3 Aizoou.] LV. FICOIDEX. 327 
each cell; styles as many as cells, filiform, stigmatic along the inner side. 
e Capsule surrounded by the persistent. calyx, de sressed, opening loculicidally 
in as many valves as cells, or in the Australian species the valves split septi- 
cidally.—Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves tet or rarely opposite, without 
stipules. Flowers solitary or eere cym 
joo genus is chiefly African, and especially S. (eg ‘but extending to N. Africa and 
S Europe. The only Australian species is m mie, and differs from the African ones e 
z habit, in its 4-merous flowers, in the calyx valvate, not E Eie in the bud, and in the 
hiscence of the capsule. In this respe a it is more nearly allied to Gunnia, to which 3t 
m Eo to > nd, but the geg are numerous as in Aizoon, ‘Theo ët 
ur also i of the S. African s E 
calyx, more distant opposite the lobes ; filaments slender, more or less covered ` 
like the ovary with transparent vesicular cells, about as long as the calyx- 
a vary 
along their inner side. Ovules merons. Capsule almost free, obpyramidal- 
mg corned iiio in 4 truncate valves, loculicidally divided 
almost to the base.— Sesuvium quadrifidum, F. Muell. Rep. Babb. Exped. 
..N. d aha Towards the Barrier Range, between Duroodoo and Nangavera, Vicio- 
rian Expedition. 
, S. Australia 
Desert at Stuart’s Creek, Hergolt. 
4. GUNNIA, F. Muell. 
n free, deeply divided into 4 lobes, valvate in the bud. Petals none. 
lamen ns 4, inserted on the calyx-tube and alternating with its lobes. Ovary 
Superior, enclosed in the calyx, 4-celled, with several ovules in each cell ; 
styles 4, EE eebe along the inner side. Ca gr sule enclosed i in the 
The genus is nier t : 
A ; : 
veslinear , b ace ee ee ae e Zo di 
PE. : a 
d are linear., Flowers n nearly sessile in the forks or terminal. Calyx- 
acute, about PU lines long when in flower, 2 lines long when in fruit. 
8. Australia, Stuart’s Creek, Hergolt. 
G. Drummondii, Benih. A diffuse annual, with opposite branches, 
