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XXIX. CARPODETUS (from Kapiroc, carpos, a fruit, and 

 Zeros, detos, tied ; there is a ring round the middle of the fruit 

 resembling a tie). Forst. gen. t. 17. D. C. prod. 2. p. 29. 



LIN. SYST. Pentandria, Monogynia. Calyx with a turbinate 

 tube, adnate to the ovary, and a 5-cleft limb ; lobes deciduous. 

 Petals 5, small, inserted in the calyx. Stamens very short ; 

 anthers almost sessile. Style 1, filiform. Stigma depressed, 

 capitate. Berry dry, globose, 5-celled, 5-seeded, girded by the 

 tube of the calyx. 



1 C. SERRA'TUS (Forst. nov. gen. t. 17. Spreng. pug. 1. p. 

 20.) Tj . G. Native of New Zealand. Leaves oblong, with 

 glandular serratures, puberulous above, pale, smooth, and netted 

 beneath. Peduncles opposite the leaves. This plant is very 

 little known. 



Serrate-\e&ved Carpodetus. Shrub 12 feet. 



Cult. See W'Memelia for culture and propagation, p. 38. 



XXX. SCH.35FFE V RIA (in honour of James Christian 

 Schaeffer, a German botanist, author of Botanica Expeditior in 

 1762). Jacq. amer. 259. D. C. prod. 2. p. 40. 



LIN. SYST. Dice'cia, Tetrdndria. Flowers dioecious from 

 abortion. Calyx 4-parted, blunt, permanent under the fruit, 

 perhaps altogether free. Petals 4, alternating with the sepals. 

 Stamens 4, opposite the petals. Ovary 2-celled. Style short 

 or wanting. Stigmas 2. Berry dry, 2-parted, rarely 1-celled, 

 usually 2-celled ; cells 1-seeded. Seeds erect. Albumen fleshy. 

 Embryo central, straight, flat. Shrubs, with alternate, entire 

 leaves, and numerous small, axillary, stalked flowers. 



1 S. FRUTE'SCENS (Jacq. amer. 259.) style slender, 2-lobed at 

 the apex ; petals blunt ; leaves elliptical, acuminated at both 

 ends, and are, as well as the branches, smooth. Pj . S. Native 

 of St. Domingo, Jamaica, Carthagena, and New Spain, in bushy 

 places. S. completa, Swartz, fl. ind. occ. 1. p. 327. t. 7. f. a. 

 Flowers white. Berries the size of a small pea, of a yellowish- 

 red colour. 



Var. /3, buxifolia (D. C. prod. 2. p. 41.) leaves broad, ovate, 

 mucronate. tj . S. Native of Jamaica. Sloan, hist. 2. p. 209. f. 1. 

 Shrubby Schaefteria. Clt. 1793. Shrub 6 feet. 



t Doubtful species. 



2 S. PANICULA'TA (Spreng. neue. entd. 3. p. 49.) petals con- 

 cave ; flowers panicled ; leaves spatulate, coriaceous, pubescent 

 beneath, as well as the branches, fy . S. Native of Brazil. 

 Flowers whitish. 



Panicled SchaefTeria. Shrub. 



3 S. VIRIDE'SCENS (Moc. et Sesse, fl. mex. icon. ined. D. C. 

 prod. 2. p. 41.) style none; stigmas 2, thick, sessile; petals 

 acute. Tj . S. Native of Mexico. Leaves almost like those 

 of S. fmtescens, but more blunt. Fruit globose. Younger 

 petals greenish on the outside, but of a dirty-white on the 

 inside. 



Greenish-Rov/ereA Schaefferia. Shrub 6 feet. 



4 S. RACEMO'SA (Moc. et Sesse, fl. mex. icon. ined. D. C. 

 prod. 2. p. 41.) style wanting; stigmas 3, thick, sessile; petals 

 obtuse, f? . S. Native of Mexico. Racemes lateral, many- 

 flowered. Scales 4 between the stamens, or alternating with the 

 petals. Fruit globose. This will probably form a distinct 

 genus. 



Racemose-flowered Schsefferia. Shrub. 

 Cult. This is a genus of insignificant shrubs ; for the culture 

 and propagation see Coupia, p. 44. 



XXXI. OLPNIA (the name of a town in Spain). Thunb. in 

 Rcem. arch. 2. p. 1. and p. 4. D. C. prod. 2. p. 41. 



