.•4^8 NATURAL BISTORT OF PLANTS. 



stigmatose. Ovules oo, inserted on an oblong placenta affixed to 

 septum and very shortly stipitate. Fruit baccate or drupaceous, with 

 thin putamen, elongate,' sometimes shortly dehiscent at apex. Seeds 

 OD , small, compressed or angular . sometimes subulate, foveolate or 

 smooth, albuminous. — Small trees or shrubs, glabrous or puberulous ; 

 leaves opposite petiolate coriaceous ; stipules intrapetiolar short 

 connate with petioles ; flowers ^ in axillary compound-ramose cymes, 

 sometimes few or solitary.^ (Sandwich is.^) 



124. Myrioneuron R. Br.* — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle 

 subovoid. Calyx lobes 5, elongate-subulate rigid, erect or finally open, 

 persistent. Throat of tubular corolla (shorter than calyx) villose ; 

 lobes of limb 5, valvate, erect, externally hispidulous. Stamens 5, 

 inserted in tube ; filaments short ; anthers dorsifixed narrow obtuse 

 introrse enclosed. Germen 2-celled ; disk depressed snborbicular ; 

 branches of short style 2, stigmatose, oblong, coherent. Ovules oo, 

 inserted on a thickish-placenta affixed to septum. Fruit baccate or 

 dry coriaceous, crowned with calyx ; cocci 2, finally dehiscing inwards. 

 Seeds oc, angular foveolate albuminous; embryo subclavate. ■ — 

 Shrublets; "bark spongy;" leaves opposite wide petiolate highly 

 nervose and venose; stipules interpetiolar elongate; flowers^ in 

 terminal or axillary drooping more or less capituliform cymes ; bracts 

 crowded lanceolate rigid. (India, " Borneo." *) 



125. Payera H. Bn.' — Flowers (nearly ^of Myrioneuron) oftener 

 5-merous ; receptacle oblong. Lobes of calyx 6, large foliaceous, 

 persistent, imbricate ? Lobes of tubular corolla 5, valvate. Stamens 

 5, enclosed. Germen 2-celled ; branches of slender style 2 stigmatose 

 filiform, not dilated. Ovules oo, inserted on a very shortly stipitate 

 and ascending placenta affixed to septum. Fruit dry (?) coriaceous; 

 seeds oo, ascending compressed subulate, imbricate;^ albumen . . . ? — 

 A glabrous glaucescent shrub (?) ; leaves opposite large, lanceolate 



1 Small or moderate. ' Wnll. Cat. n. 6225. — Endl. Gen. 566 (otsery. 



2 A genus very near Oldenlandia sect. Kadtia, on " genera little known "). — B. H. Oen. ii. 69, 

 slightly differing in fruit being not or scarcely n. 113. 



dehiscent. Perhaps of a different genus is (B. * White ; fruit white. 



H. luc. cit. 78) G. Eomaiizoffiana, flowers solitary, ^ Spec. 6, 6. Kukz, For. Fl. Brit. Barm. ii. 



berry large. 5i. v 



3 Spec. 4, 5 ? Hook, and Akx. Beech. Voy. Bot. ? Bull. Soe. Linn. Par. 178. 

 64 {Petesia). — Wawk. Flora (1875), 274, 294. ** Immature nigrescent. 



