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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



constituting the section Eiigarrija, the receptacle may bear exteriorly 

 or near the margin, two lateral folioles of uncertain nature,^ which 

 may be very little developed or even disappear. The fruit is a berry, 

 little fleshy, surmounted by the style or its scar ; it contains one or 

 two descending seeds, the coats ^ of which cover a fleshy albumen, 

 lodging in its upper part a small embryo with superior radicle. 



Garrija consists of shrubs from 



Garri/a lanrifoUa. the SOUth-WCSt of North AmOHCa 



and the Antilles. They have 

 tetragonal branches and per- 

 sistent, opposite, petiolate leaves 

 without stipules, with limb en- 

 tire or denticulate, penninerved. 

 The petioles are connate at the 

 base. The flowers are axillary 

 and terminal. The males are 

 grouped in pendent catkins fur- 

 nished with decussate bracts connate like the leaves. In the axil 

 of each is one flower or one biparous and triflorous cyme, rarely more.^ 

 The females are also in clusters, with not unfrequently a terminal 

 flower.^ The others occupy the axil of decussate bracts, which even 

 become leaflike. Some eight species of Garrija ^ are distinguished, 

 nearly all Mexican and Californian. G. Fadxjeni alone grows in 

 Cuba and Jamaica. 



Fig. 60. Fruit (f). 



Fig. 61. Long. sect, 

 of fruit. 



With A. L. DE JussiEU ^ the family Cornacece did not exist. He 

 placed Cornus (with Hedera) in a section of the Honeysuckle Order, 

 himself thereby giving, with his usual loyalty, a fine demonstration 

 of the futility of separating absolutely the Polypetalce from the 

 Gamopetalce, It w^as A. P. de Candolle ^ who established a distinct 



1 They are described as sepals ; but are pro- 

 bably two bracts drawn more or less up the 

 receptacular axis. 



2 The exterior, on the separation of the flora- 

 tion, is dilated to a general fleshy aril, the 

 cellules of which rapidly assume an enormous 

 development. 



^ Generally destitute of lateral bracteoles. 

 * This often bears on the sides of the recepta- 

 cle, near mid height of the ovary, the two 



bracts which alternate with the two preceding 

 bracts mentioned above. The styles are super- 

 posed to them. 



5 Benth. PL Hartweg. 50.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. 

 W.-Ind. 285 {Fadyenia).—^ooyL. Icon. t. 33.— 

 S. Wats. King's Eep. Bot. 421. 



6 Gen. (1789) 214, Ord. 3.— K. H. B. K. Nov. 

 Gen, et Spec. iii. 430. 



7 Prodr. iv. (1830) Ord. do.—Corneee Exdl. 

 Gen. 798, Ord. 165. 



