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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



species 1 have been distinguished ; most of them are cultivated in our 



gardens. 



Fig. 402. 

 Seed (f). 



Philadelphia coronarius. 



Fig. 401. 

 Fruit dehiscing (^). 





Fig. 403. 

 Long. sect, of seed. 



Decumaria barbara. 



Decmnaria (fig. 404) 2 is a sarmentose shrub from North America, 



with the leaves of Philadelphm ; but its flowers, 

 of fundamentally the same organization, are 

 formed on the type 7 or 8, or even 9 or 10. 

 They are grouped into a ramified corymbiform 

 terminal cyme. The fruits are dry and many- 

 seeded ; but they open as in several Escallonias, so 

 that the external and internal layers of the peri- 

 carp separate from the netted veins of the 

 mesocarp. Within this network are seen the 

 numerous small seeds, formed nearly as in Philadelphus. 



The flowers of Fendlera come very near those of Deutzia? with four 

 superior valvate sepals, four alternate unguiculate petals, imbricated 

 and often decussate, and eight stamens superposed to the perianth- 

 leaves. They have an introrse anther, cuspidate at the apex ; and 

 the filament expands above into two large alate petaloid lateral lobes 

 which overtop the anther. The ovary is partly inferior, surmounted 



Fig. 404. 

 Long. sect, of flower. 



1 Royle, III. Himal., t. 46. — A. Gray, Man., 

 ed. 2, 146.— Chapm., Fl. S. Unit. St., 156.— 

 Bot. Mag., t. 1478, 5334.— _Bo£. Reg., t. 2003 ; 

 (1838), t. 14; (1839), t. 32, 39; (1842), t. 38.— 

 Walp., Sep., ii. 151; Ann., ii. 614; iv. 821; 

 vii. 903. 



2 L., Gen., 597. — J., Gen., 324. — Lame., 

 Diet., ii. 265 ; Suppl., ii. 459 ; III., t. 403.— DC, 

 Prodr., iii. 205.— Spacii, Suit, a Buffon, v. 19.— 



Exdl., Gen., n, 6106. — H. Bn., in Payer Fam. 

 Nat., 348.— B. R\, Gen., 642, n. 28.— D. sar- 

 mentosa Bosc, in Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par., i. 

 76, t. 13. — D. Forsythia Michx., Fl. Bnr.- 

 Amer., i. 282. — D. radicans MCENCH. — Forsythia 

 scandens Walt., Carol., 154. 



3 Engelm. & A. Gray, in PI. Wright., i. 

 (Smithson. Contrib., iii.), 77, t. 5. — H. Bn., in 

 Adansonia, vi. 2. — 15. H., Gen., 643, n. 33. 



