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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



or less charged with silky aud whitish hairs. The leaves arc 

 alternate or opposite, often tripartite, exstipulate. The flowers 

 arc solitary, terminal, pedunculate. Immediately below the calyx 

 are inserted about ten narrow elongated bracts forming an 

 epicalyx.i 



IthynchiMcca spinosa. 



Fig. 23. Floriferous branch. 



Fig. 27. Gyniuceum, one cell open (\). 



Bud without perianth (&). Fijj. 25. Long. sect, of flower. 



Beside Balbisid is placed Wendtla^ consisting of plants of the 

 same country, mainly distinguished by having in each of its ovary 

 cells, reduced to three, but two descendent ovules with micropyle 



1 The species, probably the only one, but very 

 variable as to the thickness and the state of the 

 surface of the leaves, is B. verlicWatn Cav. Ic. 

 iiiecl. (ex DC). — Kl. in Linnaa, x. 431. — B. 

 pedii/iciilnn's Don, in Edinh. New Phil. Joiirii. 

 (1832), 277. — B. Mei/oiiniia Ki,. — (Eiint/iDt-a 

 scoptiria, 11. et Pav. Herb. ! — Lcdocarpumcliikiise 

 Desf. loe. cit.— L. pcdHiiciiIiire Lindl. in Bot. 

 Reg. t. 139. — L. cistijiorum Meven, Eeis. i. 470. 



L. Meyenianiim Walp. Rep. i. 4C0 ; v. 280. — L. 

 argcntcum Presl. — Cnickhanksia cistiflora Hook. 

 loc. cit. 



^ Meyen, Reis. i. 307. — Kl. in LimitEa, x. 

 432.— Endl. Gen. n. 60ol.— B. H. Gen. 27o, n. 

 12,— H. Bn. in rin/er Finn. Nat. 398.— J/ff;- 

 tinicru GuiLLEM. in Dekss. le. Sel. iii. 23, t. 40 

 — Hypcrum PitE6L, £pim. Bot. 211. 



