128 SAXIFRAGACE^E. {SaxifrayacecB. 



epigynous, or hj^ogynous, or rarely none. Stamens as many or tAvice as 

 many, or veiy rarely more, inserted with the petals. Ovaiy single, either 

 more or less inferior or adherent, or free with a broad base; 2- to 5 -celled, 

 with axile placentas, or 1 -celled, with 2 or more panetal placentas ; the cai-pels 

 often shortly free at the top. Styles as many (or rarely twice as many) as 

 cells or placentas, or styles single, with an entii-e or lobed stigma. Fruit a 

 capside, or rarely an indehiscent beny. Seeds several, usually many ; the 

 albumen usually copious, rarely wanting. 



A considerable family, ranging over nearly the whole world, the shrubby or arborescent 

 genera chiefly tropical, the herbaceous from the more temperate or colder regions of the 

 northern hemisphere, with a few extratropical southern ones. 



Shrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers paniculate. Calyx adherent. Fruit a 



berry 1- Dichroa. 



Shrubs. Leaves alternate. Flowers racemose. Calyx small, free. Fruit 



capsular 2. Itfa. 



Herbs. Leaves radical, with glandular hairs. Sepals free. Fruit capsular 3. Drosera. 



1. DICHROA, Lour. 

 {Adamia, 'Wall.) 



Calyx-tube wholly adherent, with 5 or 6 small distant teeth. Petals 5 or 

 6, sessile, valvate in the bud. Stamens twice as many. Ovaiy adherent to 

 above the middle, incompletely 3- to 5 -celled, the partitions projecting far 

 into the cavity with the placentas on their margins, and numerous ovules. 

 Styles as many as cells, free from the base, diverging and thickened upwards. 

 Fruit a semi-inferior indehiscent beny. — Sluaibs. Leaves opposite. 



The genus consists of a single species, unless indeed some specimens from the Philippine 

 Islands, with remarkably small flowers, be reaUy distinct. 



]. D. febrifuga. Lour. Fl. Cochmch. 301. A shrub, with the habit of 

 a Hydrangea. Leaves opposite, oval-oblong, acuminate, 3 to 6 in. long, 

 serrate, naiTowed into a petiole at the base, slightly pubescent as well as the 

 young branches. Panicles tenninal, dense, broadly conmbose or pyramidal, 

 pubescent. Flowers numerous, of a didl or rarely bright blue. Berries green 

 at fu'st, but assuming at length a bright blue colour. — Adamia versicolor, Fort, 

 in Journ. Hort. Soc. i. 298 ; Lindl. andPaxt. Fl. Card. i. t. 5. A. cJiinensis, 

 Gardn. and Champ, in Kew Jomii. Bot. i. 31L Cyanitis sylvatica, Blume ; 

 DC. Prod. iv. 16. Dichroa Cyanitis, Miq. Fl. Ned. Ind. i. pars i. 721 ; and 

 probably B. latifolia, Miq. 1. c. 722. Also a smaUer-flowered varietv, Adamia 

 cyanea, 'WaH. Tent. Fl. Nept. 36, and PL As. Ear. iii. t. 213. The Bot. Mag. 

 t. 3046, represents a rather larger-tlowered variety, with pink flowers. 



Kavines of Mount Victoria and Mouut Parker, rare, Champion. South Chiua, Cochin 

 China, and the Indian Archipelago, and the smaller-flowered variety in the Himalaya and 

 Khasia mountains. 



I have no hesitation in uniting as slight varieties the three supposed species from the 

 Himalaya, from Chiua, and from Java. I have seen but one of the three Javanese varieties 

 mentioned by De Candolle : it has narrow leaves, a somewhat elongated panicle, and the 

 flowers larger even than in the Chinese ones, with longer anthers. The Chinese specimens 

 have mostly broad leaves, and large flowers in a broad rather flat panicle ; but in some, the 

 flowers are not larger than in some of the Himalayan ones. The Khasia specimens have 

 broad leaves but small flowers ; the Sikkim and other Himalayan ones have narrower leaves, 

 and, with few exceptions, small flowers. In all, the number of parts of the flower appears 



