LV. ONAGRARIE®. LAD 
petals. Ovary half-inferior, 2-celled; ovule 1 in each cell; 
style cylindrical, simple; stigma obtuse. Fruit a somewhat 
horny nut, 2-4-spined from the enlarged, spinous calyx-lobes, 
often with supplementary spines or prominences on the disk, 
1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed without albumen. 
Water plants, floating on lakes and ponds.—Z’ bispinosa, Roxb., occurs 
at Natal, where its singularly-formed fruits, which are full of farinaceous 
substance, are eaten by the Zulu Kaffirs. The submerged leaves are opposite, 
pinnatisect, with very narrow lobes, the floating crowded in a rosulate 
cluster, petioled, rhomboid, toothed, the petioles swollen and hollow in the 
middle, forming floats; flowers axillary, solitary. The black-brown oval 
nut is crowned with 2 straight barbed horns; and its either side, in the spe- 
cimens I have received, is curiously furnished with prominences arranged 
like the features of a diabolical face ; a long, hooked nose, a pair of peering 
eyes, and a pursed-up mouth. Specimens sent to me by Mr. Sanderson, of 
Natal. 
Orpver LVI. TURNERACER. 
Flowers bisexual. Calyx tubular, free, 5-cleft. Petals 5, 
inserted in the tube or at its summit, twisted in bud, deci- 
duous. Stamens 5, alternating with the petals. Ovary 1- 
celled, with 3 parietal placentas ; styles 3, separate or partially 
connate ; stigmas fimbriate. Fruit capsular, 3-valved; valves 
placentiferous. Seeds albuminous.—A small Order, scarcely 
differing from Passifloree. 
1. TURNERA, Plume. 
Calyx coloured, tubular-funnel-shaped, more or less deeply 
5-parted. Petals inserted in the throat of the calyx. Sta- 
mens 5; style 3-fid at the apex; stigma multifid. Capsule 
ovate or oblong, 3-valved.—Fl. Cap. i. p. 599; TLhes. Cap. 
t. 140. 
Undershrubs or shrubs, chiefly American.— 7. Capensis, H., our only 
species, is a very dwarf, hairy plant, with crowded, lanceolate, serrate 
leaves, and axillary, small, white flowers. It grows near the Aapjes river. 
Orver LVII. LOASACEZ. 
Flowers bisexual, regular. Calyx adnate to the ovary; 
limb 5-lobed. Petals epigynous, 10, in 2 rows, those of the 
outer row concave. Stamens indefinite, in many parcels. 
Ovary 3-celled—An Order almost exclusively American, 
chiefly near the west coasts of North and South America. 
1. KISSENTA, R. Br. 
Calyx-tube 10-ribbed ; limb 5-parted, the lobes equal, en- 
