BUBIACJE^. 463 



obconical, costate. Lobes of persistent calyx 4, 5, obtuse. Lobes of 

 tubular funnel-shaped corolla 4, 5, valvate, sometimes induplicate ; 

 throat glabrous or pilose. Stamens 4, 5, inserted in tube and enclosed. 

 Germen 2-celled ; disk epigynous tumid, 2-4-lobed ; style slender, at 

 apex stigmatose capitately 2-lobed. Ovules in cells (complete or 

 incomplete) cx>, inserted on an ascending stipitate placenta. Fruit 

 capsular, cylindrical or obovoid, loculicidal; valves sometimes 2- 

 partible. Seeds oo, angular reticulate ; embryo small, rich in albumen. 

 — Annual herbs, glabrous or pubescent; leaves opposite,' lanceolate 

 membranous ; stipules subulate, solitary on both sides ; flowers ^ in 

 racemiform axillary or terminal long-pedunculate cymes, 1 -lateral. 

 [Java, trop. south. Asia.^) 



137. Lerchea L.* — Flowers (nearly of Oldenlandia) 4, 5-merous ; 

 receptacle subglobose or obconical. Calycinal teeth or lobes erect, 

 persistent. Corolla tubular-funnel-shaped; tube sometimes rather 

 short ; throat barbate or glabrous (Xanthophytum ') ; lobes valvatej 

 open. Stamens 4, 5, inserted at various height in throat or tube of 

 corolla, enclosed ; anthers dorsifixed enclosed, sometimes at apex peni- 

 cillate ; cells free at base or also at apex.® Germen 2-celled ; disk 

 tumid, cylindrical or obconical; lobes of short style 2, stigmatose thick 

 (Xanthophytum) or more rarely linear-siibulate papillose throughout. 

 Ovules in cells oo, inserted or a subglobose placenta affixed more or 

 less widely to septum. Fruit globose or sub-2-dymous, separable into 

 2 crustaceous or coriaceous cocci. Seeds oo, small angular; testa 

 reticulate, punctate or foveolate; embryo small albuminous. — -Shrublets 

 or undershrubs, or red-sericeous ; leaves opposite, petiolate ovately or 

 oblong-lanceolate membranous ; stipules interpetiolar, persistent ; 

 flowers ' cymose, shortly pedicellate or glomerulate ; cymes either 

 axillary to leaves sessile or pedunculate (Xanthophytum), or axillary 

 to bracts of an elongate filiform axillar or oftener terminal ramule, 

 bracteolate. (Java, Borneo, Feejee is.^) 



' Or spuriously vertieillate. Bartl. mss. (ex DC). 



° Minute, white or yellow. ■ ' Connective sometimes dilated to a small 



' Spec. 2. MiQ. Fl. Ivd.-Bat. ii. 160. otlong-spathulate dorsal lamina. 



*Mantisa. 155.— Benn. Horsf. Fl. Jav. Ear. 7 Small or very small. 



98, t. 23.— ENDt. Gen. n. 3251'.— B. H. Oen. ii. » Spec. 5, 6. Bl. Bijdr. 958 (Ghiocoeea).— DC. 



«3, n. 1%—Codaria L. msa. Frodr. iv. 436, n. 10 {Metabolos).—Mi(i. Fl. Ind.- 



» Eeinw. M. Bijdr. 989.— EiCH. Eub. 195.— Bat. ii. 175 {Xanthophytum), 176 ; Suppl. 216 ; 



pC. Prodi: iv. 413.— B. H. Gen, ii. 63, n. 73.— Ann. Mm. Lugd.-Bat. iv. 128, 223.— A. Gbat, 



MetaboloB DC. (part, not Bi,.). -^ Sckrocoecot Proc. Amer. Jcad.iv. Sl\. 



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