3S0 NATURAL IIISTOBY OF PL.iNTS. 



one or two cari)els, sometimes three, four, or five. The fruit is here 

 also a swollen follic-1.' ; and the ovules, though less numerous than in 

 N. thi/rxi flora, arc still arranged in two vertical rows. They are at 

 first liorizontal, hut are afterwards displaced, so that as seeds some 

 become ascending with the micropyle extrorse, while others are 

 more or less descending.' Thus constituted, the genus Neillia in- 

 cludes four or five species from India, the east and north* of Asia, 

 and North America. These are bushy shrubs, with alternate 

 simple dentate or lobed leaves, possessing two large lateral, cadu- 

 cous stipules. Their flowers are in racemes or corymbs, which may 

 be simple or composed of alternate cymes. 



In Kcrria^ the solitary terminal floral peduncle is swollen at the 

 apex, with only a shallow pit on top for the insertion of the gyna3- 

 eeum ; while the low edges of this pit bear five persistent quin- 

 cuncially imbricated sepals, five alternating shortly-unguiculate 

 petals also imbricated^ in the bud, and a large number of free sta- 

 mens* consisting of slender filaments, at first flexuous, bearing in- 

 trorse two-celled anthers, dehiscing longitudinally. The cup is lined 

 with hairs and glandular tissue. The carpels are superposed to 

 the sepals when they are of the number -^ each consists of a free 

 ovary, and a slender st^de inserted at a variable height on the 

 internal angle, and truncate and stigmatiferous at the apex. Within 

 the ovary, about half-way up the ventral angle, is inserted a single 

 incompletely anatropous descending ovule," whose micro^Dyle looks 

 ujnvards and outwards. The fruit consists of a variable number of 

 achenes,* whose seeds possess an exalbuminous embryo with its 

 radicle superior. Only one species of this genus is known, K. 

 juponica^ a shrub, cultivated in China and Japan from time imme- 



' There is .1 thin layer of albumen around the ^ " Aclienia parva, sicca, cartilaginea." We 



embryo. l)j,ve never seen them in any collection. Till 



^ MiQ., ^7. /n(?..i?rt/., i. p.i.390.— Hook. F. quite recently the plant cultivated almost ex- 



& TliOMfl., J(/t/r«. Linn. Hoc, ii. 75. — Walp., clusively in our gardens has been the monstrosity 



Ann., iv. QA^\). ^-itli double sterile flowers, and the carpels often 



* DC, Trans. Linn. Soc, xii. 15Gj Prodr., opened out and leafy. 



ii..'iH.— Spach, .S«i7. « 7y,//r(;»,i.429.— Endl., » DC, loc. cit.—SmB. & Zucc, Fl. Jap., 



Gen., n. G3U0.— H. U., Oen., 613, n. 23. 183, t. 98.— Miq., Mus. Lugd. Bat., iii. 33.— 



* They arc .sometimes contorted. Huhus japonicus, L., Mant., 215.— Corckonis 



* TJieir nrriin(;ement and structure are the japonicus Thunbg., Fl. Jap., 227. W., Spec, 



same ns in the K..so« ; the inner stamens are ii. 1218.— Poiit., Bid., ii. 105.— Andh., Bot. 



»ar shorter than the outer cues. Bepos., t. h^l .—Bot. Mag., t. \2m.—Spiraia 



« There are sometnnes only four, sometimes, juponica Desvx., Mem. Soc Linn. Par., i. 25. 



.ngain, six or eipht. — Cambess., Ann. Sc Nat., ser. 1, i. 389.— 



'" It luw -nly a smgle coat. Teilo Jamma Buki K^mpf., Amoen. Fxot., 844. 



