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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



compressed, conical-beaked ; valves marked with submuricate ribs 

 radiating from lacunar disk ; septum rather thick; style persistent 

 elongate, apex stigmatose minutely capitate emarginate. Seeds 

 solitary in each cell, subpendulous from short funicle, orbicular 

 much compressed ; cotyledons of embryo incumbent, transversely 

 2-plicate. — Herbs or undershrubs, erect virgate glabrous; leaves linear 

 entire sessile ; flowers 1 in elongated or subspicate racemes ; pedicels 

 ebracteate thickened at apex {South Africa'). 



91? Boleum Desvx. 3 — "Sepals erect, equal at base. Longer 

 stamens connate in pairs. Siliqua erect ovate-globose, indehiscent, 

 2-celled, 2-seeded, very hispid ; style narrowly tongue-shaped beaked; 

 septum membranous ; stigma 2-lobed. — Seeds pendulous near apex 

 of cell, broadly oblong compressed ; testa membranous ; funicle 

 very short; cotyledons closely conduplicate ; radicle curved. — An 

 undershrub, very branching woody very hispid leafy ; leaves linear, 

 quite entire or lower ones divided ; flowers 4 shortly racemose ; pedicels 

 ebracteate or inferior bracteate" 5 {Sjjaitf). 



92 ? Lachnoloma Bge. 7 — " Sepals erect, lateral saccate at base. 

 Petals narrow. Stamens free toothless. Glands annular. Siliqua 8 

 ovoid-pyramidal, sub-4-gonous, long-villous, crustaceous, 2-celled, 

 2-seeded ; septum thick ; style subulate ; stigma shortly 2-fid- 

 Seeds obovate pendulous ; testa very thin ; funicle very short ; 

 cotyledons narrow incumbent ; radicle large clavate. — An annual 

 herb, pubescent-tomentose with stellate hairs, sparingly branching ; 

 leaves linear-lanceolate, sinuate- dentate or pinnatifid; flowers race- 

 mose, 9 ebracteate" 10 (Caspian 11 ). 



93. Bunias It. Br. 1 " — Sepals subequal at base, patent (Lcelia™), or 



1 Rather large, purple. 



2 Spec. 2. Haev., Thes. Cap., i. t. 59. 



3 Journ. Sot., iii. 163, t. 26.— DC, Prodr., i. 

 223.— Endl., Gen., n. 4958.— B. H., Gen., 98, 

 n. 149 (whence our description). 



4 " Middle sized, yellow." 



5 "A genus prohably very nearly allied to 

 Succovia and Vella." 



6 Spec. 1. JB. asperum Desvx., loc. cit. — 

 Vella aspera Pees., Syn., ii, 185. 



7 In L'mnaa, xviii. 154 ; Enum. PI, Lehm., 

 41, t. 8.— H. H., Gen., 98, n. 150 (whence our 

 description). 



8 " Erect, long and densely villous." 



9 " Rather large ; yellow (?)." 



io « ^ genus hardly distinguishable from 

 Boleus." 



11 Spec. 1. L. Lehmanni Bge., loc. cit. — 

 Eoiss., Fl. Or., i. 369.— Walp., Rep., v. 49. 



12 In Ait. Sort. Kew., ed. 2, iv. 75. — DC, 

 Prodr., i. 229. — Endl., Gen., n. 4973.— B. H., 

 Gen., 97, n. 147.— JErucago T., Inst., 232, t. 

 103 (nee alior.). 



13 Desvx., Journ. Pot., iii. 160. — Spacu, loc. 

 cit., 585. Fruit 2-celled. 



