324 CT. THTMELE^. 



mens 2-4-5, l-seriate, opposite the lobes, or 8-10, 2-seriate, 

 inserted on the perianth ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary free, 1- 

 celled (rarely 2-celled) ; ovule 1, pendulous ; style filiform. 

 Fruit a nut or drupe. Seed solitary ; albumen or thin ; 

 radicle superior. — Shrubs or rarely trees, with very tough 

 bark ; simple, quite entire leaves, without stipules ; and capi- 

 tate, umbelled, racemose or spiked, rarely solitary, often 

 pubescent flowers. 



Tribe 1. Daphxeje. Calyx without any scales or glands in the throat 

 or within the tube. 



Flowers pedicelled, in pedunculate, terminal umbels . 1. Peddiea. 

 Flowers sessile, either in heads or spikes or axillary. 



Anthers subsessile within the throat of perianth . 3. Arthrosolen. 

 Anthers on setaceous or subulate filaments, some or 

 all cxserted. 

 Flowers in terminal, peduncled, involucred heads 2. Dais. 

 Flowers axillary or spiked. 



Nut dry, with a hard shell 4. Passerina. 



Berry fleshy, containing a hard seed .... 5. Chymococca. 



Tribe 2. GNiDiEiE. Calyx having scales or glands, either in the throat 

 or more or less within the tube. 



Glands more or less concealed in the tube. Anthers 



on conspicuous filaments. 

 Glands oblong, in the middle of the tube. Flowers 



subsolitai'y 7. Cryptadenia. 



Glands filiform or scale-like, in the upper part of 



tube, partly hidden among the hairs of throat. 



Flowers mostly capitate 8. Lachn^A. 



Glands or scales at the summit of the tube, conspi- 

 cuous. Anthers subsessile. 

 Calyx with a 4-parted limb. 



Stamens 4 6. Struthiola. 



Stamens 8 9. Gnidta. 



Calyx with 5-parted limb. Anthers 10 .... 10. Lasiosiphon . 



Tribe 1. DAPnxEiE. (Gren. 1-5.) 



1. PEDDIEA, Harv. 



Calyx coloured, deciduous, the tube conical-cylindrical, con- 

 tinuous ; limb 4-5-lobed ; lobes short, revolute. Stamens 

 8-10, inserted above the middle of the tube, 2-seriate ; an- 

 thers subsessile, oblong, obtuse. A cup-like, membranous, 

 crenate disk under the ovary. Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled ; 

 ovule pendulous ; style filiform, deciduous ; stigma de- 

 pressed-capitate. Drupe nude. Embryo exalbuminous. — DC. 

 Prod. xiv. p. 528. 



P. Africana is a glabrous shrub, with forking branches, scattered or sub - 

 opposite, obovate-oblong, shining leaves, and umbellate, pedunculate 

 flowers. — Found near Natal. 



