CV. THYMELER. 3825 
2. DAIS, Linn. 
Calyx coloured, funnel-shaped, the tube slender, continuous 
or at length bursting across above the ovary, pubescent within ; 
limb 5-lobed, regular ; throat without scales. Stamens 10, in- 
serted in the throat in a double row ; filaments conspicuous, 
setaceous, the alternate shorter, the upper row or all exserted ; 
anthers oblong. A membranous cup beneath the ovary. Style 
lateral, capillary, exserted ; stigma capitate. Berry fleshy or 
dry, enclosed in the base of the calyx.—DC. Prod. xiv. p. 528. 
Shrubs, with scattered or opposite, large, flat, veiny leaves, and terminal 
peduncled heads, girt with a 4-leaved involucre.—D. cotinifolia, the only 
South African species, grows in the Eastern district and at Natal. 
3. ARTHROSOLEN, C. A. Mey. 
Calyx coloured, funnel-shaped, the tube jointed below the 
middle, the upper part deciduous, lower persistent ; limb 4-5- 
parted, spreading ; throat without scales. Stamens 8-10, in 
the throat ; anthers subsessile, oblong or linear, 2-seriate, the 
upper half exserted, lower included. No hypogynous scales. 
Style lateral, filiform, included; stigma papillate, capitate. 
Nut enclosed in the persistent base of the perianth—DC. 
Prod. xiv. p. 559. 
Shrubs or undershrubs, with scattered or rarely opposite, sessile leaves, 
and axillary or capitate and involucrate flowers.—9 species, dispersed. 
4. PASSERINA, Linn. 
Calyx salver-shaped, the tube mediocre, thin, narrowed and 
at length bursting above the ovary, the lower part persistent, 
enwrapping the fruit, or at length splitting and falling off; 
limb 4-parted, petaloid, spreading; throat without scales. 
Stamens 8, l-seriate in the throat; filaments subulate, ex- 
serted, dilated at base. No hypogynous scales. Style la- 
teral, near the apex of the glabrous ovary, equalling the tube 
of perianth ; stigma half-exserted, capitate. Nut enclosed in 
the calyx-tube or at last nude, ovate, with a hard, dry shell.— 
DC. Prod. xiv. p. 561. 
Heath-like shrubs, with tomentose branches, and decussately opposite, 
small, dorsally-keeled or convex, narrow leaves; flowers small, axillary or 
jn terminal spikes, each subtended by a dilated bract.—4: species, dispersed. 
5. CHYMOCOCCA, Meisn. 
Character as in Passerina, except that the fruit is a fleshy; 
nude berry, containing a hard-shelled seed.—DO. Prod. xiv. p- 
065. 
1 or 2 species, with the habit of Passerina, dispersed. 
