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OR, BOTANICAL DICTIONARY. 



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3. Phylica Bicolor ; Two-coloured Phylica. Leaves linear, 

 pubescent ; common calices shorter than the corolla. Stem 

 determinately branched ; branches rod-like, rufescent, white, 

 pubescent. Native of the Cape. 



4. Phylica Capitata; Downy Phylica. Leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, villose ; bractes woolly ; heads terminating. It 

 flowers from February to April. Native of the Cape. 



5. Phylica Eriophoros ; Pale-flowered Phylica. Leaves li- 

 near, somewhat hairy, tomentose underneath, rolled back at 

 the edge ; heads terminating ; flowers tomentose. It flowers 

 in November. Native of the Cape. 



6. Phylica Plumosa; Woolly-leaved Phylica. Leaves li- 

 near, awl-shaped; the uppermost hirsute. This has an erect 

 shrubby stalk, which rises near three feet high, covered with 

 a purplish bark, and here and there some white down upon 

 it; flowers collected in small heads at the ends of the 

 branches, white, woolly, fringed on their borders, cut into 

 six acute segments at top. It flowers from March to May. 

 Native of the Cape. 



7. Phylica Villosa ; Villose-leaved Phylica. Leaves linear, 

 the upper ones villose ; flowers in racemes. Native of the 

 Cape. 



8. Phylica Imberbis; Beardless Phylica. Leaves linear, 

 obtuse, rugged; flowers terminating, pubescent. Native of 

 the Cape. 



9. Phylica Stipularis ; Stipuled Phylica. Leaves linear, 

 stipuled; flowers five-horned. Stem proliferous, naked, or 

 somewhat rugged from the fallen leaves ; heads of flowers 

 with a many-leaved calix of naked, obovate, two-parted scales, 

 interwoven with wool. Native cf the Cape. 



10. Fhylioa Pinifolia; Pine-leaved Phylica. Leaves ace- 

 rose, flat on both sides, very smooth ; flowers panicle-ra- 

 cemed. It is a fathom high, and remarkable for its smooth- 

 ness, and flat fir-like leaves. Native of lofty mountains at 

 the Cape. 



11. Phylica Cordata; Heart-leaved Phylica. Leaves cor- 

 date, ovate, spreading; stem proliferous. Native of the Cape. 



12. Phylica Dioica ; Dicecous Phylica. Leaves cordate; 

 flowers dioecous ; corolla with white hair. Native of the Cape. 



13. Phylica Buxifolia; Box-leaved Phylica. Leaves 

 ovate, scattered, and by threes, tomentose underneath. This 

 rises with a shrubby erect stalk five or six feet high, when 

 old covered with a rough purplish bark, but the younger 

 branches have a woolly down. The flowers are collected in 

 small heads at the ends of the branches; they are of an herba- 

 ceous colour, and make no great appearance. It flowers 

 during a great part of the year. Native of the Cape. 



14. Phylica Spicata; Spiked Phylica. Leaves oblong, 

 cordate, acuminate, tomentose underneath ; spikes cylindri- 

 cal ; flowers the length of the bractes. This species differs 

 from all the rest by its inflorescence, or head of flowers, 

 elongated into a villose spike. It flowers in November and 

 December. Native of the Cape. 



15. Phylica Callosa ; Callous-leaved Phylica. Leaves ob- 

 long, cordate, acuminate, hairy, tomentose underneath ; 

 flowers in a sort of head. This is very distinct from the 

 eleventh species, with which it agrees in the form of the 

 leaves. It flowers in March and April. Native of the Cape. 



16. Phylica Paniculata; Panicled Phylica. Leaves ovate, 

 mucronate, smooth above, shining, tomentose underneath ; 

 racemes leafy, panicled. This approaches to the eleventh 

 species, but differs from it in not having the leaves rugged 

 above, and the flowers racemed and panicled. Native of the 

 Cape. 



17. Phylica Imbricata; Imbricate Phylica. Leaves cor- 

 date, ovate, smooth ; flowers in racemes. Native of the Cape. 



