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 317.— B. H. Gen. 756, 

 Bertolonka. n. 79.— Tm. Melait. 79, t. 6, fig. IS.—Triblemma 



■* Spec. 1. O.piloselhides 'Navd. — Shexia pilo- Makt. (ex DC). 

 selloides Bonpi. Rhex. t. 5. — Arthroitemma pilo- i" Very rarely 4-merous. 



selloidea DC. Frodr. iii. 136. ii Concerning the wings as also the sepals and 



5 Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ii. 144 ; xv. 330 ; xvi. ovarian cells, see H. Bn. Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 

 t. 24.— B. H. Gen. 736, n. 1.— Tri. Melast. 23, 130. 



t- 1. fig- 2. 12 Tri. ex B. H. Gen. 756, n. 81 ; Melast. 80, 



6 Small, rather pretty. t. 6, fig. 81. 



7 A genus very near the preceding and also " Naud. loe. cit. xv. 329 ; xvi. t. 24. B. H. 



to some Bertoloniem in hahit. Gen. 756, n. 83.— Tri. MelaU. 80, t. 6, fig. 83. 



