470 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



opposite, sometimes pungent (Isidorea), petiolate ; stipules inter- or 

 intrapetiolar, oftener acute ; flowers terminal or axillary, solitary or 

 cynjose few. (Both trop. Americas.) — See p. 331. 



145. Bikkia Reinw.' — Flowers (nearly of Portlandia) 4, 5-merous; 

 receptacle subeampanulate or longer or shorter obconical. Calyx 

 lobes equal or unequal. Corolla clavate or funnel-shaped-campanu- 

 late, 4, 5-gonal ; lobes 3-angular, reduplicate-valvate.^ Stamens as 

 many, inserted at bottom of corolla; anthers elongate basifixed, 

 enclosed or exserted. Germen 4, 5-angular, 2-celled; disk epigynous 

 oftener lobed ; style slender, often contorted above, at apex stigmatose 

 obtuse clavate or 2-lobed. Ovules in complete or incomplete cells oo, 

 inserted externally or internally and externally on short or elongate 

 revolute laminae of placentas, 2- oo-seriate, ascending. Fruit capsular 

 obovoid or clavate, septicidal ; exocarp ' separable from endocarp ; 

 putamens horny or parchment-like, finally 2-partible. Seeds c», 

 compressed or alate at margin; embryo rather large albuminous. 

 Other characters of Portlandia. — Glabrous shrubs or small trees; 

 leaves opposite, petiolate, obovate or oblong-lanceolate coriaceous ; 

 nerves remote or indistinct ; stipules intrapetiolar connate with petioles 

 in a sheath ; flowers * axillary or terminal, solitary or few cymose. 

 {Trop. and suhtrop. Oceania.^) 



146. Morierina ViEiLL.* — Flowers (nearly oi Bikkia) 5-merous;. 

 calycinal teeth acute remote. Corolla long tubuiar-funnel-shaped 

 coriaceous ; lobes of limb elongate, valvate, recurved or revolute. 

 Stamens inserted at bottom of tube ; filaments free except quite at 

 base ; anthers subbasifixed very long exserted. Germen 2-celled ; 

 disk thick conical obtuse-lobed rather fleshy ; style slender subentire, 

 attenuate at base, contorted above exserted, at apex very shortly 

 2-dentate. Ovules in cells oo, inserted on 2-lamellate placentaSj 2- 



1 Bl. Bijdr. 1017. — DO. Mem. 0ml. 10 ; Prodr. exterior memtrane of the pericarp for carpels; 



iv. 405. — Rich. Euh. IbO, — ^Endl. Gen. n. 3257. his description of the inferior germen is hence 



— B. H. Gen, ii. 46, n. 52. — Curmigonua Rafin. incongruous. 



Ann. G4n. So. Phys. vi. 83. — Bikkionsis Br. et * Large, showy, white, yellow or pink. 



Gr. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xii. 404 ; Ann. So. Nat. « Spec, about 10. Torst. Frodr. n. 86 {Fort- 



ser. 6, vi. 25i.—Tatea Sjiem. Fl. Vit.l'2.5.—Qrisia landia).—W. Spec. i. 935 (Fortlandia). —SrsxNB. 



Ad. Br. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xii. 405; Ann. Sc. Si/st. i. 416 (Sofmannia) .—Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. 



Nat. eer. 5, vi. 255 ; xiii. 400 ; Nouv. Arch. Mus. ii. 156.- A. Gray, Proe. Amer. Acad. iv. 307. 

 iv. 38, t. 15. 5 Bull. Soc. Linn. Normand. (186S).— B. H. 



^ Sinuses sometimes projecting. Gen. ii. 47, u. 53, 



^ DccHARTKE {Elem. ed. 2, 673) mistook the 



