CLXIV. GESNEBACEiE. 



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opposite, placed right and left of the floral axis ; style filiform, simple ; stigma capi- 

 tate, concave or 2-lobed ; ovules numerous, sessile or funicled, anatropous. FauiT 

 either fleshy with pulpy placentas, or capsular ovoid or subglobose, or siliquiform 

 with 2 straight or twisted semi-placentiferous valves. Seeds minute, oblong ; testa 

 loose or cellular. Embeto straight, exalbuminous, or in the axis of a fleshy albumen; 

 radicle next the hilum. 



Teibb I. OESNEBEM 

 Seeds albuminous. Ovary semi-inferior or inferior. Fruit capsular. 



Rytidophyllum. 

 Mitraria. 



PRINCIPAL GENERA. 



Conradia. * Gesuera. Gloxinia. * Achimenes. 



' Ligeria. * Mandirola. * Tidsea. * Peutaraphia. 



Tbibe II. BmLEBIEJE. 

 Seeds albuminous. Eruit a berry or capsule. Ovary free. 



PRINCIPAL GENERA. 



Besleria. 



* Alloplectus. 



Hjpocyrta. 



Episcia. 



^ Columnea. 

 Mitraria. 



Nematanthus. 

 Tapeinotes. 



Teibe III. CYBTANDBU^. 

 Seeds exalbuminous. Fruit a contorted capsule or berry. 



* .^schynanthus. 

 Streptocarpus, 



PRINCIPAL GENERA. 

 [§ 1. Fruit capsular.^ 

 Lysionotua. Didymocarpus. 



Boea. 



Ramondia.' 



• Chirita. 

 Kluria. 



Cyrtandra. 



[§ 2. Fruit Jkshj.] 

 Ehyncliotechum. 



Fieldia. 



GesneracecB are allied to Suhiacem, Gentianeee, Sesamete, Orohcmehea (see these families). They 

 approach Bignoniacem in the generally opposite leaves, the imbricate sestivation (and Besleriece in the 

 hypogynous corolla), the disk girding the base or middle of the ovary, and the anatropous ovules. They 



Tapeinntes^ Flower, 



Hypotyrta. Hower, 

 ' fcJee Order Samondieis, p, 599. 



Allopkctus, I)iagl:aln, 



