TO THE SECOND VOLUME. _ 599 
It comes very near the preceding, and is only distinguished by the roundish 
leaves and the 3-flowered, not many flowered glomerules. Stipules very large, in- 
closing the young flowers. Leaves 1-3 lines long and wide. Flowers 1 line long, 
tube finely striated. 
Page 502, after Passifloresx, insert :— 
Orper LIX.* TURNERACEZ, DC. 
(By W. H. Harvey.) 
Flowers regular, bisexual. Caly« tubular, 5-cleft, with imbricate 
estivation. Petals 5, alternate with the lobes of the calyx, and in- 
serted on the tube or in the throat, twisted in estivation, deciduous. 
Stamens 5, inserted below the petals, with which they alternate; fila- 
ments subulate, flat; anthers erect, dorsally affixed. Ovary free, unilo- 
cular; placentz 3, parietal, multi-ovulate ; styles 3, terminal, distinct, 
opposite the placente ; stigmata fimbriate. /ruct capsular, 3-valved ; 
valves placentiferous. Seeds numerous, with fleshy albumen, and a 
crustaceous, hollow-dotted testa; embryo straight, axile. 
Herbs, half-shrubs, or small shrubs, natives chiefly of tropical America; a few 
African. Leaves alternate, simple, entire or toothed, rarely pinnatifid, often with 
2 glands at base. Stipules none. A small Order, of 3 or 4 genera, closely related 
to Passifloree. 
I. TURNERA, Plum. 
Calyx coloured, tubular-funnell-shaped, more or less deeply 5-parted. 
Petals inserted in the throat of the calyx, alternate with its lobes, 
short-clawed. Stamens 5, alternate with the petals. Styles undivided ; 
stigmata flabellate-multifid. Capsule ovate or oblong, 3-valved. Endl. 
No. 5056. 
Suffrutices or small shrubs, chiefly American. 7. ulmifolia is naturalized through- 
out the tropics of both hemispheres. The generic name is in honour of William 
Turner, M.D., Prebendary of York, Canon of Windsor, and Dean of Wells, who 
died 1568. He was the author of a ‘“ New Herbal.” 
1. T. Capensis (Harv.) ; dwarf, suffruticose, many-stemmed, densely 
hirsute; leaves lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, coarsely toothed, tapering at 
base into a short petiole; peduncles axillary, 1-flowered, free, much 
shorter than the leaves ; calyx deeply 5-parted, laciniz linear-lanceo- 
late, acute ; petals obovate. 
je’s river, Burke § Zeyher ! erb, Hook. D. 
Boot em ach woody. wd ne soadaets erect, aie or slightly branched. 
Every part of the plant thickly clothed with loose, coarse pubescence. ves I-I} 
inches long, 4—5 lines wide, very hairy. Peduncles 4-7 lines long, curved or nod- 
ding. Flowers small, white? Calyx-tube not one-fourth as long as the lobes. Fila- 
ments flat, subulate, scarcely half as long as the petals. Ovary hirsute. Styles 
longer than the stamens ; stigmas expanded, chann fimbrato-multifid. 
