Kissenia.] LXI. LOASEH (MASTERS). 501 
R. Br. mss. ex. Endl. Gen. Pl. Supp. li. 76; Cnidone, E. Meyer, Hb. 
Cap. Drege. 
1. K. spathulata, 2. Br. mss. ; T. Anderson, Flor. Aden. 48. A rigid, 
much branched, bristly undershrub; branches striated, yellowish. 
Leaves on short stalks, subcoriaceous, pale, lower ones 5—7-lobed, 2- 
3 in. long, coarsely toothed ribbed and veined, the upper ones gradu- 
ally smaller and less lobed, passing at the summit into lanceolate Feaiste 
‘lowers numerous, subsessile in a dense terminal scorpioid cyme. 
Flower-tube ovoid-oblong, rough with coarse spreading bristles; lobes 
leafy, oblong, obtuse, flat, entire, parallel-veined, much enlarged after 
flowering. Petals shorter than the sepals, the inner strap-shaped, bi- 
dentate or entire, bent above the middle. Staminodes linear, dilated 
and cordate at the base (or absent ?). Style filiform, simple, twisted 
at the apex. Fruit indehiscent, oblong, obtuse.— Fissenia capensis, Endl. 
le.; Harv. Thes. Cap. t. 98; Cnidone mentzelivides, E. Mey. Plant. 
Hb. Drege. 
South Central. Lat. 23° S., Chapman and Baines ! age 
This singular plant occurs also in Namaqualand and at Aden. The description of the 
ower is mostly taken from Endlicher, as I have only examined imperfect specimens in 
a fruiting condition. The details of the floral construction are given differently by 
‘arious authors, but the discrepancy in their statements does not apparently arise from 
the existence of more than one species. 
Orver LX. TURNERACES. (By Dr. Maxwell T. Masters.) 
Flowers dichlamydeous, hermaphrodite, regular. Calyx tubular, 5- 
toothed, deciduous, lobes imbricate. Petals 5, springing from the 
calyx-tube, membranous, unguiculate, sometimes provided with a scale 
or tuft of hairs on the stalk. Stamens 5, springing from the base of the 
calyx-tube; filaments free; anthers oblong, 2-celled, introrse. Ovary su- 
perior, oblong, 1-celled, with three parietal placentas; styles 3, terminal, 
tiform ; stigmas fringed. Ovules numerous, ascending, anatropal. 
Capsule 1-celled, bursting loculicidally from above downwards into 3 
valves, each of which bears a many-seeded placenta on its centre. Seeds 
oblong cylindrical, straight or curved, stalked, partially invested by a 
membranous aril; testa crustaceous, pitted. Albumen horny or fleshy. 
Embryo straight; cotyledons flat——Herbs, with entire or divided foli- 
‘ge. Stipules none. "Flowers yellowish, in 1-sided racemose cymes. 
A small Natural Order whose members are almost entirely natives of the American 
€misphere. 
1. WORMSKIOLDIA, Schum. et Thonn.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Plant. i. 807. 
Calyx tubular, 5-toothed. Petals 5, obovate, stalked, springing from 
the tube of the flower. Stamens 5, springing from the extreme base of 
the flower-tube ; filaments thread-like ; anthers aplong, doa linear- 
oblong, 1-celled ; styles 3, thread-like ; stigmas fringed. Capsule linear, 
