454 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



aril (?). —Heath-like undershrubs ; leaves linear or acicular ; superior 

 (coloured) involucrating solitary terminal flowers or many-flowered 

 capitula; stipules gland-like very small {South Africa). See 

 p. 383. 



87. Audouinia Ad. Br. — Eeceptacle obonical ; perianth and 

 androceum nearly of Staavia. Germen partly inferior 3-celled; 

 ovules 2 in each cell, collaterally descending ; raphe dorsal ; style 

 columnar, 3-gonous, 3-furrowed ; apex stigmatose hollow, 3-crenate. 

 Fruit...? — An undershrub ; leaves alternate linear, imbricate; 

 stipules very small ; flowers in oblong terminal spikes, 3, 4-bracteate 

 at base {South Africa). See p. 384. 



88. Linconia L. — Flowers of Audouinia ; anthers sub-3-angular 

 hastate ; cells oblique divaricate ; connective produced to a conoid 

 gland. Germen 2-celled ; styles 2, stigmatose at apex ; ovules 2 

 or 1 in each cell ; one cell more rarely effete. Fruit 2-coccous ; cocci 

 dehiscent within. Seeds 1, 2, having a cupuliform aril (?) at apex. 

 — Branching undershrubs ; leaves spirally imbricate, 3-quetrous, 

 glandular-ustulate at apex ; stipules of same form, very small ; in- 

 florescences of Audouinia ; bracts 3-5, large coriaceous, involucrate 

 {South Africa). See p. 384. 



89. Berzelia Ad. Br. — Flowers nearly of Brunia, 4, 5-merous. 

 Germen half-inferior, 1 -celled, 1 -ovulate ; style simple, sometimes 

 arcuate and furrowed ; apex stigmatose unsymmetrical. Fruit dry, 

 obconical or turbinate, indehiscent. Seed 1 {Brunia). — Heath-like 

 shrubs ; alternate small leaves and globose capitula of Brunia ; 

 bracts spathulate or clavate {South Africa). See p. 384. 



90? Lonchostoma Wickstr. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle 

 shortly obconical. Sepals 5, ovate obtuse, or linear-subulate, perigy- 

 nous. Corolla gamopetalous, tubular, deeply 5-lobed ; lobes oblong- 

 lanceolate or spathulate, closely imbricate. Stamens 5, inserted in 

 throat of corolla ; filaments very short ; anthers oblong-subhastate, 

 2-rimose introrse. Germen half-inferior, 2-celled ; styles 2, stigma- 

 tose at unthickened apex, united to a variable height. Seeds 2-4, 

 2-seriate on ventral angle of each cell, descending j micropyle extrorse 



