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the petals, eitlier once or usually twice as many, those oppo- 

 site the petals sometimes abortive ; filaments inflexed in bud ; 

 anthers 2-celled, opening by terminal pores, or rarely splitting. 

 Ovary usually plurilocular (rarely unilocular) ; ovules nume- 

 rous ; style simple ; stigma undivided. Fruit a capsule or 

 berry. Seeds without albumen. — Leaves opposite, entire, 

 usually 3- or more ribbed, without pellucid dots, exstipulate. 



* Undershrubs, witli 3-5-ribbecl, rough leaves. 



Caljx-limb persistent, with accessory teeth ; antliers 



with a chib-shaped appendage at base 1. Aegtrella. 



Caljx-hmb deciduous ; tube covered with bristly 

 scales ; anthers with a 2-fid or 2-parted appendage 



at base 2. DissoTis. 



** Trees and shrubs with 1-nerved, glabrous leaves. 



Calyx-tube ovoid ; stamens 8 ; ovary 1-celled ... 3. Memecvlon. 

 Calyx-tube cylindrical ; stamens 5 ; ovary 5-celled . 4. Olinia. 



1. ARaYRELLA, N^ud. 



Calyx-tube bell-shaped ; limb of 5 ovate acute lobes, equal- 

 ling the tube, twisted imbricate in ajstivation, alternating with 

 as many subulate accessory teeth (not stellato-setose at apex). 

 Petals obovate. Stamens 10, unequal ; anthers linear-subu- 

 late, opening by a single pore, recurved, undulate along the 

 inner side, the 5 larger with the connective very long, pro- 

 duced beyond the insertion of the filament into a clavate 

 appendage ; the 5 smaller with a very short 2-dentate connec- 

 tive, confluent with the apex of the filament. Ovary 5-celled, 

 half-inferior, the upper half free, 5-lobed, tomentose ; style 

 filiform. Capsules contained in the persistent calyx. Seeds 

 cochleate, striate. — JSfmid. in Ann. Sc. Naf., Ser. 3. xiii. p. 300. 

 Osbeckia, ex parte, Fl. Cap. ii.p. 518. 



A. canescens {Osheckia canescens, E. Mey. ! ; Graham in Bot. Mag. ! t. 

 3790 ; O. Umlaasiana, Hochst.) is an erect, virgate branching nndershrub, 

 found near Natal. All parts pale, tomentose with very minute, stellate 

 hairs. Leaves sessile or subsessile, oblong-lanceolate, 5-nerved, netted- 

 veined beneath. Flowers purple, handsome, corymboso-paniculate. 



2. DISSOTIS, Benth. 



Calyx-tube ovoid, covered with palmately-cut scales, ad- 

 hering by its ribs to the ovary or at length free ; limb 4-5- 

 parted, deciduous, many-bristled at the apex. Petals obovate, 

 ample. Stamens 10, unequal ; anthers linear- subulate, open- 

 ing by a single pore, subrecurved, the 5 larger with the con- 

 nective very long, produced beyond the insertion of the fila- 

 ment into a deeply 2-lobed or 2-parted appendage ; the 5 

 smaller with a short connective, equally 2-lobed at base. 

 Ovary croAvned with bristles, 4-5-celled ; style equal or 



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