446 NATURAL HISTOET OF PLANTS. 



conical or tumid ; style narrowly fusiform to apex, sometimes sulcata 

 contorted ; stigmatiferous lobes 2-6, often very short. Ovules oo , 

 inserted on slightly prominent axile placenta. Fruit fleshy, crowned 

 with disk and calyx; seeds oo, small angular reticulate; embryo 

 subclavate, richly albuminous. — Glabrous or pubescent shrubs ; leaves 

 opposite or verticillate, petiolate, ovate-oblong membranous ; stipules 

 interpetiolar pointed, deciduous ; flowers ^ in terminal more or less 

 ramose and 1-parous cymes, sometimes sessile ; bracts minute or 0. 

 {JVarm N. and S. America.^) 



104. BothriosporaHooK.F.' — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 obconical. Calyx lobes 4, 5, membranous obtuse, imbricate persistent. 

 Tube of subrotate corolla short; throat villose; lobes of finally 

 patulous limb 4, 5, somewhat unequal, imbricate (1 or 2 exterior). 

 Stamens 4, 5, inserted in throat; filaments slender, pilose at base; 

 anthers dorsifixed oblong, introrse, finally exserted, recurved, 2-rimose. 

 Germen 4, 5 -celled ; disk epigynous annular ; branches of erect style 

 4, 5, linear obtuse stigmatiferous. Ovules in cells oo, inserted on 

 subpeltate axile placenta. Fruit " baccate (small) subglobose succu- 

 lent, 4, 5-celled polyspermous ; seeds minute oblong ; testa foveolate ; 

 albumen fleshy; embryo subcylindrical." — Small trees; "bark 

 deciduous;"* last ramules puberulous ; leaves opposite ovate-oblong 

 petiolate ; stipules intrapetiolar lanceolate, deciduous ; flowers ® in 

 terminal 3-chotomous compound umbelliform cymes.^ (Guiana, north 

 Brazil.'') 



105. HofBnannia Sw.' — Flowers generally 4-merous;® receptacle 

 obovoid or obconical, sometimes costate. Calyx gamophyllous ; lobes 

 short or elongate recurved (Xerococcus) ; sometimes small laciniae 



* Rather large or moderate, light or deep ' Spec. 1. £. corymbosa Hook. p. — £vosmia 

 yellow or rubicund. corymbosa Benth. Hook. Journ. Mot. iii. 219. — 



2 Spec, about 10. Plvm. Gen. 17, t. 33 {Loni- Walp. Sep. ii. 489. 



(!«;«).— R. et Pav. M. Fer. ii. t. 221.— Sm. Exot. ' Prodr. 30 (1788) ; Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 241, t. 5. 



Bot. t. 24.— Lhek. Sert. t. 7.— Salisb. Par. t. — Rich. JJai. 179.— Endl. (r««.n. 3287.— B.H. 



55. — GiiiSEB. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 320.— Ghapm. Gen. ii. 76, n. 135. — Ohigginsia R. et Pav. Fl. 



Fl. S. Unit. St. 178.— Clos, C. Gay Fl. Chil. iii. Fer. i. 65, t. %h.—Sigginsia Peks. Synops. i. 133. 



2f)i{Tepesia).—Bot.Eeg.t.\\96.—Bot.Mag.t. —Fmsmia H. B. PI. .^quin. ii. 165, t. 134 



1894, 2533.— Walp. Sep. vi. 61. (1809).— Rich. Eul. 152.— DO. Prodr. iv. 438. 



3 Icon. t. 1069 ; Gen. ii. 76, n. 136. —Endl. Gen. n. 3222.— B. H. Gen.u. 71, n. 118. 



* Wood " veined." — H. Bn. Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 199.— Camp^lo- 

 ^ White, small ; fruit " yellow.'' botrys Lem. Fl. Serres, iii. Miie. u. 37 ; ». t. 427 ; 



* A genus in some respects very near Sabieea Jard. Flew. i. t. 42. — Xerococcus CEkst. Videnak. 

 and Patima, but corolla imbricate not valvate ; Meddel. Kjob. (1852) 62. — B. H. Gen. ii. 70, n. 

 in other respects near Machaonia, but ovule not 116. — Ophryococcus (Ekst. loc. cit. 70. 

 solitary. ' Rarely S-merous. 



