498 NATURAL SISTORY OF PLANTS. 



stamens ; lobes of limb 6, imbricate. Stamens 5, alternipetalous ; 

 filaments inserted under throat, subequal ; anthers oblong dorsifixed 

 introrse, 2-rimose. Germen inferior, 2-celled ; cells alternating -with 

 calycinal lobes ; style slender exserted, at apex stigmatose depressed- 

 capitate entire or slightly lobed. Ovules oo, inserted on axile placentas, 

 2-seriate. Fruit fleshy ovoid, crowned with calyx. Seeds oo, sniall 

 compressed, albuminous ; embryo minute. — A shrub branched from 

 base ; branches fistular between nodes ; leaves opposite, ovate-acumi- 

 nate, sometimes cordate, entire or dentate (sometimes pinnatilobed on 

 younger branches) membranous ; petioles connate at base; flowers in 

 terminal spikes axillary to uppermost leaves, drooping ; bracts large 

 (coloured) bearing solitary or few or glomerulate cymose flowers in 

 axil. {Mount. India.) — See p. 354. 



195 ? Pentapyxis Hook, f.' — Flowers nearly of Leycesteria; recep- 

 tacle ovoid. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-lobed, finally deciduous. Corolla 

 subcampanulate ; tube equal or occasionally slightly gibbous at base ; 

 lobes of limb 5, equal, contorted or imbricate. Stamens 5, inserted 

 in throat ; anthers oblong introrse slightly exserted. Germen inferior, 

 5-celled; style slender, thickened to base, at apex stigmatose capitately 

 5-lobed. Ovules in cells (complete or incomplete) oo, inserted on 

 rather prominent placenta. Fruit baccate ; seeds oo, angular smooth, 

 albuminous ; embryo minute. — Shrubs ; leaves opposite, petiolate, 

 ovate-lanceolate serrate-dentate ; stipules large orbicular foliaceous, 

 recurved ; flowers ^ in axillary pedunculate bracteate (spurous ?) 

 capitules.^ {Temp. Himalayas.*) 



196. Symphoricarpos Dill.' — Flowers regular ; receptacle sub- 

 globose. Calyx short cupular; teeth 4, 6, equal or unequal, sometimes 

 subnil. Corolla funnel-shaped, campanulate or suburceolate ; tube 

 short ; throat glabrous or pilose ; linab 4, 5-lobed, imbricate. Stamens 

 as many short, inserted in throat ; anthers introrse. Germen 4-celled ; 

 disk epigynous cupular ; style straight, at apex stigmjitose truncate, 



' Gen. ii. 6, u. 12.— Hook. Fl. Iiid. iii. 17. ' Hort. EUham. 375. — J, Gen, 211. DC. 



' Rather large, " white." Frodr. iv. 333.— Torp. Diet. So. Nat. Atl. 1. 106. 



' A genus scarcely distinguishable from Lei/- — Spach, Suit. A Buffon, viii. 361. — Endl. Gen. 



eesteria on the one hand ; on the other closely n. 3334.— Payer, Organog. 617, 1. 128. — H. Bn. 



connecting the lonicerete with the Bubiaeea Adanaonia, i. 360, 1. 12. — B. H. Gen. ji. 4, 1227, 



proper. n. 6. — Syinphot-iearpa Neck. £lem. n. 220. — 



* Spec. 1 (v. 2 ?). Hook. t. et Thoms. Jouin. Symphoria Pers. Syn. i. 214. — Anisanthus W. 



Linn. Soc. ii. 165 (Lonicera). (ex Ecem. et ScH. Sytt. v. xiv.). 



