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this can be the case ; as though the outer part 

 of the berry is of a soft spongy nature, it is dry 

 and insipid ; and there is no internal pulp, for 

 the seeds lie loose in the cells. In Sollya 

 heterophylla the flowers are drooping, on long 

 and very slender pedicels, and tliey are produced 

 in cymes. The corolla is campanulate, with 

 the tips of the petals not recurved, and the 

 anthers are much shorter than in Billardiera. 

 The fruit is a soft fleshy berry, divided into two 

 cells, each containing two rows of seeds im- 

 mersed in pulp, and when cut open, it smells 

 strongly of turpentine. The plant generally 

 called Sollya linearis has a dry and leathery 

 pericardium ; and for this reason and on account 

 of the spreading of its anthers, it was placed by 

 Mr. Cunningham in a new genus, which he 

 called Cheir anther a. 



ORDER XXV. FRANKENIACE^.— THE FRANKENIA 

 TRIBE. 



The genus Frankenia consists principally of 

 the British weeds called Sea Heath ; and the 

 other genera included in the order are seldom 

 seen in British gardens, from the seeds which 

 have been imported seldom arriving in a state 

 fit for vegetation. 



