116 LIV. LYTHRARIES. 
only as many. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform; stigma capi- 
tate. Capsule oblong, enclosed in the calyx, 2-celled, many- 
seeded.— F7. Cap. u. p. 516. 
Herbs, occasionally half-shrubby, with opposite alternate or whorled, 
entire leaves. _ Flowers axillary, purple or purplish, often handsome; petals 
quickly withering.—3 species, of which 2 are Eastern and endemic, the third 
nearly cosmopolitan. 
4. NESAA, Comm. 
Calyx hemispherical, bracted or bractless; ribbed or striate, 
with 4-6 erect, triangular inner teeth, and as many smaller, 
narrow, or horn-like, spreading outer teeth. Petals 4-6. Sta- 
mens 8-12, nearly equal. Ovary sessile, globose, 4-celled. 
Capsules globose or subglobose, covered by the calyx, many- 
seeded.— #1. Cap. ii. p. 517. 
Herbs, with lanceolate or oblong, nearly sessile, obtuse or acute, entire 
leaves. Peduncles axillary, longish, 3-flowered or capitate, and many- 
flowered at the summit.—J. floribunda, Sd., our only species, grows near 
Natal. Flowers capitate. 
Tripe 2. HerEROPYXIDER. (Gen. 5.) 
5. HETEROPYXIS, Harv. 
Flowers polygamous.—Male: Calyx cup-shaped, with 5 
erect, triangular lobes. Petals 5, ovate, inserted in the throat 
of the calyx, subsessile, pellucid-dotted. Disk, lming the 
calyx-tube, thin. Stamens 5, inserted with the petals and 
opposite to them !; filaments subulate ; anthers 2-celled, versa- 
tile. . Abortive ovary 2- rarely 3-celled, many-ovuled ; style 
short ; stigma obtuse.— Female : Calyx 10-nerved, with 5 erect, 
triangular lobes, and as many minute, alternating denticles. 
Petals and stamens as in @, but the 2-celled anthers abortive. 
Ovary 2-celled; ovules many, on axile placentas; style fili- 
form, much-exserted; stigma capitate. Capsules oblong, 2- 
célled, girt by the persistent calyx. Seeds (unripe only seen). 
—Thes. Cap. t. 128. 
An aromatic tree or large shrub, found near Natal, with alternate, short- 
petioled, lanceolate, pellucid-dotted, penninerved leaves, and dull white 
fragrant flowers in terminal or axillary panicles. When I published this 
genus in the ‘ Thesaurus’ I was only cognizant of the male flowers, in which, 
however, the ovary, ovules and style, though abortive, were so completely 
organized that the flower passed as bisexual. Recently I have received 
from my zealous and most obliging friend Mr. Gerrard, the true female 
flower and half-ripe fruit. ‘These afford an additional calycine character, 
which completely reconciles Heteropyxis to Lythrariee. 
Orper LV. ONAGRARIES. 
Flowers bisexual, rarely dicecious. Calyx-tube adnate with 
