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in pulp ; albumen scarce cartilaginous ; cotyledons of thick axile 

 embryo obtuse superior. — ^An erect (foetid) shrub ; branches numerous 

 pendulous ; leaves opposite or verticillate small linear acute ; stipules 

 connate in scarious sheath, persistent ; flowers ^ crowded axillary 

 and terminal or compound racemose. {Canary Isles,^) 



23, Putoria Pers.^ — Flowers generally 4-merous ; calyx superior 

 unequally dentate, persistent. Corolla at base rather long-tubular; 

 throat bare; limb patulous, 4-lobed, valvate. Stamens inserted in 

 throat; filaments erect; anthers dorsifixed near base oblong introrse 

 exserted. Disk epigynous rather thick. Germen 2-celled; style 

 slender, 2-dentate at stigmatose apex. Fruit oblong drupaceous ; 

 pyrenes 1, 2, finally solute; flesh scanty. Seed oblong; albumen 

 fleshy ; cotyledons of large embryo narrow superior. — Low branched 

 (foetid) shrublets ; leaves opposite linear-oblong ; petioles short ; 

 stipules short interpetiolar ; flowers * in terminal compound capituli- 

 form or umbelliform cymes ; pedicels short or very short, bracteolate. 

 (Europe f Mediterranean Asia and Africa.^) 



24. Phyllis L.^ — Flowers polygamous ; receptacle of males small; 

 of female and hermaphrodite rather compressed obovate-pearshaped, 

 longitudinally sulcate above. Sepals 4, 5, dentiform or larger, some- 

 times subnil, deciduous. Corolla shortly campanulate; lobes 4, 5, 

 valvate, revolute. Stamens as many, inserted at bottom of tube; 

 filaments very slender ; anthers basally aflixed introrse, exserted, 2- 

 rimose. Germen 2-celled; ovule in cells 1, erect; micropyle extrorsely 

 inferior; style branches 2, not thickened, everywhere papillose, in 

 female flower exserted. — An undershrub; branchlets herbaceous terete ; 

 leaves opposite or verticillate, lanceolate ; stipules connate with 

 petioles in subentire sheath (black spotted); flowers^ terminal and 



1 Small or minute, very similar to those of {Ernodea). — Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1182. — 

 Anthospermum and Galopina. Sibth. et Sm. Fl. Grcec. t. 143 (Ernodea). — 



2 Spec. 1. P. pendula Ait.— Reichb. Icon. Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. 12.— Willk. et Lang. Prodr. 

 Exot. t. 11.— Webb et Berth. Phyt. Canar. ii. Fl. Hisp. ii. 299. 



191. « Gen. n. 323.— J. Gen. 198 ; Mini. Mus. vi. 



3 Synops. i. 524.— Rich. Rub. 80.— DC. Prodr. 370.— Lamk. III. t. 186.— G^ertn. Frud. i. 123, 

 iv. 677 (part).— Endl. Gen. n. 3110.— B. H. t. 25.— Rich. Rub. 60, t. 2, fig. 3.— DC. Prodr. 

 Gen. ii. 136, n. 292. iv. 578.— Endl. Qen. n. 3108.— H. Bn. Payer 



< Pink or white, small or moderate. Fam. Nat. 232.— B. H. Oen. ii. 140, u. 306.— 



' Spec. 2, 3. Lamk. Bid. iv. 326 {Sherardia). Nobula Adans. Fam. des PL ii. 146. — BupltV' 



— Lher. Sthp. t. 32 [Asperula). —GyhiJjL. PL roides Boerh. (ex DC). 



Neap. t. 1 iPavetta). — Sibth. FL Grcec. t. 113 7 Greenish; styles whitish. 



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