94 PARONYCHIEÆ. XVII. Porucua. 
a kind of whorl. 4%.G. Native of Mexico. Flowers purplish 
inside. $ 
Purplish Cerdia. Pl. pr. 
Cult. These plants will grow well in a mixture of loam and 
sand, and are easily increased by dividing at the root, by cut- 
tings, or by seeds. 
Tribe IV. 
POLLICHIE & (this tribe only contains the genus Pollichia). 
D. C. prod. 3. p. 377. Calyx 5-toothed; tube urceolate. Sta- 
mens 1-2, inserted in the throat of the calyx. Petals wanting. 
Stigma bifid. Fruit or utriculus valveless, 1-seeded. Bracteas 
and calyx becoming large and fleshy after flowering, and forming 
something like a berry.—Suffruticose herbs, with opposite, sub- 
verticillate stipulaceous leaves. 
XVII. POLLI’CHIA (in honour of John Adam Pollich, 
M.D., author of a History of the native plants of the Pala- 
tinate of the Rhine). Sol. in Ait. hort. kew. (1789) 1. p. 5.; 
3. p. 505. Juss. mem. mus. 2. p. 388. but not of Med. nor 
Roth. nor Willd.—Neckèria, Gmel. syst. (1796) 1. p. 16. but 
not of Hedw. nor Scop.—Meerbúrgia, Mcench, suppl. (1802) 
. 116. 
A Lin. syst. Monándria, Monogýnia. Calyx campanulately 
urceolate, 5-toothed, permanent. Petals wanting, unless the 
scales at the throat are to be taken for them. Stamen 1 (ex 
Møænch. rarely 2) inserted in the throat of the calyx. Style 
filiform ; stigma bifid. Capsule valveless, 1-seeded, inclosed 
in the thickened tube of the calyx.—A suffruticose branched herb. 
Leaves linear, opposite, but at first sight appear verticillate, in 
consequence of 2 rameal leaves rising in each axil, furnished 
with scarious acute stipulas, Flowers small, aggregate, sessile, 
bracteate. 
1 P. camre’stnis (Ait. ].c. Smith. spicil. 1. t.1.). h.? %.? 
F. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Neckéria campéstris, 
Gmel. 1. c. Meerbirgia glomerdta, Moench. l. e. Flowers 
greenish. Bracteas mixed with the flowers, ciliated; scales full 
of sweet juice. 
Field Pollichia. Fl. Sept. Clt. 1780. Pl. 4 foot. 
Cult. The seeds of Pollichia must be raised on a hot-bed ; 
and when the plants are 2 inches high, they may be planted out 
singly into pots, placed among the greenhouse plants, and after- 
wards treated like them. 
+ Genera placed in Paronychiéa, but are not sufficiently known. 
XVIII. LITHO’PHILA (from dcBoc, lithos, a stone, and 
grew, phileo, to love ; this plant delights to grow among stones). 
Swartz, fl. ind. occ. 1. p. 47. t. 1. D.C. prod. 3. p. 380. 
Lin. syst. Didndria, Monogynia. Calyx profoundly 3- 
parted, acute. Petals 3, ovate-lanceolate. Scales, nectaries, 
or abortive stamens 2, opposite the segments of the calyx. 
Stamens 2, at one side of the ovarium. Style thick, bluntly 
emarginate at the apex. Fruit unknown.—A very minute gla- 
brous herb. Leaves stem-clasping, linear, obtuse. Flowers 
white, crowded. 
1 L. muscoitpes (Swartz, l. c. p. 48.).—Native of the desert 
island of Navaza, among rocks. 
Moss-like Lithophila. Pl. 1 inch. 
Cult. This plant is not worth cultivating, unless in botanic 
gardens. Should it ever be introduced to our gardens, we would 
recommend its being grown in a pot filled with broken stones, 
having the crevices filled with vegetable mould. It may pro- 
bably be propagated by seeds. 
