51G NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



semiterete obtuse ; flowers axillary or sublateral solitary (or in 

 scanty cymes); pedicels 2-bracteolate at base (Cape of Good 

 Hope"). 



120? Sericodes A. Gray. 5 — "Flowers 5-merous ; sepals ovate- 

 lanceolate, persistent. Petals rhomboid-ovate, late deciduous. 

 Stamens 10, subperigynous ; filaments free ; alternipetalous, inwardly 

 enlarged at base with scales, 2-fid ; anthers oblong. Germen sessile 

 very villous, 5-lobed, 5-locular ; style 5-agonal clavate above ; angles 

 stigmatif'erous ; ovules solitary descendent. Fruit dry, very villous ; 

 cocci 5, coriaceous, separating from axis indehiscent ; seed descend- 

 ing ; embryo exalbuminous ; cotyledons ovate. — A much ramified 

 humble shrub ; leaves small simple fasciculate (fascicles alternate) 

 sessile oblong-spathulate entire, sericeous ; stipules minute spine- 

 scent ; flowers 3 1-3 in the same fascicle as the leaves, shortly pedi- 

 cellate" (North Mexico*). 



121. Guaiacum Plum. 5 — Flowers 4-5-merous ; sepals imbricated, 

 deciduous. Petals 4, 5, more or less unguiculate, imbricated, de- 

 ciduous. Stamens 8-10 ; filaments naked (Euguaiacum), or inwardly 

 at base furnished with membranous squamules (Porlieria? Larrea, 7 

 Guiacidim)f),0Y more or less thick fleshy (Bulnesia, 9 Pintoa™), simple or 

 more or less lacerate ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen free, in- 

 serted at summit of receptacle beyond insertion of androceum short 

 (Pinioa, Larrea, Porlieria) or more or less elongated (Etigitaiacum, 

 Bidnesia) ; cells 2, 3, or 4, 5, opposite petals, style subulate stig- 

 matiferous subentire at apex, or scarcely dilated or lobed ; ovules in 



1 Spec. 1, salsuginosa. A. capensis Thunb., Guiacidium A. Gray, Larrea Cav., Pintoa C 

 loc. cit. — Habv., Gen. S.-Afr. PI., 409. — Gay, Porlieria R. & Pav.). 



Haev. & Soni)., Fl. Cap., i. 355. 6 R. & Pay., Prodr., 55, t. 9.— DC, Prodr., 



2 PI. Wright., i. 28, not.— B. H., Gen., 265, i. 707.— A. Juss., in Mem. Mus., xii. 457, t. 

 n. 4. 16, fig. 6. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, ii. 308. — 



3 " Flavis." Endl., Gen., n. 6039.— B. H., Gen., 268, n. 13. 



4 Spec. 1. S. Greggii A. Gkay, loc. cit. — ' Cay., in Ann. Cienc. Nat., ii. 199, t. 18, 

 Walp., Ann., iv. 403. 19 ; Icon., vi. 39, t. 359, 360.— DC, Prodr., i. 



5 Gen., t. 17. — L., Gen., n. 518. — J., Gen., 705. — A. Jrss., in Mem. Mus., xii. 456, t. 15, 

 296.— Lamk., Diet., ii. 614; Suppl., ii. 712; fig. 5.— Endl., Gen,, n. 6038.— A. Gray, Gen. 

 III., t. 342.— Gjertn., Fruct,, ii. 148, t. 113.— III., t. 147.— B. H., Gen., 267, n. 11. 



DC, Prodr., i. 706.— A. Juss., in Mem. Mus., 8 A. Graf, Gen. III., ii. 121, t. 149. 



xii. 456, t. 16, fig. 7.— Spach, Suit, a Buffon, ii. 9 C Gay, Fl. Chil., i. 474, t. 15.— B. H., 



309.— Endl., Gen,, n. 6041.— A. Gray, Gen. Gen., 268, n. 16.— Gonoptera Turcz., in Bull. 



III., t. 148, 149.— Ag., Theor. Syst., t. 18, Mosc. (1846), i. 150. 



figs. 11, 12.— B. H., Gen., 267. n. 12.— H. Bn., 10 C Gay, loc. cit., 479, t. 16.— B. H., Gen., 



in Adansonia, x. 315 (inch : Bulnesia C Gay, 269, n. 17. 



