462 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Olclenlandia), 4-merous ; calyx lobes pointed or lanceolate, persistent. 

 Lobes of shortly funnel-shaped corolla 4, valvate. Stamens 4, inserted 

 in throat ; filaments short ; anthers oblong, dorsifixed above base ; 

 cells free at base, introrsely rimose, enclosed or shortly exserted. 

 Germen 2-cened ; disk epigynous 2-lobed ; branches of slender style 

 2. Ovules in cells ex, inserted on a subglobose short or long stipitate, 

 transverse or ascending placenta affixed at middle or base of septum. 

 Fruit' baccate or subdry, sometimes finally 2-partible. Seeds oo, 

 plano-convex ; hilum ventral ; testa smooth or granular ; albumen 

 fleshy ; embryo small, oblique or transverse. ^ — DiflFuse ramose creeping 

 herbs, glabrous or oftener tomentose or villose; leaves opposite; 

 petioles short or elongate ; stipules solitary on both sides ; flowers ^ 

 spuriously capitate at top of axillary peduncle, compound- glomerulate, 

 bracteate. (Trop. America.^) 



132. Synaptantha Hook, f.* — Flowers (nearly of Ohhnlandia) 

 4-merous ; receptacle concave hemispherical. Lobes of marginally 

 inserted calyx 4, linear, persistent. Corolla rotate ; tube very short ; 

 petals ovate-acute, free or scarcely connate at base, valvate. Stamens 

 4, alternipetalous ; filaments subfree, inserted in receptacle, subulate ; 

 anthers ovate dorsifixed introrse, 2-rimose. Germen adnate to 

 receptacle to middle, free above, 2-celled ; style erect, at minute apex 

 eapitately 2-lobed stigmatose. Ovules oo, inserted on subglobose . 

 peltate stipitate placenta affixed to middle of septum. Fruit capsular, 

 free to middle, girt to middle with persistent calyx and corolla, locu- 

 licidally 2-valved. Seeds oo, small angular plano-convex smooth, 

 albuminous ; cotyledons of terete embryo oblong. — Perennial ramose 

 puberulous herbs ; ' leaves opposite linear-oblong ; stipules small, 

 2-dentate, connate with petioles ; flowers ° axillary, solitary, 2-nate 

 or few cymose. (Subirop. Australia.'') 



133. Mitreola L.^ — Flowers (nearly of Oldenlaiidia or HeMstocarpa) 



siliim).—DG. Prodi: iv. 396.— Endi.. Gm. n. ■< /cow. t. 1146.— B. H. (?«». ii. 61, n. 89, 



3291.— B.H. Gen. ii. 73, n. 126.— Sioelivm P. * Habit of " iSaf/t««." 



Br. loc.cit. Hi. — Tontanea Auel. Guian. i. 108, ^ Minute, "reddish-white." 



t. 42. — Bdlardia ScHREji. Gen. iL.172'S. — Conda- ' Spec. 1. S. ti/lcBaeea Hook. f. — Hidyotis 



Ha E.. et Pay. Prodr. 11, t. 2 (notCAv.). — Xi/io- tillceacea F. Muell. Fragm. Thyt. Ausi. iv. 39. 



stoma Don, Ed'm. Phil. Journ. (1830) i. 168. — Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 405, n. 7. 



' Azure or violet. ^ Sort. Cliff. 492; G-w. n. 9S2 (ed. 1737).— 



2 Purple or bluish. R. Br. Findr. Fl. N.-Boll. 450, not.— A. Rich. 



' Spec, about 15. II. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. Mim. Soc. lUsl. Nat. Far. i. t. 3. — Endl. Gen.n. 



403, — Ch. et ScHLCHTL, Liiirxen, iv. 138.— Gms. 3567. — A. DC. Frodr. ix. 8. — Bur. Logan. 60.^- 



Fl. Brit. W.-Iiiil. 322.— Hot. Mi g. t. 2840 (ff«- Benth. Journ. Linn. See. i. 90.— B. H. Gen. ii. 



.di/otis). — Walp. £ep. ii. 516 ; vi. 72. 790, u. b.-Cyncctonum Gmel. Syst 443 (part). 



