SAXIFRAGACEJ3. 



385 



of the alternating short staminal filaments, which thus appear to be 

 inserted on the corolla; still there is no true fusion. Moreover there 



Berzelia lanuginosa. 



Fig. 460. 

 Flower (f). 



Fig. 459. 

 Flowering branch. 



Fig. 461. 

 Long. sect, of seed. 



are not constantly two collateral descending ovules, with their 

 niicropyles exterior, in each of the two cells, but often three or four 

 in two vertical rows. Each ovule is surmounted by a subcorneal 

 dilatation of its funicle. The fruit is a capsule, opening from below 

 upwards into two or four valves. The three known species 1 are 

 branching heath-like shrubs, with alternate oblong concave coriaceous 

 leaves, and the inflorescence of Audouinia or Linconia. 



Tliamnea? with all the habit and general floral characters of the 

 other Bruniece, is exceptional in the structure of its g}ma3ceum. It 



1 Haev. & Soijd., Fl. Cap., ii. 316. 



2 Soland., ex Ad. Be., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 

 1, viii. 386, t. 38, fig. 3.— Endl., Gen., n. 4604. 



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— H. Bn., in Adansonia, iii. 328. — B. H., Gen., 

 671, 1006, n. 2. — Oliy., in Journ. Linn. Soc, 

 ix. 331. 



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