BUBIACE^. 431 



panulate ; tliToat pubescent or villosulous ; lobes of limb 4, 5, closely- 

 contorted. Stamens 4, 5, inserted in mouth of corolla ; filaments 

 short; anthers introrse dorsifixed acuminate, 2-rimose, exserted. 

 Germen 2-celled ; disk annular or depressed ; style short thick fusi- 

 form, produced to 8-10 narrow Yertical wings ; as many longitudinal 

 furrows ; ' branches 2, solute or coalite. Ovules in cells solitary, 

 descending ; hilum more or less dilated fleshy ; micropyle introrsely 

 superior (sometimes a lateral mass added less than the ovule,^ 

 descending). Fruit small subspherical or short-ovoid, coriaceous- 

 fleshy, 2-celled. Seeds in cells 1, " 2," descending, arillate above ; 

 albumen ruminate ;' radicle of oblique embryo lateral. — Small glabrous 

 trees; leaves opposite petiolate, elliptical or lanceolate; stipules 

 intrapetiolar, 3-angular acute, persistent ; flowers in axillary or lateral 

 compound cymes; branches short or sometimes elongate slender 

 {Ehabdostigma ■*), bracteolate.' (Trop. east. Asia, Travancore.^) 



76. Alberta E. Mey.' — Flowers 5-merous ; receptacle obconical 

 or turbinate, 10-costate or smooth. Calyx 5-sepalous ; folioles 

 unequal; 1-4 accrescent, in fruit membranous venose.' Corolla 

 elongate ; tube straight or slightly curved ; throat bare ; lobes short 

 acute contorted. Stamens 5, inserted in tube ; anthers subsessile 

 enclosed elongate dorsifixed, acuminate at apex, introrsely 2-rimose. 

 Germen inferior, 2-celled ; disk epigynous thick or depressed ; style 

 slender exserted, at apex fusiform long-pointed, straight or curved. 

 Ovules in cells solitary, descending, attenuate below, above thickened 

 to a flat aril (?). Fruit conformed to receptacle, 10-costate, crowned 

 with sepals, coriaceous, indehiscent ; seeds 1, 2, thinly albuminous ; 

 cotyledons of terete embryo small ; radicle superior. — Trees or shrubs; 

 leaves opposite ; stipules intrapetiolar broad, deciduous ; flowers in 

 very compound-ramose cymiferous terminal racemes. (South. Africa^ 

 Madagascar.^) 



' By impression of the anthers. ' Zinnaa, xii. 258. — Endl. Gen. n. 3327 ; 



2 A sterile ovule ? Suppl. i. 1394, n. 13131.— B. h. Gen. ii. 109, n. 



3 Ohserved in one (African) species. 225. 



* Hook. p. Qen. ii."109, u. 224. . ' Coloured. 



*A genus apparently very near to ffi/po- 9 gpee. 2. Habt. and Sond. i^^. Cap. iii. 16. — ■ 



bathrum. Harv. Thes. Cap. t. 45.— H. Bn. Adamonia, 



' Spec. 3, 4. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 365 [Pouehe- xii. 247. Sepals in a species from Madagascar 



tia). — ^HiEEN, Fl. Trop. Afr, ii. 114, 130 {Rhai- generally suhequal. 



no). — Walp. Bep. vi. 43. , ■ 



