Victorian Plants. 427 



RHXFOGONT7IK. 



1831. Racemes spike-like, glabrous, undivided. 



Somewhat shrubby and prickly ; leaves very firm, on jointed 

 short stalks almost opposite or ternately whorled or some 

 scattered, mostly fromlanceolar to nearly ovate, with three 

 or five longitudinal venules ; flowers small, fragrant, 

 somewhat distant ; bracts minute ; sepals and petals 

 nearly ovate, of almost equal length, whitish, anthers 

 curved-pointed; style very short, almost undivided, 

 slightly surpassing the stamens ; fruit globular, dark-red 

 outside ; seeds exteriorely brownish. R. album. 



DRYIVIOFHILA. 



1832. Fruit outside blue. 



Never tall, branchless or scantily branched ; leaves placed 

 somewhat vertically, sessile, from linear to elliptical- 

 lanceolar, finely venular-streaked, none near the root ; the 

 lowest leaves or leaf-stalks scale-like shortened ; flowers 

 small, on conspicuous stalklets, bractless, turned somewhat 

 downward ; sepals and petals membranous, spreading, 

 white, deciduous ; styles very short ; stigmas revolute ; 

 fruit globular or somewhat ovate ; seeds brownish, smooth, 

 shining. D. cyanocarpa. 



SCHEXiHAXKlKERA. 



1833. Flowers often singly terminating the branches. 



Dwarf, often diffuse, usually branched ; root-fibres ending 

 into very small tubers ; leaves of thin texture, sessile, 

 slightly clasping, from almost lanceolar to ovate, at the 

 margin somewhat crisped ; flowers on conspicuous stalks, 

 bractless, occasionally two together ; sepals and petals 

 membranous, spreading, almost lilac, nearly lanceolar- 

 elliptical, deciduous ; stamens short ; anthers dark- 

 purplish ; style longer than the stigmas ; fruit globular, 

 slightly three-lobed ; seeds globular, their appendage 



S. undulata. 



BT7RCHARDXA. 



1834. Fruit sharply triangular, gradually much pointed. 



Seldom tall ; stem annual, usually branchless ; leaves few, 

 linear, the lower on a cylindric stalk, the upper shortened 

 and clasping ; umbels one or rarely two or three, supported 

 by narrow and short bracts ; flowers rather small, occa- 

 sionally reduced to three or two ; sepals and petals spread- 

 ing, from lanceolar to almost elliptical, white or somewhat 

 reddish -tinged, deciduous; anthers almost horizontal, 

 either black-purplish or yellow ; style very short ; stigmas 

 acute ; fruit generally trigonous-ellipsoid, soon three- 

 pointed ; seeds many, small, brown. B. umbellata. 



