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syst. 5. p. 13. Flowers white. Salzmann collected a plant 

 which is, perhaps, referrible to the present species, on the hills 

 about Bahia, in Brazil, in which the stem is scandent ; the 

 branches tetragonal, and villous on the angles ; the panicles ter- 

 minal ; the flowers small, white ; and the throat of the corolla 

 villous. 



Brazilian Machaonia. Shrub cl. ? 



3 M. SPINOSA (Cham, et Schlecht. in Linnaea. 4. p. 2.) branch- 

 lets spinescent ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acuminated at both 

 ends, glabrous. Jj . S. Native of Brazil. Flowers white. 



Spinose Machaonia. Shrub or tree. 



Cult. See Richardsbnia, p. 628. for culture and propagation. 



SUBTRIBE III. PUTORIE'jE (the plants contained in this 

 tribe agree with the genus Pulbria in having fleshy, indivisible 

 fruit). D. C. prod. 4. p. 575. Fruit rather fleshy, not sepa- 

 rable into parts. 



CC. SERI'SSA (a name given by Dioscorides, but the mean- 

 ing is unknown). Comm. in Juss. gen. (1789.) p. 209. mem. 

 mus. 6. p. 395. Lam. ill. t. 151. f. 3. Blum, bijdr. p. 969. A. 

 Rich. mem. soc. hist. nat. Par. 5. p. 161. D. C. prod. 4. p. 

 575. Dysoda, Lour. (1790.) coch. Buchozia, L'Her. diss. 

 with a figure. Lycium species, Lin. fil. and Thunb. 



LIN. SYST. Tetra-Pentdndria, Monogynia. Calyx with an 

 obovate tube, and a 5, rarely 4-cleft limb ; lobes short, and 

 sometimes with a few accessory teeth between them. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped, with the tube hairy inside, and a 5, rarely 4- 

 parted limb ; lobes induplicate in aestivation : hence they are 

 somewhat trifid at the apex. Stamens 5, rarely 4. Anthers 

 exserted, linear. Style inclosed ; stigma bifid. Berry nearly 

 globose, 2-celled, 2-seeded, crowned by the limb of the calyx, 

 ex Rich. A small shrub, glabrous in every part except the 

 young branches, which are whitish. Leaves small, almost ses- 

 sile, opposite, and generally in axillary fascicles, having an un- 

 grateful scent when bruised. Stipulas combined with the petioles, 

 and ciliately fringed on the margins. Flowers terminal, in fasci- 

 cles, almost sessile, white. The fruit is described by Blume and 

 Jussieu as many-seeded. 



1 S. FO/TIDA (Comm. 1. c.). Jj . G. Native of China, Japan, 

 Cochin-china, and other places of the East. Lycium Japonicum, 

 Thunb. fl. jap. p. 93. t. 17. Curt. bot. mag. 361. Lycium foe'- 

 tidum, Lin. fil. suppl. 150. Lycium I'ndicum, Retz, obs. 2. p. 

 12. Dysoda fasciculata, Lour. coch. p. 146. Buchozia capros- 

 moides, L'Her. diss. with a figure. Dysoda fce'tida, Salisb. 

 prod. p. 60. Spermacoce fruticosa, Desf. hort. Par. A small 

 bushy shrub, with small dark-green, shining, myrtle-like leaves, 

 and white single or double flowers, which are reddish outside. 

 The plant from Japan differs from that of China, according to 

 Blume, in the hairs on the inside of the throat of the corolla being 

 geniculated, not clavate. 



Fetid Serissa. Fl. May, Sept. CIt. 1787. Shrub 2 to 3 

 feet. 



Cult. This little shrub grows well in a mixture of loam, 

 peat, and sand ; and cuttings root readily in sand, with a hand- 

 glass over them. 



CCI. ERNO'DEA (from fprw^c, ernodes, branched ; the 

 shrub is much branched). Swartz, prod. p. 29. fl. ind. occ. 1. 

 p. 223. t. 4. Schreb. gen.no. 1718. Juss. mem. mus. 6. p. 

 373. Gaertn. fil. carp. 3. p. 94. t. 196. A. Rich. mem. soc. hist, 

 nat. Par. 5. p. 156. t. 15. f. 2 D. C. prod. 4. p. 575. 



