46 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



exterior bear outwardly cue or two series of stipitate glands,^ 

 and the flowers are united in terminal spikes or racemes, elongate, 

 simple or formed of few-flowered cymes. Two species of them are 

 distinguished,- whose membranous leaAa^s are alternate, penuinerved, 

 dentate like a saw and accompanied by intrapetiolar stijiules. 



II. HUGONIA SERIES. 



The flowers of Kugoniu'^ (fig. 77-79) are very analogous to those 

 of the Flaxes in their general organization. They have, upon a convex 



Huijonia scn'ata. 



Fig. 78. Bud without 

 calyx (^). 



7. Floriferous branch, 



Fig. 79. Bud without 

 perianth (^). 



rece[itacle, five sepals often unequal, quincuncially imbricated, five 

 [jetais contorted and caducous, and ten monadelphous stamens of 



1 This together with the form of the inflores- 

 cence makes these plants resemble Plnmhui/r). 



2 Guu-F. Notul. iv. .534, t. 593. — Fenzl. 

 Df(::t. fin- Pjl. Giitt. 21, t. 3. 



3 L. Ga,. n. 831.— Al).\xs. Fam. rhs Fl. ii. 

 3H.— J. Oni. 275.— Lamk. F)ie'. iii. 148 ; ///. 

 t. 572.— G.TiKTN. J';'«(;i;.i.281,t. 58.— DC. Pco*-. 

 i. 522.— Endl. Gen. n. 5404.— Pl. in Kooli. 



