474 NATVBAL HISTOBY OF PLANTS. 



2-celled ; disk epigynous thin, white-sericeous ; style branches 2, 

 stigmatose, recurved rather obtuse. Ovules oo, or few, inserted on a 

 saucer-shaped placenta peltately affixed to septum. Capsule oblong, 

 semi-superior, septicidal. Seeds oo, angular foveolate, albuminous (?). 

 — ^A low ramose hoary shrublet;* leaves opposite (small), rather fleshy, 

 imbricately compacted ; stipules connate with petioles in a coriaceous 

 sheath ciliate above ; flowers ^ axillary solitary subsessile, partly 

 immerged in sheath; bracts 2, lateral, similar to laciniae of calyx.' 

 (Antilles.*) 



162. Bathysa Presl.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous ; 

 receptacle obovoid. Calyx short cupular, 4, 6-dentate, persistent or 

 deciduous. Tube of funnel-shaped corolla short; throat villose; lobes 

 4, 5, oblong, imbricate. Stamens as many, inserted at mouth of 

 corolla ; filaments subulate elongate, glabrous ( Voightia ®) or barbate 

 (Schoenleinia '') ; anthers short dorsifixed exserted, introrsely 2-rimose ; 

 connective sometimes thickened at back. Germen inferior 2-celled ; 

 disk epigynous annular or 2-lobed ; style thick, attenuate to base ; 

 branches 2 short stigmatose. Ovules oo, inserted on a placenta adnate 

 to septum. Fruit capsular (small) obovoid-truncate, septicidal from 

 apex ; valves 2-fid above. Seeds oo, inserted on placentas finally free, 

 small compressed or angular reticulate, sometimes narrow marginate ; 

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

 oftener tomentose ; * leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate or lanceolate ; 

 stipules interpetiolar various, deciduous ; flowers ' sessile or very 

 shortly pedicellate in the brachiate branches of a compound terminal 

 raceme, solitary or glomerulate. (Brazil.^") 



153. Wendlandia Bartl." — Flowers ^^ hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamous (nearly of Rondehtia) ; receptacle small subglobose. Calyx 



' Habit of Passerina. " Kl. loe. cU. 



" Small, yellow, sericeous. ' Leaves, calyx, bracts and fruit clothed with 



' Perhaps, from its singular habit and germen same tomentum. 

 not quite inferior, better a sect, of Rondelelia, ' Small, not handsome. 



by the intervention of B. phyllanthoides Griseb. "> Spec. 5,6. &..S.-H.. Pl.TIs. Bras. t. 3, A, B 



in which the fruit is quite inferior and seeds [Exoatema). — Vell. Fl. Flum. 63, Atl. ii. t. 17 



pointed and winged on both sides ? (Coffea). — Rich. Rub. 200, 201 {Maeroenemum). — 



■• Spec. 1. R.rapestiis'DC. — Gkiseb. Fl.Biit. 'WAhF.Rep.vi.59,69{Voiffktia),70{Seh<BnUinia). 

 W.-Ind. 3S0.—Sedyotis rupeatris Sw. Piodr. 29. " Ex DC. Prodr. iv. 411 (par^ not W.).— 



— H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. 391. — S. ammi- Endl. Gm. n. 3252. — B. H. Gen. ii. 60, n. 62.— 



eana Jacq. Amer. 20. Hook. PI. Ind. iii. 37. — Rhombospora Mw. PI. 



' Bot. Bern. 84.— B. H. Gen. ii. 49, n. 60. Ind.-Bat. ii. 34S.— ««««»«« Boiss. et Hohew, 



' Kl. Sayn. Arzn. xiv. sub t. 15 (not Roth. Xotsch. PI. Exs. n. 671. 

 nor Spbeng.). " Often 2-morphous. 



