494 NATUBAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



sometimes clavate, persistent or deciduous. Corolla fumiel-shaped- 

 tubular ; tube slender ; throat glabrous or pilose ; lobes of limb 5, 

 furnished at back sometimes to apex with a bacillar appendage/ val- 

 vate (Mitragijne,^ Adina ^), subvalvate (Micj-adina *) or highly imbricate 

 {Eunauclea, A.dinium^). Stamens inserted at or below throat ; fila- 

 ments long, short or ; anthers oblong, dorsifixed, introrse, oftener 

 muticous, exserted. Germen 2-celled ; disk small annular or cupular, 

 sometimes subnil ; style slender exserted, at stigmatose apex fusiform, 

 clavate, capitate or mitre-shaped. Ovules in cells oo, or few (Adiniuin), 

 very few or subsolitary (Micradina), inserted on a placenta adnate to 

 septum or oftener affixed under apex of cell and descending ; micropyle 

 generally superior. Compound fruit congested in a spurious globose 

 capitule, free, capsular, 2-coccous ; cocci separable, generally 2- 

 partible. Seeds oo, few or 1, imbricate, winged (oftener narrow-) on 

 both sides, albuminous. — Trees or shrubs ; wood often hard ; leaves 

 opposite, often coriaceous glabrous, petiolate ; stipules intei'- or intra- 

 petiolar, oftener large,^ deciduous; flowers in compound contracted 

 globose-capituliform terminal and axillary sometimes racemose glo- 

 merules; bracts and bracteoles between flowers paleaceous (Adina, 

 Mitragyne), in fruit hardened persistent, sometimes small or 0, 

 (Trop. and suhtrop. Africa, Asia and Oceania.^) 



189. Cephalanthus L.^— Flowers spuriously capitate (nearly of 

 Nauclea), 4, 5-merous f receptacle obconical or obpyramidal. Calyx 

 gamophyllous short-tubular, lobes or teeth sometimes unequal 4, 5, 

 slightly imbricate; small (stipular) glandules often interposed. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube rather long ; throat glabrous or pilose ; 



1 As in Corynanthe (otherwise not unlike in Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iv. 181 {Stephegyni), 183 {Adi- 



flowers). ««).— Benth. M. Songk. 146 [Adina).— 'Ssdo. 



= KoKTH. Obs. Naucl. Ind. 19 (not E. Br.)-— Ic PI. Ind. Or. i. t. 18 {Stephegyne), 19, 235 ; Fl. 



H. Bn. Adansonia,-s.i\. 313. — Stephegyne 'Kokth. Sylv. t. 29, 33-35, cxxvi. (Adina), cxxviii. {ste- 



VerK Nat. Gesch. (1839-42) 160, t. 35.— B. H. phegyne).~'T-a.-wi. Bnum. PL Zeyl. 137.— KrRZ, 



Gen. ii. 31, n. 5. For. Fl. Brit. Burnt, ii. 64.— Hieen, Fl. Trap. 



» Salisb. Far. Land. t. 115.— DC. Prodr. iv. Afr. iii. 39 {Adina), 40 {Mitragyne).— Bot. Beg. 



349.— B. H. Gm. ii. 30, n. 4.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. t. 895.— .Boi. Mag. t. 2613.— Waip. Sep. ii. 511, 



24. ' 513 {Stephegyne); yi. 10 {Stephegyne) ; Ann.n. 



* H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 314. 791 {Stephegyne). 



5 H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 284, 314. 8 Qf,„_ n ii3.__j. Qg„^ 209; Mem. Mue. -vi. 



« Sometimes membranous and enclosing the 402. — G-ieetn. Fruct. ii. 41, t. 86. — Lamk III. t. 



top of a ramule. 69. — Rich. Bub. 76. — DC. Frodr. iv. 638 (part). 



7 Bpec. ahout 60. Gjsrtn. Fruct. i. 151, t. 30. — Spaoh, Suit, a Buffon, viii. 462.— Endl. Qm. 



— EoxB. PI. Coram, i. t. 62-54. — Kouth. Gesch. n. 3138. — B. H. Gen. ii. 30, n. 3. — Hook. Fl, 



Verh. Kat. 150, 156.— Benth. Niger Fl. t. 37.— Ind. iii. 23.—Platanocephalus Vaill. Act. Acad. 



Hook. Icon. t. 787 {Platanocarpum). — MiQ. Fl. Par. (1722) 191. 

 Ind.-Bat. ii. 136, 342; Suppl. 214,538; Am. » Earely 6-merous. 



