4.48 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



elongate to stigmatose apex, straight or curved, 2-dentate. Ovules 

 in cells oo, sometimes few,^ descending from placenta, sometimes 

 2-seriate. Fruit ovoid or globose (small), baccate coriaceous ; seeds 

 compressed or angular ; testa often granular ; albumen fleshy ; embryo 

 small. — Glabrous spinous shrubs ; branches spinescent rigid terete or 

 sometimes (Phyllacantha) straight, vertically compressed, 3-angular ; " 

 leaves opposite small, very small or (Phyllacantha) ; stipules inter- 

 petiolar minute, deciduous ; flowers ' axillary sohtary, pedunculate,, 

 erect or oftener pendulous.* (Antilles J) 



107. Gonzalagunia R. and Pav.* — Flowers hermaphrodite or 

 polygamous, 2-morphous ; receptacle campanulate or subglobose. 

 Teeth of often short calyx 4, 6, equal or unequal. Tube of funnel- 

 shaped or hypocrateriform corolla short or long ; throat constricted 

 or dilated, pubescent or villose ; lobes of limb 4, 5, variously imbricate, 

 sometimes valvate at base, finally open. Stamens 4, 5, inserted in 

 tube or throat ; filaments short ; anthers dorsifixed ; cells free at base, 

 introrsely rimose. Germen 2-4-celled ; cells complete or incomplete ; 

 disk more or less elevated, often crenate; style slender, at apex 

 stigmatose enclosed or exserted, 2-4-lobed. Ovules oo, inserted on 

 axile peltate placenta. Fruit fleshy or coriaceous subglobose ; ' cells 

 or pyrenes 2-4, oo-spermous. Seeds small, variously foveolate or 

 reticulate; embryo short richly albuminous. — Small trees, shrubs or 

 herbs, erect or twining, glabrous or variously clothed ; leaves opposite 

 entire or subcrenulate ; stipules interpetiolar ; flowers ® in terminal, 

 simple or ramose, generally elongate spikes or racemes ; pedicels 

 bracteolate.' (Trop. N. and S. America.^") 



108. Isertia Schkeb." — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle sub- 



1 To 8 in C. parvijlora. i^at. ii. 279 (not Pohl) ; Icon. vi. (1801), 50, 



2 As in some CoUetias. t. 571 (1801). 



' Large or very small, white. ' Sometimes finally septioidal. 



* Flowers as regards perianth like those of ' Small ; colour various. 



Chiococea, as also oo-ovulate germen. ' A genus, except in hahit, agreeing pretty 



s Spec. 6, 7. Lamk. III. t. 67.— Poik. Diet. closely with iserW« and separated only on arti- 



Suppl. vii. 10 (Sc'/fo«a"<*«s). — Y Am., Eel. Amcr. ficial grounds; for the smaller flower is some- 



t. 10.— Gkiseb. M. Brit. W.-Ind. 317 ; Gat. PI. times almost quite the same. 



Cub. 122.— LiNBL. Bot. Reg. t. 858.— Sims, Bot. '» Spec. 10-12. Pav. Suppl. Quiml. 84, t. 1, 



Mag. t. 131. f- a.— H. B. PI. jEquin. t. 64 {Buma).—Ji. B. K. 



6 Prodr. 12, t. 3 ; Fl. Per. et Chil. i. 56, t. 86 Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. 406 {Coccocypaelum). — 



nT^i).—Gonmlea Pehs. Synopa.i. 132 (1805). Gbisee. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 321 {Gomaka).— 



—J. Mem. Mm. vi. 400.— EiCH. Rub. 166. — DC. Walp. Rep. ii. 490 ; vi. 53 {Gonzalea). 



Prodr. iv. 436.— Ei^dl. Gen. n. 3236. B. H. " Gen. 234.— G^rtn. f. Friiet. iii. 60, t. 191. 



Gen. ii. 65 u. W2.— Bmna OKy. Anal. Cienc. — J. Jlfe';n. jlf««. vi. 399.— Eicn. iJiti. 166,t. 11, 