LIN. SYST. Penta-Hexdndria, Monogynia. Calyx with a cam- 



panulate tube, and 5 or 6 blunt teeth. Petals 5, inserted in the 

 calyx, alternating with the teeth, linear-lanceolate, permanent, 

 furnished with rather concave scales on the inside at the base. 

 Stamens 5 or 6, very short, inserted in the calyx ; anthers con- 

 cealed under the scales. Ovary free ? Style very short. Stigma 

 thickened, pentagonal. Fruit crowned by the calyx, 5-angled, 

 5-seeded. A smooth, much branched shrub. Branches tetra- 

 gonal. Leaves ovate, opposite. Flowers white, in axillary pa- 

 nicles. 



1 O. CYMOSA (Thunb. 1. c. and fl. cap. 194.) >j . G. Native 

 of the Cape of Good Hope, on the western side of the Table 

 Mountain. Sideroxylum cymosum, Lin. fil. suppl. 1. p. 152. 

 Flowers white, sweet-scented. 



Cymose-fiovfered Olinia. Shrub 4 feet. 



Cult. This shrub will grow in a mixture of loam and sandy 

 peat, and ripened cuttings will root if planted in a pot of sand, 

 with a hand-glass placed over them. 



XXXII. DAPHNIPHY'LLUM (from cafvt, daphne, tin- 

 Greek name for the laurel, and yuXXoi', phyllon, a leaf; in allu- 

 sion to the leaves resembling the laurel). Blum, bijdr. 1152. 



LIN. SYST. Dice'cia, Hexa-Decandria. Flowers dioecious. 

 Calyx inferior, small, crenulated. Corolla none. Male flowers, 

 with 6-10 short stamens, which are connate at the base. An- 

 thers erect, tetragonal. Female flowers with a 2-celled ovary, 

 with the cells containing 2 ovula, and a bifid sessile stigma. Drupe 

 oval, baccate, crowned by the stigma containing a 1-seeded 

 fibrous nut. Embryo minute, inverted in a fleshy albumen. 

 A tree, with scattered, oblong-lanceolate, entire, smooth, exsti- 

 pulate leaves, which are glaucous beneath. Racemes axillary, 

 simple. 



1 D. GLAUCE'SCENS (Blum, bijdr. 1153.) ^ . S. Native of 

 Java, on the higher mountains of Salak and Gede. 



Glaucescent-leaved Daphniphyllum. Tree. 



Cult. See Coupia for culture and propagation, p. 44. 



ORDER LXVIII. BRUNIA'CE^E (plants agreeing with Brunia 

 in important characters). R. Br. in Lin. trans. 1818. D. C. 

 prod. 2. p. 43. Brong. mem. brun. in ann. scienc. nat. par. 

 august, 1826. 



Calyx adhering to the ovary (f. 8. G. g. H. a.), rarely free 

 (f. 8. C. h.\ 5-cleft (f. 8. B. 6. K. c.), or 5-toothed (f. 8. H. 6.), 

 imbricate in aestivation. Petals 5 (f. 8. G. 6. C. rf.) imbricate, 

 inserted in the ovary, alternating with the segments of the calyx 

 (f. 8. K. c. G. &.). Stamens 5 (f. 8. B. d.), alternating with the 

 petals, epigynous ; anthers fixed by the back, bursting inwards, 

 2-celled, opening lengthwise (f. 8. B. d.). Ovary half inferior 

 (f. 8. F. 1.), 1 (f. 8. A. g.) -3-celled (f. 8. E. g.) ; cells 1 (f. 8. 

 C. ) -2 (f. 8. E. g.) -seeded ; ovula suspended from the central 

 column of the ovary. Style simple or bifid (f. 8. D. Z.). 

 Stigma 1 or 2-3, small, papilliform. Fruit dry, bicoccous, or in- 

 dehiscent, 1-seeded, inferior, or half inferior. Seeds with a 

 small embryo, located in the apex of a fleshy albumen, with short 

 cotyledons, and a long conical radicle. Much branched, heath- 

 like shrubs, with small, smooth, or hardly pilose leaves, which 

 are usually callously-ustulate at the apex, stiff, quite entire, 

 and are inserted in 5 rows, on the branches. Flowers small, capi- 

 tate, or rarely panicled, spiked or terminal and solitary ; heads 

 of flowers naked or involucrated with larger leaves ; flowers 

 each furnished with 3 bracteas at their base, lower bractea larger 

 than the rest, lateral ones opposite, smaller, or wanting. In 



