436 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



lanceolate glandular- serrate exstipulate; flowers in lax cymiferous 

 terminal racemes (Bourdon). See p. 351. 



40. Argophyllum Forst. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle 

 scarcely or more or less cupuliform. Sepals 5, 6, inserted on margin, 

 3-angular, valvate. Petals as many, alternate, valvate, with a thick 

 petaloid internal scale, silky-fimbriate above. Stamens 5, 6, in- 

 serted and alternating with petals ; filaments free ; anthers introrse 

 2-rimose. Germen almost wholly, or partly superior ; cells 2-4, or 

 5, G, oppositipetalous ; ovules oo , anatropous, inserted on a more or 

 less unequal-tumid placenta affixed by short stipe to internal angle. 

 Capsule surrounded by receptacle and calyx, loculicidally 2-G-valved; 

 valves sometimes bipartite. Seeds co , minute ; testa rugose cancel- 

 late ; albumen fleshy ; embryo minute axile. — Silky-pubescent 

 shrubs; leaves alternate petiolate coriaceous, whitish or rusty 

 below, entire or coarsely dentate ; stipules ; flowers in axillary 

 and terminal corymbiform cymes (Neiv Caledonia, Australia). See 

 p. 351. 



41 ? Carpodetus Forst. — Flowers nearly of Argopl/yllum ; recep- 

 tacle turbinate. Sepals 5, 6, narrow, deciduous. Petals as many, 

 valvate. Stamens as many, perigynously inserted with perianth ; 

 anthers introrse. Germen of Argophyllum, inferior, 3-6-locular, 

 crowned with 5-lobed glandular disk ; lobes obtuse oppositipetalous. 

 Fruit coriaceous-fleshy, surrounded halfway up by cicatrix of perianth, 

 indehiscent ; cells 3-6, many-seeded. Seeds small, descending, 

 long-funiculate ; testa foveolate ; embryo minute albuminous. — A 

 branching small tree ; leaves alternate (evergreen) ovate-lanceolate, 

 glandular-serrate petiolate ; stipules scarcely conspicuous ; flowers 

 in compound axillary, terminal or leaf-opposed cymes {New Zealand). 

 See p. 352. 



42. Berenice Tul. — Flowers nearly of Argopliyllum or Caipodetus, 

 5-merous ; receptacle concave hemispherical eglandulose. Perianth 

 valvate and stamens 5, epigynous. Germen inferior, 3, 4-celled; 

 ovules go ; placentas of Carpodetus ; style cylindrical erect ; apex 

 very thick globose stigmatose. Capsule crowned by calyx, loculi- 

 cidally 3-valved at flat or depressed apex. Seeds co ; testa rugose ; 



