CII. PARONYCHIESR. 321 
Diffuse herbs. Leaves alternate, rather fleshy and glaucous. Stipules 
scarious. Flowers small, cymose corymbose or panicled.—1 diffused Euro- 
pean species, probably introduced. 
4, SCLERANTHUS, Linn. 
Perianth funnel-shaped or tubular, at length indurate ; lobes 
4-5, erect or incurved. Stamens 1, 2, 5, or 10, inserted on 
the throat of the calyx. Ovary ovoid; styles 2, distinct, fili- 
form ; stigmas capitate; ovule 1, suspended from a basilar 
funicle. Utricle included in the thickened perianth-tube.— 
DC. Prod. iii. p. 378. 
Small, rigid herbs, densely tufted. Leaves opposite, connate at the base, 
subulate. Stipules 0. Flowers very small, green.—2 species, both Euro- 
pean and perhaps introduced. 
Orpver CII]. PENH ACE. 
Calyx coloured, persistent, enlarging, tubular, 4-lobed ; the 
lobes valvate or reduplicate i in bud. Stamens 4, in the throat, 
alternate with the lobes of the perianth ; anthers adnate to a 
thickened connective, 2-celled. Ovary free, 4-celled; cells 
2-4-ovuled ; style terete or 4-cornered; stigma 4-lobed or 4 
stigmas. Capsule loculicidal, 4-valved. Seed exalbuminous ; 
embryo fleshy, with minute, scarcely- visible cotyledons.— 
Shrubs or undershrubs, with opposite, entire leaves, and sub- 
sessile, mostly bracteolate flowers in the upper axils. 
Tribe 1. PENZE®. Ovules in each cell 2, erect. (Gen. 1-4.) 
Style 4-angled or 4-winged; stigmas 4, flat, placed 
crosswise. 
Style 4-winged . . Sed a aes ol Nigel Song. o.\e 
Style 4-angled (not winged) 2 heghenaer vel pone)  25Smx napa 
Style terete; stigma 4-lobed, capitate. 
Calyx-tube not longer than the lobes. Stamens in- 
cluded . . . . 8 BRACHYSIPHON. 
Calyx-tube longer than the lobes. "Stamens exserted 4. Sarcocorta. 
Tribe 2. ENDONEMER. Ovules in each cell 4, 2 ascending, 2 pendulous. 
(Gen. 5-6.) 
Calyx-tube 4-ribbed, scarcely longer than lobes. 
Flowers crowded in a terminal, bracteate spike. . 5. GLISCHROCOLLA. 
Calyx-tube longs iS eens Flowers axillary, scat- 
tered. . ere seen eyse erty Gt ENDONEMA. 
Trispe 1. Penmwem. (Gen. 1-4.) 
1. PENA, Linn. 
Calyx-tube scarcely longer than the limb, about equalling 
the bract, valvate in bud. Filaments very short ; anther-cells 
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