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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



flowers 1 in finally elongated racemes ; pedicels short ebracteate, erect 

 thickened when fruiting (Song arid?). 



51. Anchonium DC. 3 — Sepals erect; lateral more or less saccate 

 at base. Stamens 6, 4-dynamous ; filaments of 4 longer connate in 

 pairs. Siliqua patent or pendulous, elongated or short, subterete 

 torulose, more or less contracted between seeds ; septum rather thick 

 undulate; locelli arranged in pairs or alternating; style conical, 

 rostrate, subcompressed ; stigmatose apex dilated, 2-lobed. Seeds 

 solitary in locelli, broadly oblong or obovoid, descending, immar- 

 ginate, glabrous ; embryo coloured ; cotyledons flat or concave, some- 

 times unequal ; radicle cylindrical, incumbent. — Perennial herbs, 

 tomentose with stellate or capitate-glandular hairs ; 4 rhizome thick ; 

 leaves entire ; radicle oblong, tapering at base ; flowers 5 in leafy 

 racemes ; pedicels ebracteate, slender, scarcely thickened when fruit- 

 ing 6 (The East 1 ). 



52 ? Raffenaldia Godr. 8 — Sepals erect, more or less coherent ; 

 lateral saccate at base. Siliqua elongated-4-gonous, unequally 

 torulose, suberous, oo-locellate by transverse processes; joints 1- 

 seriate, 1-locellate, at maturity scarcely separating or persistent ; 

 style rather long, stigmatose at apex. Seeds descending, ovoid ; 

 embryo fleshy ; cotyledons unequal, conduplicate. — A perennial 

 subacaulescent herb ; leaves densely rosulate, lyrate-imparipinnate; 

 flowers solitary, pedunculate, subradical ; peduncles erect, then 

 deflexed, thickened when fruiting (Algeria*). 



53. Parlatoria Boiss. 10 — Sepals subequal at base, spreading. 

 Stamens 6, dilated at base ; lateral 2 a little shorter, incurved. Siliqua 



1 White, minute. 



8 Spec. 1, arenicolous. C. fa 1 cata Kab. & 

 Kis., loc. cit. — Walp., Sep., ii. 762. 



3 Syst. Yeg„ ii. 578; Prodr., i. 212.— Ende., 

 Gen., n. 4945. — B. H., Gen., 101, n. 167. 



4 Habit of Cheiranthus, 



5 Golden or purplish ; handsome. 



6 " A genus of doubtful affinities." (B. H., 

 loc. cit.) 



7 Spec. 2, 3. Deless., Ic. Sel., ii. t. 82. — 



Boiss, Fl. Or., i. 239.— Walp., Sep., ii. 

 762. 



s Fl. Juven., ed. 2, 52.— B. H., Gen., 101, 

 165. — Cossonia DUE., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 3, 

 xx. 82, t. 6. 



9 Spec. 1. S. primuloides Godr., loc. cit.— 

 Walp., Ann., iv. 220. — Cossonia afiicana Due., 

 loc. cit. 



M In Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 2, xxii. 72.— B. H., 

 Gen., 102, n. 169. 



