fif< NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



— Ski'ubs, iiudershi'ubs or herbs, rarely parasitical discoloured, 

 heaving scales {Ej)/r/imfiifhes); leaves alternate, opposite or verticil- 

 late, simple, usually entire, esstiptilate ; flowers in simple or more 

 rarely compound racemes or spikes, sometimes sliort capituliform ; 

 inflorescence terminal, lateral, or more rarely axillary ; pedicels often 

 articulate at base, 1-bracteate ; bractlets usually 2. (All hot and 

 tempera fc rec/ions.) See p. 71. 



2. Phlebotsenia Griseb.^ — Flowers nearly of PoI//r/ala ; sejials 

 tlie 2 lateral larger wing-shaped. Petals 5 ; 2 exterior free or 

 slightly adnate to staminal tube, separated from carina ; carina longer 

 than the posterior, connate Avith it, concave-galeate and cristate. 

 Stamens 8 ; sheath open at back, high adnate to petals. Gynpcceiim 

 of Pohjgala. Capsule 2-locular, at margin on both sides 2-winged; 

 wings 4, vertical membranous ; 2 anterior much larger. Other 

 characters of Pohjgala. — Glabrous shi'ubs ; leaves alternate, at base 

 cuneate, rigid, oblique, subparallel reticulate-venose; flowers in 

 short terminal or lateral racemes.- [Cuha.^) 



3. Muraltia Neck.*^ — Flowers nearly oi Polygata ; sepals in pairs 

 unequal glumaceous. Stamens 7, 8, in sheath, connate above 

 fissure. Germen and other characters oi Pohjgala. Capsule submem- 

 branous compressed. Ajiex 4-gibbous or 4-cornate, sometimes 

 truncate, loculicidal at margin. Seeds albuminous thick arillate. — 

 Eamified shi'ubs or undershrubs ; leaves alternate or fasciculate, small, 

 rigid, often aciculate ; flowers axillary, solitary, subsessile. {South 

 Africa.^) 



4. Mundtia K." — Flowers nearly of Pohjgala ; sepals 2 large 



' P/. Wright. Cuh. 156; Cat. PI. Ciih. 14.— 137, n. i.—HeUtoria BERfi. Fl. Cap. 185 



B. H. Go,. 138, n. 8. (ncc L.). 



- A genus much better made a section ■'' Spec, ad 50, Andu. Bot. Sepos. t. 363, 



of FitUj<jttla (?), nearly related to Badiera, 424 {Pohjgala). — Paxt. Mag. Bot. iv. 149, 



differs especially ty its lateral petals, exterior ic. — Haev. et Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 95. — Mia. in 



sub-equally long sepals, long and narrow at Ann. Mas. Ziigd. -Bat. i. 182. — Walp. Ann. vii. 



base, with winged fruit ; wings four, in pairs, 249. 

 very unequal. " Nov. Gen. et Spee. v. 392, not. {Miindia). 



2 Spec. 1. P. cuneata Griseb. he. cit. — -I)C. Prodr. i. 337. — A. S. H. et Moa. in 



Walp. Ann. vii. 253. M<'m. Mux. xvii. 352; six. 332 (part). — SpAcn. 



■• F/em. n. 1832.— DC. Prodr. i. 335.— Suit. & Buffon, vii. 145.— Endl. Qen. n. 5651. 



A. S. H. et MoQ. in Mem. Mas. xvii. 352, — B. H. Gen. 137, 974, n. 5.— H. Bn. 



t. 29, fig. 4 ; xix. 331. — Spach, Suit, a in Pager Fam. Nat. 310. — Ngjandtia Dumort. 



Buffun, vii. 141. — Endl. Gen. n. 5650. — Comm. 31. 

 H. Bn. in Adanioiiia, i. 178. — B. H. Gen. 



