THYMEL^ACE^. 137 



mate. Stamens 8, inserted 2-seriately in throat ; filaments subulate, 

 often coherent at base, exserted at apex ; anthers ovate. Germen 

 destitute of disk ; style lateral, apex stigmatose semiexserted capi- 

 tate. Fruit nucular, enclosed by persistent base of tube or sometimes 

 finally naked ; pericarp crustaceous or sometimes slightly fleshy, very 

 rarely [Chjmococca^) baccate; seed albuminous. — Ericoid shrubs; 

 twigs tomentose or Ian ate ; leaves opposite, linear acerose, convex at 

 back; flowers^ sessile in uppermost axils solitary or in terminal 

 sometimes comose or short subcapitate spikes. {South Africa.^) 



31. Struthiola L.'* — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-merous (nearly of 

 Gnidia\ glandules of throat 4, or oftener 8-12, exserted, fleshy or 

 horny ; each densely setose at base and there oftener confluent in 

 somewhat prominent ring. Stamens 4, alternating with lobes of 

 calyx ; anthers subsessile ; cells linear, adnate within to connective 

 produced beyond the cells. Germen sessile, destitute of hypogynous 

 disk; style lateral, subequal to tube of calyx, at apex capitate 

 stigmatose. Fruit nucular, enclosed by persistent base at calyx; 

 seed albuminous. — Ericoid shrubs or undershrubs ; branches gene- 

 ' rally straight slender ; leaves opposite or sometimes alternate sessile, 

 oftener linear ; flowers ^ sessile in uppermost axils, solitary or binate ; 

 calyx 2-bracteolate. {South Africa.^) 



32 ? Kelleria Endl.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-merous ; calyx 

 (coloured) funnel shaped, 4-fld ; squamules 4 ; inserted in throat, or 

 8, oppositisepalous in pairs ; tube continuous. Stamens 4, alternating 

 with lobes ; filaments inserted in throat subulate, exserted ; anthers 

 ovate obtuse, 2-rimose. Germen sessile, 1-ovulate, destitute of hy- 

 pogynous disk ; style lateral or subterminal filiform exserted, at apex 

 stigmatose capitate, deciduous. Fruit nucular ovoid, finally naked ; 



^ Meissn. Prodr. 665. ' White, golden or reddish. 



2 Oftener rather reddish, small. ^ Spec, about 20. Thunb. Fl. Cap. 382. — 



3 Spec. 4, 0. L. Spec. (ed. 1), 560 (Lachncea) ; Houtt. P/?. Si/sf. v. 358, t. 40, fig. 2.— Burm. 

 Mantiss. i. 233.— Thunb. Prodr. 75; Fl. Cap. Afr. 127, t. 47 {Tht/melcea). —'R^tz. Obs. iii.25, 

 374.— PoiR. Diet. V. 40. — ^Wikstr. Act. Holm. 26. — Horxem. Hort. Hafn. ii. 955. — Wikstr. 

 (1818), 232.— LoDb. Cat. (1816), 18.— W. Spec. Thymel. 286.— Ait. Hort. Kew. (ed. 2), i. 272. 

 li. 434. — Meissn. Lttmcca, xiv. 299. — Wenbl. — Ecem. et Sen. Syst. iii. 20, 330. — Wendl. 



Obs. 18, t. 2, fig. 15. Obs. 9, t. 2.— Andr. Bot. Eepos. i. 113, 119, 149. 



^ Mantiss. n. 1244.— J. Gen. 77.— Lamk. ///. t. — Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 11, 74, 75, 141.— ^o^. Mag. 



78.— PoiR. Diet. vii. 475.— G^rtx. f. Fruct. iii. t. 1212, 2138. 



194, t. 125.— Endl. Gen. n. 2099 ; Suppl. iv. p. 7 Qd. Suppl, iv. p. ii. n. 2095.— Meissn. 



ii. n. 2096. — Meissn. Zinncea, xiv. 463 ; Prodr. Prodr. 665. — Baphnobryon Meissn. Prodr. 566. 

 566. — Belvala Adans. Fam. des PI. ii. 285. 



