44 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



mounted by an elongated cone covered with stigmatiferous papillae. 

 The walls of the ovary bear a variable number of anatropous ovules 1 

 inserted all over the inner surface, and arranged a few together (four 

 to eio-ht) in distant vertical rows. The ovarian wall is more or less 

 thickened and prominent between these rows. 2 The fruit consists 

 of from one to three elongated, many-seeded berries. The seeds are 

 reniform, with a deep broad ventral cavity into which the thickened 

 funicle is inserted. Beneath the triple integument'' is a hard sub- 

 corneous albumen, bowed and very concave on the ventral side ; 

 near its organic apex is seen a very small oblique excentric cavity, 

 in which is lodged a minute embryo, with a conical radicle more 

 thickened than the cotyledons (fig. 36). 



Under the name of Boquila* has been distinguished a Lardizabala, 6 

 with a thinner perianth than in the other species, whose anthers are 

 muticous or obtusely apiculate, and whose carpels usually contain 

 only two lateral rows of ovules. 6 It can only be made a section of 

 the genus Lardizabala. This will then include three or four species/ 

 climbing shrubs from Chili and Peru. Their leaves are alternate, 

 trifoliolate, or bi- or tri-ternate, usually with broad lateral stipules at 

 the base. The flowers form axillary racemes, usually reduced to a 

 single flower on the female plant. 



Next to Lardizabala come three Asiatic genera which differ therefrom 

 but slightly. Parvafia* of which only one Indian 9 species is known, 

 has monoecious flowers and very numerous ovules scattered over the 



1 With tw.o coats. line of the ovary, and the hilum and micropyle 



2 The thickening is due to the interior cells of towards the lateral walls. Hence we have not here 

 the carpellary leaf, which enlarge hetween the a placentation that really corresponds with the 

 ovules, finally forming a sort of soft pulpy matrix, junction of the edges of the carpel in the ventral 

 wherein they are, as it were, framed. angle, as in Decaisnea. This is merely a Lar- 



3 In those of L. biternaia are distinguished dizalala with the number of rows of ovules more 

 an epidermic layer, a brown, smooth, shelly layer, reduced than in the other species. 



and a rusty internal membrane, which is solt and ' Vent., Toy. de Laperr., iv. 265, t. 6-8. 



almost corky. Deless., Ic. Sel., i. t. 91, 92.— Miees, loc. cit. ; 



4 Dcne., in Arch. Mus., i. 188, t. 11 B. — Contrib , i. 152-155, t. 28.— C. Gat, Fl. Chil., 

 Endl., Gen., n. 4704.— 13. H., Gen., 42, n. 2. i. 68. — Hook., in Bot. Mag., t. 4501.— Pcepp'. 



(" Should it not rather be held a sect, of Lar. & Endl., Nov. Gen. et Sp., ii. t. 189. Walp. 



dizalala ?") Sep., i. 99 (Boqnila); Ann., ii. 22; iv. 142. 



5 L. irijoliolata DC, Syst., i. 513.— Deless., s Dcnk., in Arch. Mvs., i. 190, t. 12 A. 



Ic. Sel., i. t. 92— Dcne., loc. cit., 189. — L. Endl., Gen., n. 4702. — Hook. & Thoms., Fl. 



discolor Kze. & Pcepp., Nov. Gen. et Spec, ii. Ind., i. 214.— 13. H., Gen., 42, n. 3. 



61, t. 189. — Pilpii 'Boquil, Boquil bianco of the 9 P. Bntnoniana Done., loc. cit. Walp. 



Chilians. Ann., iv. 140.— Slaunlonia Brunoniana Wall., 



6 There are usually from three to five in each Cat., n. 4952. 

 row. Their chalaza looks towards the median 



