404 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



veined. Corolla funnel-shaped; lobes 5, acute, valvate, scantily 

 pubescent within. Stamens 5, inserted under throat ; anthers sub- 

 sessile dorsifixed, oblong, enclosed, introrsely 2-rimose. Germen 

 inferior, 4, 5-celled ; style girt at base with slightly prominent disk, 

 apex shortly exserted, 4, 5-branched, papillose throughout. Ovules 

 in cells solitary ascending; micropyle extrorsely inferior.^ Fruit 

 crowned with calyx; "cocci 4, 6, indehiscent ; seeds. .. ?" — ^Low 

 pilose perennial herbs ; ^ rhizome creeping ; leaves opposite ovato- 

 cordate, petiolate; stipules interpetiolar short glandular-dentate; 

 flowers terminal solitary or cymose few.^ {Japan.*) 



29. Psederia L.° — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, 4, 5- 

 merous; calycinal lobes or teeth more or less deep, persistent. 

 Corolla tubular or funnel- shaped, often pubescent; throat bare, gla- 

 brous or villose ; lobes 4, 6, attenuate at margin more or less indu- 

 plicate ; tube sometimes divided between Staminal filaments. Stamens 

 4„ 5, inserted at variable height; anthers introrse. Germen inferior, 

 compressed, 2-celled, more rarely 3-celled ; disk epigynous depressed 

 or tumid ; branches of (2-morphous) style slender papillose, sometimes 

 exserted, finally contorted. Ovules solitary suberect ; micropyle 

 extrorsely inferior. Fruit subglobular or oftener compressed parallel 

 to septum ; exocarp fragile smooth separating from pyrenes and 

 breaking irregularly, sometimes attenuate and aliform at margin ; 

 pyrenes finally solute and connected by branched fibrous bundles, those 

 interior to cocci scanty or 0, but the dorsal generally more evolved ; 

 pyrenes indehiscent, nucleus 1-seeded ; seed much compressed albu- 

 minous. — Climbing (foetid) shrubs or undershrubs ; branchlets flexible; 

 leaves opposite or verticillate, petiolate, ovato-acute or lanceolate; 

 stipules various, oftener deciduous ; flowers in compound axillary and 

 terminal cymes; cymes sometimes 1 -parous; bracts small or rather 



' Transversely plicate. Hook. I'l, Ind. iii. 195. — Hondbessen Adans. 



' Habit of Ophiorrhiza or Coccocypselum and Fum. dea PI. ii. 158. — Lygodisodea E. et Pav. 



some small Geasneriacece. Prodr. 32, t. 6 ; Fl. Per. et ChU, ii. 48, t. 188. 



s A genus of Boraginea (Mia.), certainly of — Bartl. Ord, Nat. 208. — DC. Prodr. iv. 470. — 



Rubiaeem (Maxim.); Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. t. 2. — Endl. Gen. u. 3182. 



■• Spec. 1. P. depressa Mia. loe. cit. — B. H. Gen. ii. 134, a. 287. — Disodea Pers. 



. ^ Mantiss. 7, 52. — J. Gen. 205 (part) ; Mem. Synops. i. 210. — J. Mem. Mm. ti. Zil.-^Sipho- 



Mus. vi. 381. — Lame. III. t. 166, fig. 1. — meris Boj. Mapp. Soc. Sist. Nat. Maur. (1826, 



GjKRTN. p. Fruet. iii. 84, t. 195. — Kick. Eub. 1829) exBoi. Hort. Maur. 170. — Zecontea Rlcs. 



114.— DC. Prodr. iv. 471.— Endl. Gen. n. 3180. JRub. 115, t. id, fig. ].— DC. Prodr. iv. 470.— 



— B. H. 6«K. ii. 133, n. 286.— H. Bx. 5!i«. &c. Endl. Gen. n. 3181.— B. H. e«n. ii. 134, n. 



Zinn. Par, 190.— Bakeb, PI. Maurit. 158.— 288. 



