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disk, in the form of a thick cup at the bottom of which is inserted a 

 style dilated above to a lobed funnel. 



Lecananthus, climbing shrubs of the Indian Archipelago, has an 

 inferior ovary with two multiovulate cells and a membranous and 

 many-seeded fruit. The valvate corolla is five-lobed and bears five 

 alternate stamens. But the horn-like gamosepalous calyx is divided 

 into two irregular lips. The flowers are in false capitules composed 

 of very close and contracted glomerules, resembling those of Gephcelis, 

 and are surrounded by connate bracts forming an involucre. By this 

 character Lecananthus connects the secondary group of the Sabiceeos 

 to the following, the Schraderem. 



In Schvadera, the terminal inflorescences are also in false capitules 

 of compound cymes, around which the involucral bracts are borne 

 on a cuplike dilatation of the axis, more or less pronounced. The 

 flowers, 6-10-merous, have a truncate calyx, a corolla with thick and 

 valvate lobes and an ovary with two multiovulate cells succeeded by 

 a fleshy fruit. They are glabrous, coriaceous often pseudo-epiphytal 

 shrubs, with opposite leaves and intrapetiolar stipules, inhabiting' 

 tropical America. Lucinma, from the Indian Archipelago, closely 

 approaches Schradera. The spherical inflorescences, formed of 

 compound glomerules, resemble externally those of Morinda-. But 

 the ovaries are free and the two cells multiovulate. In Leucocodon, a 

 chmbing ancf " epiphytal " shrub of Ceylon, the terminal inflorescence 

 is the same but surrounded by a large whitish campanulate involucre. 

 The pentamerous and valvate corolla is surrounded by a gamophyllous 

 calyx which opens irregularly at anthesis. The characters of this 

 plant are, therefore, those of a Gephcelis except that the two ovarian 

 cells are multiovulate. Didymochlamys Whitei, a small Columbian 

 herb, has the terminal inflorescence of the preceding genera, sur- 

 rounded by an involucre of coloured bracts, two of which are very 

 large, and the two ovarian cells are multiovulate. But the five lobes 

 of the corolla become thin and strongly folded 'over the margin ; it is 

 moreover quite an exceptional plant in this family in that its leaves 

 are alternate, distichous, obliquely lanceolate, with dimorphous 

 stipules (?) of quite a peculiar form. 



Hippotis is exclusively tropical American and the flowers are all 

 axillary. In those named Sommera they are numerous and in com- 

 pound pedunculate cymes, contracted or not. In the true Hippotis 

 and in Tammsia, with us only a section of it, the cymes are generally 



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