382 ON MADDENIA AND DIPLARCHE, 



A very remarkable plant, resembling a Pygeum m tlie flowers, when 

 these are in an ordinary condition, but differing remarkably in the fo- 

 liage and drupe, which are altogether that of Cerasus, and in the fre- 

 quent presence of two abortive ovarieS; which enlarge to half the size 

 of the ripe fertile drupe, have little pulp, and perfect ovules, which 

 appear never to be impregnated, owing to the imperfect stigma. 



Plate XII. Kg. 1, flower; 2, the same laid open; 3, petal; 4, ovary 

 cut open ; 5 and 6, ovules ; 5 bis, ripe fruit ; 6 iis^ vertical section of 

 the same; 7 and 8, front and lateral view of putamen ; 9, seed; 10, 

 embryo ; 1 1, inner face of cotyledon and plumule ; 12, imperfect ovaria ; 

 13, vertical section of one of the same; 14, ripe fruit: — all but 5-8, 

 and 14, Itiglily magnified. 



Nat. Ord. EmcEiE. Tribe Ehodorej:, 



II. DiPLAKCHE, Hook. fil. ct Thoms. 



Calyx 3-bracteatus, campanulatus, 5-sepalus, sepalis insequalibus. Co- 

 rolla decidua ; tubo bi'evi cylindraceo ; lobis 5 patulis ; ore vix cou- 

 tracto. Stamina 10, inclusa, 5 epipetala altius inserta, lobis alterna, 

 5 alterna inferius inserta v. omnino hypogyna ; antheris didymis 

 longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Pollen globosum, trigonum, angulis 

 incrassatis. Ovarium disco obscure 10-lobo brevi insertum, 5-locu- 



tTUlS 



capitato, 54obo, lobis bilobis. Capsula loculicide 5-valvis, valvis a 

 septis papyraceis secernentibus. Semina plurima, obovato-cuneata, 

 non alata ; testa laxa, reticulata ; albmninis granulis magnis ; em- 

 bryone brevi, cylindraceo; cotyledonibm brevibus. — Friiticuli Hhna- 

 laid Uncoidei, sempervirentes ; caules prostrati, ramosi; ramis czca- 



foUosis 



erectO'patentia^ suhhnbricata, lineari-oblonga, coriacea^ lucida, margi- 

 nata, seirata v. longs ciliata, sulacuta v. glandula incrassata tenui- 



nata. 



multijli 



iferior 



late ovata, laterales Uneares sepalis tninores, Sepala coriacea, ciliata. 

 Corollse coriacece tubus calyci cequllongas, lobis ohovatis oltusis reiu- 



Hsve 



Genus e tribu lihodorearum, Don, Loiseleurits antheris rima longitu- 

 dinal! dehiscentibus affine, sed staminibus biscriatis ab omnibus dis- 



