MACLOSKIE I FRANKENIACE/E. 579 



appendage to the claws. Stamens mostly in 2 series of 3 each ; anthers 

 versatile. Ovary i -celled ; 2-4 parietal or basal placenta:. Style branched. 

 Seeds numerous, with endosperm. 



Species 34, on dry or saline wastes of warm climates. 



KEY TO THE GENERA. 



1. Hermaphrodite. Anthers versatile extrorse, didymous. Petals broad with a ligular appen- 



dage inside. Placentae all ovuliferous. Leaves fleshy. i. Frankenia. 



2. Polygamo-moncecious. Anthers introrse. Petals spatulate, with no ligula. Placenta: 3, 



only i ovuliferous. Leaves ericoid. 2. Niederleinia. 



1. FRANKENIA Linn. 



Flowers hermaphrodite and 5-merous. Petals with an extra tongue- 

 formed lamina. Stamens usually in two series of 3, the outer smaller; 

 anthers versatile-extrorse. Fruit trigonal, ovate-pyramidal, long, all its 

 3 placenta; with seeds. 



Subgenus Afra is in Africa, Spain and Canaries ; subgenus Oceania in 

 Australasia and S. W. America, and northward to California. 



I. F. CHUBUTENSIS Speg. 



Glabrous perennial, prostrate, from a woody caudex. Old branches 

 naked, thickish, subtetragonal, decussately nodulose. Innovations sub- 

 herbaceous, tetragonal ochraceous-green ; internodes long, branching 

 dichotomously or unilaterally. Branchlets densely leafy ; leaves decus- 

 sate, connately sheathing, small, elliptic-ovate, obtusish, rather fleshy, punc- 

 tate, revolute. Flowers at the forks or bases of branches, sessile and 

 solitary. Calyx pentagonal-subtubular, 5-toothed ; petals white, spatulate, 

 twice as long. Stamens 6, exsert. Style long, trifid. Stigmas clavulate. 

 Capsule ovate, 3-valved, about 9-seeded. 



S. Patagon., at Kuan-aike near Rio Chico. 



2. F. PATAGONICA Speg. 



A prostrate shrub, with nude, ascending branches, and decussate, dis- 

 tant branchlets. Leaves on the branchlets quadrifariously irpbricate, very 

 minute, fleshy, obovate, glabrous. Flowers subspicate-capitulate, rather 

 large. Petals white, long-exsert. 



Patagon., rare near the sea in gravel by Golfo de San Jorge. (Genus 

 Frankenia is chiefly Australian ; but it is represented in all the Conti- 



