326 CV. TKYMELEJG. 



Tribe 2. Gnidie^. (Gen. 6-10.) 



6. STKUTHIOLA, Linn. 



Calyx 2-bractcolate, coloured, with a long, slender, cylin- 

 drical tube, jointed and deciduous above the ovary, the throat 

 widened ; limb 4-parted ; lobes equal, spreading. Glands 

 8 or 12 or rarely 4, fleshy or horny, oblong, erect, exserted on 

 the rim of the throat, each girt with a circle of shining hairs, 

 and all of them more or less confluent at base. Anthers 

 4, subsessile in the throat, included. No hypogynous scales. 

 Ovary sessile ; style lateral, capillary, equalling the calyx- 

 tube ; stigma capitate. Nut enclosed in the persistent base 

 of perianth. — DC. Froch xiv. j9. 566. 



Heath-like shriabs or undershrubs, mostly with long, slender branches, op- 

 posite or rarely scattered, mostly linear leaves and flowers, in terminal leafy 

 spikes, often very-sweetly scented. — 19 species, dispersed. 



7. CRYPTADENIA, Meisn. 



Calyx Coloured, funnel-shaped ; the tube jointed over the 

 ovary, the upper part deciduous ; the throat pubescent, Avith- 

 out scales ; limb 4-parted ; the lobes as long as the tube or 

 longer, spreading, glabrous within. Glands 8, oblong, sessile, 

 sub-1-seriate, in the middle of the tube. Stamens 8, 2-seriate, 

 inserted above the glands ; filaments capillary, bearded. No 

 hypogynous scales. Ovary glabrous ; style lateral, equalling 

 the tube ; stigma capitate. Nut in the hairy base of calyx. 

 —DO. Prod. xiv. p. 573. 



Heath-like shrublets or undershrubs, with opposite, decussate, sessile, 

 linear or needle-shaped, glabrous leaves, and terminal, subsolitary, purplish 

 or rosy, externally silky flowers. — 5 species, Western. 



8. LACHNiEA, V. Eoyen. 



Calyx coloured, funnel-shaped, pubescent within and with- 

 out (very rarely glabrous within), the tube narrowed and at 

 length jointed and deciduous above the ovary ; limb 4-parted, 

 spreading ; the lobes equal or unequal in pairs. Glands 8, 

 in a double or single row beneath the insertion of the sta- 

 mens, included or half-exserted, filiform or scale-like, partly 

 hid among the hairs of the throat. Stamens 8, 2-seriate, ex- 

 serted, inserted in the thi'oat ; filaments conspicuous ; anthers 

 basifixed, obtuse. No hypogynous scales. Ovary sessile, gla- 

 brous ; style lateral, capillary ; stigma capitate, exserted. Nut 

 ovoid, in the base of calyx. — DC. Prod. xiv. p. 574. 



vShrubs with slender branches, opposite or scattered leaves, and flowers in 

 terminal, nude or involucred heads, rarely axillary, subsohtary. — 18 species, 

 dispersed. 



