Kissenia.| ONAGRARIEH (Harv.) — 503 
fruit, persistent. Petals 10, deciduous, inserted at the summit of the 
calyx-tube; 5 outer alternating with the calyx-lobes, roundish, con- 
cave; 5 inner, opposite the calyx-lobes, smaller, ligulate, angularly 
bent. Stamens indefinite, those of the outer row barren, with cordate 
bases. Ovary turbinate, 3-celled ; cells uni-ovulate. issenia, Endl. 
Gen. Suppl. IT. p. 76. Cnidone, E. Mey. MSS. 
A very remarkable plant, the only Loasacea yet known on the African continent. 
It was originally discovered in Arabia by a traveller named Kissen, to whose memory 
Dr. R. Brown inscribed the genus in MSS. in the British Museum. Endlicher, who 
first published a generic character, miscalled it Fissenia, under which name it is 
figured in Thesaurus Capensis. For the correct spelling now given I am indebted 
to my friend Dr. T. Anderson, who has carefully compared the Arabian with the 
South African specimens, and finds no difference between them, 
1. K. spathulata (R. Br. in Herb. Br. Mus.) ; Andr. Fl. Aden. p. 43. 
Fissenia capensis, Endl.l. c. Harv. Thes. t. 98. Cnidone Mentzelordes, 
E. Mey.! in Herb. Drege. : 
Has. Between Verleptpram and the mouth of the Gariep, Drege! Aapjes R., 
Dr. Atherstone! Namaqualand, 4. Wyley/ (Herb. Sd., D., Hk.) 
Stem robust, rigid, striate, very scabrous and pale, as are all parts of the plant. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, the lower ones 5-7-lobed, 2-3 inches long, coarsely 
toothed, ribbed, and veiny, thickish and very rough ; the upper smaller and less cut, 
passing toward the summit into linear or lanceolate bracts. Flowers in a terminal, 
scorpioid cyme, subsessile. Calyx-lobes much enlarged after flowering, spathulate- 
oblong, obtuse, 3-5-nerved, much longer than the corolla ; tube obconical, shaggy 
with fulvous, straight hairs. Petals pale yellow or buff, style trifid. 
Orper LXI, ONAGRARIEZ. 
(By W. H. Harvey.) 
Flowers perfect, mostly regular (rarely irregular). Calyx-tube adnate 
with the ovary, frequently produced beyond its apex ; limb 4-parted, 
rarely 2-3-parted, the lobes valvate in estivation, persistent or decidu- 
ous. Petals inserted in the throat of the calyx, rarely absent, as many 
as its lobes and alternate with them, more or less clawed, twisted in 
westivation. Stamens inserted with the petals, as many or twice as 
many, some occasionally sterile ; filaments filiform ; anthers 2-celled, 
introrse ; pollen bluntly triangular. Ovary inferior, mostly 4-celled ; 
ovules mostly numerous (rarely solitary) on axile placente, anatropous. 
Style filiform ; stigma 2—4-lobed. Fruit either a 4-valved capsule 
or a berry, rarely nutlike, 4-2-celled. Seeds exalbuminous ; embryo 
orthotropous. a 
Herbaceous plants or shrubs, dispersed over the globe, but most abundant in the 
temperate zones, east and west, of the northern hemisphere, particularly of the new 
world. Leaves opposite or alternate, exstipulate, simple, entire or variously lobed 
and cut. Flowers either axillary or in racemes or spikes, often showy. None are 
remarkably useful. The numerous species and garden varieties of Fuchsia, and 
Oenothera, both genera chiefly American, are much cultivated for ornament. Mon- 
tinia, usually referred to this Order, will be found under Saxifragacez. S 
TABLE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN GENERA. eas 
* Limb of the calyx persistent. Capsule septicidal. 
I. Jussizea,—Stamens twice as many as the calyx-lobes. oe - 
II. Ludwigia —Stamens as many as the calyx-lobes. ee 
** Limb of the calyx deciduous. Capsule loculicidal. 
