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114. Fagonia TV — Flowers nearly of Zygophyllum ; sepals 5, 

 imbricated, deciduous. Petals 5, imbricated, caducous. Stamens 

 10, inserted below small disk; filaments naked, slender; anthers 

 shortly oblong, introrsely 2-rimose. Germen sessile, 5-agonal ; cells 

 5, oppositipetalous ; style subulate, 5-agonal, simple, stigmatiferous 

 at apex ; ovules in each cell 2, inserted at base of internal angle, 

 collaterally ascending ; micropyle introrse or sublateral, inferior. 

 Fruit capsular, pyramid- 5 -agonal ; cocci 5, finally solute from axis, 

 inwardly dehiscent ; endocarp corneous, separating ; seeds solitary 

 in cells, erect, compressed, widely oblong ; testa mucilaginous ; 

 albumen coriaceous ; embryo straight ; cotyledons flat, wide ovate. — 

 Kamified herbs, sometimes suffrutescent at base, diffuse or prostrate, 

 glabrous or with short hairs, often tuberculate at apex, somewhat 

 hispid ; leaves opposite 1-3-foliolate ; folioles entire, mucronate ; 

 stipules usually spinescent ; flowers 2 lateral to leaves, pedunculate 

 {East. Med. Heg. South Africa, Temp. America*). 



115. Seetzenia E,. Br. 4 — Flowers hermaphrodite, apetalous, usu- 

 ally 5-merous ; receptacle shortly convex. Sepals linear-oblong, val- 

 vate incurved at apex. Stamens equal in number to sepals, opposite 

 them ; filaments inserted below small lobed disk, free ; anthers sub- 

 globose introrsely or sublaterally rimose. Germen sessile, oblong 

 clavate, rather fleshy, truncate 5-locular ; styles 5, short radiating, 

 capitellate stigmatiferous at apex ; ovules solitary in each cell, 

 descending ; micropyle extrorse superior. Capsule elongate-ovoid, 

 with 5 -cocci ; cocci solute from axis ; exocarp narrow separating 

 from crustaceous endocarp inwardly and at excised apex ; columella 

 persistent rigid, dilated 5 -dentate at apex ; seeds solitary descending 

 ovate, compressed ; testa thick ; albumen thin ; embryo subequal ; 

 cotyledons subelliptical rather thick ; radicle cylindrical superior. — 

 Eather small prostrate herbs, suffrutescent at base, glabrous or 

 woolly ; leaves opposite stipulate, 3-foliolate ; folioles obovate apicu- 



1 Inst., 265, t. 141.— Gen., n. 531. — J., 3 Spec. 4, 5 (enumer. ad 25). Wight, III., t. 

 Gen., 296.— Gjebtn., Fruct., ii. 153, t. 113.— 61.— C. Gay, Fl. Ch.il., i. 463. — Haev. & 

 Lame:., Diet., ii. 447; Suppl., ii. 628; III., t. Sond., FL Cap., i. 356. — Del., Fl. A^gypl., t. 

 346. — Shaw, Afric, 229. — Foesk., Descr. 27, fig. 2, t. 28, figs. 2, 3.— Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 

 JEg.-Arab., n. 68.— DC, Frodr., i. 704.— A. 914.— Walp., Sep., 494; ii. 822; v. 385; 

 Juss., in Mem. Mm., xii. 453, t. 24, fig. 2. — Ann.,\. 149; ii. 244; iv. 404. 



Endl., Gen., n. 6034. — R. H., Gen., 267, 4 In Denh., Oudn. et Clapp. Voy. App., 



n. 10. 23].— Endl., Gen., n. 6042.— B. H., Gen., 



2 Pink, violet, or sometimes yellowish. 266, n. 6. 



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