438 NATURAL HISTOBY OF PLANTS. 



2, 3-nis, shortly pedunculate, free bracteolate.' (Mount. India, China, 

 Japan?) 



69. Mitchella L.'— Flowers* of Damnacanthus, 4, 5-merous (or 

 more rarely 3-6-merous), 2-nate at top of axillary or terminal peduncle 

 and connate with germens (receptacles). Germen 4-celled ; style 

 branches same in number; ovules in cell solitary descending sub- 

 orthotropous ; micropyle introrsely subapical. Fruit externally fleshy,' 

 consisting of two 4-pyrenous drupes ; pyrenes hence 8, rather thick, 

 1-spermous; radicle of richly albuminous embryo inferior. Other 

 characters of Damnacanthus.^— Cte&gmg herbs or undershrubs ; leaves 

 (small) opposite, ovate or suborbicular ; petiole short ; stipules small 

 interpetiolar. {N. America, Japan.^) 



70. Bichilanthe Thw.' — Flowers 5-merous ; receptacle oblong, 

 often curved. Calyx gamophyllous ; lobes 6, sometimes unequal, 

 elongate-acuminate rigid, entire or denticulate; minute denticules 

 sometimes interposed. Corolla irregular, 2-labiate, valvate ; throat 

 villose. Stamens 5, inserted in throat, enclosed ; anthers oblong, 

 ■obtuse at produced base, pointed at apex. Germen 2-celled ; disk 

 epigynous thick, sometimes crenate ; style exserted, incrassate to apex ; 

 at top of apex stigmatose, 2-lobed. Ovules in cells 1, descending, 

 cylindroidal. Fruit " crowned with unequal calyx coriaceous, gibbous 

 at back; seeds elongate cylindroid albuminous;" embryo...? — 

 Rigid resinous trees ; leaves opposite coriaceous acuminate reticulate- 

 veined ; stipules intrapetiolar connate ; flowers in a spurious capitule, 

 glomerate sessile free; "resinous fructiferous calyces rather promi- 

 nent rigid." {Ceylon, Borneo.^) 



71. Salzmannia DC — Flowers oftener hermaphrodite, 4-merous; 



' To be reduced perhaps to a seet. of Mitchella, ' Spec. 2. Lodd. £ot. Cab. t. 979. — A. Gray, 



as Lonicera with 2 connate flowers to congene- Man. (ed. 2) 172. — Chapm. Fl. S. Unit. St. 176. 



ric species with free germens Authors have • — Walp. Ann. i. 985. 

 noted the affinity with .4 Mtto«per»m»». ' Sook. Kew Journ. viii. 279, 376, t. 8 A 



2 Spec. 2. VfALP. ^n». i. 984. (Caprifoliacea) \ lEnum. PI. Zeyl. 136. — B.H. 



' Gm. 11. 134.— J. Gen. 205 ; Mim. Mm. vi. Gen. ii. 103, n. 204.— Bedd. M. Sylv. t. 15, iv. ; 



373. — Lamk. III. t. 63. — GiKKTif. p. Frtiet. iii.t. cxxxiv. S. — Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 128. 

 192.— Rich. JjMi. 140.— DC. Prodr. iv. 452.— "Spec. 2: one J), arhorea Thw. : the other 



Endl. Ben. n. 3188. — B. H. Qen. ii. 137, n. 296. hitherto apparently undescrihed, viz. J), borne- 



— S..^fi. Adani>onia, xii. 321. — Chameedaphne «««« (Bbcc. exs. n. 3431). 

 Mitch. Gen. 17 (not Buxb.). » Prodr. iv. 617.— Endl. Gen. n. 3143.— B. 



* White, odorous, small. H. Gen. ii. 106, n. 213. 



' " Coccineous." 



