Faradaya.] XCII. VERBENACEJE. 69 
19. FARADAYA, F. Muell. 
Calyx closed before flowering, then dividing into 2 valvate segments. 
Gatotla-tabe dilated upwards, limb 4-lobed, the upper lobe broad and emar- 
cag the three lower nearly equal. Stamens 4, didynamous, exserted. 
vary shortly 4-lobed, wal ir in the upper portion, with one ovule in 
each cell laterally attached. Fruit a drupe, the putamen 1-celled and 1- 
seeded by abortion (or4-lobed with 4 distinct pyrenes?).—W oody climbers. 
Leaves opposite, undivided. Flowers rather large, in terminal panicles. 
es the Australian species, there are three from the S. Pacific islands. The 
nearest affinity of the genus appears to be with the New Caledonian Oxera. 
l. F. splendida, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 21,212. A tall woody climber, 
quite glabrous. Leaves ovate, acuminate, rounded or cordate at the 
base, " to nearly 1 ft. long, prominently penniveined, n petiole 1 
. ion i i ose 
in the throat of the corolla; anthers with 2 parallel cells. Ovary to- 
mentose. Drupe only one seen which was 1-seeded, about 2 in. long, 
contracted at the base and apparently proceeding from one lobe of the 
ovary, the other lobes remaining abortive at the base, as there is no scar 
of the style at the upper end. Seed not seen. ; 
Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 
Tni E 3. AVICENNIEX.—Fruit a 2-valved capsule. Seed solitary, 
without inteeuments ; embryo with large folded cotyledons. 
20. AVICENNIA, Linn. 
Calyx divided to the base into 5 distinct segments or sepals. Corolla- 
tube short and broad ; limb of 4 nearly equal epee lobes or the 
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ments, (the integuments of th 
ledons folded longitudinally, a very hal 
pe minent emala, which germinates before the fruit drops oit as ad 
“hora, &c.—Shrubs.. Leaves opposite, undivided. Flowers 1 
et cymes in the upper axils or in terminal panicles. ie 
“e genus consists of f i idely distributed over the warmer maritime 
Aeons o the New and the Old. World, and ic nearly related to each other. The 
üstralian species is the typical and most common form 
i A. officinalis, Lin»; Schau. in DC. Prod. xi. 700. Aa iunt 
b, varying much in height, the branches inflorescence and uncer 
