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5, concave at base, lanceolate-oblong, apex long acuminate, 

 inflexed in bud. Stamens go, in 5 alternipetalous fascicles ; each 

 fascicle terminating a narrow petaloid lanceolate staminode, bear- 

 ing externally co (often G) anthers, extrorse, 2-locular, 2-rimose. 

 Germen sessile, 5-angled ; styles short 5, more or less con- 

 nivent or connate, stigmatiferous at apex ; cells 5, oppositipetalous, 

 co -ovulate. Capsule 5-celled, polyspermous, outwardly much 

 echinate, finally loculicidally and septicidally dehiscent. Seed 

 subpisiform, glabrous ; embryo (scantily albuminous ?) ; cotyledons 

 foliaceous, contortuplicate. — A stellate-tomentose shrub ; leaves 

 alternate, large, palminerved, dentate ; flowers 1 in terminal clusters 

 of much ramified corymbose cymes (Persia*). 



VII. LASIOPETALE.E. 



35. Lasiopetalum Sm. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle small, 

 slightly convex or depressed. Calyx often coloured, 5-partite or 5-fid, 

 angular or subterete ; prsefloration valvate or reduplicate. Petals 

 5, minute, squamiform, sometimes very small or 0. Fertile stamens 

 5, oppositipetalous, free or at base slightly monadelphous ; anthers 

 extrorse ; cells externally (or internally) subporricidal at apex 

 or dehiscing by short clefts. Germen 5-locular; cells oppositi- 

 petalous (sometimes 3, 4-locular) ; ovules 2— x> (2-seriate) ascending; 

 micropyle extrorse, inferior ; style subentire, stigmatiferous at apex. 

 Capsule 3-5-locular, loculicidal ; seeds 1— go , ascending ; micropyle 

 sometimes arillate ; embiyo albuminous, straight ; cotyledons flat ; 

 radicle inferior. — Shrubs, clothed with stellate hairs, sometimes 

 dense ; leaves alternate or falsely verticillate, more rarely opposite, 

 entire, dentate, or sinuate, sometimes but rarely lobed ; stipules or 

 small, assuming the appearance of leaves ; flowers in false racemes, 

 simple or ramified, cymiferous, lateral or leaf-opposed, sometimes 

 subaxillary; cymes often 1 -parous; bracts and bractlets 2, often 

 united below flower similar to an epicalyx (Extra -tropical Australia). 

 See p. 84. 3 



311, not.— Endl., Gen,, n. 5350.— B. H., Gen., > " Pink." 



224, n. 26. — Mast., in Journ. Linn. Soc, x. 17. ~ Spec. 1, G. Bruguieri Desf., loc. cit. 



— H. Bn, in Adansonia, ix. 316. 3 Pimia (Seem., in Bonplaidia (1862), 366; 



