136 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



28. Arthrosolen C. A. Mey.^ — Flowers (nearly of TJiymelwa) 

 hermaphrodite, 4-5-merous ; limb of funnel-shaped (coloured) calyx 

 regular, 4-5 -partite, finally open ; inferior part of tube articulate 

 below middle persistent around fruit ; throat esquamate. Stamens 

 8-10, 2-seriate, inserted in throat ; the upper semiexserted ; anthers 

 subsessile, oblong or linear. Germen destitute of hypogynous 

 disk ; style lateral slender, longer than germen, enclosed, at apex 

 stigmatose capitate, extending to the throat. Fruit nucular ovoid. 

 — Shrubs or undershrubs ; leaves alternate or opposite sessile ; 

 flowers either axillary solitary or very few, or terminal, capitate and 

 involucrate. [South, or West. Africa.^) 



29. Diarthron Turcz.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite; tube of gla- 

 brous calyx elongate, narrow (herbaceous), above the germen con- 

 stricted articulate, below persistent around fruit, above deciduous ; 

 throat esquamate ; limb (coloured) erect, 4-fid. Stamens 4-8, 

 enclosed, inserted 1-2-seriately in throat ; anthers subsessile oblong, 

 introrsely rimose. Germen girt with thin annular disk, glabrous, 

 1 -ovulate; style subterminal or lateral, apex stigmatose slightly or 

 not at all thickened obtuse. I^ucule enclosed by calyx ; seed slightly 

 albuminous. — Slender herbs; leaves alternate linear; flowers'* in 

 very slender terminal and lateral spikes, ebracteate. ( Central Jsia.^) 



30. Passerina L.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite (nearly of TJiymelwa)] 

 tube of cup-shaped (coloured) calyx thin, narrowed above germen 

 and there solute ; limb 4-partite patent deciduous ; throat esqua- 



{Daphne).—K-Luio^. Fl. Pedem.i. 139; Auct. 9. 20 (Passm;m). —Axdr. Bot. Cab. t. 311 {Pas- 



— Tov-RU. Chlor.Karbon. 27 {Passerina). — Lamk. serina). — Presl, Bot. Bern. 107. — Meissn. Zt«- 



Dict. iii. 436, 437 ; J/7, t. 290 (Z>ajt?A««).— DC. nma, xiv. 390, 396, 398 {Passerina). 



Fl. Fr. iii. 72 {Passerina), 356 {Daphne) ; vi, ^ ^,^^;^ j^^^^^ (1832), v. 204 ; (1852), ii. 464, 



466 {Passerina).— D-E&v. Fl. Atl. i. 331, t. 95 t. 11.— Endl. Gen. n. 2096 ; Suppl. iv. p. ii, n. 



{Passerina).— WiKSTK. Act. Holm. (1818), 320 2099.— Meissx. Prodr. 558. 



{Passerina).— Gvss. Fl. Siciil. Prodr. i. 466; '' Very small, purple or sometimes 2-coloure(i. 



Suppl. i. 114 {Stellera).—CA^ni^%%. Enum. PI. ^ Spec. 2. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iii. t. 544.— 



Balear. 183 (P«ssm>m).— D'Urv. Enum. PL Yi^cn. ei^l^x. Bull. Mosc. (1839), 170.— Kar. 



Archip. 42.— SiBTH. et Sm. Fl. Qrcec. i. t. 355 et Kir. Enum. PI. Alt. n. 801.— C. A. Mey. 



{Daphne).— l^Y.^%, Fl. Germ. iii. t. 47 {Passerina). Bull. S.-PUersh. iv. n. 4.— Jaub. et Spach, III. 



— Boiss. Voy. Esp. ii. t. 157 {Passerina).— PI. Or. ii. t. 105.— Walp. Ann. i. 105. 



Geen. et GoDR. Fl. de Fr. iii. 60 {Passerina). 6 jy^r^^ Cliff. 146, t. 11 ; Gen. (ed. 1), n. 856. 



^ Bull. S.-Petersb. iv. n. 4. — Endl. Gen. —C. A. Mey. Bull S.-Petersb. iv. n. 4.— Stacu, 



Suppl. iv. p. ii. n. 2100.— Meissx. Prodr, 559. Suit, a Buffon, x. 446.— Exdl. Gen. Suppl. iv. p. 



2 Spec, about 8. Thuxb. Fl. Cap. 75, 376 ii. n. 2097.— Meissn. Prodr. 561. 

 (Pa wm«o). -- Wendl. Obs. 19, t. 2, fig. 19, 



