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Bndo7iema.'} pen^eace.e (Stephens). 97 



folded in bud, becoming erect as the flower opens, iiubulate above 

 the fold, ligiilate below, almost as long as the anthers or longer ; 

 anthers ovate, infiexed in bad, then erect and introrse ; cells rather 

 shorter than the connective, dehiscing niaz'ginallj. Ovary and style 

 as long as the perianth, glabi^ous ; ovules 4 in each cell, inserted 

 half-way down on an axile placenta, 2 erect and 2 pendulous, raphe 

 extrorse in all ; style filiform; stigma obscurely 4-lobed. Fmit and 

 seeds of order ; seeds erect or pendulous according to their position 

 when ovules. 



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Small erect shrubs or undershrubs ; branches quadrangular or sub^uadrangular 

 in the younger parts, becoming terete lower down, upper more or less thickly 

 beset with leaves, lower often defoliated ; flowers lateral, solitary or apparently 

 solitary in the axils mainly of the upper leaves ; branches continued beyond the 

 flowering region ; bracts (bracteoles) in two or three pairs below each flower. 



DisTRiB. Species 2^ endemic. 



Leaves broad, flat ; bracts oblong ; anthers slightly 



longer than filaments (1) Thunbergii. 



Leaves narrow-linear, revohite ; bracts rotund, 



caducous ; anthers shorter than filaments ... (2) retzioides. 



1. E. Thunbergli (A. Juss. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 3'"« ser. vi. 27) ; a 

 small, loosely branched shrub ; branches long, glabrous, or shortly 

 puberulous and subquadrangular in the younger parts ; leaves erect 

 or spreading, usually imbricate, ovate or ellii^tical, obtuse, with the 

 central nerve slightly prominent beneath and a few slightly-marked 

 lateral oblique veins, 6-10 lin. long, 3-7 lin. broad, exstipukte ; 

 with a minute crested scale usually present in the axil at each side 

 in both leaves and bracts ; flowers apparently solitary in the axils 

 of the Tipper leaves, in reality each terminating a much reduced 

 raceme, whose very short peduncle bears three pairs of decussate 

 bracts, which are either sterile or enclose an axillary bud ; this bud 

 usually remains dormant, but (very exceptionally) may grow out 

 into another short peduncle, bearing a terminal flower and furnished 

 with 2, 1 or no pairs of bracts, according to whether it was borne 

 in the axil of the first, second or third pair on the original peduncle ; 

 bracts 8, decussate, coriaceous to scarious, obovate to oblong or 

 ovate, obtuse to acute, golden, shorter than the perianth-tube, each 

 pair longer than the one below it; perianth golden, projecting 

 beyond the leaves, about 1 in. long ; tube three times as long as 

 the limb ; lobes tinged with red, oblong or ovate, obtuse or acute, 

 3^4 lin. long j stamens about two-thirds the length of the perianth- 

 lobes ; anther slightly longer than the filament ; capsule 6 lin. long : 

 seeds 2 lin. long. Sand, in Linneea, xxiii. 104; A.BC, in DC. 

 Prodr. xiv. 491. E. lateriflora, Glhj in Engl d PrantI, Pflanzenfam. 

 iii. 6 A, 210. Pensea lateriflora, Linn. /. Siq)})l li'2 ] Mnrr. Syst 

 Veg, ed. xiv. 154; Thinh. Prodr. 30, and FL Cap. ed. SchulL 150, 

 and Natiirf. Magaz. Berlin, i. /. 3,/^. 2, ex A. Jitss. Ic; Lam, 

 Encycl \l 510; Eekl. d Zeylu ex Sand, in Linm^ea, xxiii. 104. 

 Geissoloma lateriflornm, Brege in Eerh. Berol ex Sond. Lc, 



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