SAXIFRAGACEJZ. 



369 



as many ; they have free filaments inserted on a slightly thickened 

 part of the receptacle, and introrse two-celled anthers of 

 longitudinal dehiscence. The gyiiDeceum consists of an ovary, 



Bauera capitata. 



Fig. 446. 

 Long. sect, of flower (f). 



Fig. 447. 

 Long. sect, of flower. 



with only its base inferior, of two cells, 1 surmounted by two 

 styles, stigmatiferous at the undilated apex. On the interlocular 

 septum are an indefinite number of anatropous ovules, arranged 

 in several series. 2 The fruit is a bivalve loculicidal capsule, 

 almost entirely free, compressed, often truncate at the apex. 

 Under the seed-coats is a fleshy albumen enveloping a cylindrical 

 axile embryo. Two or three species are known, 3 Australian 

 branching shrubs, glabrous or covered with glandular hairs, 

 with opposite sessile leaves, possessing two lateral leafy stipules, 

 sometimes nearly as well developed as the leaf itself, so that one 

 might fancy the leaves were in verticils of six. The flowers are 

 solitary axillary, sessile or pedunculate. 



XIII. CUNONIA SERIES. 



For a long time the only known species of Cunonia* was C. ccqiensis 

 (figs. 448-451), which is often cultivated in the orangery. It has regu- 



1 At first the placentas do not touch. 



2 Thrice as many in tig. 444, five times in fig. 

 445. 



3 Reichb., Ic. Exot., t. 77. — Lodd., in Bot. 

 Cab., t. 1197. — Don, in Edinb. N. Phil. Jaurn., 

 ix. 95. — F. Muell., in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict., 

 i. 41; Fragm., iv. 23; PL Vict., ii. t. 16. — 

 Benth., El. Austral., ii. 447. — Bot. Mag., t. 

 715.— Walp., Rep., v. 835; Ann., vii. 914. 



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4 L., Gen., n. 556. — J., Gen., 310. — G.ebtn., 

 Fruct., iii. 344, t. 225. — Lamk., Diet., ii. 225 ; 

 111., t. 371.— DC, Prodr., iv. 12. — Spach, Suit, 

 a. Buffon, v. 10.— Endl., Gen., n. 4662.— Payee, 

 Earn. Nat., 86.— B. H., Gen., 654, n. 70.— 

 Osterdyckia Bt/rm., Afr., 259, t. 96. — Adans., 

 Earn, des PI., ii. 445. 



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