BUBIACE^. 455 



aJbuminons. — Thick glabrous shrubs ; ' leaves opposite petiolate, 

 elliptico-oblong coriaceous thick ; stipules intrapetiolar oblong, connate 

 in a deciduous sheath ; flowers ^ in contracted compound capituliform 

 terminal thick-pedunculate cymes ; bracts thick connate under inflo- 

 rescence in a dilated or small involucre.^ (Trap. America;* " Gorgona 

 is.") 



118. Lucinsea DC.^ — Flowers (nearly of Schradeva) spuriously 

 capitate; calyx entire, sometimes very short. Corolla funnel-shaped, 

 barbate at throat ; lobes of limb 4, 5, thick-3-gonal, valvate. Stamens 

 4, 5, enclosed; filaments short; anthers dorsifixed, obtuse or 2-dentate 

 at apex ; cells introrsely rimose, free at base. Germen 2-celled ; 

 style branches 2, stigmatose ; disk epigynous thick ; ovules oo, inserted 

 on subpeltate ovate placenta. Fruit baccate ; seeds oo, smooth, 

 albuminous. — Glabrous erect or climbing shrubs ; * leaves opposite 

 petiolate oblong coriaceous ; stipules interpetiolar short or intrapetiolar 

 oblong connate ; flowers' in compound contracted capituliform axillary 

 and terminal, solitary or umbellate cymes.' {Ind. Archip^) 



119. Leucocodon Gardn.'" — Flowers spuriously capitate (nearly 

 of Schradera), 5-merous; calyx gamophyllous tubular, irregularly, 

 fissous above, persistent. Lobes of funnel-shaped corolla 5, valvate, 

 indupHcate ; throat glabrous. Germen 2-celled ; disk orbicular ; 

 branches of slender style 2 obtuse, stigmatose within and at revolute 

 margins. Ovules oo, inserted on subpeltate placenta. Fruit "baccate " 

 oblong. Seeds oo, compressed or occasionally concave, albuminous. 

 — A climbing epiphytal radicant shrub; leaves opposite oblong 

 petiolate; stipules intrapetiolar oblong large, connate at base, 2- 

 dentate ; flowers " in contracted capituliform terminal cymes ; bracts 



' "Sutepiphytal(pseudoparasitio);" branches " Prodr. iv. 368.— B. p. Geii. ii. 67, n. lO".— 



radicant fragile, nigrescent on the decay of the Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 93.— X«cj««fa Endl. Gen. n. 



entire plant. 3283. 



2 " White," small. " Nigrescent on decay. 



3 Is UnexHopsia (Karst. Fl. Colomb. i. 181, t. ] White, moderate. 



90.— B.H. Oen. ii. 67, n. 106), a Venezuelan » Inflorescence and hahit of M,rMa, but 



shrub, vinknown to us, with "habit of J/ocH/^^ff," flowers free as in Appuiiia and ovules oo. A 



globose capituliform long pedunculate inflo- genus also very near Schradera. 



rescence; germen 2-celled; fruit unknown, a ' Spec. 2, 3. Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. ii. 197; 



sect, of this genus ? Suppl. 217, 540 ; Aitn. Mas. Lugd.-Bat. iv. 187. 



* Spec. 3, i. Besth. Sulph. Bot. 106, t. 40.— '" Cale. Jouni. A'lit. HUt. vii. 5.— B. Ii. Gen. 



Gkisbb. Fl. Slit. JV.-Iiid. 319; Cut. Fl. Cub. ii. 67, u. Iu8.— Hook. Fi. Iiid. iii. 93. 



123.— Walp. Hep. vi. 51. '' Small, while. 



