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and a free gynaaceum which appears to be formed of one carpellary 

 leaf. 1 The one-celled ovary is surmounted by a slightly eccentric 

 style expanded at the apex into a little stigmatiferous head. The 



Adenogramma galioides. 



Fig. 62. 

 Longitudinal 

 section of seed. 



placenta is subbasilar and bears a campylotropous ovule which is 

 inserted at the summit of a slender funicle. The fruit placed on a 

 conical dilatation at the apex of the pedicel, has the form of an 

 unsymmetrical cone, with a thick, dry, often rugose pericarp inde- 

 hiscent or opening lengthwise like a follicle. The seed, more or less 

 bent, contains under its coats a fleshy albumen partly surrounded by 

 an embryo fornicate or bent in the shape of a hook, the radicle being 

 superior. The Adenogrammas, natives of Southern Africa to the 

 number of half a dozen species, 2 are slender ramose herbs, whose 

 leaves are brought together in false verticils, simple and generally 

 narrow, with stipules little developed. In their axil, or at the 

 summit of the branches, are found the flowers, small and numerous, 

 arranged in cymes, often umbelliferous. 



V. ? THELYGONUM SERIES. 



Thelygonuirf (figs. G3-65), which constitutes by itself this small 

 series, has monoecious flowers. In the male flowers (fig. G3) a little 



1 Because of the obliquity of the ovary and 

 the unilateral groove observed upon the fruit. 



2 Eckl. et Zeyh., JSnum. PI. Cap., 183. — 

 Hart, et Sond., Fl. Cap., i. 151. 



3 L., Gen., n. 1068.— J., Gen., 405.— Lame., 



Diet., vii. 623; III., t. 777. — Del., in Ann. 

 Sc. Nat., ser. 1, xix. 370, t. 13.— Nees, Gen., 

 ii. 69. — Endl., Gen., n. 1888. — Lem. et Dew i:., 

 Tr. Gen., 506. — Cynocrambe T., Inst., Coroll., 

 52, t. 485. — Adans., Fam. des PI., ii. 497. 



