50 ■ NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



binate, campanulate or ovoid, sometimes {Pacliycentria ') constricted 

 beyond germen, lageniform. Calyx more or less dilated, 4-6-dentate, 

 sometimes furnished externally below the margin with small or rarely 

 elongate-subulate (Carionia ^) teeth, sometimes after anthesis free at 

 base {Pachycentria). Petals 4-6, pointed, much contorted, often 

 deciduous, somewhat fleshy. Stamens 8-12, 2-seriate, subequal or 

 slightly unequal; anthers various in form, 1, 2-porous or shortly 

 rimose at apex; connective not or very slightly produced at base, 

 internally 2-tuberculate or shortly 2-lobed at base, externally short- 

 and oftener thick-spurred, Germen 4-6-celled, by septa more or less 

 adnate to receptacle, at apex crowned with a more or less depressed 

 ring or with scales ; style slender, sometimes dilated to base, at apex 

 stigmatose truncate or punctiform. Fruit baccate, crowned with 

 calyx, ovoid or globular ; seeds straight, ovoid or dimidiate, smooth 

 or rough; raphe sometimes incrassate arillose. — Erect or climbing 

 shrubs, sometimes rather fleshy or epiphytal ; pubescence sometimes 

 starred [Hypenanthe) ; branches glabrous or scurfy, generally nodose ; 

 leaves opposite or verticillate, sometimes unequal or alternate, entire 

 fleshy, 3-5-9-nerved, sometimes but rarely penninerved; flowers' in 

 terminal or lateral more or less compound-ramose, sometimes corym- 

 biform or few-flowered (Carionia) cymes. (India, Malaya, warm 

 Oceania, trop. west. Africa, Malacca,^) 



27 ? Pogonanthera Bl.' — Flowers nearly of Medinilla, smaller, 

 4-merous ; receptacle lageniform or cyathiform, externally pulverulent. 

 Petals 4, longer than calyx, acuminate, dUated to middle or 1 -dentate. 

 Stamens 8, scarcely unequal ; anthers oblong straight, at apex 

 pointed 1-porous ; connective not produced, not or obscurely spurred, 



iii. 167. — Naud. Ann. Se. Wat. ser. 3, xv. 285, moderate, showy, sometimes (Fachyeentria) 



1. 12, 13.— Endl. Gen. n. 6236.— B. H. Gm. 750, small. 



n . 93.— Tbi. Melast. 86, t. 7, fig. 94.— Hook. Fl. * 8peo. atout 60. Bl. Bumphia i. t. 1-3.— Miq. 



Ind. ii. 646. — Tripleetrtim Don, ex Wight et JFl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 638, 550' {Pachycentriaj. — 



Ahn. Prodr. i. 324. — Diplogmea Lindl. Brand. Korth. Verh.Nat. Gesch. t. 61, 63 {Paehycentria). 



Quart. Journ. (1828) 122.— Natid. he. eit. xv. —Seem. Fl. Vit. 88.— A. GtoAY, XTnit. St. Expl. 



297, t. IS.—Frpetina Naud. loc. cit. xv. 299, t. Fxp. Bot. i. t 75.— Nal-d. he. eit. xv. 303, t. 15 



14. — Sypenanthe Bl. Mus. Zudg.-Bat. i. 21.— {Aplectrtm) . — Thw. Fmim. PI. Zeyl. 106. — 



Dactyliota Bl. he. cit. 21. Hook. f. Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 460.— Hook. 



iBi. Fhra (1831), 619; Nat. Wett. 260; Bot. Mag. t. 4231, 4533, 4569, 4660.— Walp. 



Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 22.— Endl. Gen. n. 6238.— Sep. ii. 142, 143 (Paehyeentria) ; v. 711, 712 



Naud. he. cit. xv. 209.— B. H. Gm. 760, u. {Pachyeentria) ; Ann. ii. 604, 605 {Sypenanthe), 



9fi.— Tki. MeUst. 89, t. 7, fig. 95.— H. Bj». 606 {Bactyliota, Paehyeentria) ; iii. 875 ; iv. 808. 

 Adamonia, xii. 92. * Flora (1831), 520 ; Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 24. — 



= Nadd. he. cit. ser. 3, xv. 311, t. 16.— B. H. Endl. Gen.-n. 6239.— mAvn.Ann.Sc.Nat.sei.S, 



Gen. 759, n. 94.— Tbi. Melasi. 86, t. 7, fig. 91. xv. 302, 1. 16.— B. H. (?««.760,n. 96.— Tbi. Me- 



^ Pink or whitish, ]aige {Carionia), often tesi. 89, ,t. 7, fig, 86 — Hook. JF/. /«rf. ii. 660. 



