158 © PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
uniting with the glandulous and nectariferous germinal 
disk; ‘tisk low a obtuse. Petals 5, calycine, often 4 
and 6, with the same number of stamina, ovate, acute, per~ 
sistent, growing to the margin of the calix, white, internal- 
: pou (seen through a lens), before expansion parallel. 
‘Stamina seated at the base of the petals, alternating with 
‘the dentures of the glandulous disk; filaments subulate, 
about half the Jength of the petals; anthers oval, 2-celled, 
connected at their summits to the petals near their base 
by a fascicle of yellow filaments —Style terete, simple; 
stigma round, entire; germ about 3-seeded, ovula pendu- 
lous, attached to the apex of a filiform contractile funicu- 
lus arising from the base of the.capsule. Capsule nearly 
lobular, and angular, 1-seeded, not opening, thin and 
brittle, not osseous, coated by the base of the calix. Seed 
pound, about the size of a small pea, consisting almost 
entirely of a large carnose and oily perisperm, embryon 
inverted, small, flat, nearly in the axis of the perisperm; 
_ radicle superior, thick and obtuse; cotyledons linear and 
acute. 
Oss. The connecting fibres of the petals, appear to be 
a separation of a portion of the central vessels, for at that 
_ point the petal is greenish and callous, and the central 
_neryes there commencing trichotomously, disappear above 
the connectile fibres, and the rest of the petal is then 
white. | 
This plant has some relation to the preceding, and they 
both appertainto the Natural Order SanvataceZz of R. 
Brown, approaching at the same time very nearly to the 
Ruamyzi of Jussieu. Vhe genus here proposed may 
probably include some of the species of Thesium indige- 
nous to the Cape of Good Hope. 
234. QUERIA. L. Anycuia. Michaux. 
Calix connivent, 5-parted, segments oblong, 
apex subsaceate (or furnished with an arched 
callosity.) Corolla none, Filaments of the an- 
tinct; intermediate, setw none. Stigma 
ate. Capsule utricular, not opening. 
‘subreniform, 
Herbaceous and dichotomous; leaves opposite, stipu- 
late; stipules scariose, flowers minute, bracteolate, dicho- 
tomai and terminal; stamina 3 to 5. A genus scarcely 
distinct from Paronychia, intermediate with it and Her- 
» maria ay 
Species. 1. Q. canadensis, Stem erect or spreading, 
dichotomous, much branched, retrorsely pubescent; leaves 
