166 TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
. Female flowers mostly growing opposite the other, 
Car. Cup 4 leaves, egg-shaped, small, sitting on the 
germen, deciduous, peers bis 
Boss. none. 
Pist. Germen beneath, oblong, 3-edged, indistinctly 
crowned with a border with 4 clefts. Style none, 
Summit blunt, a littlenotehed. ~~ we 
§. Vess. Berry globular, with 1 cell, smooth. . 
~ — imversely heart-shaped, compressed, blunt 
eshy. 
HIPPO’PHAE. Tourn. 481; Rhamnoides. Geertn. 42. 
Male flowers. | er 
Car. Cup 1 leaf, divided into 2 parts, forming @ valves, 
but joined at the base. Segments circular, blunt, con-— 
mets upright, but the points approaching, open at the 
sides. ; | oe 
BLoss. none. oe 
Stam. Filaments 4, very short. Anthers oblong, angular, 
almost as long as the cup. ; . * 
6 ete 5b chee wo 
AL. Cup -oblong, tubular, club-shaped, cloven 
at the rim, py = aa faci aint eg 
Buoss. none. etait a . 
Pisr. Germen roundish, small, Style simple, very short. 
mse rather thick, oblong, upright, twice as long as 
€ cup. 
S. Vess. Berry nearly globular, with 1 cell, 
Szrp single, oblong. 
: Oss. In H, Rhamnoides, an hermaphrodite flower has some- 
times been found amongst the male flowers. (Schreb.) | 
* 1 
-ALCHEMIL/LA. Tourn. 989. Geertn. 73. 
= ae, — permanent. Rim flat, with 8 — 
Ions; every ot pom 
Bross, dns “yr . er Segment smaller, 7 
TaM. Filaments 4 awl-shaped, upright, small, standing 
i, on the rim of the calyx, “tele Fouts ; oe 
x —— egg-shaped. Style thread-shaped, as long _ 
Suiits Pebilers g on the base of _ ene 
