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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



fertile ; base of filaments connate in a short cupnlate tube ; anthers 

 stipitate erect j cells parallel. Other characters like Dombeya. — A 

 stellate-tomentose tree ; leaves large cordate (of Dombeya) ; flowers 1 

 in compound axillary pedunculate cymes (Borbonia"). 



15. Ruizia Cav. 3 — Flowers nearly of Dombeya; stamens 20-30, 

 all fertile. Ovary sessile, 10-celled; ovules in each cell 2, ascending; 

 micropyle extorse inferior ; style branches 10, short. Ripe carpels 10, 

 in capsule subglobose-depressed verticillate, separating at maturity 

 and opening at central angle, 1-2-spermous. — Shrubs ; leaves palmi- 

 nerved, subentire, lobed or dissected ; 4 flowers in ramified pedun- 

 culate axillary cymes, 3-bracteolate 5 (Mascarene Islands 6 ). 



16. Pentapetes L. 7 — Flowers nearly of Dombeya; anthers be- 

 tween the staminodes ligulate fertile 2, 3, erect. Ovary sessile ; cells 



cc -ovulate; style elongate entire, stigmatiferous slightly swollen at 

 apex. Capsule loculicidal; placentas nerviform, plumose, often 

 separating. Seeds go (of Dombet/a). — A herb ; leaves hastate, narrow 

 at apex ; flowers axillary solitary shortly pedunculate ; bracelets 3, 

 1 -lateral, caducous {Tropical Asia 6 ). 



17. Cheirolaena Benth. 9 — Calyx 5-partite, exterior lepidote, val- 

 vate. Petals 5, flat, wide, contorted, shortly adnate with staminal 

 column deciduous or caducous. Stamens 15-20; exterior 10-15, 

 fertile (of which 5 are interior longer, alternipetalous 1 ") ; filaments 

 adnate to the exterior of tubular column ; anthers extrorse, 

 2-celled, 2-rimose ; 5 interior oppositipetalous petaloid. Germen 

 sessile ; cells 5, alternipetalous ; ovules 2-co in each cell, inserted at 

 central angle, ascending; micropyle extrorse inferior; styles 5, 

 coalescing in a central column, finally separating at a greater 



1 Rose colour. 



2 Spec. 1. A. rosea Lint>l„ loc. city — 

 Walp., Rep., v. 113. 



3 Diss., iii. 117, t. 36, 37.— J., Gen., 275 — 

 DC, Prodi:, \. 497.— Endl., Gen., n. 5342.— 

 B. H., Gen., 221, n. 13. 



4 Underneath tomentose whiti&'i. 



5 A genus only distinguished from Astiria 

 by the number of ovary cells. 



6 Spec. 2, 3. Jacq., Sort. Schcenbr., iii. 24, 

 t. 295.— Walp., Sep., ii. 797. 



1 Gen., n. 834.— DC, Prodr., i. 498.— Endl., 



Gen., n. 5343. — B. H., Gen., 222, n. 18.— 

 Moranda Scop., Introd., n. 1312. — ? Erioraphe 

 Miq., in PI. Jimgh., i. 289. 



8 Species 1, introduced into all the warm regions 

 of the globe. P. phcenicea L., Spec, 958. — 

 Mill., Icon., t. 200. — Ker, in Pot. Reg., t. 

 575. — Domheya phcenicea Cav., Diss., iii. t. 43, 



fig. 1. 



9 Gen., 222, n. 16. 



10 But 5—10 shorter exterior to the preceding, 

 either single or in pairs oppositipetalous. 





