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• 6S. Canthium Lamk,^— Flowers hermaphrodite or more rarely 

 1-sexual ; receptacle obovoid, obconical or hemispherical. Calyx 

 superior gamophyllous, entire, dentate or lobed, often deciduous. 

 Corolla tubular, funnel-shaped or hypocrateriform, subcampanulate or 

 urceolarj tube sometimes elongate (Gyclophyllum"), rarely more or 

 less carved (Aiicylanthus ') ; lobes of limb 4, 5, more rarely 3, 6, or 

 more, valvate, sometimes thick pointed hard {Guviera *) ; throat gla- 

 brous or oftener more or less densely pilose ; hairs generally collected 

 in a dense ring at various parts of the tube, deflexed. Stamens equal 

 in number to lobes of corolla, inserted in throat or mouth, more rarely 

 in tube of corolla ; filaments generally short ; anthers introrse, 2- 

 rimose, apiculate ; connective thick (often dark) ; cells generally free 

 below. Germen 2-celled, or more rarely 3-oo-celled (Pyrostria,^ 

 Fadogia,^ Vangueria,'' Guviera, Peponidium,^ Glusiophyllea *) ; cells 

 1-ovulate. Ovule generally descending; raphe dorsal; micropyle 

 introrsely superior; hilum more or less thickened on both sides; '" or 

 rarely subascending or ascending; micropyle extrorsely inferior 

 {Psydracium ''). Disk various, often thick ; style erect, simple, some- 

 times bent, at stigmatose apex generally mitre-shaped, above conical 



Trap. Afr. iii. 12o.'-Chapm. M. S. Unit. St. * DO. Ann. Mus. ix. 222, t. 16 ; Prodr. iv. 



178.— H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 238.— Waip. Rep. 468.— EiCH. Eub. 130.— y. Mim. Mus. vi. 396.— 



ii. 486, 487 {Stenostomum, Saeeonia, lEupyre^a), Endl. Gen. n. 3215. — B. H. Gen.ii. 112, u. 131. 



942 {Chomelia) ; vi. 49 ; Ann. ii. 756 (Chomelia), — H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 193. 



764, 765 {Timoniw); v. 113 (Guettardella). Of * Oommers. J. Gen. 206 ; Mgm. Mus. vi. 397. 



tMa genus also, in our opinion (see Bull. iSoc. — Lamk. 111. t, 68. — Rich. JRub. 136. — DO. 



Lifin. Par. 200), is Abbottiasitiff'ularisF.Mvmjh. Frodr. iv. 464.— Endl. Gen. n. 3204.— B.H.. 



(Jro^m.P%«. ^K«<™i. ix. 181) very near Tmo- Qen. ii. Ill, n. 130. — H. Bn. Admsonia, xii. 



«i«s whose stamens are not monadelplious and 189, 195. — Bakek, Tl. Maiurit. 148. 



the putamens are very similarly described as ' Schweinp. Mel. Xotsehs. 47, t. 32. — B. H. 



Gen. ii. Ill, n. 229.— H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 192. 



' Diet. i. 602 (1783) ; III. t. 146.— J. Gen. —Lagynias E. Met. ex Sond. Fl. Cap. 14, n. 4. 



204; M4m. Mm. yi.ZiO.—(jc2E.B.TS.v.Fruct. iii. — H. Bn. loc. cit. l%\.—PachysUgma Eoohst. 



93, t. 196.— EiCH. Bub. 107 (part).— DC. Frodr. Flora (1842), 234 (part). 



iv. 473.— Endl. Gen. d. 3175.— H. Bn. Adauso- ' Commers. J. Qen. 206.— J. Mem. Mus. vi. 



nia, xii. 179.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iu. \%\.—F^ydrax 396.— Lamk. III. t. 159.— PoiR. Diet. viii. 331. 



GiERTN. Fniet. i. 125, t. 26.— Rich. Fvh. 110. — — 6/Ertn. p. Fruct. iii. 75,^ t. 193.— Rich. F,ub. 



DC. Frodr. iv. i16.—Dondisia DC. Frodr. iv. 137. -DC. Prodr. iv. 454.— Endl. Gen. n. 3191. 



469.— End^. Gen. n. SiU.—Phallaria Sohum. — B. H. Gen. ii. Ill, u. 228.— H. Bn. Adansonia, 



etTHON. Beslcr.lU.—Mitrastigma'B.iLVCv.Boolc. xii. 189, 191.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iu. 136.— Van- 



Land. Journ. i. 20. — Pleetronia DC. Prodr. iv. guie/ra Fees. Synops. i. 205. — Vamnga EoHU, 



475.— B. H. Gen. ii. 110, u. 227 (not L. nor Act.Soc.Hafn.'a..20%,i.1.—Meyi,iaJji^-s..Jarb. 



iouR.). iii. 32.— Sytigynia Bl. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 178. 



''Hook. p. Icon. t. 1158; Gen. ii. 1229, n, s h. Bn. ^i«3««o«i«, xii. 196. 



237 o.— H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 183. ° H. Bn. loe. cit. 197. 



' Desp. if^jB. Mus. iv. 5, t. 2.— Rich. Sab. " The origin of a slender aril. 



129.— DO. Frodr. iv. 468.— B. H. Gen. ii. 112, " H. Bn. Adansonia, 199. Type of sect, ia 



n. 232. Psydrax major A. Rich. (Bub. 111). 



