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spurious terminal or oftener axillary umbels (cymes), sometimes in 

 spikelike cymes. (Trop. Asia, Ind. Archip., Guinea.^) 



140. Virecta Sm.' — Flowers 4, 5-merous or more rarely 6, 7- 

 merous ; receptacle ovoid or obconical. Calyx lobes equal or unequal, 

 linear or foliaceous, sometimes subspathulate ; sometimes 1, 2 denti- 

 cules (stipular) interposed. Tube of pilose funnel-shaped corolla 

 elongate or slender ; throat glabrous or villose '' {Pentas *) ; lobes of 

 limb 4-7, oblong, valvate, finally open. Stamens as many inserted 

 at throat ; filaments short or long ; anthers dorsifixed, often versatile 

 oblong ; cells introrsely rimose, sometimes free at base. Germen 2- 

 celled ; disk epigynous, various, simple, entire or lobed, or consisting 

 of 2 free glandules ; branches of slender style stigmatose short obtuse 

 or linear papillose throughout {Pentas). Ovules oo, inserted on rather 

 prominent sessile or stipitate placentas afl&xed to middle of septuln. 

 Fruit capsular, coriaceous or membranous ; exocarp separable from 

 homy endocarp loculicidal; valves 2, either both persistent (Pentas), 

 or one persistent, the other deciduous. Seeds oo, small, angular, often 

 reticulate ; embryo small clavate ; albumen fleshy. — Herbs or under- 

 shrubs, variously pilose ; leaves opposite, petiolate oblong- or ovate- 

 lanceolate ; stipules entire, 2-nate or oftener oo-sect ; flowers ' in 

 terminal corymbiform or umbelliform cymes, bracteate. [Trop. east. 

 and west. Africa, Madagascar.^) 



141? Otomeria Benth.^ — Flowers (nearly of Virecta) 4, 5-merous ; 

 calyx lobes unequal (1, 2 larger foUaceous). Tube of corolla slender 

 elongate, dilated above and there staminiferous ; throat variously 

 villose or with a ring of hairs ; lobes of limb valvate or induplicate. 



'Spec, atout 25. Wight, Icon. t. 1160.— Sort. Calc. Z8i).— riginaMia A. Bica. Fl. Abys'. 



Benn. pi. Jav. Sar. 92, t. 22.— Mia Fl- Ind.-Bal. i. Ul .—Neurocarpcea R. Bu. Salt. Abyss. App. 



ii. 160, 348, t. 61 ; Suppl. i. 215, 639 ; Ann. Mus. iv. 64 (part).— Endl. Gen. n. 3313, a. 



Lugd.-Bat. iv. 228.— Hieen, FL Trop. Afr. iii. > Eather large, showy, white, pink, purplish, 



44.— "Walp. Mep. vi. 72; Ann. ii. 791; v. lilac or yellow. 



132. « Spec, ahout 10. Forsk. Fl. JEff.-Arai. i2 



' Sees Cyclop, ^xxvi. (not L. !■.).- DC. Frodt: {OphiorrUm).—S ixi., Symb. i. 12 [Manettia).— 



iv. 414— Endl. Gen. n. 3247.— B. H. Gen. ii. 55, Kl. Pet. Moss. Bot. 286 {Feutamsia).—Oi.T^ . Tr. 



n. 78.-PA2/«e«OBoirf«* SjieatHm. mss. (ex DC). Linn. Soc. xxix. 82, t. 46 {Pentas) .—Va.ik. (Est. 



» Hairs sometimes rigid, rather prominent in Bot. Zeitsehr. xxv. 232 (Pmtes).- Hiern.J^. 



an erect crown, obUquely striate, ohtuse, col- Trop. Afr. iii. 45 (Pentas), 47.-Lindl. Bot. Reg 



Jeeting the pollen. (I844)t. 32 (P«to).-WALP. Sep. ii. 57 [Pentas), 



<Benth. Bot. Mag. t. 4086 (1844).-B. H. 503; Ann.\i.m{Vignama). 



Ger,. ii. 64, n. 11 .—Orthosiemma-W xLL. (ex VoioT, ' Kiper Fl. 405.-B. H. Gen. n. 65, n, 79. 



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