158 PENTANDRIA. MONOGINIA. 



unltint^ with the g-laiululous and nectariferous j^erminal 

 disk; disk 5-toothed, obtuse. Petals 5, calycine, often 4 

 and 6, with the sanne number of stamina, ovate, acute, per- 

 sistent, growing to the margin of the calix, white, internal- 

 ly villous (seen through a lens), before expansion parallel. 

 Stamina seated at the base of the petals, alternating with 

 the dentui-es of the glandulous disk; filaments subulate, 

 about half t lie length of the petals; antliers oval, 2-cel}ed, 

 connected at tlieir summits to the ])etais near their base 

 by a fascicle of yellow filaments — Style terete, simple; 

 stigma round, entire; germ about 3-seeded, ovula pendu- 

 lous, attached to the apex of a filiform contractile funicu- 

 lus arisiii;;' fi-om the base of the capsule. Capsule nearly 

 globular, and angular, 1-seeded, not opening, thin and 

 brittle, not osseous, coated by the base of the calix. Seed 

 round, about the size of a small pea, consisting almost 

 entirely of a large carnose and oily perisperm, embryon 

 inverted, small, flat, nearly in the axis of the perisperm; 

 radicle superior, thick and obtuse; cotyledons linear and 

 acute. 



Obs. The connecting fibres of the petals, appear to be 

 a separation ot a portion of the central vessels, for at that 

 point the petal is greenish and callous, and the central 

 nerves there commencing* trichotomously, disappear above 

 the connectile fibres, and the rest of the petal is then 

 white. 



This plant has son)e relation to the preceding, and they 

 both appertain to the Natural Order Santalace^ of R. 

 Brown, approaching at the same time very nearly to the 

 llHAMNii of Jussieu. 'i'he genus here proposed may 

 probably include some of the species of Thesium indig'C- 

 nous to the Cape of Good Hope. 



234. QUERfA. L. Anychia. Jlichaux. 



Calix connivent. 5-j)artcd, segments oblong, 

 apex subsaceate (or furnished with an arched 

 callosity.) Corolla no]\Q, Filaments uH the nn- 

 Ihers distinct; internjcdiate, stix, none. Stigma 

 subcapitate. Capsule utiicular, not opening. 

 Seed 1, subrenit'orm. 



Herbaceous and dichotomous; leaves opposite, stipu- 

 late; stipules scariose, fiowers minute, bracteolate, dicho- 

 tomal and terminal; stamina 3 to 5- A genus scarcely 

 distinct from Paronychia^ intermediate with it and HeV' 

 ?iiana. 



Species. 1. Q. canadensis. Stem erect or spreading, 

 dichotomous, much branched, retrorsely pubescent; leaves 



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