488 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



imbricate, long caudate at both ends, albuminous."— Shrubs ; leaves 

 opposite, petiolate, elongate membranous ; stipules interpetiolar, wide 

 subfoliaceous, deciduous ; flowers terminal and axillary, shortly 

 stipitate, 2, 3 cymose, or solitary. (Feejee is.') 



178. Coptosapelta Koeth.^ — Flowers 5-merous; receptacle short 

 ovoid or obconical. Calyx short, 5-lobed, persistent. Corolla hypo- 

 crateriform coriaceous, sericeo-tomentose without; tube terete or 

 obtusely 6-gonal; throat villose; lobes of liinb elongate, closely 

 contorted. Stamens 5, inserted in throat or mouth ; filaments short ; 

 anthers subbasifixed elongate, sometimes contorted or flexuose, inserted 

 to base ; cells linear, free at base, introrsely rimose ; connective hnear, 

 pilose at back. Germen 2-celled ; disk small depressed ; style erect 

 long fusiform, sulcate and angular, exserted. Ovules oo, ascending, 

 inserted on a placenta adnate to septum. Fruit capsular short sub- 

 globose, crowned with calyx, locuhcidal. Seeds oo, imbricate peltate, 

 dilated at margins to a membranous unequally dentate wing ; radicle 

 of albuminous embryo inferior. — Climbing sericeous or tomentose 

 shrubs ; leaves ^ opposite, petiolate ; stipules interpetiolar, 3-angular, 

 deciduous; flowers* in terminal compound racemose drooping cymes; 

 pedicels short, 2-bracteolate.^ (Ind. Archip.^) 



179. Crossopteryx Fenzl.'^ — ^Flowers 4-6-merous ; receptacle 

 obovoid or subspherical. Calyx short, deciduous ; lobes 4-6, obtuse. 

 Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube rather short ; throat glabrous ; lobes 

 of limb 4-6, obtuse, contorted, open. Stamens as many, inserted in 

 mouth ; filaments short ; anthers dorsifixed oblong or sublanceolate 

 apiculate, introrse ; cells 2, sometimes pointed below free. Germen 

 2-celled; disk annular; style slender exserted, at apex obovoid or 

 shortly clavate, 2-lobed, stigmatose. Ovules oo, inserted on a short 

 subglobose or obovoid placenta peltately affixed to septum very shortly 

 stipitate, more or less imbedded in hollows. Fruit capsular subglobose, 

 areolate at apex, loculicidal ; valves 2, very concave, internally sep- 

 tiferous at middle, 2-partible. Seeds oo, oftener few, inserted on a 

 thick rather prominent placenta, orbicular peltate, expanded at margia 



' Spec. 2, 3. Seem. Fl. Vit. 121, t. 24. ' A genus -very near Crossopteryx, at same 



' Ned. Kruidk. Arch. ii. 112. — Hook. p. Icon. time somewhat resembling Corynanthe. 



t. 1089 ; Gen. ii. 35, n. 18.— H. Bn. Bull. Soc. e gpec. about i. Mia. Jl. Ind.-Bat. ii. 135.— 



liwi. Par. 181.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 34. "Walp. Ann. ii. 779. 



^ Sometimes yellow. 7 Nov. St. Mus. Yindob. Dec. 46, n. 51.— Bkdl. 



'' Moderate, " white." Gen. n. 3279. 



