Polypremum L.

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Loganiaceae

• Scientific Name

  Polypremum L.

• Description

  Description - A glabrous diffusely branched annual herb, with opposite linear-subulate leaves, their bases connected by a stipular membrane, and small white flowers in terminal bracted cymes. Calyx deeply 4-parted (rarely 5-parted), the segments subulate. Corolla campanulate, bearded in the throat, shorter than the calyx, 4-lobed (rarely 5-lobed). Stamens 4 (rarely 5), inserted on the corolla, included; filaments short; anthers ovoid-globose. Ovules numerous, on oblong placentae; style short; stigma capitate or obscurely 2-lobed. Capsule slightly compressed, didymous, loculicidally 2-valved, the carpels at length septicidal. Seeds minute, smooth. [Greek, many-stemmed.] A monotypic genus.