466 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



20. Diosma Berg. 1 — Flowers of Aden and ra ; stamens 5, alterni- 

 petalous, fertile ; filaments subulate ; anthers oblong, glandular 

 terminate. Germens 5, free; styles soon coalescing in glabrous 

 curved column, capitate stigmatiferous at apex. Cocci transversely 

 rugose, cornicnlate at back ; endocarp solute ; seeds and other cha- 

 racters of Adenandra. — Small ericoid shrubs, glabrous or pilose 

 pellucid-punctuate ; branches virgate ; leaves alternate or opposite, 

 linear, dorsally carinate or rotund, sometimes 3-quetrous, ciliate or 

 scabriusculous at margin, sometimes serrulate ; flowers solitary or 

 subumbellate at apex of branches; pedicels short, 2-bracteolate 

 {South-western Africa-). 



21. Euchsetis Batitl. & Wendl. 3 — Flowers of Diosma ; petals ob- 

 long-lanceolate, unguiculate, inwardly transversely barbate. 4 Gerraen 

 5 ; styles coalescing in short thick column, capitate stigmatiferous 

 at apex. Cocci 5 ; other characters of Diosma. — Ericoid shrubs or 

 small shrubs ; branches virgate ; leaves alternate or very often oppo- 

 site, 3-quetrous or carinate, more rarely dorsally convex, glabrous 

 or ciliate, at margin epunctuate, pellucid, entire, serrulate or ciliate ; 

 flowers solitary or subcapitate at apex of branches ; pedicels very 

 short, 2-bracteolate {South-western Africa 5 ). 



22. Macrostylis Bartl. & Wendl. 6 — Flowers of Diosma; petals 

 subspathulate, unguiculate, barbate at middle. 7 Germens usually 2, 

 3 ; styles subbasilar, coalescing in erect thick elongated column, 

 tapering at base, simple or capitellate stigmatiferous at apex. Cocci 

 2, 3, cornutus ; seeds and other characters of Diosma. — Suberect or 

 depressed pellucid-punctuate small shrubs ; leaves alternate and 

 opposite, sometimes subimbricate, small, rather flat or 3-quetrous, 

 glabrous or slightly pilose, sometimes carinate ; flowers subumbel- 

 late or subcapitate at apex of branches ; pedicels short, bracteolate at 

 base {South Africa*). 



1 Fl. Cap., 62. — L., Gen., n. 272. — Baetl. & 4 Stamens inserted outside annular disk. 

 Wendl., Diosm., 55, t. A. — A. Juss., in Mem. 5 Spec. 4. Habv. & Sond., Fl. Cap., i. 371 

 Mus., xii. 472, t. 18, fig. 13.— DC, Prodr., i. (part.).— Walp., Ann., vii. 510. 



716 (part.). — Spacu, Suit, a Buffon, ii. 329. — 6 Diosm., 191, t. B, fig. 8.— A. Juss., in 



Endl., Gen., n. 6017.— B. H., Gen., 289, n. 19. Mem. Mus., xii. 476, t. 19, fig. 20.— Endl., 



2 Spec, ad 10. Harv. & Sond., Fl. Cap., i. Gen., n. 6022.— B. H., Gen., 289, n. 18. 

 373.— Bot.Mag.,t. 2332. — WALP.,.4»ra.,vii.511. 7 Stamens high perigynous, inserted with 



3 Diosm., 15, t. A. — A. Juss., in Mem. Mus., perianth on margin of cupuliform receptacle, 

 xii. 472.— Endl., Gen., n. 6018.— B. H., Gen., 8 Harv. & Sond., Fl. Cap.,\. 373 (Euchatis), 

 289, n. 17. 439.— Walp., Ann., vii. 511. 



