326 CV. THYMELEA. 
TrisE 2. Gyiprex. (Gen. 6-10.) 
6. STRUTHIOLA, Linn. 
Calyx 2-bracteolate, coloured, with a long, slender, cylin- 
drical tube, jointed and deciduous above the ovary, the throat 
widened; limb 4-parted; lobes equal, spreading. Glands 
8 or 12 or rarely 4, fleshy or horny, oblong, erect, exserted on 
the rim of the throat, each girt with a circle of shining hairs, 
and all of them more or less confluent at base. Anthers 
4, subsessile in the throat, included. No hypogynous scales. 
Ovary sessile; style lateral, capillary, equalling the calyx- 
tube ; stigma capitate. Nut enclosed in the persistent base 
of perianth— DC. Prod. xiv. p. 566. 
Heath-like shrubs or undershrubs, mostly with long, slender branches, op- 
posite or rarely scattered, mostly linear leaves and flowers, in terminal leafy 
spikes, often very-sweetly scented.—19 species, dispersed. 
7. CRYPTADENTIA, Meisn. 
Calyx coloured, funnel-shaped; the tube jomted over the 
ovary, the upper part deciduous; the throat pubescent, with- 
out scales; limb 4-parted; the lobes as long as the tube or 
longer, spreading, glabrous within. Glands 8, oblong, sessile, 
sub-l-seriate, in the middle of the tube. Stamens 8, 2-seriate, 
inserted above the glands; filaments capillary, bearded. No 
hypogynous scales. Ovary glabrous; style lateral, equalling 
the tube; stigma capitate. Nut in the hairy base of calyx. 
—D0. Prod. xiv. p. 573. 
Heath-like shrublets or undershrubs, with opposite, decussate, sessile, 
linear or needle-shaped, glabrous leaves, and terminal, subsolitary, purplish 
or rosy, externally silky flowers,—5 species, Western. 
8. LACHNZA, V. Royen. 
Calyx coloured, funnel-shaped, pubescent within and with- 
out (very rarely glabrous within), the tube narrowed and at 
length jointed and deciduous above the ovary ; limb 4-parted, 
spreading ; the lobes equal or unequal in pairs. Glands 8, 
in a double or single row beneath the insertion of the sta- 
mens, included or half-exserted, filiform or scale-like, partly 
hid among the hairs of the throat. Stamens 8, 2-seriate, ex- 
serted, inserted in the throat ; filaments conspicuous ; anthers 
basifixed, obtuse. No hypogynous scales. Ovary sessile, gla- 
brous ; style lateral, capillary ; stigma capitate, exserted. Nut 
ovoid, in the base of calyx.— DC. Prod. xiv. p. 574, 
Shrubs with slender branches, opposite or scattered leaves, and flowers in 
terminal, nude or involucred heads, rarely axillary, subsolitary.—18 species, 
dispersed. 
