RVBIAQE^. 477 



subrotate ; throat villose ; lobes recurved, contorted. Stamens 5, 

 inserted in tube, exserted ; filaments near middle inwardly geniculate- 

 appendiculate and there densely lanuginous ; anthers dorsifixed ovate, 

 introrsely 2-rimose. German inferior, 2-celled, crowned with depressed 

 disk ; style thickened to apex and there divided into 2 short, obtuse 

 stigmatiferous branches. Ovules oo, inserted on a thick subpeltate 

 placenta. Fruit capsular,, loculicidal ; valves finally 2-fid. Seeds oc, 

 inserted on thick foveolate placentas, unequally elongate or angular, 

 compressed ; external coat cellulose subalate ; embryo . . . ? — Lofty 

 glabrous resinous trees ; leaves opposite, petiolate oblong-ovate or 

 subovate, large coriaceous penninerved ; stipules intrapetiolar thick 

 connate or free obtuse ; flowers ' in terminal very ramose compound 

 spikes or racemes, sessile or shortly pedicellate, minutely bracteate. 

 (Peru, N. Granada."^) 



158. Greenea W. and Aen.' — Flowers 4, 6-merous ; receptacle 

 subglobose. Calyx lobes short acute, persistent. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped; tube long, glabrous within ; lobes of limb ovate, contorted. 

 Stamens 4, 5, inserted in throat ; filaments short ; anthers dorsifixed 

 exserted ; cells introrse exserted, free at base and apex. Germen 

 2 celled;* disk thin or 0; branches of slender style 2, stigmatose 

 within, recurved or revolute. Ovules oo, inserted on a hemispherical 

 placenta peltately aflfixed to septum. Fruit capsular subglobose 

 (small), septicidal; valves 2-partible; exocarp separable from endo- 

 carp. Seeds oo, inserted on free placenta, angular or curved rather 

 compressed reticulate, sometimes narrow-winged, albuminous. Gla- 

 brous or pubescent shrubs (sometimes climbing ?) ; leaves opposite 

 or temate, lanceolate, long-petiolate ; stipules interpetiolar various ; 

 flowers' in cymiferous racemes, often 1-lateral subsessile, ebracteolate." 

 {Trop. Asia and Oceania.'') 



159. Deppea Cham, and Schlchtl.^ — Flowers 4-merous ; recep- 

 tacle turbinate. Calyx short, 4-dentate, persistent ; teeth equal or 



' Small, not handsome. ' Spec. 4, 5. Wall. S^ab. Fl. I„d. ii. HO 



' Spec. 2. Walp. Ami. ii. 777. {Rondiletia).—DG. Prodi: iv. 412, n. 13 (Wend- 



' Frodr.i. 403.— Endl. Gen. n. 3251 {Greenia). landia) .—WiavLT:. Icon. t. 1161.— MiQ. Fl. Ind.- 



— B.H. Gen. ii. 61 {Greenia), 1228, n. 67.— Sat. ii. 156 (part) ; Ann. Mm. Lugd.-Bat. iv. 



Hook. Fl. Lid. iii. 41. — Rhombospora KoiiTir. 222 {Ehomhospora).— WAr~v. Rep. ii. 504. 



Ned. Eruidk. Arch. ii. 114. » LimieBtt, v. 167 ; xix. 747.-1)0. Prodr. iv. 



* Rarely 3-ceUed. 618.— Endl. Atakt. 25, t. 24 ; Gen. n. 3136.- 



' Small, white, sericeous. B. H. Gen. ii. 62, n. &%.—Choristes Bbnth. PI. 



' G. Itttifotia Bl. (known to us only from a Hmtiveg. 63. 



very defective specimen)is apparently Guettai da. 



