SUBIACE^. 483 



throat dilated ; lobes of limb ovate, induplicate-valvate ; pubescent 

 within, furnished externally under apex with a longer or shorter 

 clavate appendage,' finally open. Stamens inserted in throat, sessile; 

 anthers elongate exserted ; cells introrse, free at base. Germen 2- 

 celled ; disk very thin ; style slender, at apex stigmatose OYoid 

 subclavate. Ovules oo, inserted on an axile placenta, ascending, 

 imbricate. Fruit capsular ^ oblong compressed, loculicidal. Seeds oo, 

 ascending, imbricate, dilated at margin to an oblong wing, entire 

 ovate above, 2-lobed below ; albumen . . . ? — A glabrous tree ; bark 

 bitter ; leaves (persistent) opposite, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate ; 

 stipules elongate, caducous ; flowers ^ in a 3-chotomous ramose com- 

 pound cymiferous raceme; " pedicels ebracteolate." {Angola}) 



169. Danais Commres.^ — Flowers dioecious or polygamous; recep- 

 tacle subglobose (in male flower smaller). Calyx lobes 4, 5, acute 

 or subulate, persistent. Corolla hypocrateriform or funnel-shaped ; 

 lobes 4, 5, valvate; throat villose. Stamens 4, 5, 2-form; filaments 

 inserted in throat, in male flower long slender exserted ; in female 

 short or ; anthers ' dorsifixed (in female flower sterile) introrse, 

 versatile, 2-rimose. G-ermen 2-celled; disk annular; style slender, 

 in male flower shorter enclosed; branches 2, slender bare ; in female 

 flower far exserted ; branches long, apex stigmatose terminating in a 

 cone. Ovules oo (in male flower small sterile or 0), inserted on a 

 peltate subglobose placenta. Fruit capsular (small) sub-2-dymous 

 or globose, crowned with calyx, loculicidally 2-valved. Seeds co, 

 small, imbricate, dilated at margin into a suborbicular wing ; embryo 

 small albuminous.— Shrubs generally climbing, glabrous or puberu- 

 lous ; leaves opposite or 3-nate, coriaceous, petiolate ; stipules inter- 



' petiolar, 3-angular-acute ; flowers' in axillary corymbiform cymes; 

 bracts small or 0; bracteoles 0. {East. trop. African is J) 



170. Manettia Mut.*— Flowers hermaphrodite or rarely polyga- 

 mous ; receptacle obconical or obovoid. Calyx lobes 4, or more rarely 



' Sometimes (as in Nauclea) deciduous, or 0. 3267.— J. de Cordbm. Adansonia, x. 356.— B. H. 



2 SmaU, coriaceous. Gen. ii. 36, i.. 21.— Baker, Fl. Maurit. 137. 



' Small, whitisli. ' ' Small, yellowish, odorous. 



* C. paniculctta Welw, loc. «•«.— Hiekn, Fl. ' Spec. 6, 7. Lamk. III. t. 166, fig. 2 {Fade- 



Trop. Afr. iii. 43. >•«()— Baker, Fl. Maur. 137.— Balf. p. Journ. 



' Ex Vent. Tabl. ii. 584.— Gjertn. p. Fruct. Linn. Soc. xvi. 13 ; Bol. Rodrig. 44. 



iii. 83, t. 195.— J. Mim. Mas. vi. 386.— EiCH. » MuT. L. Mantiss. 658 (1767).— DC. Prodr. 



:Hub.Wi.—T)C.Frodr. vi. 361.— Eudl. Gen. u. ir. 362.— Endu Gen. n. 3,266. -B.H. Gen. li. 



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