454 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Fruit baccate, crowned with disk. Seeds oo, small globose, externally 

 foveolate ; albumen fleshy; "embryo small pear-shaped." — Small 

 trees, glabrous ortomentose; leaves opposite oblong petiolate; stipules 

 interpetiolar sub-3-angular acute, caducous ; flowers ' in pedunculate 

 axillary ramose corymbiform cymes.' {Malacca, Java.^) 



116. Lecauanthus Jack.'* — Flowers spuriously capitate; recep- 

 tacle ovoid or obconical; Calyx wide-campanulate gamophyllous very 

 irregular, 2-lipped ; lips subentire or unequally 2, 3-lobed. Tube, of 

 funnel-shaped corolla dilated at base ; throat glabrous or pilose ; 

 lobes of limb 6, thick above, valvate. Stamens 6, inserted at top of 

 tube; filaments short; anthers dorsifixed narrow ; cells introrse, free 

 at base. Germen 2-celled ; disk rather thick ; apex of slender style 

 stigmatose incrassate, 2-lobed. Ovules oo, inserted on thick axile 

 placentas. Fruit "membranous, mucilaginous within, 2-celled; 

 placentas many-seeded throughout. Seeds obovoid-wedgelike, obtusely 

 angular ; testa rather thick smooth ; albumen fleshy ; embryo small 

 clavate, 2-fid." — Glabrous climbing shrubs ; leaves opposite, petiolate, 

 lanceolate-acuminate ; stipules rather large connate in pairs; flowers' 

 compound-glomerulate in spurious axillary pedunculate or sessile 

 drooping capitules ; involucre " monophyllous." [Ind. Archip.^) 



117. Schradera Vahl.'— Flowers spuriously capitate; receptacle 

 obconical or hemispherical. Calyx short-tubular entire truncate. 

 Tube of hypocrateriform thickly coriaceous corolla more or less elon- 

 gate; throat villose ; lobes of limb 4-10, valvate, incurved at apex, 

 often finally open. Stamens 4-10, inserted in throat; filaments short 

 or subnil ; anthers linear dorsifixed, enclosed or exserted ; cells 

 introrsely rimose, sometimes free at base. Germen 2-4-celled; disk 

 thick; branches of more or less thickened style 2-4, stigmatose 

 connivent. Ovules oo, inserted on thick placenta affixed to axis 

 within. Fruit baccate fusiform, 2-4-celled. Seeds oo, small granular. 



> Small, " ebracteate." « Spec. 2, 3. Mia. Ji. /«rf.-.B«i!. ii. 153, 199 ; 



= A genus very near Urophyllum. Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iv. 132. 



» Spec. 2, 3. 7 Ed. Amer. i. 3.3, t. 5.— Eioh. Suh. 149.— 



* Malay. Misc. ii. n. vii. 83.— "Wall. Moxb. Fl. DC. Prodr. iv. 443 — Endl. Gen. n. 3230.— B. 



Ind. (ed. Cah.) ii. 319.— EiCH. Rub. 213.— H. (?«. ii. 66, n. 104.— i^acAsis Sw. P;o*-. 62 ; 



Endl. Gen. n. 3323.— B. H. Gen. ii. 73, n. 127. Fl. Ind. Ocr. 674 (not Ij.).~Urceolaria Coth 



—Hook. Fl. Ind. iii, 100. Msp. Veg. 10 (ex W. Spec. ii. 238). 



'' " Pale reddish." 



