BUBIACE^. 475 



lobes 4, 6, equal or unequal, elongate or subulate. Tube of funnel- 

 shaped or hypocrateriform corolla narrow, sparsely pilose within, short 

 or long ; throat glabrous or pilose ; lobes of limb 4, 5, oblong obtuse, 

 imbricate, or rarely contorted, finally open. Stamens 6, inserted in 

 throat ; filaments long short or subnil ; anthers small dorsifixed 

 versatile, introrsely riniose, enclosed or exserted. Germen 2-celled ; ' 

 style slender, dilated at stigmatose apex, ovoid or subpiriform, sub- 

 entire, 2-dentate or 2-lobed. Ovules oo, inserted on subglobose placenta 

 affixed to septum. Fruit capsular subglobose, loculicidal or septicidal. 

 Seeds oo, compressed reticulate, albuminous, sometimes narrow- winged. 

 Other characters of Rondektia,^ — Small trees or shrubs ; leaves oppo- 

 site or 3-nate, petiolate or sessile, ovate or oblong ; stipules inter- or 

 intrapetiolar, entire, sometimes foliaceous, or 2-lobed, deciduous or 

 persistent ; flowers ' in terminal very ramose glomeruliferous racemes, 

 1-3-bracteolate. {Warm Asia^) 



154 ? Chalepophyllum Hook, p.' — Flowers 5-merous ; receptacle 

 long-obovoid. Calyx lobes 5, unequal oMong-subspathulate obtuse 

 . coriaceous, persistent. Throat of funnel-shaped corolla villose; lobes 

 of limb 5, oblong obtuse, attenuate at margin, imbricate or contorted(?). 

 Stamens inserted in throat ; filaments subulate ; anthers linear-acute, 

 dorsifixed at base, enclosed ; connective thickened at back. Germen 

 2-celled ; disk epigynous thick ; branches of slender style 2, short 

 stigmatose. Ovules oo, inserted on placentas adnate to middle of 

 septum. Fruit " capsular, crowned with calyx, crustaceous, septici- 

 dally 2-valvate. Seeds oo, angular rather compressed subalate reti- 

 culate ;" embryo , . , ? — ^A rigid shrublet; ramules puberulous, resinous 

 at apex ; leaves opposite, petiolate elliptico-obovate coriaceous fuscate 

 tomentellose beneath, nervate and thickly reticulate ; stipules inter- 

 petiolar short, persistent ; flowers axillary sohtary ; peduncle short, 

 2-bracteolate.'' {Guiana.''^ 

 155. Augusta Pohl.* — Flowers 5-merous; receptacle longer or 



' Earely 3-celled. Bnum. PI. Zeyl. 159.— Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. 10.— 



' To wiich very near. Walp. Rep. ii. 504 ; vi. 58. 



' Small, yellow, white or pink. * Icon. t. 1148.— B. H. Qen. ii. oO, u. 63. 



* Specabout 12. BoxB. il. Ind. ii. 133, 140, « A genus apparently very near Sondihtia, 



Ul, 142 {Eondektia).—^!.. J3.ijdi: 974 (Mmdele- dififering chiefly in habit. 

 tia) — Pqn, Trodr. Fl. Nepal. 138 {BondeUtia).^ ~' Spec. 1, C. guimense Hook. r. he. cit. 



WiOHT and Ahn. PraAr. i. 402.— Wight, loon. » Pl. Sras. Icon. ii. 1, 1. 101-106 (not Leand.). 



1. 1033.— MiQ. i?i. Ind.-Bat. ii. 167, 345 ; Ana. — B. H. Gm. ii. 61, n. &%.—AvgmtealiC.Prodr, 



M«s.I,iigd.-Bat.'\\,%-2X.—'B^j)Ta.Fl.Syh>.i.i'>A, iv. Mi.-^Schreibersia Pohl, Flora (1826), 183 



cxxx.— KuRZ, For. Fl. Brit. Burm. ii. 7?.— Tkw. (not SchreHm-a Retz.).— Endl. 6en. n. 3269. 