LIN. SYST. Telra-Hexdndria, Monogynia. Calyx with an 

 ovate tube, and a 4-6-parted limb ; lobes oblong-linear, acute, 

 erect, permanent. Corolla salver-shaped, with a terete, some- 

 what tetragonal tube, a naked throat, and 4-6 lanceolate, revo- 

 lute lobes, ex Rich ; but circinnately convolute according to 

 VOL. in. 



others. Stamens with the filaments free from the upper part 

 of the tube, longer than the corolla ; anthers acute, erect. Style 

 longer than the stamens ; stigma emarginate. Berry roundish, 

 crowned by the calyx, bisulcate, 2-celled, containing two 1- 

 seeded pyrenae, or nuts. Seeds peltate, ex Rich, fixed by a 

 longitudinal chink in the middle. Albumen cartilaginous. 

 Embryo erect, with foliaceous cotyledons. A decumbent shrub, 

 native of America. Leaves opposite, almost sessile, lanceolate 

 or elliptic. Flowers axillary, pale yellow, sessile. 



1 E. LITTORA'LIS (Swartz, 1. c.). J? . S. Native of Jamaica, 

 Porto Rico, Guadaloupe, and others of the West India Islands, 

 on the sea shore, Vahl, symb. 2. p. 28. Knoxia, Browne, jam. 

 140. no. 1. Thymelae'a, Sloane, hist. jam. 2. p. 93. t. 1C9. 

 f. 1-2. Berries yellow. In fl. mex. the flowers are painted 

 white, and the berries reddish ; it is, therefore, perhaps a dis- 

 tinct species. Stipulas surrounding the branch ciliated. 



Sea-shore Ernodea. Shrub decumbent. 



Cult. See Richardsonia, p. 628. for culture and propagation. 



CCII. CU'NCEA (meaning unknown to us). Ham. in D. 

 Don, prod. fl. nep. p. 135. A. Rich. mem. soc. hist. nat. Par. 5. 

 p. 157. D. C. prod. 4. p. 576. 



LIN. SYST. Tetrdndria, Monogynia. Limb of calyx small, 

 4-toothed. Corolla with a short tube, a 4-cleft limb, and a 

 throat closed by villi ; lobes or segments of the limb roundish. 

 Anthers 4, linear, sessile, inclosed. Stigma bifid, exserted. 

 Berry 2-celled, 2-seeded, crowned by the calyx. Herb peren- 

 nial. Stem erect, branched, terete, tomentose. Leaves oppo- 

 site, petiolate, nerved downy on both surfaces, 2-3 inches long ; 

 lower ones elliptic ; upper ones lanceolate, mucronate. Stipulas 

 twin, tripartite, with the lobes setaceous. Cymes terminal, 

 compound, trichotomously branched, many-flowered. Flowers 

 small, yellow. 



1 C. TRIFIDA (Hamilc. 1. c.). l/.F. Native of Nipaul. 



TVj/fd-bractead Cuncea. PI. 1 foot. 



Cult. For culture and propagation, see Richardsonia, p. 628. 



CCIII. HYDROPHPLAX (from vcwp, hydor, water, and 

 0v\a, phylax, a keeper, or guardian ; the plant always grows 

 by the sea-side). Lin. fil. suppl. p. 126. Lam. ill. 76. f. 1. A. 

 Rich. mem. soc. hist. nat. Par. p. 158. D. C. prod. 4. p. 576. 

 Serissus, Gaert. fruct. 1. p. 118. t. 25. 



LIN. SYST. Tetrdndria, Monogynia. Calyx with an ovate, 

 angular tube, and a 4-parted, permanent limb (f. 109. a.) ; teeth- 

 acute, erect. Corolla campanulately funnel-shaped, 4-lobed 

 (f. 109. a.~). Anthers 4, sessile in the throat, exserted, linear- 

 oblong (f. 109./.). Stigma roundly 2-lobed (f. 109. 6.). Berry 

 dry, corky, angular, lanceolate, crowned by the calyx, 2-celled 

 (f. 109. c.). Seeds solitary in the cells, oblong, bisulcate in- 

 side, with hard albumen, and 



a straight embryo. Glabrous, FIG. 109. 



creeping herbs. Stems terete. 

 Leaves opposite, ovate-oblong, 

 fleshy, joined with the stipulas 

 into a cupular toothed sheath at 

 the base. Flowers axillary ses- 

 sile, usually by twos, pale lilac. 

 This genus is very nearly al- 

 lied to Diodia, but differs in the 

 fruit not being divisible into 2 

 parts, and in the stipulas not 

 being cut into many bristles. 



1 H. MA RITIMA (Lin. fil. suppl. 

 p. 126.). T;. S. Native of Ma- 

 labar and Coromandel, in the 

 sand by the sea side, Roxb. 

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