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2. DAIS, Linn. 



Calyx coloured, funnel-shaped, tlie tube slender, continuous 

 or at length bursting across above the ovary, pubescent within ; 

 limb 5-lobed, regular ; throat without scales. Stamens 10, in- 

 serted in the throat in a double row ; filaments conspicuous, 

 setaceous, the alternate shorter, the upper row or all exserted ; 

 anthers oblong. A membranous cup beneath the ovary. Style 

 lateral, capillary, exserted ; stigma capitate. Berry lleshy or 

 dry, enclosed in the base of the calyx. — DC. Frod. xiv. p. 528. 



Shrubs, with scattered or opposite, large, flat, veiny leaves, and terminal 

 peduneled heads, girt with a 4-leaved involucre. — D. cotinifolia^ the only 

 South African species, grows in the Eastern district and at Natal. 



3. ARTHROSOLEN, C. A. Mey. 



Calyx coloured, funnel-shaped, the tube jointed below the 

 middle, the upper part deciduous, lower persistent ; limb 4-5- 

 parted, spreading; throat without scales. Stamens 8-10, in 

 the throat ; anthers subsessile, oblong or linear, 2-seriate, the 

 upper half exserted, lower included. No hypogynous scales. 

 Style lateral, filiform, included ; stigma papillate, capitate. 

 Nut enclosed in the persistent base of the perianth. — DC. 

 Prod. xiv. p. 559. 



Shrubs or undershrubs, with scattered or rarely opposite, sessile leaves, 

 and axillary or capitate and involucrate flowers. — 9 s])ecies, dispersed. 



4. PASSERINA, Linn. 



Calyx salver-shaped, the tube mediocre, thin, narrowed and 

 at length bursting above the ovary, the lower part persistent, 

 enwrapping the fruit, or at length splitting and falling ofi*; 

 limb 4-parted, petaloid, spreading ; throat without scales. 

 Stamens 8, 1-seriate in the throat ; filaments subulate, ex- 

 serted, dilated at base. No hypogynous scales. Style la- 

 teral, near the apex of the glabrous ovary, equalling the tube 

 of perianth ; stigma half-exserted, capitate. Nut enclosed in 

 the calyx-tube or at last nude, ovate, with a hard, dry shell. — 

 DC. Frod. xiv. p. 561. 



Heath-like shrubs, with tomentose branches, and decussately opposite, 

 small, dorsally-keeled or convex, narrow leaves ; flowers small, axillary or 

 in terminal spikes, each subtended by a dilated bract. — 4 species, dispersed. 



5. CHYMOCOCCA, Meisn. 



Character as in Passerina, except that the fruit is a fleshy, 

 nude berry, containing a hard-shelled seed. — DC. Frod. xiv. p. 

 565. 



1 or 2 species, with the habit of Passerina, dispersed. 



