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210 SAXTALACE.E (Hill). [GmlhicL . 



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valvate, densely pilose on the "back. Stamens 8, 4 longer inserted 

 at the "base of the perianth-lobes and 4 shorter alternate Avith them ; 

 filaments stout, incurved ; anthers small, dehiscing laterally. Disc 

 hairy, very slightly proniinent. Ovary inferior ; style short, fili- 

 form ; stigma emarginate or slightly bifid j ovules 2, pendulous 

 from a placenta which may be free or more or less adnate to the 

 wall. FruUs connate, crowned with disc and style, only one 

 perfect ; exocarp somewhat fleshy ; endocarp often bony. Seed 

 ovoid ; embryo linear, embedded in the middle of the albumen, sub- 

 terete; radicle much longer than the cotyledons. 



Heatli-like shrubs ; leaves opposite, linear or lanceolate, entire, persistent, with 

 revulute margins ; flowers small, ternate or in strobili in the axils of each pair of 

 opposite leaves. 



DiSTRiB. Species 4, endemic. 



This genus was considered by De Candollc to belong to a distinct Natural Order, 

 Grnhhiaccw, which he placed between Elmag uaccx and Santalacae, Sonder in 

 Harvey and Sonder, Fl. Cap. ii. 325, described the genvis under Hamamelidactx^ 

 and Bentham & Hookerj Gen. PL iii. 231, placed it in their fourth tribe, Grnhbleie, 

 of SatdaJaceie, 



Flowers arranged in 3-2-flowered axillary cymules ; leaves 

 linear or linear-lanceolate : 



Bracts bilobed equal to or slightly shorter than the 

 flowers, sharply keeled below : 

 Eranches tomentose or striguloae ; leaves strigulose 

 above, flubsessile, subcordate or subauriculate at 

 the base 



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(1) rosmarinifolia. 



Branches minutely downy ; leaves glabrous or siib- 



glabrous above, narrowing into definite petioles ... (2) pinifolia. 



Bracts usually entire, much shorter than the flow^ei-s, 



rounded on the back ... ... ... (3) Mrsuta. 



Flowers miTnerous in axillary strobili ; leaves lanceolate ... (4) stricta. 



1. G. rosmarinifolia (Berg, in Vet. Acad. HandL Stockh. 1767, 

 3G, t. 2; Descr. PI. Cap. 90, t. 2) ; a shrub, 1-5 ft. high ; stems woody, 

 erectj inuch-hranched ; branches erect or subspreading, tomentose or 

 hirsute ; branchlets terete or somewhat angled, hirsute or glahres- 

 cent ; leaves narrowly linear-lanceolate, 4-6 Un. long, rarely longer, 

 ^-\\ lin. broad, subcordate or subauriculate at the base, margins 

 revolute, liairy and scabrous above, densely tomentose below, with 

 long strigulose hairs along the midrib ; petiole not conspicuous, not 

 more than ^ lin. long ; bracts hemispherical, membranous, chestnut- 

 brown, sharply keeled below, bilobed to the middle, lobes rounded 

 or subacute, rather shorter than or about equal in length to the 

 cymules and enclosing them, smooth ; flowers sessile, connate ; 

 perianth-segments broadly obovate, acute, curved at the apex with 

 small thickened flanges at the base, densely and conspicuously 

 hairy on the back with long white wavy hairs, projecting \ Hi^- 

 or more beyond the segments ; stamens with filaments about \ liii- 

 long; style filiform, about \ lin. long, enveloped in a dense tuft 

 of disc-hairs ; fruits crowned externally by a dense ring of hairs at 

 the apex of the perianth-tube, glabrous below. Thunlh FL Cap. ed. 

 Schnlf. 373 ; 7)r^7e, Zivei Pjl. Donmcnh>, 88 ; Sojid, in Harv. (t Soiul 



