452 NATURAL HISTOBY OF' PLANTS. 



calyx subequally-fid. Corolla funnel-shaped ; lobes 5, valvate. 

 Stamens inserted at pubescent throat ; anthers sessile enclosed. 

 Grermen 2-6-celled; cells oo - ovulate ; disk tubular; style branches 

 2-5, linear. Fruit fleshy or coriaceous-membranous, 2- 5-celled ; 

 seeds oo, smooth, sometirnes immersed in pulp ; embryo subclavate 

 albuminous and other characters of Sahicea. — Tomentose or sericeous 

 shrubs ; leaves shortly petiolate opposite elongate, co-nerved, whitish 

 or fulvous beneath ; stipules interpetiolar developed ; flowers axillary 

 glomerulate, involucrate with membranous bracts drawn together in 

 a campanulate involucre. {Ttop. west. Africa.^) 



113. Schizostigma Arn.^ — Flowers oftener 5-merous ; receptacle 

 subspherical or obovoid. Calyx lobes foliaceous unequal lanceolate, 

 sometimes long- petiolate (Pentaloncha '), or some shorter unequal 

 subulate or sublanceolate ; others dilated foliaceous venose petiolate 

 (Temnopterix ''), T^ersistent. Corolla tubular or funnel-shaped-hypo- 

 crateriform ; lobes of limb 5, valvate ; throat pubescent or rigidly 

 barbate {Temnopterix) ; tube sometimes surrounded below middle by 

 a barbate ring (Pentaloncha) . Stamens 5, inserted at middle or top 

 of tube ; filaments short or subnil ; anthers dorsifixed, linear-oblong, 

 iiitrorse, 2-rimose. Disk epigynous annular, sometimes depressed or 

 hemispherical. Germen 5-celled (or rarely 2-7-celled) ; style slender, 

 divided above into as many linear obtuse stigmatose branches. Ovules 

 aj , inserted on more or less tumid placentas affixed to axis of germen 

 and shortly stipitate. Fruit subspherical or ovoid, fleshy or coriaceous. 

 Seeds oc, small, externally reticulate, foveolate or mucilaginous; 

 albumen fleshy oily; embryo small subclavate. — Glabrous, fuscate- 

 sericeous or hirsute herbs, sometimes decumbent ; leaves opposite, 

 oblong, lanceolate or obovate, petiolate ; stipules interpetiolar, some- 

 times broad, entire or lacerate {Te.mnopteryx), sometimes chartaceous 

 {Pentaloncha), often persistent; flowers^ axillary cymose or glome- 

 rulate, few or crowded. {Ceylon, trop. loest. Africa.^) 



114. Urophyllum Jack.'' — Flowers hermaphrodite or 1-sexual; 



» Spec. 3. HiEKN, F/. Tr p. Afr. iii. 79. « Spec. 3. Bebd. lam. PI. Lid. Or. i. t. 95.— 



- A„n. Sat. Hiil. iii. iO (not DC.).— Exdl. Thtw R.uw, PI. Zeyl 132.— HiBas, Ft. Tioj,. 



C!ei: n. 3224'.— B. H. Gm. ii. 72, n. 122.— 4/r. iii. 78 (Temnapteryx), 79 {Pentaloncha).— 



lIooK. FL lud. iii. 100. Wali-. R/p.-\i. 50. 



^ Hook. f. Gen. ii. 73, n. 124. '' Ex Wall. Roxl. FL Ind. (ed. Car.) ii. 184. 



•■ Hook. f. Gen. ii, 72, n. 123. —Rich. Rub. 212.— DC. Prodr. iv. 441.— Endl. 



° Km I her large or sometimes {reiiialoiieha) tfe/i. n. 3227. — B. H. G««. ii. 71, n. 120. — Axnu- 



smiiM. tins Bl. BJih: 1002.— DC. Prodi: iv. 440.— 



