Cephalotaceae 



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J. M. Macfarlane. 



(Eingegangen im Juli 1910, gedruckt im November — Dezember 1910.) 



[Rosacearüm genus Labill. Fl. Nov. Holl. II. (1806) 6, et R. Brown, Bot. Terra Austral. 

 (1814) 69. — Crassulacearum genus Jussieu in R. Brown op. seq. p. 316. — Fam. 

 Cephaloteae R. Brown in Phil. Mag. I. (1832) 314. — Cephalotaceae Lindl. Key. (1835) 

 45, et in Nat. Syst. ed. 2. (1836) 14. — Saxifragacearum sect. Benth. Fl. austral. 

 II. (1864) 448. — Saxifragacearum gen. anomal. Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. I. (1865) 

 655. — Cephalotaceae Engl. Pflzfam. III. 2. ( I 8 9 ) 39.) 



Wichtigste Litteratur. Systematik: Labillardiere, Fl. Nov. Holl. II. (1806) 

 6. — Poiret in Encycl. Meth. Bot. VIII. (1808) 326. — R. Brown in Flinders' Voy. 

 Bot. II. (1814) 601, et Bot. Terra Austral. (1814) 68. — Meissner, Gen. I. (1836) 

 105, II. (1836—43) 74. — Lindley, Key (1835) 45, et Nat. Syst. ed. 2. (1836) 

 14. — Hooker, W., in Bot. Magaz. LVIII. (1831) t. 3118, 3119. — Endlicher, 

 Gen. II. (1836) 812. — Nees ab Esenbeck in Lehmann, PI. Preiss. I. (1844) 

 278. — Lemaire in Fl. des serres III. (1847) 290. — Bentham, Fl. austral. II. 

 (1864) 448. — Engler, vid. sup. — Macfarlane in Ann. of Bot. III. (1889) 265. 

 — Goebel, Pflanzenbiol. Schild. II. (1891) HO. — Schweiger in Beih. z„ Bot. Cen- 

 tralbl. XXV. (1909) 531. 



Morphologie, Physiologie und Entwicklungsgeschichte: Eichler, Blüten- 

 diagr. II. (1878) 436, et in Jahrb. Berl. Bot. Gart. I. (1881) 193. — Dickson in 

 Journ. of Bot. XVI. (1878) 1, et in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh XIV. (1883) 172. — 

 Lawson Tait in Trans. Phil. Soc. Birmingham I. no. 3. (1878) 125. — Woolls Lect. 

 on Veg. Kingd. (1879) 100. — Chareyre et He ekel in Compt. rend. Gl. (1885) 

 579. — Maury in Bull. Soc. bot. France XXXIV. (1887) 164. — Goebel, Pflanzen- 

 biol. Schild. II. (1891) 110. — Macfarlane in Ann. of Bot. VII. (1893) 444. — 

 Hamilton in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales XXIX. (1904) 36. — Diels in Engler-Drude, 

 Veget. der Erde VN. (1906) 357 et ante. — Schweiger in Beih. z. Bot. Centralbl. 

 XXV. (1909) 490. 



Character. Sepala 6 zb connata. Petala o. Stamina 12 perigyna, connectivo 

 dorso apice valde tumido capitato. Garpella 6 libera, uniovulata, ovulo erecto ana- 

 tropo. Folliculi 6. Semen unicum, integumento duplici, albumine carnoso; embryo 

 basi albuminis situs. — Herbae paludosae perennes repentes. Folia exstipulata, alia 

 squamiformia, alia normalia et aseidiformia alternantia. Scapus elongatus bracteatus, 

 cymis brevibus confertis vel remotis terminatus. Flores parvi reguläres incompleti. 



Vegetativa organs (Vegetationsorgane). In the native haunts of Cephalotus 1 over 

 the swampy ground of S. W. Australia, the mature fruits are disseminated in early March. 

 The numerous recurved silky hairs that cover the fruit-wall should alike aid in dis- 

 semination by animals and wind, and enable the fruit to attach itself if it falls on 

 some appropriate moist surface. But in regard to such biological relations we are still 



A. Engler, Das Pflanzenreich. IV. (Embryophyta siphonogama) 116. \ 



