444 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



obloiiff, introrse 2-rimose. Germen subsessile ; placentas 2, parietal 

 pluriovulate ; style short. Fruit globose, coriaceous or indurated, 

 indehiscent; seeds few or 1, subglobose nestling in viscid pulp. — 

 Eigid shrubs, usually armed with short spinescent twigs ; leaves 

 small, entire or dentate; flowers solitary sessile, small, surrounded 

 by 2, 3, sepaloid bractlets (Fast Australia). See p. 364. 



XI. KIBESIE.E. 



G2. Kibes L. — Flowers hermaphrodite or 1-sexual by abortion ; 

 receptacle hollow ovoid or subspherical, sometimes sacciform. Calyx 

 tubular or campanulate, inserted in mouth of receptacle above, often 

 coloured disks ; lobes 4, 5, alternate, usually small squamiform, 

 included ; pignoration shortly imbricate, or 0. Stamens 4, 5, inserted 

 with alternate petals in throat of receptacle ; filaments short or elon- 

 gated, sometimes exserted ; anthers subglobose or 2-dymous, introrse, 

 2-rimose. Germen inferior, adnate to receptacle, 1-celled ; style 2-fid 

 or 2-partite to a variable depth at base ; branches simple stigma- 

 tose at apex ; ovules oo , anatropous, 2—^ -seriate on 2 parietal 

 placentas (or very rarely 3, 4), alternating with styles. Berry 

 globose or oblong, crowned at apex by dried calyx, pulpy within. 

 Seeds go , immersed in pulp ; exterior integument cellulose-gela- 

 tinous ; interior crustaceous ; albumen fleshy ; embryo minute sub- 

 terete. — Shrubs ; often glandular-resinous, unarmed or armed with 

 scattered thorns sometimes pulvinar 2-nate ; leaves alternate, often 

 fascicled petiolate, entire or more often crenate incised or lobate ; 

 vernation plicate or convolute ; petiole often dilated at base to lateral 

 adnate stipules (?) ; flowers racemose or rarely subsolitary ; pedicels 

 1-bracteate at base, 2-bracteolate at middle {Europe, Temperate Africa 

 and Asia, Temperate America and Andine South America). See p. 304. 



XII. BATTERER. 



03. Bauera Banks. — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-10-merous ; 

 receptacle sometimes rather concave ; sepals often dentate, imbricate 

 or subvalvate, persistent. Petals as many alternate subsessile imbri- 

 cate. Stamens inserted with petals round thin disk, as many alter- 