XIX. SELLO‘WIA (in honour of Frederick Sello, a Ger- 
man botanist, who was lately drowned in some creek of the 
XVIII. LITHOPHILA. 
XIX. SeLLowra. SCLERANTHEÆ. 
Amazon; and who has sent home many fine collections of Bra- 
silian plants). Roth. nov. spec. p. 162. D. C. prod. 3. p. 380. 
Lin. syst. Pentándria, Monogynia. Calyx urceolate, 5- 
cleft, membranous, 10-ribbed; lobes short, lanceolate; ribs 
bearing alternately a petal and a stamen. Petals 5, oval, altern- 
ating with the calycine lobes. Stamens 5, fixed in the middle 
of the calycine lobes, and shorter than them; anthers didy- 
mous. Style 1; stigma obtuse. Capsule 3-valved, 1-celled, 
1-seeded.—A quite glabrous herb, with the habit of llécebrum 
verticillatum. Leaves opposite, oblong-oval. Flowers 1-2 in 
the axils of the leaves, small, white, and somewhat pedicellate, 
It is not known whether the leaves are stipulaceous or naked. 
1 S. unierndsa (Roth. l. c. p. 163.). Native of the East 
Indies, in bogs. 
Bog Sellowia. PI. proc. 
_ Cult. Place a pan of water under the pot in which this plant 
is grown. 
Orver CXII. SCLERA’NTHEZ (plants agreeing in im- 
portant characters with Sclerdnthus) Link. enum. p. 417. 
Bartl. ex Mart. amarant, p. 67.—Paryonychiée, Tribe V. Scle- 
rántheæ, D. C. prod. 3. p. 377, &c. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx 4-5-parted (f. 24. a.). Stamens 
from 1 to 10, inserted in the orifice of the tube (f. 24. a.). Ova- 
rium simple, 1-seeded. Styles 2 (f. 24. e.) or 1, emarginate at the 
apex. Fruit a membranous utricle, inclosed within a hardened 
calyx. Seed hanging from the apex of a funicle, which arises 
from the bottom of the cell. Embryo cylindrical, curved round 
farinaceous albumen.—Small herbs. Leaves opposite, without 
stipulas. Flowers axillary, sessile. This order has been re- 
ferred by De Candolle to Paronychièæ, from which it differs in 
the absence of petals and stipulas, and therefore appears to con- 
stitute a distinct order, more nearly related to Chenopddee than 
Paronychiée, from which the plants chiefly differ in the indu- 
rated tube of the calyx, from the orifice of which the stamens 
proceed, and in the number of the latter exceeding that of the 
divisions of the calyx. The tribe Minuartiée is probably not 
distinguishable from Sclerántheæ, notwithstanding the supposed 
presence of petals, which would perhaps be more properly 
called abortive stamens. All the plants contained in this order 
are uninteresting weeds, of no known use. 
Synopsis of the genera. 
Trise I, 
Screra’ntHER. Calyx 4-5-toothed (f. 24. a.), with an urceo- 
late tube. Petals none. Stamens 1-10, inserted in the throat of 
the calyx (f. 24. a). Styles 2 (f. 24.e.) or 1, emarginate at the 
apex (f. 24. b.). Fruit an utricle, covered by the indurated tube 
of the calyx, 1-seeded. Seed hanging by a funicle, which arises 
from the bottom of the capsule. : 
1 Mnia‘rum. Calyx 4-cleft, with an urceolate tube. Stamens 
1. Styles 2. 
2 Screra’ntaus. Calyx 5-cleft (f. 24. a.), with an urceolate 
tube. Stamens from 2 to 10. Styles 2 (f. 24. e.). 
3 GUILLEMINEA. Calyx 5-cleft, with a campanulate tube. 
Style 1, emarginate at the apex. 
True II. 
Qurria‘'ce®. Calyx 5-parted. Petals none. Stamens 10, 
Stamens 5. 
