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filaments. The fruit is an ovoid or elongated berry. Half a score 

 species have been described/ undershrubs with twining branches. 

 Pronaycr (figs. 428, 429) has the same habit and vegetative organs, 

 but its ovary is more decidedly one-celled at all ages, its fruit is 

 fleshy, and its anthers shorter than the filaments, become re volute 

 on anthesis. It is said to contain two or three undershrubs, 3 with 

 white or blue flowers. Citriobatus* on the contrary, comprises rigid 

 spiny shrubs, like Bursaria. The solitary sessile flowers have petals 

 connivent below, erect stamens, with the filaments longer than the 

 anthers, a primarily one-celled ovary, and a globular coriaceous fruit. 

 Two species have been described. 5 



XI. KIBES SERIES. 



The genus Bides 6 (figs. 431-442) was long made by all authors 

 into a distinct order, often brought near Cactaceae. It has regular 

 flowers, hermaphrodite or polygamous. In the former, the concave 

 receptacle lodges in its interior the inferior ovary, and then expands 

 into a tube, funnel, or cupule, bearing the perianth and androceum 

 on its rim. The calyx consists of five (more rarely four) sepals, of 

 imbricate or subvalvate aestivation. They are often well-developed, 

 nearly always much more conspicuous than the petals, and are erect 



1 Labill., PI. Nouv.-HolL, t. 89. — Klatt, in 

 Dinncea, xxviii. 569. — Hook, f., PI. Tasman., i. 

 36. — Benth., PL Austral, i. 122. — Pot. Reg., 

 t. 1719.— Pot. Mag., t. 801, 1313, 1507 — 

 Waif.. Rep., i. 257 ; Ann , iv. 242 ; vii. 239. 



2 Hueg., Pot. Arch., t. 6. — Endl., Gen., n. 

 5G67. — B. H., Gen., 133, n. 7. — Campylanthera 

 Hook., Icon., t. 82. — Spiranthera Hook., in 

 Pot. Mag., sub n. 3523 (nee A. S. H.). 



3 Benth., Fl. Austral., i. 125. — Waxp., 

 Rep., i. 257; ii. 770; v. 73; Ann., i. 77; vii. 

 21-0. More probably tbis genus contains but one 

 species. 



4 A. Cttnn., in Pond. Sort. Brit., 585. — 

 Endx., Gen., n. 5660. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, 

 v. 297; in Payer Fam. Nat., 350. — B. H„ Gen., 

 132, 973, n. 5. — ? Ixiosporus F. Mtjelt.., Fragm. 

 Phyt, Austral, ii. 76.— Waxp., Ann., vii. 239. 



5 Benth., Fl. Austral, i. 121. — Walf., Rep., 

 i. 250; Ann., vii. 238. 



6 Riles L., Gen., n. 281. — Ad as 5., Fam. des 

 PI, ii. 243.— J., Gen., 310.— Lamk., Diet , iii. 

 47; Suppl., ii. 853; III, t. 146.— DC, Prodr., 

 iii. 477. — Sfach, Revis. Grossul , in Ann. Sc. 

 Nat., ser. 2, iv. 16 ; Suit, a Puffon, vi. 160. — 

 Endl., Gen., n. 4682. — Pater, Organog., 383, 

 t. 89 ; Fam. Nat., 88.— B. H., Gen., 654-, n. 71. 

 — Schnizl., Iconogr., xiii. t. 171. — Lem. & 

 Decne., Traite Gen,, 273. — Grossularia T. 

 Inst., 639, t. 409. — GiERTN., Fruct., i. 149, t. 

 409 (inch: Polryocarpium A. Rich., Caloboin/u 

 Spach, Ceropliyllum Sfach, Chrysobotrya Spach. 

 Coreosma Spach, Grossularia A. Rich., Rebis 

 Spach, Robsonia Beri>.). 



