472 NATURAL EISTORY OF PLANTS. 



elongate, poricidal or shortly rimose, enclosed or exserted. Germen 

 2 -celled ; disk thick entire or obtusely lobed ; lobes of rather thick 

 elavate obtuse style stigmatose very short or scarcely perceptible. 

 Ovules 00, inserted oo-seriately on longitudinal placentas, minute. 

 Fruit capsular, elavate or oblong-obovoid, loculicidal. Seeds oo, 

 crowded subhorizontal (very small), compressed or margmate ; embiyo 

 small albuminous.- — Glabrous trees ; leaves opposite lanceolate cori- 

 aceous, petiolate ; stipules intrapetiolar (large) oblong or sublanceolate, 

 caducous; "axils glandulous ; " flowers' in terminal compound- 

 racemose cymes, bracteolate. (Trop. America.^) 



149. Pinckneya L.-C. Rich.^ — Flowers 5-merous; receptacle 

 turbinate. Calyx short; lobes or teeth 5, very dissimilar ; the smaller 

 3, 4, sometimes scarcely visible ; the larger 1, 2 (rarely 3) produced 

 to a coloured foliaceous petiolate lamina. Corolla tubular elongate, 

 pilose or villose within, sometimes glabrous below (Pogonopus*); lobes 

 of limb 5, short, valvate, recurved, glabrous within (Pogonopus) or 

 tomentose. Stamens 5 ; filaments inserted at middle (Pogonopus) or 

 base of tube ; anthers oblong introrse, exserted, versatile. Germen 

 2-celled ; disk epigynous rather thick ; branches of slender exserted 

 style 2, linear oblong, obtuse or very short. Ovules oo, inserted on 

 2-lamellate placentas. Fruit capsular obovoid, subglobose (Pogonopus) 

 or obcordate-sub-2-dymous (Eupinckneija) , loculicidally 2-valved ; 

 valves 2-partible. Seeds oo, small compressed or subcuneate ; testa 

 rather thick sometimes loosely reticulate, spongy dilated ; cotyledons 

 of longish embryo elliptico-ovate ; radicle rather obtuse. — Small trees 

 or shrubs, glabrous or tomentose {Eupinckneija) ; leaves opposite 

 (large), petiolate, membranous ; stipules interpetiolar pointed deci- 

 duous or caducous ; flowers * in terminal and axillary compound 



-corymbiform cymes, bracteolate. (North, and trop. America.^) 



150. Rondeletia Plum,'' — -Flowers 4, 5-merous or more rarely 



• Eather large, showy (often somewhat re- Wedd. Ann. So. Nat. ser. 4, i. 60, 1. 10. — Chry- 

 eemhling those of the Cinchonas). aoxylun Wedd. Hist. Nat. Quijiq. 100. 



2 Spec. 5, 6. Walp. Sep. ^ri. 68. s Corollas pint, purple-spotted, showy ; sepals 



3 Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. i. 103, 1. 13. — G^ktn'. pink foliaceous. 



r. JVkci;. iii. 80, t. 194.— Rich. iJwi. 197.— B. H. « Spec. 5, 6. Kl. loc. eit. (1859) t. 2 (ifo- 



Q$n. ii. 47, 1228, ii. 54. — Pinknea Verb. Si/tiops. wardia j.—(Ek.bt:. Amer. Gentr. t. 13.— Chapm. 



i. 197.— P«ifo«ei/« DC. Frodi: iv. 366.— Esdl. Fl. S. Unit. St. 179.— Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5110 



Gen. n. 3264. (Iloicaidia). — W^alp. Ann. v. 124 (Pogonopve), 



* Kl. Mon. Akad. Wiss. Berl. (1853) 600.— 129 (Eomrdia). 



B. H. Gtn. ii. 47, 1228, xi. 55. — Uaivardia t Gen. 15, t. 12.— L. Gen. n. 224 (part).— 



