EUBIAOJEJE. 417 



Calyx gamophyllous ; lobes very various in size and form ; 1, 2, or 

 more rarely 3 expanded in a venose oftener petiolate and coloured 

 membranous leaf; the rest or more rarely all (Oreopolus^) shorter 

 unequal, entire or dentate. Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube elongate ; 

 throat glabrous or pubescent; lobes 4, 5, valvate, finally reflexed.. 

 Stamens 4, 5, inserted in throat of corolla ; anthers enclosed or semi- 

 exserted. Germen 2-celled ; disk epigynous depressed ; branches of 

 slender style ^ 2 stigmatose, short revolute. Ovules in cells 2,' 

 collaterally ascending ; incompletely anatropous ; micropyle extrorsely 

 inferior, finally lateral ; a spurious incomplete septum * sometimes 

 procluced between each ovule. Fruit capsular, crowned more or less 

 with accrete calyx; valves 2-4, solute from, membranous septum. 

 Seeds ovoid or subcochleate ; hilum ventral rather broad ; albumen 

 fleshy or hard ; cotyledons of curved embryo foliaceous ; radicle terete 

 inferior. — Herbs or low undershrubs, branched leafy, erect or creeping, 

 glabrous or oftener sericeous or tomentose ; leaves opposite sub- 

 coriaceous ; stipules persistent more or less connate with petioles in 

 a sheath ; flowers ^ in terminal umbelliform or corymbiform cymes ; 

 involucrant bracts entire or more or less lobed. (Chili.^) 



52. Carphalea J.' — Flo-wers (nea,rlj oiCruchshanhsia) 4, 5-merous; 

 calyx gamophyllous membranous finally accrete subscariolis venose 

 (coloured «) ; lobes more or less deep, obtuse, sinuate, or highly sub- 

 spathulate,' equal or unequal; sometimes interspersed by narrow 

 denticules (stipules ?). Lobes of long or very long tubular corolla 4, 

 5, valvate or indupHcate-valvate ; throat more or less dilated variously 

 pilose. Stamens 4, 6 ; filaments slender inserted in throat or free to 

 base of tube (and coadnate with it by means of hairs) ; anthers 

 enclosed or exserted introrse dorsifixed, generally versatile. Germen 

 2-celled; disk epigynous Mnall or 0; branches of very slender style 

 2, exserted, papillose throughout. Ovules in cells 2, 3 (rarely more), 



• SoHLCHTL, Zechl. Fl. Exs. n. 2895.— B. H. ' Gen. 198 ; Mem. Mus. vi. 383.— Lamk. III. 

 Gen. ii. 97, n. 191. t. 69, fig. 3.— Poib. Did. Snppl.ii. 119.— Eich. 



' Dimorphous. J?"*- 196.— DO. Prodr. iv. 413.— Endl. Gen. n. 



^ More rarely 3, sutooUateral ; at apex of 3249.— B. H. Gen. ii. 62, n. 69.— H. Bn. £ull. 



placenta free little prominent. . Soc. Linn. Far. lS6.—Dinchletia Kl. Monatsi . 



* Springing from the placenta sometimes from Jkad. Wiss. Berl. (1853) 494 ; Fet. Moss. Bot. t. 

 the wall rarely much developed. 47, 48.— B. H. Gen. ii. 66, n. 80. 



' Pale or deeper yellow. " Oftener pink or violet. 



' Spec. 6, 6. Paspp. et Endl. 2Voi). Gen. et Sp. ' In C. madagascariensis narrow subequal and 



iii. 31, t. 236.— Cl. G. Gay Fl. ChU. iii. 192, t. suhfree, hut connate at base by means of an 



33.— W ALP. Rep. ii. 469 ; Ann. i. 984. annular membrane. 



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