SAXIFRAGACEAE. 



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And in this pit is inserted the stamen. The fruit is a berry, with 

 the reflexed calyx surrounding its base (fig. 419); the numerous 



Fig. 416. 



Fig. 118. 



Flower (£). Flower, perianth removed. 



Fig. 419. 

 Youuk fruit. 



Fig. 417. 

 Long. sect, of flower. 



seeds have their embryo surrounded by albumen. R. simplex, 1 the 

 only known species, is a climbing shrub from the Mauritius, with 

 opposite or verticillate leaves ; the flowers are axillary, solitary, or 

 in little cymes at first surrounded by the scales of the flower-bud. 



We shall place next the two monotypic Australian genera Abro- 

 phyllum and Cittt-na. 2 The former has 5-6-merous flowers, possess- 

 ing a superior ovary, surrounded at the base by a short calyx, valvate 

 petals, and as many stamens inserted around an ill-developed hypo- 

 gynous disk. The pluriovulate cells are surmounted by a short 

 style, with scarcely prominent stigmatiferous lobes ; the fruit is a 

 many-seeded berry, with albuminous seeds. A. ornantf is a shrub 

 with alternate, pstiolate, lanceolate, serrate, exstipulate leaves ; its 

 flowers form terminal or axillary pedunculate dichotomous cymes. 

 Cuttsia vibernea? has exactly the same habit ; but its flowers, though 

 in other respects very similar, have the receptacle cupuliform, and a 



1 Smith, loc. cit. — Teatt., Arch., ii. 64, t. 

 10u. — Ekdl., Icon., t. 107. — Tul., in Ann. So, 

 Nat., ser. 4, viii. 158. — Walp., Sep., ii. 719; 

 Ann., v. 403. 



2 Hook, f., ex Bbnth., Fl. Austral., ii. 437. — 

 B. H., Gen., 647, n.45. — Brachynema F. Muell., 

 Fiagm., iii. 90 (nee Beutr.). 



3 Hook, f., loc. cit. — F. Muell., Fragm , 

 vi. 189. — Brachynema ornans F. Muell 

 (ol.). 



4 F. Muell., Fragm., v. 47, t. 40; vi. 189.— 

 B. H., Gen., lOOi, n. 45 a. 



