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each scale. False-cone formed of hard ligneous scales. Nuts 
compressed, angular, wingless, 1-seeded.— Endl. Gen. n. 1841. 
The common Alder (A. glutinosa) is found throughout the colony, appa- 
rently wild, but whether truly so or not I cannot say. 
es 
Orver CXIT. SALICINEZ, 
Flowers dicecious, in catkins.—Male: Calyx 0. Disk fleshy, 
glandular, annular or cup-like. Stamens 2 or more, inserted 
on the torus; filaments filiform; anthers 2-celled.—Female: 
Calyx 0 Disk as in the male. Ovary sessile, formed of 2 
carpels, whose edges are either valvate or more or less in- 
flexed, 1-celled; ovules many, ascending; styles 2, more or 
less connate. Capsule bivalve, many-seeded, splitting through 
the centre; seeds many, minute, hidden in silky hairs of the 
seed-stalk.—Trees and shrubs, chiefly of the Northern hemi- 
sphere. The Order consists of but two genera, Populus (the 
Poplar) and Salva (the Willow). 
1. SALIX, Tourn. 
Male: Bracts undivided. Disk a gland. Stamens 2-3-5; 
filaments free or monadelphous.— Female: Bracts as in male. 
Styles very short; stigmas 2-lobed.—Zndl. Gen. n. 1993. 
The Salix Capensis, Thunb., is said to be one of the greatest ornaments 
of the banks of the river Gariep ; S. hirsuta, Thunb., is a silky-leaved form 
of the same. 
Orpver CXIIl. MYRICEA. 
Flowers moneecious or dicecious, in simple or branched eat- 
kins.—Males in filiform catkins. Bracteoles 2, one on each 
side of the bract, sometimes wanting. Calyx 0. Stamens 
2-4-6-8, some often abortive ; filaments filiform; anthers 2- 
celled, extrorse, basifixed, didymous.—Female: in ovate or 
cylindrical catkins. Hypogynous scales 2-6. Ovary com- 
pressed or subglobose, 1-celled ; ovule solitary, erect ; style 
very short; stigmas 2, elongate, subulate or lanceolate, papil- 
lose. Fruit dry, indehiscent, or covered with fleshy scales and 
pseudo-drupaceous, l-seeded. Albumen 0.—Shrubs, commonly 
with balsamic odours. Leaves alternate, simple, entire or 
serrated. Stipules 0. 