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18. Phylica Racemosa; Recemed Phylica. Leaves ovate, 

 smooth; flowers simple; panicle racemed. Stem five futt 

 high, shrubby, with determinate branches. It is doubtful 

 whether this plant does not form a distinct genus. Native 

 of the Cape. 



19. Phylica Parviflora; Small-floweved Phylica. Leaves 

 awl-shaped, acute, rugged, somewhat hairy; branches panicle 

 many-flowered. This shrub grows to the height of two feet, 

 and is very like the first species ; but the branches are many- 

 flowered, and the flowers smaller. Native of the Cape.' 



20. Phylica Secunda. Leaves linear, mucronate, smooth ; 

 heads terminating, hirsute. Native of the Cape. 



Phyllachne ; a genus of the class Dioecia, order Monandria ; 

 or of the class Gynandria, order Diandria. GENERIC CHA- 

 RACTER. Male Flowers. Calix : perianth three-leaved, su 

 perior; leaflets very small, awl-shaped. Corolla: one-pe- 

 talled ; tube gradually widening and spreading ; border five- 

 rleft, spreading ; segments oblong, blunt, the length of the 

 tube. Stamina: filamentum single, capillary, erect,, the 

 length of the corolla, with a gland on each side at the base; 

 antheree globular, three-grooved. Pistil : rudiment of a gt>r- 

 men ; style and stigma none. Female Flowers, on a differ- 

 ent plant. Calix and Corolla : as in the male. Pistil: ger- 

 men turbinate, inferior; style filiform, straight, the length of 

 the corolla, with a gland on each side of the base : stigma 

 capitate, four-cornered, with four tubercles, the two upper 

 ones larger. Pericarp : berry inferior, one-celled, many- 

 seeded. Seeds: numerous, ovate-oblong, very small, fastened 

 to the receptacle. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER.. Male, Calix: 

 three-leaved, superior. Corolla: funnel-form. Female. 

 Stigma: four-cornered. Capsule: inferior, many-seeded. 

 The only known species is, 



1. Phyllachne Uliginosa. Leaves small, awl-shaped, cre- 

 nulate, with a cartilaginous margin; stems closely approxi- 

 mating, covered with imbricate leaves, proliferous into two 

 or three branchlets ; flowers terminating, sessile, white. It 

 is a pretty plant, having the structure of a Moss all over, but 

 adorned with flowers of a very different kind. Native of 

 Terra del Fuego. 



Phyllanthus; a genus of the class Monoacia, order, Mon- 

 adelphia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Males- Calix: peri- 

 anth one-leafed, six-parted, bell-shaped, coloured; segments 

 ovate, spreading, blunt, permanent. Corolla : none, except 

 the calix be called so. Stamina: filamenta three, shorter than 

 the calix, approximating at the base, distant at the tips ; 

 antherae three, two-lobed. Females. Calix : perianth as in 

 the males. Corolla: none; nectary a rim of twelve angles, 

 surrounding the germen. Pistil: germen roundish, obtusely 

 three-cornered; styles three, spreading, bifid; stigmas blunt. 

 Pericarp: capsule roundish, three-grooved, three-celled; 

 cells bivalve. Seeds: solitary, roundish. ESSENTIAL CHA- 

 RACTER. Male. Calix : six-parted, bell-shaped. Corolla : 

 none. Female. Calix: six-parted. Petals: none. Styles: 

 three, bifid. Capsule: three-celled. Seeds : solitary. These 

 plants may be propagated by seeds, when they can be pro- 

 cured from the countries where they grow naturally. They 

 must be sown on a hot-bed, and when the plants are suffi- 

 ciently grown up, each should be planted in a small pot 

 filled with light earth, and plunged into a hot-bed of tanner's 

 bark; shading and watering them until they have taken good 

 root : after this, they must remain constantly in the bark- 

 stove, and be treated in the same manner with plants from 

 hot countries. They may sometimes be raised by planting 

 out slips, or by layers, managed in the same way as those 

 from seeds. The species are, 



1. Phyllanthus Grandifolia; Great-leaved Phyllanthus. 



