TETRANDRIA. 



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TETRANDRIA. 



petalled ; nut armed with four opposite spines, which were 

 the leaves of the calix. 



SAMAH.A Calix four-parted; petals four; stamens immersed 

 in the base of the petals ; stigma funnel-shaped ; drupe 

 one-seeded. 



5. Such as arc complete, Calix or Corolla wanting. 



DORSTENIA, Contrayerva Receptacle common one-leafed, 

 fleshy, in which solitary seeds nestle. 



ELJEAGNUS, Oleaster, or Wild Olive Corolla none; calix 

 four-cleft, bell-shaped, coloured ; drupe inferior. 



KRAMERIA Calix none; corolla four-petalled ; nectary, 

 upper three-parted, lower two-leaved ; berry dry, echi- 

 nated, one-seeded. 



RIVINA Calix four-leaved, coloured, permanent; corolla 

 none; berry containing one lens-shaped seed. 



SALVADORA Calix four-cleft; corolla four-cleft; berry one- 

 seeded ; seed covered with an aril. 



CAMPHOROSMA Calix pitcher-form, two of the teeth oppo- 

 site, and the alternate ones very small; corolla none; cap- 

 sule one-seeded. 



ALCHEMILLA, Ladies' Mantle Calix eight-cleft; corolla 

 none ; seed one. 



STRUTHIOLA Corolla none ; calix tubular, with eight glands 

 at the mouth ; berry juiceless, one-seeded. 



COMETES Involucre four-leaved, three-flowered ; calix four- 

 leaved ; capsule tricoccous. 

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BLACKBURNIA Calix four-toothed; petals four, elliptic; 

 anthers heart-shaped ; germeu conic ; stigma simple ; peri- 

 carp, berry with a simple seed. 



CHLORANTHUS Calix none; corolla a petal three-lobed by 

 the side of the germen ; anthers growing to the petal ; 

 drupe one-seeded. 



COCCOCYPSELUM Calix four-parted, superior ; corolla fun- 

 nel-form; berry inflated, two-celled, many-seeded. 



CUNNINOIIAMIA Calix very small, four-toothed; corolla 

 four-cleft, with a short tube ; berry crowned with a two- 

 celled, two-seeded nut. 



CURTISIA, Hassagay Tree Calix four-parted; petals four; 

 drupe superior, roundish, succulent, with a four or five 

 celled nut. 



ERNODEA Corolla of one petal, salver-shaped ; calix in four 

 deep segments ; style simple ; berry inferior, two-celled ; 

 seeds solitary. 



FEDIA Calix superior, with three or four teeth ; corolla of 

 one petal, five-cleft; capsule crowned, without valves, with 

 one fertile cell; seeds solitary. 



FROELICIIIA Calix superior, with four teeth ; corolla tubu- 

 lar; berry dry, with one seed, invested with an aril. 



GLOSSOMA Calix turbinate, four-toothed, superior; corolla 

 four-petalled; anthers almost united, with a membrana- 

 ceous scale at the end ; stigmas four. 



GONATOCARPUS Corolla four-cleft; drupe eight-cornered, 

 one-seeded. 



HOFFMANNIA Calix four-toothed ; corolla salver-shaped, 

 four-parted; filaments none; berry two-celled, many- 

 seeded. 



LABATIA Calix four-leaved, inferior; corolla subcampanu- 

 late, four-cleft, with two minute segments in the divisions 

 of the corolla ; capsule four-celled ; seeds solitary. 



LAMBERTIA Petals four, cohering, spirally revolute, bear- 

 ing the stamens ; nectary of four scales ; stigma awl- 

 shaped ; follicle woody; seeds two, bordered ; involucre 

 of many leaves, imbricated, coloured, deciduous; recep- 

 tacle flat. 



LASIOSTOMA Culix very short, five-pet:tllcd, with two acute 



scales; corolla funnel-form, four-cleft; capsule orbiculate, 

 one-celled, two-seeded. 



MATTUSCHKJEA Calix four-parted, with linear leaflets ; 

 corolla one-petalied, with a long tube and four-cleft bor- 

 der; germen superior, four-cleft ; seeds four, naked. 



MONETIA Calix four-cleft; petals four; berry two-celled ; 

 seeds solitary. 



MYRMECIA Calix tubular, five-toothed ; corolla one-petal- 

 led, with an inflated mouth and five-cleft border; ger- 

 men with five glands at the base ; stigma bilamellate ; 

 capsule two-celled, two-valved, many-seeded. 



NERTERIA Corolla funnel-form, four-cleft, superior; berry 

 two-celled ; seeds solitary. 



OPERCULARIA Flowers compound; calix, common one- 

 leafeJ, unequally toothed, closed by a common receptacle, 

 flowering above, seeding below, falling when ripe. 



PERSOONIA Caiix none; petals four, staminiferous towards 

 the base ; glands four, at the base of the germen ; stigma 

 blunt; drupe one-seeded. 



PICRIUM Calix four or five cleft; corolla one-petalied, four 

 or five cleft ; nectary of four or five scales ; stigma bila- 

 mellate; capsule half two-celled, two-valved. 



POTHOS Spathe, spadix simple, covered ; perianth none ; 

 petals four; berries two-seeded. 



PYROSTBIA Calix four-toothed ; corolla bell-shaped, four- 

 cleft, downy in the throat ; berry inferior, obovate, with 

 eight furrows and eight seeds. 



ROT A LA Calix three-toothed; corolla none; capsule three- 

 celled, many-seeded. 



ROUSSEA Calix four-cleft ; corolla one-petalied, bell-shaped, 

 four-cleft, inferior; berry quadrangular, many-seeded. 



RUPALA Calix none; petals four, cohering at the base; 

 stamens inserted into the middle of the petals; pericarp 

 one-celled, one-seeded. 



SCOLOSANTHUS Calix four-cleft; corolla tubular, with a 

 revolute border; drupe one-seeded. 



SIDERODENDRUM Corolla one-petalied, salver-shaped; ca- 

 lix four-toothed ; berry two-lobed, two-celled ; seeds soli- 

 tary. 



VALANTIA, Crosswort. See Polygamia Moncecia. 



WALLENIA Calix four-cleft, inferior; corolla tubular, four- 

 cleft; berry with one seed. 



WITHERINGIA Corolla deeply four-cleft, reflexed, its tube 

 with four external prominences, internally concave; calix 

 obscurely four-toothed ; anthers converging, bursting 

 laterally ; berry with two cells and many seeds. 



XYLOMELUM, Wooden Pear Petals four, bearing the petals 

 above the middle, regular, revolute; nectariferous glands 

 four; stigma club-shaped; style deciduous; follicle 

 woody, of one excentric cell, with two winged seeds. 



ZIERIA Calix in four deep segments; petals four; stamens 

 smooth, each inserted into a gland; style simple; stigma 

 four-lobed ; capsules four, combined ; seeds with an 

 elastic tube. 



2. DIGYNIA (Two Pistils.) 



APHANES, Parsley Piert Calix eight-cleft; corolla none; 

 seed two, or one, naked. 



CRUZITA Inner calix four-leaved, outer three-leaved ; co- 

 rolla none ; seed one. 



BUFFONIA, Bastard Chickweed Calix four-leaved; corolla 

 four-petalled ; capsule one-celled, two-seeded. 



HAMAMELIS, Witch-hazel Calix four-cleft, with three 

 bractes ; petals four, long and linear, with a short dilated 

 filament at the base ; filaments and anthers united ; an- 



