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edges, 1 anterior longer ; 2 lateral shorter, a little more internal. 

 Sepals 4, 2 -seriate ; onter ones (antero-posterior) much larger, 

 concave, scaly externally, closely valvate ; inner ones lateral, smaller, 

 subspathulate, attenuate at edges. Petals 4, slightly unequal ; 

 anterior 2 subdissimilar to posterior 2. Reproductive parts inserted 

 on top of dilated bowed column, concave and keeled in front. 

 Stamens 9, 6 fertile (2 anterior, 2 lateral, and 2 posterior) ; filaments 

 free ; anthers introrse, basifixed, at length curved, 2-rimose ; sterile 

 3 antherless ; anterior 1 longer, alternipetalous ; lateral 2 between 

 anterior and lateral fertile ones on each side. Germen slender stipi- 

 tate elongated-ovoid, densely lepidote ; stigma sessile, acute, placentas 

 2, oc-ovulate ; ovules 2-seriate. Berry ovoid, subcarneous, densely 

 lepidote, apiculated by persisting style, 1 -celled, with a little pulp, 

 indehiscent, bursting on pressure into 4 valves ; replum persistent. 

 Seeds 1, 2, cochleate-reniform ; embiwo exalbuminous hippocrepi- 

 forra ; cotyledons incumbent, plicately convolute on one another. — 

 A branched rigid shrub, with scurfy elaeagnoid scales ; twigs divari- 

 cating, sometimes spinescent ; leaves alternate or subopposite, small 

 linear-oblong petiolate ; flowers pedunculate axillary to the 1, 2 

 superior leaves of the branch {Chili, Bolivia, California). See p. 153. 



5. Apophyllum P. Muell. — Flowers pofygamo-dicecious, 

 almost of Capparis ; sepals 3, 4, imbricate. Petals 2-4, imbricate; 

 anterior 2 often wanting. Stamens or 1-3 in female flower, some- 

 times fertile; oo in male flower; filaments filiform inserted on short 

 depressed receptacle ; anthers introrse. Germen (0 in male flower) 

 stipitate; ovules 1, 2 ascending, parietal or subbasilar; stigma 

 sessile. Berry stipitate pisiform. Seeds 1, 2, smooth; embryo 

 exalbuminous ; cotyledons circinately involute. — A branched almost 

 leafless shrub ; branches virgate terete ; leaves small linear ; 

 flowers aggregated, into lateral fascicles {Tropical Australia). See 

 p. 154. 



6. Roydsia Eoxb. — Sepals connate from very base, imbricate. 

 Stamens co, inserted a little above short calyx on erect cylindrical 

 column ; filaments free ; anthers introrse 2-rimose. Germen shortly 

 stipitate, 3-locular ; ovules oo, inserted in central angle ; style 

 divided into 3 subulate strips. Drupes shortly stipitate, ovoid ; puta- 



