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CCXVI. BALANOPHORE^}. 



inferior, at first 2, then l-celled; STYLE short ; STIGMA simple or 2-lobed; OVULES soli- 

 tary in each cell, pendulous ; NUCULES 4, laterally connate, ^.-seeded. EMBRYO straight, 

 in a fleshy albumen ; RADICLE superior. SHRUBS. LEAVES opposite, exstipulate. 



SHRUBS with the habit of Phylica and Bruniacece. LEAVES opposite, linear- 

 lanceolate, quite entire, margin revolute ; stipules 0. INFLORESCENCE in cones in the 

 axils of the upper leaves, subtended by 2 lateral bracts. FLOWERS $ . PERIANTH 

 superior, of 4 caducous ovate-acute segments, hairy externally, valvate in aestivation. 

 STAMENS 8, slightly adherent to the bases of the segments, 4 alternate rather longer 

 than the others ; filaments ligulate ; anthers adnate, erect, 2-celled, cells dehiscing 

 longitudinally by valves. OVARY inferior, capped by an annular disk, 2-celled when 

 young, 1-celled afterwards by the rupture of the septum, which remains on a central 

 placenta ; style short ; stigma truncate or 2-lobed ; ovules 2, ovoid, compressed, one in 

 each cell or on each side of the central free septum, pendulous from its summit, 

 anatropous. NUCULE crowned by the style and alveolar disk, 1-seeded. SEED 

 inverse, sub-spherical, bearing the remains of the septum and undeveloped ovule on 

 one side ; albumen fleshy. EMBRYO straight, cylindric, almost as long as the seed ; 

 cotyledons short, appressed ; radicle long, cylindric, superior. 



ONLY GENUS. 

 Grubbia. 



A family of ono genus, whose affinity is rather obscure. It has been appended to Bruniacea by 

 Decaisne, Lindley, and Arnott, and to HamameUdea by Gardner ; but is probably nearer Santalacea, as 

 Endlicher has pointed out, a point that cannot be settled till the structure of the ovule is known. 

 Brongniart and A. de Candolle regard it as intermediate between JBruniacece and Santalacece. Grubbia 

 is a native of South Africa, where three species have been discovered ; they are of no known use. 

 ED.] 



CCXVI. BALANOPUORE^E, L.-C. Richard. 



Cynomoiium eoceintiim. 



Plant growing on the flat ends of a root of Sal tola. 

 1-Cth natural size. 



Cynomorium. 



9 and 3 inflorescence surrounded by 

 bracteoles (mag.)' 



