mllastomace.it. 
G7 
subcordate at the base 5-nerved including the 
marginal pair ciliated green and strigoso-hirsute 
above, hoary and farinoso-puberulous with long 
still hairs interspersed beneath, cyme terminal, 
calyx 4-toothed, petals 4, stamens 8. 
II A B. Near the Moneague. — Dr. Alexander . 
F L. April. 
Peduncles compressed, hirsute, and minutely stellato- 
puberulous : branches ascending. Flowers tinged with 
pink, shortly pedicelled, bracteolated. Calycine teeth 
expanded at the base as if an apicula were placed on a 
rounded lobe ; externally hirsute and tomentulose ; the 
longer hairs purpurascent ; the woolliness hoary. Fila- 
ments short: anthers arcuate, yellow, 1-pored. Style 
erect, elongated, received into the sheathing apex of the 
ovary, subulate towards the stigma, which is a granular 
blunt point. Berry 6-celled. 
In this species the sheath at the base of the style is not 
furnished with the circle of capitate hairs as in the two 
preceding species. 
X. CoNOSTECIA. 
Calycine tube adnate to the ovary, limb undi- 
vided calyptrteform, during aestivation circum- 
cised at the base or bursting irregularly. Petals 
5-6. Stamens 10-20. Stigma capitate or peltate. 
Capsule berried, 3-8-celled : seeds ovoid, angu- 
lar. 
Name from xuvog a cone, and a covering ; in allu- 
sion to the form of the calyx. 
1. Conostegia subhirsuta. Hairy Cono~ 
stegia. 
Branchlets subtetragonal as also the peduncles 
and under surface of the nerves of the leaves fer- 
rugineo-hirsute, leaves oval abruptly acuminate 
somewhat attenuated at the base sub-entire 5- 
