SUB FACE JE. 459 



(pale), petiolate ; stipules interpetiolar large foliaceous; flowers 

 cymose, very shortly pedicellate ; cymes contracted terminal at top of 

 axillary ramule bearing in the middle a few leaves or 2 pairs of 

 stipuliform bracts ; involucre under flowers rather large consisting of 

 3 pairs of- bracts ; the 2 lower, smaller ; the 2 intermediate, larger 

 foliaceous; the 2 upper, shorter subcoloured." (Madagascar.^) 



126 ? Gonianera Korth/—" Flowers 6-merous ; lobes of 5- 

 partite calyx ovate acute, open. Corolla tube short ; limb 5-partite, 

 valvate. Stamens 5, inserted in corolla tube; filaments short; 

 anthers linear connivent acute, exserted. Germen elongate angular ; 

 disk . . . ? ; style terete, clavate stigmatose above ; ovules oo, inserted 

 on cylindrical placentas affixed to septum by means of a lamina. 

 Berry 2-celled ; seeds oo, small compressed. — A small tree ; leaves 

 opposite elliptical, long-petiolate ; stipules sheathing ; flowers axillary 

 bracteate." (Sumatra.'') 



127 PLasiostoma Benth.' — Flowers 4-merous ; "receptacle 

 urceolate. Calyx entire, persistent. Tube of funnel-shaped corolla 

 short ; throat hispid with membranous scales ; lobes of limb 4, at 

 base scaly within, valvate. Stamens 4, inserted in tube, subenclosed." 

 Grermen inferior, 2-celled; ovules cxj ; disk thick. " Style filiform; 

 stigma clavate." Fruit drupaceous,^ oo-spermous. — Glabrous shrubs;' 

 ramules thick fleshy; leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, oblong or 

 obovate entire coriaceous thick, scarcely nervate ; stipules short 

 sheathing, finally breaking vanishing ; "flowers in nodelike axillary 

 sessile capitules; germens merged with bracts within capitule." * 

 (New Ireland, Nexo Guinea.^) 



128 ? Praravinia Korth." — Flowers polygamous or monoecious ; 

 receptacle subcampanulate. Calyx 4-6-partite ; folioles widely ovate 



1 A genua imperfectly known,, apparently i> Baccate according to distinguished authors ; 



very near Myrioneuron ; flowers nearly of Pen- but we have seen the putamen rather hard and 



ianisia, but cells oo-ovolate. tolerably distinct within pericarp, thin maybe. 



^ Spec. 1. P. conapieua H. Bn. ? With habit of some species of Loranthus or 



^ Ned. Kruidk. Arch. ii. 183.— B.H. Qen.ii. 



75, n. \Zl.— ? Gardeniopsis MiQ. Ann. Mus. s A very doubtful genus ; specimens in Kew 



Lugd.-Bat. iv. 250, 262 (ex Miq.). Herbarium destitute of flowers and otherwise 



■I Spec. 1. G. glxuca Komn. — Mm. Fl. Ind.- very imperfect. 



£at. ii. 200. ' Spec. 2. Walp. Sep. ii. 94i ; vi. 75. 



^ Hook. Land. Journ. Hot. ii.22'i.— B.H. Gen. ^o Fei-handl. Nat. Gcscliied. (1839-42) 189, t. 



ii. 74, n. 130. 41.— B. H. Geu, ii. 75, ji. 133. 



