436 \1A1. SAXIFRAGES. 



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Petals none or minute, or small and jagged. 



riowers in dense globular heads. Ovary 2- or 3 -celled. 



Carpels small, follicular 6. Callicoma. 



riowers solitary. Ovary 2-cellcd. Fruit oblong, 1-seeded . 7. Anodopetalvm. 



Flowers few in short loose cymes or panicles or solitary. 

 Ovary 4-celled. Fruit smaU, 1-seeded, surrounded by the 

 wing-like enlarged calyx-lobes. Stem climbiug ... 8. Aphanopetalvm. 



Flowers small, numerous^ cymose. Ovary 2-cclled. Fruit 



1-seeded. 



Fruit small, surrounded by the wing-like enlarged calyx- 

 lobes. Leaflets 1 or 3, articulate on the petiole ... 9. CeratofetaluM. 

 Drupe 1-seeded, the calyx-lobes small, reflexed. Leaves 



simple, continuous with the petiole 10. Schizomekia. 



Petals narrow, entire, as long as or longer than the calyx. 

 Flowers in dense false whorls. Capsule terminating in 2 



divergiitg awu-like persistent styles H- AcRorHYitu , 



Flowers very small and numerous, paniculate- Capsule small, 



turgid, not awned 12. Ackama. 



Calyx-segments more or Ic&s imbricate. Flowers racemose. 



Ovary and fruit 2- rarely 3-celled 13. WEmMANNiA. 



Carpels 4, quite free from the lirst 14,. Tetracakp-ba. 



Stamens indefinite, more than twice as many as calyx-segmcuts, rarely 

 fewer. Sepals 4. 

 Sepals valvate. Stamens 10 to 15. Ovary 2-celled. Seeds 



vringed. Flowers racemose 1^- Geissois. 



Sepals much imbricate. Stamens very numerous. Ovary 5- to 



12-celled. Seeds winged. Flowers large, solitary . . - * 16- Eucryphia. 

 Sepals valvate or slightly imbricate. Stamens few or numerous. 

 Ovary 2-celled. Seeds not winged. Flowers solitary. Leaves 

 3-foliolate (leaflets apparently in whorls of 6) 17' Bavera. 



Tribe III. Saxifrageae.— Jer3^. Leaves in iJie Australian genera radical alter- 

 nate, or imbricate^ without stipules. 



Leaves and pitchers radical. Scape leafless- Flowers paniculate. 



, Sepals 6. valvate. Petals 0. Stamens 12. Carpels 6, free . . 18. Cephaloi^s. 



Radical leaves entire, stem-leaves alternate, Ipbed. Flowers cymose. 



Calyx-lobes petals and stamens 5. Ovary 2-celled , . . . • l^- EKEMOsr.^^. 



Small tufted plant with densely imbricate leaves. Flowers solitary, 

 sessile. Calyx-lobes and petals 5. Stamens 2. Ovary inferior, 

 2-ceIled . . . . , ..,....• 20. Donatia. 



Tribe 1. Escallonie^.— Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate ormejy 

 (in Polyosmd) more or less opposite. Stipules none. Stamens as nn^ .^^^ 

 calyx-segments. Styles usually united or cohering, at least un 

 stijgma. 



1. ARGOPHYLIiUM, Forst. 



Calyx-tube shortly turbinate or hemispherical, adnate to ^^^ ^.^'''JJg' ^eloff 

 6 or 6, persistent. Petals as many, valvate, persistent, fringed ms . 



the middle with long hairs, forming a corona. Stamens as many \^^^^^ 

 anthers usually shorter than the filaments. Disk scarcely P^o™^"^" jg giiortly 

 half-adnate, 2- to 5-celled, with numerous ovules in each cell; ^) ^^^^^^i- 

 conical, with a capitate shortly lobed stigma. Capsule small, con ^^ ^^^^ 

 to 5-celled, opening loculicidaHy and sometimes also septicidallyin ^^ ^^, 

 or twice as many valves or cells. Seeds minute, globular, reticu . 



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