422 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS 



times 3- or generally 2-celled; ovule in cells solitary descending 

 elongate, often pointed below; funicle sometimes rather long con- 

 tinuous with dorsal raphe ; micropyle intrbrsely superior. Fruit oblong 

 or obovoid laterally compressed, crowned with calyx, generally obtusely 

 costate, slightly fleshy ; cocci indehiscent, often finally pendulous from 

 columella ; albumen of elongate seed often thin ; radicle of straight 

 embryo elongate superior. — Trees or shrubs, erect or sarmentose ; 

 ramules sometimes spinescent; leaves opposite or more rarely closely 

 packed, petiolate, oblong or ovately elliptical, sometimes small or few ; 

 stipules interpetiolar, often 3-angular, sometimes very small ; flowers ' 

 in compound corymbiform and cymiferous generally terminal^ 

 sometimes few flowered racemes, often bracteolate. {Both trop. 

 Americas.^) 



61 ? Flacocarpa Hook, f.^ — Flowers (nearly of Scolosanthus) 4- or 

 more rarely 5-merous ; sepals linear-subspathulate coriaceous, per- 

 sistent. Lobes of narrow funnel-shaped slightly incurved corolla 

 obtuse imbricate ; throat glabrous. Stamens 4, 6, inserted in throat, 

 enclosed ; anthers oblong. Germen 2-celled ; branches of slender 

 style 2, recurved stigmatose; disk depressed subentire or 2-lobed. 

 Ovules solitary descending ; funicle rather long continuous with dorsal 

 raphe. Fruit subelliptical, compressed contrary to septum ; cocci 2, 

 indehiscent ; seeds compressed . . . ? — A branched puberulous shrub ; 

 leaves small opposite, oblong or obovate, shortly petiolate ; stipules 

 small interpetiolar, 3-angular, often dark-apiculate ; flowers axillary 

 solitary, 2 -bracteolate, or 2, 3, cymose.* (Mexico.^) 



62. Erithalis P. Br.* — Flowers 5-10-merous; receptacle sub- 

 globose. Calyx gamophyllous, subentire or 5-10-dentate, persistent. 

 Lobes of subrotate or shortly hypocrateriform corolla 5-10, oblong, 

 slightly imbricate only at apex. Stamens 5-10, inserted at bottom 

 of corolla ; filaments short or rather long, sometimes connate at base ; 

 anthers oblong basifixed, sometimes subexserted, often apiculate. 



' Small, white or yellow. ' Spec. 1. P. mexicana Hook. f. he. cit. 



2 Spec, about 12. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. « Jam. 165, t. 17, fig. 3.— L. Gen. u. 238.— -J. 

 350. — Ch. et ScHLCHTL, Linnaa, iv. 2.— Gkiseb. Gen. 206 ; M^m. Mas. vi. 396. — Sw. Obs. 80.— , 

 Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 348 ; Cat. Pi. Cub. 139.— H. Lamk. Diet. ii. 388 ; Suppl. ii. 580 (part) ; lU. 

 'RTif.Bull.8oc.Unn.Far.20i:.—'WM.v.Eep.yi.Z5. t. 159.— G.ERTN. Fruot. i. 129, t. 26.— DC. 



3 Gen. ii. 107, n. 218. ' Prodr. iv. 465.— Endl. Gen. n. 3207.— B. H. 

 ■* Apparently rather a section of Machaonia, Gen. ii. 105, ii. 209. — Merrera Adans, Fam. del 



inflorescence very poor. PI. ii. 158 (not Pav.). 



