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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



SO. Texiera Jaub. & Spach. 1 — Sepals subequal at base. Stamens 

 free, 4-dynamous. Siliqua subglobose or broadly obtuse, indehiscent, 

 subdrupaceous ; endocarp bony ; mesocarp porous ; epicarp glabrous ; 

 stigma peltate subsessile. Seed 1, descending immarginate ; embryo 

 fleshy ; cotyledons concave or folded ; radicle incumbent. — Herb 

 branching slender glabrous glaucous ; leaves alternate sagittate 

 amplexicaul entire ; flowers 2 arranged into branching terminal and 

 leaf-opposed ebracteate racemes ; pedicels short, when fruiting de- 

 flexed (Syria*). 



81. Schimpera Hochst. & Steud." — Sepals short, equal at base, 

 patulous. Petals small, usually shorter than calyx. Stamens 6, 

 free, subequal. Siliqua oblique subovoid compressed rugose ; apex 

 produced to a large sword-shaped compressed beak, minutely-emar- 

 ginate-capitate at apex; 5 cell 1, 1-seeded (or with another abor- 

 tive seed). Seed descending ; micropyle superior introrse ; funicle 

 short; cotyledons of fleshy embryo subconduplicate. — Annual herbs, 

 branching, glabrous or pilose ; leaves alternate, sinuate or 

 runcinate-pinnatifid ; flowers 8 in ebracteate racemes 7 (Arabia, 

 Persia*). 



82. Myagrum T. 9 — Sepals equal at base, suberect. Petals a little 

 longer than calyx. Stamens 6 ; larger free or subconnate at base. 

 Glands 4 ; placentary pair simple ; carpellary 2-lobed. Siliqua 

 obpyramidate sublyrate, long-cuneate at base, compressed suberous; 

 apex spuriously 3-celled ; lateral cells empty, middle fertile ; style 

 shortly conical ; apex stigmatose, minutely capitate emarginate, 

 persistent at top of fruit. Seed subpendulous, descending from side 



1 III. Fl. Or., i. t. 1.— B. H., Gen., 96, n. 

 139. — Glastaria Boiss., in Ann. So. Nat., ser. 

 2, xvii. 203. 



2 Small, yellow. 



3 Spec. 1. T. glastifolia Jaub. & Spach, he. 

 cit. — Glastaria deflexa Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 373. — 

 Walp., Rep., i. 146,—Peltaria deflexa DC, 

 St/st., ii. 337. 



* Ex Endl., Gen., n. 4982.— B. H., Gen., 96, 

 n. 141. — Trallia Lindl. (ex Endl., Suppl., 

 1419). 



5 " Ornithocephaloid." 



6 Yellow, small. 



' " A genus allied to Euclidium." (B. H., loc. 

 cit.). 



8 Spec. 2. Webb, in Journ. Bot. Ital. (1852), 

 221. — Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 384.— Wais.,- Rep., i. 

 192 ; Ann., i. 58 ; ii. 57. 



9 Inst., 211, t. 99.— Medik., Gen., i. 39, t. 1, 

 fig. 1. — R. Be., in Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2, iv. 

 74. — Destx., in Journ. Bot., iii. 160, t. 25, fig. 

 5.— DC, Syst., ii. 573; Prodr., i. 212.— Spach, 

 Suit, a Buffon, vi. 583. — Endl., Gen., n. 4943. — 

 B. H., Gen., 96, n. 142. — Bricourlia Adans., 

 Fam. des PI., ii. 423. — Deltocarpus Liier., mss. 

 — Sinistrophormn Schrank, mss. (ex Endl.). 



