34 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



few descending exarillate ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of thick 

 (green) embryo ovate or subelliptic. — A glabrous shrub ; leaves 

 opposite or rarely alternate, petiolate entire coriaceous, flowers ' in 

 axillary 2-chotomous ramose cymes. 2 (South Africa. 3 ) 



9. Hartogia Thunb. 4 — Flowers (nearly of Euonymus) 4—5 mé- 

 rous ; receptacle slightly concave. Sepals short and petals same in 

 number longer, imbricate. Stamens 4, 5, alternipetalous, alternate 

 with an equal number of squamiform lobes of disk ; filaments subu- 

 late ; anthers short, 2-rimose, finally extrorse. Germen basally 

 imbedded in disk, afterwards free, pyramidal, attenuated to a 

 short style stigmatic obtuse at apex ; cells incomplete 2, or more 

 rarely 3 ; ovules in each 2, ascending ; micropyle extrorsely inferior. 

 Fruit subelliptic, dry, indéhiscent; seeds 1, 2, exarillate; testa 

 nitid ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo subfoliaceous. — A glabrous 

 shrub ; leaves opposite petiolate serrate or crenulate coriaceous ; 

 flowers 5 in axillary cymes. 6 (South Africa. 7 ) 



10. Rhacoma L. s — Flowers nearly of Elceodendron, smaller 

 (sometimes 1-sexual) 4-5-merous ; sepals and petals longer im- 

 bricate. Stamens 4, 5, alternate with lobes of disk bordering 

 cupuliform receptacle ; anthers short introrse. Base of germen im- 

 bedded in receptacle ; cells 2-4, oftener incomplete ; lobes of style 

 same in number short stigmatic. Ovules in cells solitary subbasilar 

 ascending ; micropyle extrorsely inferior. Fruit oftener unequally 

 obovoid, dry or drupaceous; flesh scanty; putamen 1, 2-locular ; 

 seeds arillate or exarillate albuminous. Other characters of Elceoden- 

 dron. — Glabrous or pilose shrubs or under-shrubs 9 oftener slender; 



1 Small, white. 124 ;— Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 462 ; — B. H. 



- A genus generally referred to Ilicineœ, dis- Gen. 363, n. 13), whose 4-merous flowers appear 



tinguished from Elasodendron by the direction of to us quite the same in form, belongs to this 



its ovules (a character of very small moment in genus. 



Euonymus) and by the nature of its pericarp. 7 Spec. 1. H. Capensis Thunb. loo. cit.— 



3 Spec. 1. M. capensis Harv. and Sond. Fl. Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 464. — H. capensis 

 Cap. i. 465. — Walp. Ann. vii. 577. — Frangula Eokl. et Zeyh. — U. multiflora Eckl. et Zeth. 

 sempervirens... Dill. Elth. 146, t. 121, fig. 147. — H. riparia Eckl. et Zeyh. — Schrtbera schinoidea 

 Cassine Mauroccnia L. Spec. 385.— Thunb. Fl. Thunb. 



Cap. 268. — Hook. Icon. t. 552. 8 Gen. n. 144. — Crossopetalum P. Br. Jam. 



4 Diss. Nov. Gen. v. 35, c. ic. — L. f. Suppl. 145, t. 17, fig. 1 (not Both.). — Myijinda L. Gen. 

 128.— DC. Prodr. ii. 12.— Endl. Gen. n. 5687. n. 178.— Jaco. Stirp. Amer. 24, t. 16; le. Rat: 

 — B. H. Gen. n. 363, n. 10.— Schrebera Thunb. t. 311.— J. Gen. 378.— Lamk. III. t. 76.— Poir. 

 Nov. Act. Upsal. i. 91, t. 5, fig. 1 ; Prodr. t. 2 Diet. iv. 395 ; Suppl. iv. 41.— DC. Prodr. ii. 12 

 (not Betz. nor Roxb. nor Th.). (part.). — Endl. Gen. n. 5689.— B. H. Gen. 366, 



* Small white. n. 24. 



6 Perhaps Lauridia (Eckl. et Zeyh. Enum. > Sometimes of a reddish appearance. 



