EUBIACE^. 473 



{Stevmsia ') 6-8-merous; receptacle subglobose.or more rarely obovoid. 

 Calyx lobes lanceolate or linear acute, equal or unequal, persistent ; 

 denticules (stipules ?) sometimes interposed. Corolla funnel-shaped 

 or hypocrateriform ; tube generally elongate slender ; throat glabrous 

 or variously villose, often thickened to a more or less prominent 

 glandular ring; lobes of limb obovate-obtuse, imbricate, patent. 

 Stamens equal in number to lobes, inserted in throat ; filaments short 

 or very short ; anthers enclosed oblong dorsifixed, introrsely 2-rimose. 

 <jermen 2-celled ; disk epigynous thick annular or depressed conical ; 

 lobes of slender style 2, stigmatose, short, linear or elliptical, patulous. 

 Ovules in cells oo, inserted on thick sometimes globose short-stipitate 

 placentas affixed to septum. Fruit capsular various, oblong or globose, 

 coriaceous or chartaceous, loculicidal; valves S-partible. Seeds oc, 

 minute, various in form, angular, subcubical or sometimes compressed, 

 marginately vfinged or fusiform ; coat produced both ways to a point ; 

 embryo small albuminous. — Trees or shrubs, glabrous pubescent or 

 white-arachnoid-villosulous (Arachnothryx ^) ; leaves opposite or rarely 

 verticillate, sessile or petiolate, membranous or coriaceous ; stipules 

 interpetiolar, simple or 2-nate (Eogiera^), sometimes, minutely glan- 

 duliferous, deciduous or persistent ; flowers*. in compound racemose or 

 corymbiform, axillary or rarely terminal cymes. (Both trop. Americas.^) 



151 ? Siiachicallis DC* — Flowers oi Rondeletia, A-merons ; tube 

 of receptacle short. Lobes of persistent calyx 4, elongate ; minute 

 denticules interposed. Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube straight or 

 sUghtly curved; throat glabrous; lobes of limb 4, thick, imbricate- 

 Stamens 4, enclosed ; filaments short inserted in throat ; anthers 

 dorsifixed oblong. Germen adnate to receptacle below, above free, 



Lakk. III. t. 16.'. — GiEttTN. F. Fruct. iii. 38, t. ^ pi,. pi_ ^g Serves, v. sub t. 442. 



184.— EioH. Sub. 190.— DO. Frodi-. iv. 406 ' Pl. foe. cit. t. 442. 



(part). — ^Enol. Gen. n. 3254. — B. H. Gen. ii. ■• Moderate, showy, white, pink, yellow, 



224, 1228, n.. 68.^ — Petesia P. Bn. Jam. 143, t. 2, coocineous or red, sometimes odorous. 



3 (part). — DC. Prodr. iv. 395. — Lightfootia ^ Spec, ahout 50. 3 iLCQ,.Amer. t. i1. — Vahi, 



ScHREB. Qen. 122 (not Lher.). — Willdenowia Sijwb. n\. t. 6i. — 'K.B.'K. Nov.Geti. et,Sp.m..t. 



Gmel. Syst. ii. 362 (not Cat. nor Thunb).— 290, 291.— Gtriseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. .'(25 ; (Jat. 



AracAnimorpha Desvx. Sam. Prodr. 28. PI- Guh. 127. — Hemsl. Blag. PI. Mex. 25.— Kst. 



• .' VoiT. Ann. Mus. iv. 235, t. 60 (not Neck.).— Fl. Gol. t. 96.— Lindl. Bat. Reg. t. 1905.— Jo<. 



iJjSRTN.r. Fruct. iii. t. 97. -DC Prodr. iv. 349. Mag. t. 3953, 3977, 4579, 5669, 6290.— Walp. 



—fiicH.JjM4. 205.— ENDL.(?«».n. 3279.— TuKP. iJf/j. ii. 505, 943 ; vi, 59 ; ^im. i. 377 ; v. 117. 



Diet. So. Nat. Atl. t. IOI.-Gbiseb. Fl. Brit. ' Prodr. iv. 434, n. 2 (excl. 1, 3).--B. H. G««. 



W.-Ind. 328. ii. 49, u. 59. 



