BUBIACEM. 403 



papillose. Fruit free dry hirsute; exocarp solute from endocarp ; 

 seed . , . ? — A small hirsute annual ; ' leaves opposite ovately acute, 

 petiolate ; stipules connate in sheath ; cymes many-flowered capituli- 

 form terminal, ebracteolate. {South west. Australia.^) 



27. Hamiltonia Eoxb.' — Flowers hermaphrodite or 2-morphous 

 (nearly oi Senssa) ; calyx lobes 5/ ovately acute or subulate, some- 

 times ciliate, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, sometimes pilose 

 within, valvate or induplicate. Stamens 5 ; anthers introrse, exserted 

 or enclosed (sometimes effete in female flower). Germen inferior ; 

 cells 5, oppositipetalous ; style branches 5 stigmatose, papillose, 

 connate at base [Leptodermis ^) sometimes higher. Ovules in cells 

 solitary ascending ; micropyle extrorsely inferior.* Fruit capsular, 4, 

 6- valvate from base (Leptodennis) or from apex (Euhamiltonia) ; endo- 

 carp solute from exocarp and persistent around seed in a more or less 

 fibrous reticulate sac, sometimes 3-valved at base ; seeds albuminous ; 

 cotyledons of straight embryo foliaceous, sometimes indupUcate. — 

 Glabrous or variously clothed shrubs ; leaves (foBtid) opposite, ovato- 

 lanceolate ; stipules intrapetiolar, broad, persistent ; flowers ' in 

 terminal or axillary cymes,* subsessile (Leptodermis) or pedunculate 

 pedicellate and racemose ; bracts and bracteoles pointed, sometimes 

 connate by pairs in an involucre or involucel.' {Trop. and subtrop. 

 east. Asia.^°) 



28. Pseudopjrxis Miq." — Flowers" hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 obconical concave, enclosing adnate germen and produced above to 

 an epigynous cupule glandular within. Sepals 5, inserted at margin 

 of cupule, ovato-lanceolate, persistent, finally perceptibly reticulate- 



' Of singular aspect ; the infloresoences re- the short funicle ; coat simple incomplete, 



semhling those of some small Trifoliums. ' White, pink or azure, sometimes odorous. 



^ Spec. 1. E. opercularina F. Muell. ' Sometimes centrifugal, 2-seriately super- 



» Sort. Cale. 15 (1814) ; Fl. Ind. i. 564 (not posed; each 2-bracteolat6 {M. Icmceolata). 



MuEHL.). — DO. Prodr. iv. 462. — Endl. Gen. n. "A genus in our opinion very near Senssa, 



3201. — B. H. Oen. ii. 135, n. 289. — H. Bn. Bull. differing chiefly in the germen with isomerous 



Soe. Linn. Par. 214 (1879).— HooK. Fl. Ind. iii. perianth. 



\91.—Spermadictym EoxB. Fl. Coram, iii. 32, t. " Spec. 6, 7. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 137.— 



236 (1819). LiNDL. Bot. Seg. t. 348, 1232. — Done. Jacquem. 



* Or more rarely 4. Voy. Bot. t. 91 (whence flg. 246, 247, are taken). 



' "Wall. Roxb. Fl.Ind. (ed. Caret) ii. 191.— — "Walp. Rep. ii. 488 ; vi. 60. 



Rich. Rub. 141.— DO. Prodr. it. 462.— Endl. " Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 189. — B. H. Gen. 



Gen. n. 3202.— B. H. Gen. ii. 135, n. 290.— ii. 135, n. 291. 



Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 198. ^' Pink, rather large. 



° Sometimes closed by a small dilatation of 



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