444 NATUBAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



A shrub with virgate velvety stem ; leaves shortly petiolate, oblong- 

 laoceolate acuminate, pale villose beneath; stipules lanceolate-subulate 

 undivided, connate with petioles at dilated base ; flowers in contracted 

 axillary 2-parous cymes, often 3-nate, sometimes more numerous ; ' 

 bracteoles conformed to stipules.^ (Madagascar.^) 



101. Scyphiphora G^rtn. f.* — Flowers hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamous ; receptacle tubular, obconical at base. Calyx short, inserted 

 at top of tube, gamophyllous, unequally dentate or truncate, near 

 anthesis generally dividing longitudinally, persistent. Corolla hypo- 

 crateriform ; tube cylindrical ; lobes of limb 4, 5, contorted, presently 

 open-recurved. Stamens 4, 5, inserted in throat of scantily pilose 

 corolla; filaments short ; anthers dorsifixed at middle; cells 2, introrse, 

 apiculate to produced connective, free below, pointed, longitudinally 

 rimose (in female flower sometimes effiete or 0). Germen inferior, 

 2-celled, crowned with epigynous orbicular or lobed disk ; style erect, 

 2-ramose towards apex; branches linear-subulate papillose. Ovules 

 in cells 2, 3, of which 1, 2, upper generally ascending, rarely obliquely 

 descending ; the lower 1 oftener descending ; raphe dorsal ; funicle 

 short thickened above micropyle. Fruit drupaceous oblong, cylindrical- 

 compressed ; flesh scanty ; pyrenes crustaceous, 5-costate. Seeds in 

 each 1-3, sHghtly albuminous ; either a,ll fertile or part sterile ; embryo 

 , of the upper ones oftener erect ; radicle inferior ; of the lower one 

 superior; cotyledons plano-convex fleshy; endocarp transversely 

 thickened between seeds in spurious dissepiments. — ^A glabrous shrub ;^ 

 branches terete nodose, gummy towards apex ; leaves short opposite, 

 petiolate, entire, coriaceous ; flowers ^ in dense axillary short- 

 pedunculate cymes, articulate at base. (Ceylon, Ind. Archip., Australia, 

 N. Caledonia.'') 



' Specific name hence improper. 174. — Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 125. — Bpithinia Jack, 



^ A genus imperfectly known from imperfect Malay. Misc. i. n, v. 12. — Sydrophylax Banks 



flowers and immature fruit, corolla certainly not (ex DC), not L. p. 



valvate (as in Sobicea). ^ Habit and leaves of some Ehizophoracea. 



3 Spec. 1. F. triflorwm H. Bn. — Triosteum * Small, whitisli f 



triflorum Vahl, Symb. iii. 37. — Pom. Diet. viii. ' Spec. 1. 8. hydrophilacea G.EKTN. p. — Bl. 



109, n. 3. — Sabiceaf triflora DC. Prodr. iv. 439, Bijdr. 955. — Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 417. — A. 



n. 6. Ghat, Pi'oc.^mer./icaaf.iv. 307. — '^lo.. Fl. Ind.- 



" Fruct. iii. 91, t. 196.— Eich. Rub. 79.— DC. Bat. u. 238 ; Suppl. 220, 543.— F. Mdell. Frag. 



Prodr. iv. 577. — Endl. Gen. n. 3112. — B. H. ix. 187. — Fpithinia malayana 3 ack. — Giufp. ic. 



Gen. ii. 99, n. 194. — H. Bn. Bull. Soe. Linn. Fur. Fl. As. iv. 478.— Thw. Fnum. Fl. Zeyl. 157. 



