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free, small or developed, oftener in 1-4 calycules, superposed, entire 

 or dentate, connate in pairs under germen of flower,' {Trop. Africa, 

 Asia and Oceania.^) 



99. Burchellia R. Br.* — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle tur- 

 binate. Calyx deeply 6-lobed, persistent ; lobes subulate subequal. 

 Corolla tubular ; lobes 5, acute oblique, contorted ; tube annular 

 short pilose within ; throat pilose. Stamens 5, inserted at middle of 

 tube; filaments short subulate; anthers elongate subbasifixed, un- 

 guiculate at apex, introrsely 2-rimose. Oermen 2-celled; disk 

 epigynous rather thick ; styles thickened at middle, minutely denti- 

 culate stigmatose at apex. Ovules oo , inserted on thick subpeltate 

 placenta. Fruit fleshy, crowned with somewhat accrete calyx ; seeds 

 00 , compressed-angular ; albumen densely fleshy ; cotyledons of axile 

 embryo complanate ; radicle long terete. — A small tree or shrub ; 

 leaves opposite oblong obtuse coriaceous penninerved, shortly petio- 

 late ; stipules interpetiolar pointed ; flowers * in contracted terminal 

 capituliform cymes. (South. Africa.^) 



100 ? Flageniuin H. Bn.* — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 oblong. Calyx deeply 5-lobed; lobes linear-subulate, persistent (?). 

 Corolla^ funnel-shaped (?) ; lobes 6, closely contorted. Stamens 6, 

 inserted in corolla. Germen 2-celled ; style . . . ? Ovules in cells 

 few (oo ), inserted on small axile ellipsoid placenta ; the upper 

 ascending; the lower descending,' anatropous. Fruit fleshy (?), 

 " glabrous, oblong, crowned with calyx and rather longer than it." — 



' A genus in some respects allied to the smaU- ^ Bot. Eeg. t. 466, 891. — Eioh. Sub. 180.— 



flowered Gmipas, Chapeliera, Fetimga, &o. in TiC. Prodr. iv. 368.— Endl. (?eM. n. 3315.— B. 



others to Galiniera, by the intervention of H. Gen. ii. 85, n. 158. — Bubalina Rapin. Ann. 



Nargedia; the l-ovnlate species in particular G4n. Phys. vi. 86. — Canephora Lamk. (part, 



scarcely distinguishable from Coffea. not J.) . 

 ' 2 Spec, about 45. Hakt. and Sond. Fl. Cap. " Coooineous or golden, 



iii. 22 {Krauasia), 23 {BxmburycC^. — WiQ..M. Ind.- ' Spec. 1. £, bubalina Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2339. 



Sat. ii. 236, 237 (JDiphtpora) ; 304 {Coffea, part). — B. capensis R. Br.— Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. 



— Bbnth. Fl. Austral, iii. 413 (Diplospora) ; Fl. iii. 3. — B.parviflora Lindl. Bot. Beg.t. 891. — 



Hotigk. 167 {Diplospora). — Bedd. le. SI. Iiid. i. B. Kraussii Hoohst. Flora (1842), IZt.—Loni- 



t. 40 (Discospermum) ; Fl. Sylv. t. cxxxiv. 3 (Ds- cera bubalina L.f. Suppl. 146. — Thtjnb. Fl. Cap. 



plospora). — Thw. Fnum. Fl, Zeyl. 158 {Disco- 1S\.— Canephora eapitata Lahk. III. t. 161, fig. 



spermum). — Kdrz, For. Fl. Brit. Burm. ii. 50. — 2. —Cephcelis bubalina Pees. Syn. i. 202, n. 12. 

 HiEBN, Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 114 {Frnpogoncl), 115 ^ Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 216. 



{Ferelid), 117.— H. Bn. Adansmia, xii. 225.— ' Adult unknown. 



'9Ta:s.nep.Ti.b\^(Syptianthera\b1h{Krausaia); 'One often quickly surpassing the rest, 



vi. 38 [Bunburya), 47 {Kraussia), 701 {Hypti- ascending or descending ; micropyle constantly 



anthera); Ann. i. 757 {Kraussia, Diplospora), contiguous to placenta. 

 796 {Discospermum) ; v. 132 {Rosea). 



