Gunnera.| HALORAGACEAE. 123 
its length into lanceolate lobes. Petals little longer, white. Capsule 
exceeding the calyx, 3-valved; the seeds linear or clavate, with a close 
sat — aay, Bot. U. S. E. E. 
he marshes of the high table- areal of Waimea (U. S. E. E., and Kn.) and on 
ea fe ny has not Sei found ye et gn 3 “et Cages whieh ath sO Many rare mane in 
ommon with — localities. — The ver the northern regions of Europe, 
Asia and Ameri from New v Fou ndland to the N. W. coast). el esh-eating plant; the 
leaves covered with the dead bodies of flies in ev ery jis of decomposition, as reported 
by Mr. Knudse 
Orper XXX. HALORAGACEAE. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual, often imperfect. Calyx-tube adnate 
to the ovary, the limb entire or with as many teeth or lobes as petals. 
Petals 2 or 4, inserted around an epigynous disk or on the calyx-border, 
or wanting, valvate or imbricate. Stamens as many or sometimes fewer, 
inserted with the petals. Ovary inferior, 1- or more-celled, with 1 pendu- 
lous ovule in each cell. Styles as many as cells of the ovary. Fruit 
dry and indehiscent. Seeds with ened gaan Embryo auc with 
a superior radicle and small cotyledons. — Herbs, often aquatic, rarely 
woody at the base. Leaves a sete aie or sometimes whorled. 
Flowers small, axillary or in terminal racemes or panicles. 
A small Order, widely dispersed over the globe. 
1. GUNNERA, L. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or monoecious. Calycine lobes 2 or 3, uneq 
or equal, in the male fl. often imperfect or wanting. Petals wanting or 2, 
cucullate. Stamens 1—2; filaments filiform ; ps in oblong, basifixed, 
opening laterally. Ovary I-celled. Styles 2, subulate, papillose all round. 
rupe coriaceous or somewhat fleshy, with crustaceous putamen. 
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umen, pyriform or obcordate. — Perennial, often very — 
smooth or hispid scapigerous herbs, with ge enerally creeping rh 
ers tei along the branches of a panicle, small, greenish, 
eshy. 
ec a be e e fl. on the upper branches 
A genus of 11 species, ail terrestrial, and, with exception of 2 species, belonging to 
the southern hemisphere. (Andes of S. America, Juan Fernandez, N. Zealand, Tasmania, 
Java, S. Africa, Abyssinia), being inate either of high and cold latitudes or of high 
mountains 
L@. sebnleidac, Gaud. Bot. Voy. Freye. p. 512. — Caudex erect, generally 
short, but in some places rising to a height of 3 to 4 ft. being several 
inches thick and quite fleshy, with a crown of leaves near the apex. 
Leaves very large and thick, rugose, rounded-reniform, 2—3 ft. in width, 
_on a thick, fleshy, muricate petiole of 1 ft. or more in length, 10-lobed, 
with the lobes rounded and dentate, covered with short hairlets above, 
