characterized by the one-celled ovary with parietal anatropous 
ovules, entire style with minute stigma, and berry with 
subglobose seeds, the testa of which is membranous and 
white, and the albumen horny. The anthers of both Luzu- 
riaga and Callixene have been incorrectly described as 
opening by pores. They dehisce throughout their length ; 
those of Lnzwriaga are erect, and attached by a broad base 
to the very short, broad, thick filaments ; those of Callizene 
are attached above the free base of the cells to a short 
slender filament, and are versatile, becoming in C. polyphylla 
reflexed after flowering. Lwuzuriaga radicans has been 
cultivated for many years in the Royal Gardens, and thrives 
on stones in the shaded side of the Temperate House, 
flowering about Midsummer. 7 
Drscr. Stems very slender, two to three feet high, 
branching, flexuous, angled, green, with small sheathing 
persistent brown scales at the nodes. Leaves one to two 
and a half inches long,*distichous, rather remote, sessile, 
twisted at the base, elliptical-oblong or linear-oblong, acute 
or apiculate, bright green above, glaucous beneath, with 
three to six pairs of green parallel nerves on each side of 
the distinct midrib. Flowers springing from small imbri- 
cating brown persistent bud-scales, solitary, or the peduncle 
two to three-flowered, drooping; peduncle a quarter to one 
inch long, slender, bearing one or two small scale-like 
bracts. Flower white, very variable in size, one and a half — 
to two inches in diameter. Perianth spreading, segments 
elliptic or lanceolate, acuminate, the three inner rather 
larger and thickened along the middle. Stamens conniving 
into a conical column; filaments inserted at the base of 
the perianth-segments, short, broad, and thick; anther 
sessile on the broad top of the filament by a broad base 
which is continuous with the stout connective, subulate- 
lanceolate, subacute, cells narrow, dehiscing laterally, the 
valves with inflexed edges. Ovary globose; style strict, 
angular; stigmas three, minute; ovules two seriate on 
three projecting parietal placentas, anatropous, about five 
in a row. Berry size of a pea, globose, few-seeded.— 
fe? 3 Hag « & 
Fig. 1, front, and 2, back view of anther; 3, ovary ; 4, transverse section of ovary 5 
5, berry :—all but 5 enlarged. 
