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1. CUSSONIA, Th. 



Calyx-margin 5-7-tootlied or entire. Petals 5-7. Stamens 

 as many as the petals, alternate with them. Ovary top-shaped, 

 crowned by a broad disk ; styles 2-3, short, erect, distinct, 

 near together. Fruit 2-3-celled, roundish, somewhat fleshy. 

 —Fl. Cap. li.p. 5G8. 



Shrubs or small trees, with thick, somewhat fleshy stems. Leaves on 

 long petioles, glabrous, gloasy, sometimes glaucous, palmate or digitate, with 

 5-9 1 -nerved, entire or lobed leaflets. Flowers in spikes, panicles, racemes 

 or umbels. — 6 species, dispersed. 



2. PANAX, Linn. 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx-margin obsoletely 5-toothed. 

 Petals 5. Stamens 5. Ovary inferior, 2-celled ; styles 2, di- 

 vergent ; stigmas simple. Berry laterally compressed, oblong 

 or orbicular (or didymous, rarely terete-obconic), 2-celled; 

 cells 1-seeded. 



A large and widely-distributed genus of trees, shrubs or herbs, various in 

 habit.— P. GerrarcU, Harv. MSS., lately found by Mr. Gerrard (No. 1264) 

 at Ingoma, Natal, is a low tree, glabrous in all parts, with simple, palmately 

 3-5-lobed leaves, the lobes acuminate, glandularly serrulate ; peduncles axil- 

 lary, bearing a terminal, simple, many -rayed umbel, and several lateral similar 

 umbels, which seem to be frequently abortive; fniit oblong, much compressed. 



Order LXV. CORNER. 



Flowers small, regular. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ; 

 limb 4-toothed. Petals 4, epigynous, with valvate aestivation. 

 Stamens 4, alternate with the petals, inserted round the 

 margin of a fleshy disk. Ovary inferior, 2-4-celled; ovules 

 solitary, pendulous, anatropal ; style single. Fruit fleshy, 

 with a bony 2-4-celled nucleus. Embryo in the axis of 

 fleshy albumen. — Trees or shrubs, with opposite, exstipulate, 

 penninerved leaves. Flowers in heads, umbels, cymes or 

 panicles. 



1. CURTISIA, Ait. 



Calyx-tube top-shaped, 4-angled ; limb 4-parted. Petals 4, 

 ovate, valvate. Stamens 4 ; filaments subulate ; anthers ver- 

 satile, short, didymous. Ovary 4-celled (occasionally 3-celled), 

 crowned with a hairy disk ; style single ; stigmas 3-4. Fruit 

 thinly-fleshy, with a bony, 4-celled (or 2-3-celled) nut. Seeds 

 1 in each cell, pendulous. — Fl. Cap. ii. p. 570 ; T/ies. Cap. t. 

 124. 



C.faginea, Ait. (Hassagay wood), is a fine tree, found in forests through- 

 out the colony. Leaves oblong-ovate, acute, rigid, coarsely-toothed, penni- 



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