132 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



hirsute, persistent, 4-fid ; lobes equal, imbricate ; throat esquamate. 

 Stamens 8, 2-seriate ; filaments short or very short ; anthers erect 

 oval enclosed (in female flower 0). Germen (in male flower rudi- 

 mentary) hirsute ; ovule 1,^ descending (of Lagetta) ; style terminal 

 slender, in fruit persistent and finally lateral, apex stigmatose 

 capitate. Hypogynous disk consisting of squamules generally 8, 

 linear-setaceous and sericeous pilose intermixed. Drupe finally 

 siccate, closely enclosed by increased coriaceous hirsute perianth; 

 putamen fragile ; seed exalbuminous. — Shrubs ; liber tenacious ; ^ 

 leaves herbaceous alternate, opposite or subverticillate elongate ; 

 flowers terminal or axillary to uppermost leaves cymose ; cymes 

 pedunculate or sessile, sometimes few- or 1 -flowered ; pedicels very 

 short brae tea te. {Brazil.^) 



21. Peddiea TIarv.* — Flowers hermaphrodite; perianth (coloured) 

 subcampanulate or cylindrical; lobes of limb 4, 5, imbricate, re- 

 volute, esquamate at throat.^ Stamens 8-10 ; anthers enclosed, 

 subsessile, inserted above the middle of the tube. Germen girt at 

 base with cup-shaped membranous crenate disk; cell 1 -ovulate;^ 

 style slender, shorter than tube of perianth, deciduous, at apex 

 stigmatose depressed capitate. Drupe naked, with 1 pyrena; seed 

 exalbuminous. — Glabrous shrubs ; branches oftener 2-chotomous ; 

 bark thin ; leaves alternate or approximate subopposite subsessile ; 

 flowers in terminal pedunculate umbels (?) ; pedicels articulate at 

 base. {South, and trop. West. Africa.'^) 



22. Dirca L.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite ; calyx obconico-campanu- 

 late glabrous, deciduous ; limb obliquely cut above (hence slightly 

 irregular) and there unequally crenulate or sometimes subentere. 



' Sometimes abnormally 2, 3 (Mart.), whence account of very thin disk being there a little 



2, 3, pyreuae occasionally occur in fruit. thickened) . 



' Textile ductile. 6 Sometimes, as said, 2-ovulate ; drupe hence 



» Spec. 2. Raddi, Piant. Bras. add. 12 2-pyrenate (?) 



{Dajohne). — Mart, et Zucc. Nov. Gen. et Spec- 7 Spec, about 3. Walp. Ann. i. 588 {Psilo- 



i. 66, t.34. solena). 



< Hook. Journ. (1840), ii. 266, t. 10.— Endl. s j)iss. Chenon (1751) ; Gen. (ed. 5), n. 437 ; 



Gen. n. 2106^ Suppl. iv. p. ii, n. 2106i^— (ed. 6), n. 486 ; Amoen. Acad.]\\. \2,t. l,^s.l. 



Meissn. Gen. 331 (243) ; Prodr. 528, 700.— —J. Gen. 79.— Lamk. Lict. iii. 287 ; III. t. 293. 



Cyathodiscus Hochst. Flora (1842), 240. — — Schkuhr, Handb. i. 337, 1. 107.— Spach, Suit. 



Psilosolena Presl, in Abh. d. Boehm. Ges. ser. 3, ctPufbn,x. 436. — Endl. Gefi. n. 2091 ; Suppl. iv. 



V. 532; £ot. Bern. 102. — Barvet/a Plant p. ii. n. 2106 «.- Meissn. Prodr. o27.— Dofia 



(Meissn.). Adans. Fam. des PL ii. 285. 



^ Sometimes thinly glandulose- annular (on 



