!)•> NATCRAl. IIIsTonV of /'L.IXTS. 



Icdous. — Glabrous trees or shrubs, sometimes scnntlent ; leaves 

 alternate coriaceous ; flowers in super-axilkiy, simple, termiual 

 racemes. (2'rojj. Asia and Oceania). See p. 70. 



III. KEAMERIE..E. 



11. Krameria LoEFL. — Flowers irregular resupiuate ; sepals 4. 5, 

 coloured inside, imbricated ; anterior larger exterior ; 1,2, posterior 

 (of which 1 interior is smaller). Petals, posterior, 2 or 3 ; the 

 middle one interior or ; subfree, or more or loss connate at base, 

 narrow. Stamens 3, the posterior oppositipetalous, or more usually 4, 

 i!-dynamis; the lateral larger, sometimes but rarely 5; filaments 

 free or oftener at base more or less high 1-adelphous ; anthers basi- 

 fixed erect, 2-locular, infundibuliform, lacei-ate- subporicidal at apex, 

 Germen free, furnished at base with 2 glands hypogynous anterior, 

 thickly squamiform, compressed, rugose outwardly, sulcate or reti- 

 culate ; fertile cell 1 , anterior ; style subulate, long-tubular, scarcely 

 or not at all dilate, stigmatiferous at apex; ovules 2, collaterally 

 inserted on promin(int posterior placentas ; micropyle anteriorly or 

 laterally superior. Fruit dry, indehiscent, subglobose, outwardly 

 aculeate at apex, sharply refiexed-uncinate ; embryo of solitary descen- 

 dent seed cxalbuminous ; cotyledons plano-convex fleshj^, ouriculate 

 at base in a sheath roTind short superior radicle. — Humble canescent 

 shrubs generally much ramified ; leaves alternate, exstijDulate, 

 simple, or more rarely partly 3-foliolate ; folioles pinnate articulate ; 

 flowers in axils of leaves or bracts on upper branches, solitary, pedvm- 

 culatc or subsessile ; peduncle at middle 2-bracteolate. {Trop. and tiuh- 

 trop. Jmcrica.) See p. 77. 



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