,410 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



and bracts ciliate ; flowers in contracted compound axillary cymes ; 

 cymules each 2- or oftener 3-flowered, 4-bracteate ; 2 bracts dilated 

 at base, at apex cuspidate subspinescent ; 2, alternating with the 

 above, widely membranous (coloured ?) cucuUately concave veined.' 

 {French Quiana,^) 



38. Declieuxia H. B. K.' — ^Flowers 4-merous ; receptacle ex- 

 ternally orbicular- compressed or obcordate. Foholes of calyx 2 

 (Congdonia *), or 4, free or more or less connate, equal, or 2 lateral 

 much larger, persistent. Lobes 'of funnel-shaped corolla 4, valvate ; 

 throat variously covered. Stamens 4 ; filaments slender, inserted in 

 throat ; anthers oblong, often exserted, versatile, introrsely 2-rimose. 

 Germen inferior, 2-celled, much compressed contrary to septum ; 

 epigynous disk rather thick, very small or ; branches of slender style 

 2, thin, exserted, papillose throughout. Ovules in cells solitary 

 ascending ; micropyle extrorsely inferior.^ Fruit subdidymous, finally 

 dry or with a sHghtly fleshy exocarp ; raphe of suberect compressed 

 seed ventral or lateral; albumen fleshy; radicle of small embryo 

 inferior. — Branched shrublets or herbs, glabrous or scaberulous ; leaves 

 opposite or more rarely verticillate, petiolate or sessile, coriaceous, 

 venose, sometimes cordate; stipules short setiferous or 0; flowers* 

 in scorpioid-cymose branches of terminal iaflorescence 1 -lateral, 

 2-bracteolate or ebracteolate.' (Gent, and trop. America.^) 



39. Lasianthus Jack.* — Flowers hermaphrodite or 1-sexual 

 (nearly of Uragoga), 4-6-merous; lobes of funnel-shaped, hypocra- 

 teriform or subcampanulate corolla valvate. Stamens 4-6, inserted 

 in throat of corolla or between lobes ; anthers enclosed or subexserted, 

 more rarely in male flower much exserted {? Allmophania "). Germen 

 2-celled (Saldinia ") or 4-10-celled (Allceophania, Eulasianthus); disk 



1 Younger flowers of cymule axillant. Mantiss. iii. 111.- — Cham, et Sohitl. Zinnaa, iv. 



2 Spec. 1. T. insignia H. Bn. (referred to So- 4. — Gakdn. Sook. Zand. Journ. Feb. 1845. — M. 

 hiioea by Naudin, but certainly differing by its Aug. Flora (1876), 433. — Walp. iJep. ii. 483 ; 

 solitary ovule). vi. 46 ; Ann. ii. 756. 



3 Nm. Gen. et Sp. iii. 352, t. 281.— Rich. Bub. 9 Trans. Zinn. Soc. xiv. 125. — Bl. Bijdr. 996. 

 113.— DC. Prod/r. iv. 479.— Enbl. Gen. n. 3169. — Rich. Bub. 130.— B. H. Gen. ii. 129, n. 272. - 

 — B. H. Qen. ii. 126, u. 268. — Fsyllocarpm Pohl Hook. M. Ind. iii. 178. — MepMtidia Eeinw. ex 

 (exENDL.). Bl. JBydr. 995.— Endl. Gen. n. 3190.— DO. 



* M. Aeo. Flora (1876), 437. Prodr. iv. iSI.—Octa'via DC. Prodr. iv. 464.— 



6 Funiole in D. ecerulea a little longer and in- Endl. Gen. n. 3205. 



serted a little higher, girt at base with unequal i" Thw. Enrnn. PI. Zeyl. 147. — B. H. Gen. ii. 



papillae (ovules being abortive f). 129, n. 273. — Hook. Fl. Znd. iii. 48. — SedyotU 



* Small or very small. of authors. 



7 A genus somewhat analogous to Mitreola '^ Eich. Rub. 126. — DC. Prodr. iv. 483. — 

 among the Sedyotideas. Endl, Gen. n. 3165, — ^B. H. Qen. ii. 129, n. 



' Spec, about 20. Mabt. etZucc. Rcem. et Seh. 274. 



