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usually solitary in cells ; embryo exalbuminous ; cotyledons ovate, 

 radicle superior, short.— Loose ramified nodose usually sericeous- 

 pilose herbs j branches usually prostrate articulate ; leaves opposite, 

 one in each pair smaller, or aborted alternately, abrupt pinnate stipu- 

 late ; flowers lateral to leaves, pedunculate (All Warm Regions). See 

 p. 425. 



J 18 ? Sisyndite E. Mey. 1 — " Flowers (nearly of Tribulus) 5-merous ; 

 sepals unequal, imbricated. Petals 5, a little longer. Disk 5-lobed, 

 crowned with 5 scales, hypogynous, 3-fid or lacerate, opposite lobes. 

 Stamens 10; filaments subulate, of which 5 are inserted between 

 scales and lobes of disk ; other 5 alternate. Germen sessile, 5-locular ; 

 ovules solitary in each cell descending ; style stigmatiferous clavate, 

 5-sulcate at apex. Capsule plumose-hirsute ; cocci 5, finally 

 dehiscing by ventral suture ; seeds exalbuminous. — A spartioid 

 glabrous shrub ; branches terete, spongy subaphyllous, 2-chotomous ; 

 leaves opposite, stipulate pinnate ; folioles few subopposite coriaceous ; 

 flowers 2 axillary (?) solitary pedunculate" (Cape of Good Hope 3 ). 



119. Augea Thunb. 4 — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle (?) 

 obconical concave. Sepals 5, inserted at margin, unequal mem- 

 branous-marginate, imbricated, persistent. Disk urceolate central 

 shortly stipitate, submembranous, subulate- 10-dentate at margin, 

 bearing 10 stamens alternating with teeth and 10 scales opposite 

 stamens, exterior. Scales membranous, 3-fid, narrow at base. 5 

 Staminal filaments obcuneate, 3-fid; lobes antheriferous at middle ; 

 anthers oblong, introrsely 2-rimose ; connective produced beyond cells 

 in short glands. Germen central, 10 Jocular; style short thick 

 obtusely 10-sulcate, subentire stigmatiferous at apex; ovules in each 

 cell 2-4, obliquely ascending. Capsule oblong, 10-costate, 10-valved ; 

 seeds solitary in cells, oblong ; embryo exalbuminous ; cotyledons 

 flat, rather thick.— Annual fleshy glabrous herbs ; 6 root fusiform ; 

 branches articulate ; leaves opposite, stipulate, connate simple, 



1 In Kerb. Dreg. (exHAEV. & Sond., Ft. Cap., n. 1875.— Endl., Gen., n. 6742.— B. H., Gen., 

 i. 354).— B. H., Gen., 265, 998, n. 2. 265, n. 3. 



2 " Magnis, luteis." 6 Perhaps petals or staminodes exterior to 



3 Spec. 1. 5. spartea E. Met., loc. cit. — fertile stamens reduced to filaments. 



Hart., Thes. Cap., t. 120. — Walp., Ann., vii. 6 Mesembrianfhemum.i, or with habit and 



47y. leaves of some Portulacaca. 



4 Ft. Cap., 389 (nee Eetz.). — Speeng., Gen., 



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