LIII. DIOSMEJE. 



LIII. DIOSME^E. 



(RUTACEARUM genera, Jussieu. DIOSMEARUM genera, Br. DIOSME^E, Adr. Jussieu.) 



D. tenuifolia. 

 Flower-bud (mag.). 



D. tenuifolia. 

 Expanded flower (mag.). 



Diosma longifolia. 



D. tenuifolia. 

 Seed, entire and cut vertically, 



showing the 

 testa surmounted by a crest. 



D. tenuifolia. 

 Flower cut vertically (mag.). 



D. tenvifolia. Fruit (mag.). 



D. ericoides. Diagram. 



D. tenuifolia. 



Seed deprived of its testa, 

 showing the inner chalaza 

 (mag.). 



D. alba. 



Seed with lateral 

 hilum (mag.). 



Diosma. 

 Exalbuminous 

 embryo (mag.). 





PETALS 5-4, inserted on a hypo- 

 gynous disk, imbricate. STAMENS equal 

 and alternate with the petals, or double 

 the number. OVARIES distinct or co- 

 herent, 2-ovuled. FRUIT a capsule, divid- 

 ing into cocci. SEEDS albuminous or 

 exalbuminous. EMBRYO usually straight. 

 Scented PLANTS. STEM woody. LEAVES usually glandular- dotted, exstipulate. 



SMALL TREES or SHRUBS. LEAVES opposite or alternate, coriaceous, usually 

 simple, sometimes 3-foliolate (Spiranthera, Zieria, &c.), rarely pinnate (Boronia), 

 usually glandular-dotted ; stipules 0, or replaced by glands at the base of the 

 petioles. FLOWERS $ , or very rarely imperfect by suppression (Empleurum), regular, 

 axillary or terminal, solitary, or in an umbel, corymb or panicle, rarely in an involu- 

 crate capitulum (Diplolcena] . CALYX 4-5-fid or -partite, imbricate in aestivation. 

 PETALS 4-5, inserted under a free or rarely sub-perigynous disk, imbricate in aestiva- 

 tion, usually free, rarely connate, or conniving by their dilated bases into a cylin- 

 drical tube, arid then valvate in aestivation (Correct,, Nematolepis, &c.), or (Em- 

 pleurum}. STAMENS inserted with the petals, generally equal, rarely double in 



