56 NATURAL RI^TOBY OF PLANTS. 



widely turbinate. Sepals 6, shorter, 3-angular. Stamens 10; anthers 

 oblong, 1 -porous, connective not produced at base much thickened 

 and posteriorly broadly appendiculate. Germen semiadherent to 

 receptacle, oo -ovulate. Fruit . . . ? — A hispid-pUose herb ;' stems 

 slender creeping ; leaves ovately rotund (rather small), apiculate, 3-5- 

 nerved ; flowers ^ long-pedunculate terminal or inserted in dichotomy 

 of branches ; peduncle minute 2-bracteolate ' to middle." (Peru.*) 



35. Tococa Aubl.^ — Flowers 5, 6-merous; receptacle campanulate, 

 sometimes costate. Calyx membranous ; lobes 5, 6, short or acute, 

 externally bare or furnished with a more or less elongate tooth. Petals 

 5, 6, oblong or obtuse, contorted. Stamens 10-12, inserted with 

 perianth at dilated mouth of receptacle, 2-seriate, scarcely unequal ; 

 filaments much incurved ; anthers pointed, 1 -porous at apex ; con- 

 nective oftener posteriorly tubercular or shortly spurred at base. 

 Germen to middle adnate to receptacle, free above, at apex crowned 

 with hairs or a ring ; style rather thick erect, at apex stigmatose 

 depressedly capitate. Fruit baccate ; seeds straight, pyramidal or 

 obovoid, glabrous or wrinkled; raphe lateral sUghtly prominent. — 

 Glabrous or hispid shrubs ; leaves large petiolate, entire or dentate, 

 5 -nerved; petiole often inflated at base to 2-plex vesicle; cushions 

 sometimes setose ; flowers' in compound cymiferous terminal or lateral 

 racemes, sometimes widely bracteate.' (Trop. east. S. America.^) 



86. Maieta Aubl.^ — Flowers 4-8-merous (nearly of Tococa) ; re- 

 ceptacle externally glabrous, sometimes oftener setose ramosely aculeate 

 {Calophysa^") or furnished externally with dentate wings {Microphysca'^). 

 Calyx sometimes (Myriaspora^^) dehiscent, oftener 4-6-merous ; with 



1 " In appearance like Anagallis." t. 277, 278.— Bekth. Book. Journ. Bot. ii. 303, 



2 " For the plant large." 3^3 {Miconia). — Walp. Bep. ii. 141; v. 711; 



3 A plant unknown to us, described as " in Ann. iv. 696. 



hatit very like Heeria proeimtbens Naud. but, " Chiian. i. 443, t. 176. J. Gen. 3?0. DC. 



differing in tbe character of tbe flower and the Prodr. in. 166. — Endl. Gen. n. '6234. Naud. 



fruit being unknown, of doubtful place in the Aim. So. Nat. aer. 3, xvi. 97. B. H. Gen. 767 



system." n. 116.— T»i. Melast. 141.— H. Bn. Adansoma 



* Spec. 1. C linneeoides Hook. p. loe. eit. xii. 90. 



* Guian. i. 437, t. 174.— J. Gen. 330.— DC, '» DC. Prodr. iii. 166.— Endl. Gen.ii. 6236.— 



Prodr. iii. 165.— Endl. Gen. n. 6232. — Naud. Naud. loc. cii. xvi. 98. B. H. Gen. 766 n. 114. 



Ann. So. Nat. ser. 3, xvi. 88 ; xviii. t. 3.— B. H. — Tki. Melast. 140. 



Gen. 764, n. 108.— Tri. Melast. ISl.—SphiBro- " Naud. loe. cit. xvi. 99; xviii. t. 3 {Micro- 



i/yne Naud. loe. cit. xv. 331 ; xvi. t. 24. physa).—B. H. Gen. 767, n. 117.— Tw. Melast. 



« Rather large, white or pink. 141. 



7 " A genus distinct in habit rather than in 's DC. Prodr. iii, 165.— Endl. Gen. n. 6231. 



character from the sect. Diplochita of Miconia " — Naud. loc. cit. xvi. 100 ■ xviii. t. 3. B H. 



(B. H.). Gen. 769, n. 123.— Tri. Me'last. 145. 



8 Spec, about 25. Maht. Nue. Oen. et iSp. iii. 



