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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



B. squamig&ra? an Indian species, has been made a distinct genus, 

 Chamabaina? because the stigmatiferous apex of the style is sub- 

 capitate, not linear ; but we can only make it a distinct section on 



this ground. 



The o-enera Pouzolsia and Memorialis, both closely allied to the 

 preceding one, differ chiefly in their articulate caducous style, and 

 their fruit, surrounded by a costate or winged persistent calyx. All 

 these genera together form the subseries Eubcehmeriea with the 

 following general characters : a tubular female perianth, free or 

 adherent to the ovary, dry or membranous in the fruit, with two or 

 four apical teeth. 



In the related subseries Sarcocldamydea the female calyx is free, 

 with a lobed or dentate mouth But it always becomes fleshy and 

 succulent around the fruit. This is the case with the five genera : 

 Cypholophus, Touchardia, Laurea, Sarcoc/damys, and Poikilospermum. 



A third subseries Villebruniea contains the three genera Pipturus, 

 Villebrunea, and Debreyeasia, wherein the female calyx is adnate to 

 the ovary, with a very small limb, dentate or subentire. 



In Maoutiece, the fourth subseries, the female calyx is rudimentary 

 or absent. It contains the four genera, Leucosyke, Maoutia, Myrio- 

 caipct, and P hen ax. 



IV. PELLITORY SERIES. 



The Pellitories 3 have polygamous flowers. Those of our com- 

 monest species, the Wall Pellitory (figs. 542-540), are partly her- 

 maphrodite. Their receptacle is convex, bearing four valvate sepals, 4 

 free or coherent below to a variable distance, lined right at the 

 bottom by a variable quantity of hairs. Four stamens are super- 



Prodr. Fl. Norfolk., 38 ; Iconogr., t. 86. — Hook. 

 & Arn., in Beech. Toy., Bot., 214, 271. — Bejjth., 

 Niger FL, 519— Zoll., Verz., 100, 101, 105.— 

 Wedd., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, i. 199. — Bl., 

 Mus. Lugd.-Bat., ii. 201, 210, 211, 226. 



1 Wedd., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, i. 203. 



2 Wight, Icon., vi. 1. 1981. — Wedd., Monogr., 

 387, t. 12, B ; Prodr., 218. 



8 Varieiaria T., Inst., t. 289.— L., Gen., n. 

 1152 (part.). — Adans., Fam. des PI., ii. 261. — 



J., Gen., 404. — PoiE., Diet., v. 13; Suppl., iv. 

 300. — Lame., Ill, t. 853. — Endl., Gen., a. 

 1S85 (part.). — Payer, Organog., 276, t. 60. — 

 Wedd., Monogr., 503, t. 17 ; Prodr., 235 "'.— 

 Thaurnuria Gaudich., Voy. Uran., Bot., 501. — 

 Freirea Gafdicii., loc. cit., 502 (incl. : Ges- 

 nouinia Gaudich., Helxine Req.). 



4 According to Pater there are (probably) 

 two anterior, two posterior. 



