520 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



incumbent ; radicle conical, superior to hilum, descendant. — An 

 insipid ramified shrub, velvety with capitate hairs ; branches terete ; 

 leaves alternate collected sessile, articulate at base, linear-spathulate. 

 obtuse, subnerved entire rather thick, pellucid-punctuate ; flowers 

 in few-flowered racemose cymes at summit of fasciculate twigs 

 (Ail Trop. Sea-coasts). See p. 434. 



ERRATA. 



Page 176, for " Cardodiptera" read " Carpodiptera." 

 „ 202, note 1, for « Belotian" read " Belotia." 

 „ 318, for « Ruhlia" read « Kuhlia." 



