" Rhamne^. Into this order I admit such genera only 

 as have the germen cohering more or less with the tube of the 

 calyx, of which the lacinise have a valvular aestivation ; 

 stamina equal in number to these lacinise, and alternating 

 with them ; a germen with two or three cells and a single 

 erect ovulum in each ; an erect embryo generally placed in 

 the axis of a fleshy albumen or entirely without albumen : 

 the petals, which are opposite to the stamina, and indose 

 the antherse In the concave laminae, are in some cases waiit>- 

 5ng." 



" With these characters Rhamnus, Ziziphus, Pauurus, 

 Ceanothus (from which Pomaderris is hardly distinct), 

 CoLLBTiA, Cryptandra, Phylica, Gouania, Ventilago, and 

 probably Hovenia, correspond. In comparing this descrip- 

 tion of Rhamnejb with that of Buttneriacba formerly 

 ^ven, they will be found to coincide in so many important 

 points, that the near relationship of these orders cannot be 

 doubted, and thus an unexpected affinity seems to be proved 

 between Rhamnea and Malvace^.'* 



" In Terra Australis upwards of thirty species of Rham- 

 KEX, belonging to Ziziphus, Cbanothus, Pomaderris, Col- 

 LETiA, and Cryptandra, have been observed, and chiefly in 

 its principal parallel or southern regions." — Brown in Flind, 

 voy. 2. 554. 



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