NATURAL HIsrORY OF PLANTS. 



or less charged witli silky aud whitish hairs. The leaves arc 

 alternate or opposite, often tripartite, exstipulate. The flowers 

 are solitary, terminal, pedunculate. Innnediately below the calyx 

 arc inserted about ten narrow elongated bracts forming an 

 cpicalyx.^ 



Rhyncltotheca spiiiosa. 



Fig. 23. Floriferous branch. 



Fig-. 27. Gynœcoum, one cell open (f). 



Fig. 24. Flower (^ 



Bud without perianth (a). Fig. 2.5. Long. sect, of flower. 



Beside Halbisia is placed Wendtia,'^ consisting of plants of the 

 same country, mainly distinguished by having in each of its ovary 

 cells, reduced to three, but two descendent ovules with micropyle 



1 The species, prohably the only one, hut very 

 variable as to the thickness and the state of the 

 surface of the leaves, is B. mrticillata Cav. Ic. 

 ined. (ex DC). — Kl. in Linneea, x. 431. — B. 

 pcdunculayis Don, in Ediiii. New Phil. Jour». 

 (1832), TIL—B. Meijmiana K-L.—Œiwthcra 

 scoparia, R. et Pav. Herb. ! — Ledocarpunichilciisc 

 Desf. lie. cit.— L. pedunculare Lindl. in Bid. 

 Keg. t. 139.— i. cixtiflorum Meyen, Eeis. i. 470. 



L. Metjeniaimm Walp. Rep. i. 460 ; v. 280.— i. 

 argenteum Pkesl. — Cmckhanksia cistiflora Hook. 

 foe. cit. 



2 Meyen, Bcis. i. 307.— Kl. in Limiœa, x. 

 432.— Endl. Gen. n. 60J1.— B. H. Qch. 275, n. 

 12.— H. Bn. in rnijer Fam. Nat. 398.— il/a/-- 

 tiiiiera Guillem. in Seless. Ic. Scl. iii. 23, t. 40 

 — Ilijpcrum PiiEBL, Epim. Bot, 211. 



