LXII. riCOlDE^E. 133 



3-5 parcels, connate at base, alternating with a few free sta- 

 mens. Disk 3-5-fid or 0. Stigmas 3-5, obovate, fleshy, 

 coloured or white, rarely terete. Capsules membranous, 3-5- 

 angled, 3-5-celled, 3-5-valyed, loculicidal ; cells many-seeded. 

 Seeds lenticular, smooth, shining. — Pharnaceum, Fl. Cap. i. p. 

 138 ; and Hypertelis, FL Cap. i. p. 141-. 



Small, slendef, half-shrubby plants or herbs, with setaceous, filiform or 

 linear, rarely lanceolate leaves ; the cauline leaves alternate, the upper 

 crovirded in dense, brush -like tufts. Stipules conspicuous, either fimbriate 

 or entire. Flowers in cymes or pseudo-umbels. — About 20 species, dis- 

 persed. 



10. CCELANTHUM, E. Mey. 



Calyx funnel-shaped or bell-shaped, semi-5-fid ; the segments 

 petaloid, obtuse. Petals 0. Stamens 5, inserted between the 

 calyx-lobes, perigynous ; filaments short ; anthers sagittate, 

 erect, longer than the filaments. Disk 0. Stigmas 3, round- 

 ish, fleshy. Capsules oblong, 3-angled, 3-celled, many-seeded, 

 loculicidally 3-valved ; valves septiferous. Seeds globose, 

 subcompressed. — Fl. Cap. i.p. 147. 



Glabrous annuals, with scape-like, 2-3-forked and racemoso-cymose 

 stems, springing from a tuft of radical leaves. Leaves obovate oval or 

 lanceolate. Stipules fimbriato-lacerate. — 2 species, both Western. 



11. PSAMMOTROPHA, E. and Z. 



Calyx 5-parted ; sepals ovate, coloured within and at the 

 margin. Petals 0. Stamens 5, alternate with the sepals ; 

 anthers globose. Disk 0. Style very short ; stigmas 3-5, 

 filiform. Capsule 3-5-angled, subglobose, 3-5-celled, 3-5- 

 valved, loculicidal ; cells 1-seeded. Seeds globose, granulated. 

 —FI. Cap. i.p. 146. 



Small undershrubs or perennial herbs, with or without stipules. Branches 

 bent at the nodes, with whorled leaves ; sometimes very much branciied, 

 and imbricated with crowded, rigid, 4-ranked leaves. Flowers minute, 

 umbellate. — 4 species, dispersed. 



12. ADENOGRAMMA, Echb. 



Calyx 5-parted, ovoid or globose ; sepals coloured ^\^thin 

 and at the margin. Petals 0. Stamens 5, alternate with the 

 sepals, connate at base into a membranous, hypogynous ring ; 

 anthers ovoid, versatile. Ovary 1-celled, with a single ovule on 

 an ascending cord ; style simple ; stigma capitate. Utricle 

 indehiscent, conical, straight, compressed or lenticular, ob- 

 liquely acuminate, smooth or papillated. Seed ovoid, with 

 a membranous coat. — Fl. Caj?. i.p. 149. 



Slender, rigid perennials or annuals, dicholomous, diftuse and glabrous. 



