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5, imbricate at attenuate margin. Stamens 5, inserted at bottom of 

 corolla tube and often nearly free from it ; filaments connate in a small 

 tube, afterwards free, tabulate ; anthers, dorsifixed at base ; cells 2, 

 extrorsely or marginally rimose. Germen generally 2-celled (rarely 

 3, 4-celled); disk epigynous thick ; style slender, at apex stigmatose 

 truncate or slightly dilated, entire or shortly 2-lobed. Ovules in cells 

 solitary, descending ; micropyle introrsely superior ; funicle short, 

 sometimes dilated to a small obturator over micropyle. Fruit dru- 

 paceous compressed, orbicular, obcordate or 2-dymous; exocarp 

 sometimes thin coriaceous; pyrenes 2, chartaceous, 1-spermous. 

 Seed descending, laterally compressed ; albumen coriaceous or fleshy ; 

 cotyledons of axile embryo ovate or elliptical, often narrow ; radicle 

 terete superior. — Erect or climbing shrubs, generally glabrous ; leaves 

 opposite petiolate ovate or lanceolate entire coriaceous ; stipules 

 rather broad, 3-angular acute, persistent; flowers in simple or 

 compound racemose cymes, often 1-lateral, shortly pedicellate, 

 ebracteate. (Trop. America.) — See p. 297. 



57 ? Asemnantha Hook, f.^ — Flowers (nearly of Chiococca) 4- 

 merous ; lobes of oblong-urceolate corolla 4, subvalvate (or imbricate). 

 Stamens 4 (of Chiococca) ; filaments 1-adelphous at base, free above, 

 hirsute ; anthers extrorse rimose. Germen 2-celled ; ovules of Chio- 

 cocca ; style slender, at apex incrassate simple or very shortly 2-sulcate; 

 disk epigynous orbicular very thin. Fruit pubescent . . . ? — A 

 tomentose shrub ; leaves opposite small ; stipules interpetiolar acute ; 

 flowers ^ axillary few cymose ; pedicels 2-bracteolate.' (Yricatan.*) 



58. ScolosanthusVAHL,^ — Flowers (nearly of C/iiococca) 4-merous; 

 calyx lobes various, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube straight 

 or curved ; throat glabrous ; lobes 4, imbricate ; 2 interior,* sometimes 

 incurved at margin. Stamens 4 ; filaments inserted at bottom of 

 corolla or on the receptacle itself, connate in a short tube below, often 

 puberulous ; anthers basifixed or subbasifixed sagittate, enclosed ; cells 

 extrorsely or marginally rimose. Germen 2-celled; disk small or 

 scarcely perceptible ; style various, dilated at stigmatose apex, sub- 

 entire or 2-lobed. Ovules solitary descending ; micropyle introrsely 



> Gen. ii. 106, n. 215. Prodr. iv. 484.— Endl. Qen. u. 3164.— B. H. 



2 Small; yellow. Gen. ii. 107, n. "HI .—Anihacmthut EicH. (ex 



' Kather a sect, of Chiococca ? 'E^iii..).—i:chinodendmm EiCH. Fl. Cub. t. 47'''> 



* Spec. 1. A. pubescena Hook. p. loc. cit. (ex B.H.). 



^ Ed. i. 11, t. 10,— Rich. JJ«i. 125.— DC. ^ Sometimes rather narrower than the others. 



