RUB I ACE ^.. 453 



receptacle subglobose or obconical. . Calyx cupular, 6- or more rarely 



6, 7-deiitate. Corolla short-funnel-shaped, subrotate or suburceolate 



(Pauridiantlia ') ; lobes valvate, 3-angular, generally 5 (more rarely 



6, 7) ; throat villose. Stamens 5-7, inserted in throat ; filaments 



short ; anthers small dorsifixed oblong apiculate, enclosed or more 



rarely exserted (in female flower smaller or sterile). Germen (in 



male flOwer small effete) subinferior ; cells 3-5-7, or more rarely 2 



(Pauridiantha) ; disk epigynous various, oftener tumid, sulcate or 



obtusely lobed ; style erect, sometimes tumid to middle or to base, 



at apex stigmatose more or less dilated, subglobose, ovoid or clavate, 



obtusely or more or less deeply 2-7-lobed. Ovules oo, minute, 



inserted on placentas affixed to axis of ovarium, shortly stipitate, 



sometimes ascending. Fruit small, baccate or coriaceous, 2-7-celled ; 



seeds crowded small subglobose, foveolate or reticulate, richly albu- 



minous.-^Glabrous, tomentose or strigose shrubs ; leaves opposite 



petiolate, elliptico- or oblong-lanceolate, often acuminate'; stipules 



various, intra- or interpetiolar, sometimes large ; flowers^ in axillary 



sessile or pedunculate, many-flowered or sometimes {Pauridiantha) 



l-flowered cymes. {Trop. Asia and Oceania, trap, ivest. Africa, 



Madagascar.^) 



115 ? Aulacodiscus JHook. P.*T-Flowers 1-sexual or polygamous, 

 6-16-merous ; receptacle cupular, Buclosing adnate base of germen. 

 Calyx short truncate, obtusely sinuate or dentate. Petals of short 

 subrotate corolla 6-16, generally subfree, 3-angular, cohering by 

 means of staminal filaments, valvate ; apex inflexed. Stamens as 

 many alternate; filaments snbperigynous, much incurved in bud, 

 subfree ; anthers short dorsifixed, introrsely 2-rimose (in female flower 

 sterile very small or 0). Germen great part inferior, crowned with 

 thick superior prominently 6-10-lobed disk, 6-16-celled (in female 

 flower small, sterile) ; style inserted at bottom of disk cavity and 

 subenclosed, broad-obconical, at apex widely peltat3-6-16-lobed. 

 Ovules 00, minute, inserted on rather prominent thick axile placentas. 



Endl. ffefl.n. 3226.— fTff/WcA/aEEiNW. exBL. (.■hant/ies).—ma. Fl. Ind.-Bnt. ii. 222, SSo ; 



Jfora (1825), 107 (not DC.).— Hook. J/. /-/<?. iii. Suppl. i. 219, 542.— Bedd. Fl. Silv. t. 16, v.; 



^7.^? AxantAopsis Kouth. Ned. Kruidlc. Arch. cxxxi.— Thw. Emm. PI. Zeyl. 139 {Axaiithts). 



ii. 195 (ex 'Mi<i.).—Cymdoi,ema Pkebl, Epimel. — Kurz, For. Fl. Brit. Surm. ii. 52.— Hiehn, 



210. Fl. Trop. Jfr. iii. 71 {i'auridlmthn), 72.— 



' Hook. f. G«i. ii. 69, D. 114. Walp. Ami. i. 375 {A.m,.thes) ; ii. 767 {Axa: - 



■ f-'mall or very small. thnpfii). 



3 Spec, about 30. Wight, Icon. t. 1163-1163 ■> Gen. ii. 71, n. llO.-HoOK. Fl. Ii'd. in. 'J7. 



