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XCI. SELAGINEJE. 81 
Orver XCI. SELAGINEZ. 
Flowers irregular. Calyx persistent, more or less deeply toothed or 
divided into 3 to 5 lobes, or into 2 or 3 distinct sepals. Corolla with 
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corolla and alternating with its lower lobes; anthers 1-celled (by the 
confluence of the 2 valle ?) Ovary free, not lobed, 2-celled with 1 pen- 
dulous ovule in each cell. Style simple, undivided at the apex. Fruit 
small, dry, readily separating into two 1-seeded nuts or reduced to a 
single one by abortion. Seeds pendulous, albuminous ; embryo straight, 
with a superior irria sa bi or undershrubs usually small. Leaves 
alternate or rarely opposite, the floral ones often dissimilar and reduced 
to bracts. Flowers solitary within each floral leaf, usually sessile, 
forming dense or interrupted terminal spikes. 
ovules to one only or two in the whole ovary, which appears to be constant in Selaginee, 
and only occurs in a. very few species of Myoporinee. The irregularity of the corolla 
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Assumes also a somewhat different type in the two Orders. 
*]. DISCHISMA, Chois. 
Calyx divided to the base into 2 sepals. Corolla with a cylindrical 
tamens 4. 
Soc. Gen. and in DC. Prod. xii. 7. 
ternate, linear with a few distant teeth or entire, mostly about or under 
H in. long. Flowers small (blue ?), in terminal spikes which after 
; Australi ummond, 2nd coll. n. 150, 3rd. coll. n. 292 ; apparently abun- 
nt, as numerous specimens were gathered each time, but most likely introduced from 
the Cape where the species is not uncommon, 
Order XCII. VERBENACEJE. 
irregular or rarely Calyx persistent, trunca 
: . Flowers regular. te 
toothed or lobed. . Corolla with 4 or 5, rarely 6 to 8, lobes or rarely 
