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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



style slender, clavate at vertically stigmatiferous apex. Drupe dry, 

 somewhat compressed, villous, 1 -seeded. — A tree ; leaves verticillate 

 simple dentate ; flowers in axillary racemes ; bracts many flowered 

 {South Africa 1 ). 



28. Cenarrhenes Labill. 2 — Flowers regular, hermaphrodite 

 (nearly of Persoonia) ; calyx-leaves 4, free equal deciduous. Stamens 

 4, inserted at base of perianth ; anthers apiculate. Hypogynous 

 glands 4, alternate with stamens. Germen sessile ; ovule 1, de- 

 scending orthotropous ; style capitate stigmatiferous. A drupe ; 

 putamen very hard ; embryo exalbuminous thick. — Glabrous trees ; 

 leaves alternate rigid- coriaceous flat nearly veinless shining ; flowers 

 in terminal and axillary spikes ; bracts usually 1-flowered (Oceania 3 ). 



29. Agastachys E. Br. 4 — Flowers regular, hermaphrodite (nearly 

 of Persoonia) ; perianth-leaves 4, elongated equal free, deciduous. 

 Stamens adnate to middle of perianth ; filaments short ; anthers 

 elongated muticous. Hypogynous disk 0. Germen sessile, 3- 

 gonous ; ovule 1, descending orthotropous ; style slender, apex 

 dilated subclavate compressed, 2-fld, laterally stigmatiferous. 

 Fruit .... ? — A glabrous shrub ; leaves alternate ; flowers 5 in 

 numerous axillary and terminal many-flowered spikes ; bracts alter- 

 nate concave, 1-flowered (Tasmania 6 ). 



IV. FRANKLAND1E,E. 



30. Franklandia R. Br. — Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Pe- 

 rianth hypocrateriform ; tube cylindrical, straight, persistent ; limb 

 4-fid deciduous ; lobes acute, valvate-induplicate deciduous. Sta- 

 mens 4, inserted at middle of perianth ; filaments flattened and 

 elongated, and anthers elongated, adnate to tube of perianth ; 



1 Species 1. B.stellaUfoliwm L., Spec, ed. 2, 

 177 ; Mantiss., 332. — B. stellulifoliwm L., 

 Syst., xiii. 764. — B. stellatum TnuNB., Prodr. 

 Fl. Cap., 31 ; Fl. Cap., 156. — Bralyla capensis 

 L., Mantiss., 137. 



2 Nouv.-Holl, 36, t. 50.— R. Br., in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc., x. 158 ; Prodr.. 371 ; Suppl., 12.— 

 Lame., Diet., viii. 855 ; Suppl., v. 522 ; III., 

 t. 914. — Endl., Gen., n. 2137. — Meissf., 

 Prodr., 328. 



3 Species 3 : 1 Tasinanian, C. nitida (Labill., 



luc. eit.), with obtusely dentate-serrate leaves ; 2 

 New Caledonian, with subentire leaves (Be. & 

 Git., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 5, iii. 203). — BEXTTH. 

 i 1'. MUBLX.., Fl. Austral., v. 379. 



4 In Trans. Linn. Soc., x. 158 ; Prodr., 371; 

 Suppl., 11. — Exdl., Gen., n. 2136. — MEISSK., 

 Prodr., 328. 



5 " Yellowish." 



6 Species 1. A. odorata R. Bh., loc. cit. — 

 Bejith. & F. Mclll., Fl, Ausir., iv. 379. 



