324 CV. THYMELES. 
mens 2-4-5, l-seriate, opposite the lobes, or 8-10, 2-seriate, 
inserted on the perianth; anthers 2-celled. Ovary free, 1- 
celled (rarely 2-celled); ovule 1, pendulous; style filiform. 
Fruit a nut or drupe. Seed solitary; albumen O or thin ; 
radicle superior.—Shrubs or rarely trees, with very tough 
bark ; simple, quite entire leaves, without stipules ; and capi- 
tate, umbelled, racemose or spiked, rarely solitary, often 
pubescent flowers. 
Tribe 1. DapHNE®. Calyx without any scales or glands in the throat 
or within the tube. 
Flowers pedicelled, in pedunculate, terminal umbels . 1. PEDDIEBA. 
Flowers sessile, either in heads or spikes or axillary. 
Anthers subsessile within the throat of perianth . 3. ARTHROSOLEN. 
Anthers on setaceous or subulate filaments, some or 
all exserted. 
Flowers in terminal, peduncled, involucred heads 2. Dats. 
Flowers axillary or spiked. 
Nut dry, witha hardshell. . ... . . 4, PASSERINA. 
Berry fleshy, containing a hard seed. . . . 5, CHymococoa. 
Tribe 2. Gnipirm. Calyx having scales or glands, either in the throat 
or more or less within the tube. 
Glands more or less concealed in the tube. Anthers 
on conspicuous filaments. 
Glands oblong, in the middle of the tube. Flowers 
subsolitary . . ehh 
. Glands filiform or scale- like, i in ‘the upper part of 
tube, partly hidden among the hairs of throat. 
Flowers mostly capitate. . . 8. LAcHNmA. 
Glands or scales at the summit of the tube, conspi- 
cuous. Anthers subsessile. 
Calyx with a 4-parted limb. 
Stamens4 . . we isy ce, Gus) oad see aay <ptas ye (Op yO ERIE 
Stamens 8 ee 9. Guipra. 
Calyx with 5- parted limb. Anthers 10 . . . 10. LastosipHon. 
. CRYPTADENIA. 
TriBE 1. Dapnnem. (Gen. 1-5.) 
1. PEDDIEA, Harv. 
Calyx coloured, deciduous, the tube conical-cylindrical, con- 
tinuous; limb 4-5-lobed; lobes short, revolute. Stamens 
8-10, inserted above the middle of the tube, 2-seriate ; an- 
thers subsessile, oblong, obtuse. A cup-like, membranous, 
crenate disk under the ovary. Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled ; 
ovule pendulous; style filiform, deciduous; stigma de- 
pressed-capitate. ‘Drupe nude. Embryo exalbuminous.—D@. 
Prod. xiv. p. 528. 
P. Africana is a glabrous shrub, with forking branches, scattered or sub - 
opposite, obovate-oblong, shining leaves, and umbellate, pedunculat e 
flowers.—F ound near Natal. 
