412 NATURAL RISTORY OF PLANTS. 



stem short tuberous, echinate or rugose, hollow (and the abode of 

 ants ') ; leaves ^ opposite, sessile or petiolate ; ' stipules interpetiolar, 

 entire, deciduous (Hydnophytum) or more or less persistent, 2-fid; 

 flowers * axillary solitary, glomerate or cymose.' (Trop. Oceania.^) 



42. Gsertnera. Lame/ — Flowers nearly of Uragoga, 5-merous; 

 receptacle hardly concave or subcampanulate. Calycinal lobes or 

 teeth 5, sometimes large or accrescent. Tube of corolla more or less 

 elongate, subhypogynously or somewhat perigynously inserted ; lobes 

 of various limb 5, valvate. Stamens &c, of Uragoga; filaments 

 generally short. Germen quite or in greater part free, 2-celled, ovate, 

 obovate or obcordate ; style 2-lobed at apex. Ovules in cells solitary ; 

 micropyle extrorsely inferior.^ Fruit drupaceous subglobose, obovoid, 

 2-dymous, oblong or rather long fusiform, inserted at bottom of 

 receptacle, free or subfree ; putamens 1,2; albumen of ascending 

 seed copious, fleshy or cartilaginous ; radicle of short straight axile 

 embryo inferior. — Trees or shrubs, often er glabrous ; leaves, habit &c. 

 of Uragoga; stipules various, often connate sheathing intrapetiolar 

 setose ; flowers ^ in terminal compound racemose cymes ; inflorescence 

 either very elongate, or contracted subcapituHform.'" (Trap. east. ins. 

 and west. Africa; East India.^^) 



43 ?Pagamea Aubl.^^ — Flowers nearly of Gcertnera, 4, 5-merous; 

 calyx dentate or shortly lobed. Corolla subrotate, deeply 4, 6-lobed, 

 valvate, often densely barbate within. Stamens inserted in throat. 

 Germen free except quite at the base (of Gcertnera) ; cells 2, or more 

 rarely 3-5 ; style branchea same in number papillose. Fruit 



' And of various other animals. 28. — H. Bn. SuU. Soc. Linn. Par. 209. — Ander- 



' With habit of some Rhiaophorea:. sonia W. ex E<em. et Son. Syst. v. 21. — Fruetesca 



' Sometimes peltately inserted. DC. Mdsm. Gen. 259 ; Comm. 168. — Sykesia 



' * Small, white. Aen. Nov. Acta Nat. Car. XTui. 351. 

 • Bather a sect, of Uragoga 9 ' Hilum generally situated a little below the 



' Spec, about 6. 'Rvhtb.. Herb. Ami. yi. 119, insertion of the perianth. Hypogyny henoo 



t. 55 {Nidus germinans). — Spkens. Syst. i. 423 spurious. 

 {Lasiostoma). — Bl. Bijdr. 955 (Bydnophytum), ' "White. 



1001.— GrAUDiCH. Freycin. Voy. £ot. 472, t. 95, i" Sect. 4 (Endl. Gen. Suppl. i. 1395). 



96, — A. Gkay, Proe. Amer. Acad. iv. 43. — Mia. " Spec, about 20. Wight, Icon. t. 1318. — 



Fl. Ind.-Bat.ii.ZOS (ffi/dnophy turn), 309; Suppl. Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. ii. 382; Suppl. 227, 651.— 



224.— Car. iV. Giorn.Bot.Ital. iy. 170, t. 1. Bak. Fl. Maur. 230.— Thw. Fnum. PI. Zeyl. 



' III. ii. 273, t. 167 (not Estz. nor Sohreb. 201. — H. Bn. Adanaonia, xii. 237, 238. — Walp. 



nor KoXB.). — Gjebtn. f. Fruct. m. 58, t. 191. — Ann. iii. 76. 



DO. Prodr. ix. 32, 35. — Boj. Nouv. Mim. Soc. »* Guian.i. 112, t. 44.— Endl. ff«n. n. 3371.— 



Sclv. ym.. t. 1, 2 (Neuchat. 1847). — Endl. Gen. Bur. Loganiac. 57, fig. 37-42. — Bbnth. /oar. 



n.3370. BuR.£oy««i«<!. 57, fig.35, 36. — Benth. Linn. Soc.i. 109. — B. H. Gen. ii. 798, n. 29. — 



Jiiurii. Linn. Soc. i. 111. — B.H. Gen. ii. 798, u. H. Bn. Bull. Soe. Linn. Par. 210. 



