EUBIACE^. 



297 



is 5-celled, surmounted by a hollow style. It becomes a fleshy fruit 

 with five putamens enclosing each an albuminous seed. The calyx 

 is gamophyllous, 5-dentate, and the corolla has five contorted lobes ; 

 at its throat are inserted five stamens with dorsifixed apiculate and 

 versatile anthers. They are shrubs of eastern tropical America, 

 having flowers in terminal spikes with connate bracteoles forming a 

 calicule under the flower. 



VII. CHIOCOCCA SERIES. 



In the flowers of Chiococca ' (fig. 282-285), which are generally 

 hermaphrodite and pentamerous,^ the inferior ovary is surmounted by 



Chiococca racemosa. 



Fig. 283. Flower. 



Fig. 282. Bud (?). 



Fig. 285. Long. sect, of flower. 



a short dentate calyx and a funnel- or bell-shaped corolla, the limb 

 of which is divided into five lobes ^ marginally imbricate in the bud. 

 The stamens, epigynous, are scarcely united with the base of the 



' p. Br. Jam. 174.— L. Gen. n. 231.— GriEBTN. 

 Fr.i. 125, t. 26.— Lamk. III. t. 160.— Rich. JJaJ. 

 106.— DC. Prodr. iv. 482 (§ i.).- Spach, Suit, d 

 £uffon, Yiji. 437.— Ekdl. Gm. n. 3167.— B.H. 

 Gen. ii. 106, n. 211.— H. Bs. Bull. See. Linn. Par. 

 182.—?Marffaris DC. Prodr. iv. i83.~ Desolcea 

 Sess. et M09. (ex B. H.). — Siphonahdra Tukcz. 



Bull. Moso. (1848) i. 681. 



' Tliere are some with four and six parts. 



3 The margins, very thin, slightly overlap. 

 They have been thought valvate, perhaps be- 

 cause the angles of the corolla have been ooni 

 founded with these margins. 



