120 SAXIFRAGACEAE, | Broussaisia. 
have always resulted in failure. The Peach tree is bound to a season, commencing to 
flower in January and bearing between April and June, while the Apple tree flowers 
twice a year, and often may be seen, even in gardens of Honolulu, fi 
at the same time. Both trees have a tendency to send up suckers or shoots from the 
roots and the lower part of the trunk, and thus - lose their arboreou unless 
carefully pruned. — Rosa Damascena and R. multiflora are occasionally found in places 
of deserted s peer and numerous varieties of other roses thrive to perfection, even 
in gardens of Honolu 
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OrpER XXVIU. SAXIFRAGACEAE. 
Sepals 4 or 5, free, or united into a calyx, with the tube wholly or par- 
tially adherent and with 4 or 5 lobes or teeth. Petals either as many, peri 
r rarely 
many, or twice as many, or very rarely more, inserted with the petals, 
the anthers opening by introrse or lateral slits. Ovary single, either 
more or less inferior or adherent, or free with a broad base, 2—5-celled, 
the eine at the introflexed edges of the carpels, or rarely 1-celled, 
with 2 or more parietal placentas. Styles as many as cells or placentas, 
or single, with an entire or lobed stigma. Fruit a jeg ers or berry. 
Seeds usually many; albumen copious, rarely wantin 
A considerable Order, ranging over nearly the psy World, fis ‘iicaitok or arborescent 
genera chiefly tropical, the herbaceous from the temperate _ baer r regions chiefly 
of the northern hemisphere. — In cultivation aunt Japoni 
1. BROUSSAISIA, Gaud. 
Flowers polygamo-dioecious. Male efl. Calyx short, free, deeply divided 
into 5 triangular or ovate lanceolate lobes. Petals 5, valvate, with in- 
flected apex. Stamens 10, inserted with the petals at the Baas of the 
Caly oid, adnate to the ovary, 5-toot Petal 
small, scale-like or lanceol tamens none. Ovary semi-inferous, 11 
completely 5-ce 8 numerous, in al rows along thick bi 
8 
partite, retroflexed placentas, which do not coalesce into a central axis. 
Style short and thick. Stigma thick 5-lobed or Sulcate. Berry eit 
fleshy. eds 
m- 
bryo in the axis of fles shy albumen, and half its length, the BEAGons 
very short. — Small trees with opposite or whorled serrate leaves and 
no stipules. Flowers in terminal corymbs. 
A Hawaiian genus, nearly related to the Malaysian genus Dichroa, Lour., (Adamia, 
Wall., Cyanitis, Rein wh 
Leaves opposite; bluish green; wen on a distinct cas x B. argut 
_ Leaves ternate; ah 2s goths stigma sess Pa 2 pel Aor 
1. B. arguta, Gaud. Bot. Voy. ee p. 479, tab. 69. — DC. Prod. 
IV, 17. — A small tree with stout and soft t branches, fleshy, and hirsute 
with coarse short hairs at their ends: Leaves opposite (very rarely ter- 
