Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org

Gonandron. In a botanical point of view, its most remark-
able character is its regular perianth, which is exceptional
not only in the order to which it belongs, but in a great
extent to the whole group of Personales.
The Gonandron was introduced from Japan by Messrs.
Veitch, who sent the specimen here figured in July of last-
year ; it has a tolerably wide range in Japan, inhabiting
moist rocks in the mountains of Nippon and Kiusiu.
DESCB. Root-stock tuberous, crowned with a tuft of silky
brown hairs. Leaves four to seven inches long, all radical,
subsessile or petioled, oblong or oblong-ovate or elliptic,
acute or acuminate, irregularly acutely toothed, glabrous,
often búllate between the spreading reticulating nerves;
petiole either slender and naked, or broadly winged, the
wing undulated and toothed like the leaf-blade. Scapes one
to four, shorter than the leaves, hairy or glabrate, curved,
quite naked. Cymes compound, drooping, pubescent, six-
to twelve-flowered. Flowers pedicelled. Calyx-lobes slender.
Gorolla one inch in diameter, white or pink with a purplish
eye ; tube very short, funnel-shaped, lobes spreading, ovate,
acute, tips recurved. Stamens five, equal, filaments very
short ; anthers broadly oblong, with the connective pro-
duced into a long point, both cells and connectives connate
into a beaked tube. Ovary elongate, narrowed into a
slender style with a minute capitate stigma. Capsules one-
third to one-half of an inch long, membranous, terete, lanceo-
late, terminated by the persistent style. Seeds very minute,
narrowly ellipsoid or oblong, narrowed at both ends, usually
slightly curved in a sigmoid manner; testa pale brown,
quite smooth.•J. D. H.
Fig. 1, fruiting cyme; 2, stamens; 3, pistil; 4, transverse section of pistil:•
all but fig. 1 enlarged.