138 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



seed copiously albuminous. — Dwarf csespitose musciform shrubs or 

 undershrabs ; steins sometimes prostrate ramose ; leaves opposite 

 sessile small densely imbricate; flowers terminal subcapitate few, 

 pedunculate or subsessile, imbricate in upper leaves, involucrate.^ 

 {New Zealand^ Australia^ Tasmania^ Borneo?) 



33. Drapetes Lamk.* — Flowers of Kelleria; calyx fuunel-sbaped, 

 4 -fid; throat esquamate ; limb articulate above germen, deciduous ; 

 persistent base surrounding fruit. Seed and other characters of 

 Kelleria. — A small dwarf undershrub ; leaves small sessile decussate 

 densely imbricate and inflorescence ^ of Kelleria. [South America^ 

 Magellanic continent and islands?) 



34 ? Schoenobiblus Mart, and Zucc.'^ — " Flowers dioecious,^ 4- 

 merous ; male calyx (corolline) 4-partite ; tube very short funnel- 

 shaped, pilose at bottom : throat esquamate ; lobes patent linear, 

 glabrous within. Hypogynous scales 0. Stamens 4, exserted, 

 opposite lobes of calyx and subequal and adnate to them below ; 

 filaments filiform ; anthers oblong, dorsally affixed above base ; 

 rudiment of germen 0. Female flower . . . ? — A tree or shrub ; 

 leaves few ; umbels terminal pedunculate. [North. Brazil?) 



35. Pimelea Banks and Soland.^^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or 

 rarely polygamo-dioecious (nearly of Struthiola or Gnidia\ 4-merous ; 

 tubular throat of (coloured) calyx esquamate ; tube continuous or 



^ Eather small. 'S'^*^. iii. 333. — Hook. f. Antarct. Voy. Bot. 



2 A genus by Bentham {Fl. Austral, vi. 35) 343 (not jP/. N.-Zel.).—C. Gay, Fl. Chil. v. 317. 

 conjoined -with. Drapetes, to -wliich indeed it 7 Nov. Gen. et Spec. i. 65. — Exdl. Gen. Suppl. 



is very close, but from which, it is decidedly iv. p. ii. n. 2106 12,_Meissn. Prodr. 519. 

 distinct by the scales of the throat (absent in » " White, puberulous." 



Drapetes). ^ Spec. 1. S. daphnoides Mart, et Zucc. — 



•'' Spec, about 3. Hook. Lond. Joum. ii. 497, Meissn. Mart. Fl. Bras. Thymel. 65, t. 28, fig. 1 

 t. 17 (i>mi;e^es).— Hook. r. Fh N.-Zel. i. 223; ^o G.urtx. Fruct. i. 186, t. 39. — Dry and. 



ii. 222; Kandh. N.-Zeal. Fl. 245; Hook. Icon. Ann. Bot. ii. If) o.—Wi^b.-hb.. Act. Holm. {1^20) y 



t. 895 ; Hook. Joum. (1853), 299, t. 7 {Drapetes). 118, 270, 273.— Spach, Suit, a Buffon, x. 448.— 



* Joum. dHist. Nat. i. 186, t. 10, fig. 1 ; III. Endl. Gen. n. 2098 ; Suppl. iv. p. ii. 60.— 



t. 915.— PoiR. Diet. Suppl. ii. 523.— Banks. Payer, Organog. 482, t. 96.— Meissx. Frodr. 



Goerin. Fruct. iii. 199, t. 215, —J. Ann. Mus. 496, 700. — Banksia Forst. Char. Gen.n. 4 (not 



vii. 479.— WiKSTR. Thymel. 284.— Endl. Gen. L. nor Dome.).— CooAva Gmel. Syst. i. 24 (not 



n. 2097 ; Suppl. iv. p. ii. n. 2094.— Meissx. Soxner. nor ^v^^^G.).—Thecanthes Wikstr. 



Prodr. 518 (not Bexth.). ioo- cit. 269, 271.— Exdl- Icon. t. 11.— Hetero- 



■ ^ Calyx petaloid coloured. ^<s'«« Fisch. et Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Pctrop. 



8 Spec. 1. D. muscoides Lamk. — Gaudich. (1845), 46. — G^ywinococca Fisch, et Mey. loe. cit. 



Voy. TJran. Bot. 133. — D'Urv. Mem. Soc. Hist. — Macrostegia Turcz. Pull. Mosc. (1852), iii. 



Nat. Par. iv. 605.— ,7). muscosus Ecem. et Sch. 177. 



