EHAMNACE^. 81 



large raceme, glomerate or solitary crowded.^ [Warm Jsia, Indian 

 Archipelago^ warm North America^ and North-west South America ^) 



14. Scutia CoMMERS.^ — Flowers nearly of Berchemia) petals 

 erect unguiculate, flat or cucullate, often 2-lobed. Disk un- 

 dulate at margin. Stamens nearly equal in length to petals. 

 Germen globular or ovoid free ; cells 2-4 ; style short, 2-4-fid, 

 branches obtuse stigmatose at apex. Fruit dry or slightly fleshy, 

 globular or ovoid, surrounded at base with cupular receptacle ; 

 pyrenae 2-4, angular. Seed compressed; testa various; albumen 

 slight or ; cotyledons of slightly fleshy embryo plano-convex. 

 Other characters of Ceanothiis. — Glabrous shrubs, unarmed or oftener 

 spinous ; spines straight or curved ; branches often angular; leaves 

 opposite, sub-opposite or 2-nate oblong, ovate or obovate, entire or 

 serrulate, coriaceous penninerved, petiolate ; stipules small ; flowers 

 in axillary scarcely stipitate umbelliform cymes. {Africa^ Asia, 

 and trop. South America^) 



15. Ceanothus L.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite (nearly of Scutia)', 

 receptacle concave, or hemispherical, or shortly and depressedly tur- 

 binate ; sepals 5, 8-angular, valvate, membranous (often coloured), 

 connivent. Disk thick filling the cavity of the receptacle. Petals 

 and stamens same in number long-stipitate, extending between the 

 sepals. Germen immersed in centre of disk, free or adnate at base, 

 of glandular with 3 slightly prominent angles ; style short, 3-fld ; 

 branches stigmatose within or to apex. Fruit drupaceous free, sub- 

 globosely 3-lobed or depressed at apex ; exocarp finally dry ; cocci 

 3, cartilaginous or crustaceous, solute within and dehiscing longitu- 



^ A genus distinguishable from tlie preced- Fl. Cap. i. 477. — Kl. Pet. Reis. Mossamb. Bot. 



ing only by the nature of its inflorescence. 110, t. 21. — Tul. Ann. Sc. Kat. ser. 4, viii. 116. 



2 Spec, about 10. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. — Chapm, Fl. S. Unit. St. 72.— Reiss. Mart. Fl. 

 vii. 50, t. 619 {Rhamnus). — Torr. and Gray, Bras. Rhamn. 92, t. 24, 30. — Walp. An7i. i. 

 Fl. N.-Amer. i. 263.— Chapm. Fl. S. JTnit. St. 193 ; vii. 592. 



73. — Wight, Icon. t. 19 {Berchemia) . — Boiss. ^ Gen. n. 267. — J. Gen. 380 (part.). — GiERTN-. 



JP^. Or. ii. 22.— Tr. foe. ci^ 381.— Maxim. JJ/iaw?. Fruct. t. 106, fig. sup. — Lamk. Diet. i. 659 



Or.-Asiat. 20. (part.) ; Suppl. ii. 140 ; III. t. 129.— DC. Frodr. 



3 Ad. Br. Rhamn. 55, t. 4.— Endl. Gen. ii. 29 (part.).— Ad. Br. Rhamn. 62, t. 4.— 

 n. 5724.— B. H. Gen. 379, n. 14.— Hook. Fl. Spach, Suit, a Buffon, ii. 457.— Endl. Gen. n. 

 Ind. i. 640.— Baker Fl. Maiirit. 51. 5726.— A. Gray, Gen. III. t. 169.— B. H. Gen. 



4 Spec, 7, 8. Vahl, %wi. iii.t. 58(i2/iaw«tw). 378, n. 13.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 328.— 

 —Wight. Icon. t. 1071 ; III. t. 73.— DC. Frodr. Forrestia Eapin. N.-York Med. Repos. ii. hex. v. 

 ii. 29 {Ceanothus, sect. 1), — Harv. and Sond. 350 .(ex Endl.). 



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