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ma is obtuse. This genus scarcely differs 

 from Syndesmanthus, except in having 

 lateral and not terminal anthers. [W. C] 



CODONANTHITS. The name formerly 

 given to a West African plant of the con- 

 volvulus family, hut now generally placed 

 in the genus Prevostea, and called Pre- 

 vostea africana. It is a branching tree of 

 middling stature, with alternate oblong 

 leaves narrowed at both ends, having entire 

 margins and about six inches in length. 

 Three or four white flowers grow in the 

 axils of the leaves ; the two exterior calyx 

 leaves are large and heart-shaped, the 

 others small and narrow ; the corolla, 

 which is bell-shaped, with a slightly re- 

 curved five-toothed margin, encloses five 

 stamens, and an ovary surmounted by a bifid 

 style, each of whose branches is furnished 

 with a shield-shaped stigma. [A. A. B] 



CODONOCALYX. Small Brazilian hairy 

 plants with dioecious flowers, constituting 

 a genus of Euphorbiacece. The male flowers 

 have a calyx with five deep divisions, a 

 corolla of five overlapping segments, a 

 disc of five free glands alternating with 

 the petals, and ten stamens longer than 

 the rest. [M. T. M.] 



CODONOCARPTJS. A genus of Gyros- 

 temonece containing small shrubs from 

 South Western Australia, with branched 

 stems, alternate linear subulate leaves, 

 and solitary axillary stalked flowers, which 

 are dioecious, with a six or seven-lobed 

 calyx and no petals. The male flowers 

 have numerous sessile anthers ; and the 

 female flowers numerous carpels combined 

 around a central column into a many-celled 

 ovary; styles short recurved. The fruit 

 is obovate, depressed, separating into nu- 

 merous one-seeded cocci. [J. T. S.] 



CODONOPSIS. A genus of Campanu- 

 lacece, natives of the mountains of Northern 

 India. They are glabrous herbs, often 

 twining, with stalked crenate leaves whit- 

 ish below, and axillary or terminal stalked 

 flowers, which are yellow, bluish, or pur- 

 ple. Calyx-limb flve-lobed ; corolla slightly 

 fleshy, bell-shaped, five-lobed at the apex ; 

 stamens five ; style with three stigmas ; 

 capsule hemispherical, three-celled, three- 

 valved at the apex. [J. T. S.] 



CODONORCHIS, literally Bell-orchis, in 

 allusion to its campanulate flowers, is a 

 small terrestrial genus, occurring in the 

 southernmost parts of South America. 

 The best known form, C. Lessonii, is a 

 simple-stemmed plant with two three or 

 four verticillate leaves near the base of a 

 scape from four to six inches high, ter- 

 minated by a single rose-coloured spotted 

 flower, the upper surface of whose lip is 

 covered with sessile or stalked glands. A 

 supposed second form, called C. Pceppigii, 

 is regarded by Hooker, fll., as a mere va- 

 riety. 



CODONOSTIGMA. A genus of Ericacecp, 

 containing a single species from South 

 Africa, a heath-like shrub with ternate 



verticillate leaves, and flowers in terminal 

 buds. It has a four-toothed campanulate 

 calyx ; a persistent globular cup-shaped 

 corolla ; four exserted stamens, attached 

 below the hypogynous disc, with hairy 

 anthers ; and a one-celled ovary contain- 

 ing a single pendulous ovule, and sur- 

 mounted by a small cup-shaped stigma. 

 Its one-celled ovary allies it to the genus 

 Omphalocarymi, but it has the calyx of Coi- 

 lostigma. [W. C] 



CCELANTHIUM. A genus of Caryophyl- 

 lacece, of the tribe Molluginece, consisting 

 of glabrous annuals from the Cape of 

 Good Hope, with obovate stalked radical 

 leaves in rosettes, while those of the stem 

 are thread-like and verticillate, with 

 fringed stipules. The stems are forked at 

 the top ; the flowers racemose with a fun- 

 nel-shaped flve-cleft calyx, having petaloid 

 lobes; petals none; stamens five; stigmas 

 three ; capsule three-valved. [J. T. S.] 



COELEBOGYNE. A genus of Euphor- 

 biacece, found in the eastern tropical por- 

 tion of New Holland, and represented by 

 C. ilicifolia, a bush which in everything 

 but its flowers is very like the common 

 holly, or still more like the Japanese Os- 

 manthus. The inconspicuous green flowers 

 are male and female on different plants. 

 The males, in theaxils of theleaves, are ar- 

 ranged in short-bracted spikes, each bract 

 toothed and supporting a number of 



Coelebogyne ilicifolia. 



flowers, which have a calyx of four divi- 

 sions enclosing from four to eight sta- 

 mens. In the female plant the flowers are 

 arranged in a similar manner, or in little 

 cymes at the ends of the branches; the 

 calyx is of four or six divisions, and often 

 accompanied with one or two lateral 

 glands near its base ; the ovary is crowned 

 with a three-lobed stigma, whose branches 

 are large and lie flat on its summit. The 

 fruit is a three-lobed capsule, about the 

 size of a pea, with three cells, each of 

 which contains one seed. The genus is 

 nearly allied to Conceiveba, and differs only 

 in the number of the calyx divisions. 



