38 NATURAL HISTORY OP PLANTS'. 



IV. BALBISIE^. 



8. Balbisia Cav. — Flowers regular hermaplu-odite ; receptacle 

 convex. Sepals 5, imbricate, persistent. Petals same in number, 

 alternate, contorted. Glands 0. Stamens 10, hypogynous, 2- 

 seriate free ; anthers at margin or subextrorsely rimose. Gcrmen 

 superior ; cells 6, alternipetalous ; styles divided later iuto five 

 lobes, liugulatc, stigmatiferous inwardly and at margin ; ovules 

 inserted at internal angle of cells oo, anatropous. Capsule septicidal 

 and at apex lociilicidal ; valves 6, persistent at middle of septa and 

 below axis ; seeds co , angular ; albumen thin fleshy ; embryo folded ; 

 radicle incumbent or enclosed between corrugate cotyledons. — Un- 

 dershrubs more or less canescent ; leaves alternate and opposite 

 exstipulate, generally 3-partite ; flowers terminal solitary peduncu- 

 late ; bracts oo , linear inserted forming epi calyx below calyx. (Peru 

 and Chili sublitt.) Seep. 11. 



9. Wendtia Meyen. — Flowers (nearly of Balbisia) 10-androus; 

 germeu o-locular (or more rarely 4-locular ;) style branches same in 

 number. Ungulate. Ovules in cells 2, collaterally descendent ; 

 micropyle extrorsely superior. Capsules loculicidal o-valved at 

 apex. — Small ramified shi'ubs; leaves opposite small 3-5-lobed or 

 dissected ; flowers terminal pedunculate solitary or scantily cymose ; 

 bracts linear forming epicalyx inserted below calyx. {South Peru, 

 Chili.) See p. 12. 



10. Rhynchotheca K. et Pay. — Flowers (nearly of Wendtia) 

 apetalous ; germen cells 5, oppositisepalous ; style shortly 5-lobed ; 

 lobes stigmatiferous, thickly lingulate ; ovules in cells 2, descendent ; 

 micropyle extrorse superior. Fruit capsular ; lobes from columella 

 septifragally solute, not revolute. Seeds * in cells usually solitary, 

 scantily albuminous ; embryo of flat cotyledon straight. — Much 

 ramified small shrubs sometimes spinescent ; leaves opposite small, 

 entire or 5-lobed; flowers terminal pedicellate subumbellate, 

 ecalyculate. (South America Andes.) See p. 13. 



11. Viviania Cav. — Flowers (nearly of Wendtia or Balbisia) 

 4, 5-merous ; sepals free or connate at base, valvate. Petals con- 

 torted. Glands 4, 6, alternipetalous, entire or 2-fid. Stamens 

 8-10, 2-seriate, all fertile. Germen 2, 3-locular ; ovides in cells 2, 



