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Ovary ovoid: subulate sliort style with iiitrorse stigina. Sccfls stipitato on their tl 

 clavate funiculi, glDlxise, with a-flcsiiyaud at lr»ngtli pulpy coat ; the vi-ry hard ; 

 deeply unibilicate at tlio liiluni. Kmhryo minute at the centre. 



* * * Anomalous herbs, with no Horal envelopi's, and dry indehiuccnt fruit one^ewled 

 from the base. 



3. ACHLYS. Stamens 6 to 12; filaments elongjited, filiform, or the outer dilaU-d upwar«l : 

 anthers globose-didymous. Ovary ovoid, surmounted by a broad sessile stipma. Ovnic 

 solitary. Fruit at first somewhat fleshy, at length dry and coriaceous, lunate-incurved, dor- 

 sally convex and ca'rinate, ventrally excavated each side of the fleshy .«alient suture or ventral 

 appendage. Embryo minute. Flowers spicate. 



* * * * Perennial herbs: ovary with few or many ovules on the lateral placenta. 



-)- Forming a dry and dehiscent fruit : seeds laterally arillate : embryo minute : leaves 



coni])ound. 



4. VANCOUVERIA. Sepals 6 in two series, obovate, jietaloid, refiexeil, and l)cl" 

 (■) or 9 caliciue bracts in 2 or 3 series. Petals 6, uectarifurni and unguiculate, i. e. ;i . 

 claw bearing a much shorter cucullate nectariferous lamina. Stamens G : anthers el.! 

 oblong, the connective produced into a pointed tip. Ovary 2-9-ovuIate ; stvle slendtr; 

 stigma terminal, truncate and scarious-cupulate. Follicle oblong, membranaceous, uneqiuilly 

 2-valved, in the manner of E pi medium, (which has dimerous flowers and sessile petals or 

 nectaries). Seeds arcuate, with au ample lateral arillus. Leaves triternate. 



5. JEFFERSONIA. Sepals 4, rarely 3 or 5, linear-oblong, petaloid, caducous. Petals 

 8 in two scries, oblong, plane, larger than the sepals. Stamens 8; anthers oblong-liniar, 

 longer than the filaments. Ovary ovoid, slightly stipitate, apex contracted into a short style 

 with terminal 2-lobed stigma. Ovules and seeds numerous and horizontal in several rows 

 on the broad placenta. Arillus snwU and laciniate. Fruit ol>ovate, tnuisversely (or 

 obliquely) dehiscent by a slit. Leaves 2-foliolate or 2-lobed. 



-t— H— Fruit a berry : embryo comparatively large : anthers oblong, longer than the fila- 

 ments : rootstocks producing sterile plants of a single large and long-stalked leaf and 

 flowei-iug plants of two leaves ; leaves undivided but cleft and peltate. 



6. DIPHYLLEIA. Sepals 6 in two series (or the three outer and smaller more herbaceous 

 ones bracts), caducous. Petals 6, obovate, plane and larger, spreading. Stamens 6. (^>vary 

 5-6-ovulate toward the base of the placenta : style very short : stigma terminal, depres.sed. 

 emarginate. Berry globular, somewhat gibbous, few-seeded. Seeds oblong, naked (not 

 arillate). 



7. PODOPHYLLUM. Bracts 3, small and green, very early caducous. Scjials 6 in two 

 series, broad and thin, partly herbaceous, caducous. Petals 6 to 9, rounded-obovate, spread- 

 ing. Stamens as many or twice as many as the petals, or more ; anthers not with u]difted 

 valves ! Ovary ovoid, crowned with a large and sessile fungoid-lobulate stigma. Ovules 

 and seeds very numerous in several rows covering the very broad ventral placenta ; the see<ls 

 at length immersed each in a pulpy arillus or arilliform outgrowth of the placenta. Berry 

 large. In monstrosity 2 or 3 carpels ! 



1. B^IRBERIS, Tourn. Barberry or Berberry. (Arabic name.) — 

 Widely distributed genus of shrubs ; the inner bark and wood yellow :ind charjjed 

 with a bitter priuciple (berberine). Leaves or leaflets spinulose- or (•ili:ite-<U-ii- 

 tate, or some converted into persistent spines. Flowers small, yellow, mostly in 

 racemes, produced in spring or early summer, heavy scented. Filament.*! sensi- 

 tive, springing forward upon a touch at base inside. ]•■ • ^■'' • '■■-■': ' '■••' 

 no. 267. 



§ 1. True Berberls. Leaves of primary axes traii.^turnu d iuiu }icr.>i.-ti nt 

 and simple or triple spines; those of the foliage in fascicles from the axils, in 



