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23. Empleurum Soland. 1 — Flowers monoecious, apetalous, 4- 

 merous. Calyx gamophyllous cupuliform-subcanipanulate, 4-ficl. 

 Stamens 4, opposite calyx-lobes ; filaments free, subulate, in male 

 flower inserted below minute rudimentary gyngeceum ; anthers 

 large, exserted, introrse ; cells divergent on both sides, crowned with 

 sessile gland at apex ; clefts longitudinal, submarginal. Carpels in 

 female flower 1 (or very rarely 2), excentric, sessile. Style of germen 

 rather short, terete, curved, glabrous, stigmatiferous at apex, simple 

 above, dorsally produced at apex in long rostrum ; ovules 2, inserted in 

 internal angle, collaterally descending ; micropyle extrorse, superior. 

 Fruit long lanceolate, produced above in elongated rostrum ; endo- 

 carp finally separating; seeds 1, 2, of Diosma, nigricans glabrous. — 

 An erect glabrous pellucid-punctuate shrub ; branches virgate ; leaves 

 alternate, linear-lanceolate, crenulate glandular ; flowers small, in 

 few-flowered axillary cymes ; peduncle bracteolate at base (South 

 Africa:). 



24 ? Empleuridium Sond. 3 — " Flowers dioecious, 4-merous ; calyx 

 lobes patent, imbricated. Petals 4, deciduous. Stamens 4, inserted 

 below marginal angles of explanate subquadrate disk ; filaments subu- 

 late ; anthers 2-dymous. Female flower . . . ? Fruit carpel 1, linear- 

 oblong, apiculate with persistent terminal style (in male flower short, 

 inserted at middle of disk); seed 1. — An undershrub, ramified from 

 base ; branches slender ; leaves alternate, acicular, 3-quetrous, epunc- 

 tuate ; flowers axillary, solitary, minute, pedunculate ; peduncles 

 2-bracteate 4 at base (South-western Africa'). 



25. Calodendron Thunb. 6 — Flowers subregular; sepals usually 5, 

 valvate. Petals 5, alternate, elongate, unequally -patent or reflexed, 

 imbricated. Stamens 10, 5 fertile, altera ipetalous ; filaments free, 

 glandular, inserted below shortly cupuliform disk ; anthers exserted, 



1 Ex Lamk., III., t. 86. — Ait., Sort. Kew., 

 ed. 1, iii. 340. — G^rtn. f., Fruct., iii. 340. — 

 Bartl. & Wendl., Diosm., t. B. — A. Jttss., in 

 Mem. Mus., xii. 476, t. 19, fig. 21.— DC, 

 Prodr., i. 718. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, ii. 334. 

 —Endl., Gen., n. 6023.— B. H., Gen., 291, n. 

 25. — Berg. & Schm., Off. Gew., i. t. 2 b. 



2 Spec. 1. F. serrulalum Kit., loc. cit. — 

 Haev. & Sond., Fl. Cap., i. 442.— Walp., 

 Ann., vii. 515. — Diosma ensata Thunb., Fl. 

 Cap., 226. 



3 Fl. Cap., i. 442.— Hart., Thes. Cap., t. 

 77.— B. H., Gen., 291, n. 26. 



4 " Gen. multis notis Celastrineis accedens." 

 (B. H.). 



6 Spec. 1. F.juniperina Sond., loc. cit. 



6 Nov. Gen., ii. 41 ; Fl. Cap., 197.— Lamk., 

 in Journ. Hist. Nat., i. 56, t. 3. — DC, Prodr., 

 i. 712. — A. Jtrss., in Mem. Mus., xii. 469, t. 

 19, fig. 15. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, ii. 326. — 

 Endl., Gen., n. 6014.— B. IL, Gen., 28S, n. 16. 

 —Pallasia HouiT., PI. Syst., iii. 319, t. 22. 



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