BUBIAOEM. 447 



intervening, solitary or 2-nate (stipules ?), sometimes glandular. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped or subcampanulate ; tube short ; throat gla- 

 brous ; lobes of limb generally attenuate at margin (Euosmia), 

 imbricate, sometimes costate at back. Stamens as many alternate, 

 inserted in mouth or throat of corolla, sometimes near base of tube ; 

 filaments short, often complanate ; anthers dorsifixed oblong introrse, 

 2-rimose. Germen 2, 3-celled ' ; disk epigynous annular or pulvinate ; 

 style slender" more or less dilated above; lobes stigmatose short or 

 more or less connate, sometimes scarcely distinct. Ovules in cells oo, 

 inserted on rather prominent sometimes 2-lobed placentas. Fruit 

 obovoid or oblong, fleshy or sometimes dry coriaceous (Xerococcus), 

 costate or sulcate, 2-4-celled; seeds crowded, sometimes angular, 

 reticulate or foveolate ; albumen fleshy ; embryo small straight, some- 

 times clavate. — Shrubs, undershrubs or herbs, sometimes pseudo- 

 ' ■pa,Ta,Bitical(Xerococcus,Ophryococcus), glabrous or villose (Ophryococcus) ; 

 leaves opposite or more rarely verticillate, ovate or oblong lanceolate, 

 membranous ; petiole various, sometimes elongate ; stipules intra- 

 petiolar, often small or caducous or deciduous ; flowers ^ in terminal 

 cymes, sometimes axillary, or long and slenderly stipitate (^Euosmia), 

 or subsessile; cymes contracted -many-flowered {Xerococcus) or few- 

 flowered (Ophryococcus) ; peduncle sometimes short subfleshy (Xero- 

 coccus) ; bracts small or 0, sometimes (Xerococcus) with subconcrete 

 flowers,' (Trop. N. and S. America.*) 



106. Cateslbsea L.^ — Flowers (small) 4-merous ; receptacle ob- 

 conical or subcampanulate, sometimes 4-gonal. Lobes of cupular 

 calyx 4, subulate, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped or cylindrico- 

 campanulate ; tube sometimes 4-gonal, short or rather long ; throat 

 glabrous ; lobes of limb 4, short,, imbricate.*. Stamens 4, inserted at 

 base of corolla ; filaments short or rather long ; anthers small narrow 

 or rather large (Phyllacantha''), introrse. Germen 2-celled; cells 

 complete or incomplete; disk epigynous annular; style slender 



' Sometimes " 4-ceUed " in Buoamia. 5383 {Higginaia). — Waip. Rep. ii. 513 ; Ann. v. 



2 Small, white, yellow or red or purplish, 133 {Stgginaia, Xerococoua), 134 {Ophryococeus). 



sometimes sweet-scented. ° 6-en. n. 130. — J. Gen. 199 ; Mim. Mas. vi. 



' of this genus is certainly Emamia aggregata 393. — Gjebtn. f. Fruct. iii. 67, t. 192. — Rich. 



Sprekq. whose inflorescence is few-flowered. Huh. 176. — DO. Prodr. iv. 400. — Bndl. Gen. u. 



* Spec, about 25. Link, Kl. et On. Ic. PI. t. 3286.— B. H. Gen. ii. 78, n. 140. 



23 {Higgimia). — H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. * Margin sometimes obliquely cut and sud- 



418 (Evosmia). — Gtriseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Itid. 321. — denly attenuate, not truly valvate. 



Hemsl. i)%«.P/.iVo».Jlfea;.30.— HEB.Sbrt.Jr. ' Hook.j.'. Gct. ii.78,n. 141 ; loon.t. 1095.— 



(1863) t. 8 {Siggimia).—Bot. Mag. t. 5280, 5346, H. Bn. Bui'. Soc. Linn. Pdr. 182. 



