132 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



hirsute, persisteut, 4-fid ; lobes equal, imbricate ; throat esquamate. 

 Stamens 8, 2-seriate ; filaments short or very short ; anthers erect 

 oval enclosed (in female flower 0). Germen (in male flower rudi- 

 mentary) hirsute ; ovule l, 1 descending (of Lagctta) ; style terminal 

 slender, in fruit persistent and finally lateral, apex stigmatose 

 capitate. Hvpogynous disk consisting of squamules generally 8, 

 linear-setaceous and sericeous pilose intermixed. Drupe finally 

 siccate, closely enclosed by increased coriaceous hirsute perianth; 

 putamen fragile; seed exalbuminous. — Shrubs; liber tenacious; 2 

 leaves herbaceous alternate, opposite or subverticillate elongate ; 

 flowers terminal or axillary to uppermost leaves cymose ; cymes 

 pedunculate or sessile, sometimes few- or 1 -flowered ; pedicels very 

 short bracteate. (Brazil. 3 ) 



21. Peddiea Harv. 4 — Flowers hermaphrodite; perianth (coloured) 

 subcampimulate or cylindrical ; lobes of limb 4, 5, imbricate, re- 

 volute, esquamate at throat. 5 Stamens 8-10 ; anthers enclosed, 

 subsessile, inserted above the middle of the tube. Germen girt at 

 base with cup-shaped membranous crenate disk; cell 1 -ovulate; 6 

 style slender, shorter than tube of perianth, deciduous, at apex 

 stigmatose depressed capitate. Drupe naked, with 1 pyrena; seed 

 exalbuminous. — Glabrous shrubs ; branches oftener 2-chotomous ; 

 bark thin ; leaves alternate or approximate subopposite subsessile ; 

 flowers in terminal pedunculate umbels (?) ; pedicels articulate at 

 base. (South, and trop. West. Jfrica. 1 ) 



22. Dirca L. 8 — Flowers hermaphrodite ; calyx obconico-campanu- 

 late glabrous, deciduous ; limb obliquely cut above (hence slightly 

 irregular) and there unequally crenulate or sometimes subentere. 



1 Sometimes abnormally 2, 3 (Mart.), whence account of very thin disk being there a little 



2,3, pyreuaj occasionally occur in fruit. thickened) . 



1 Textile ductile. 6 Sometimes, as said, 2-ovulate ; drupe hence 



* Spec. 2. Eaddi, Fiant. Bms. add. 12 2-pyrenate (?) 



{Daphne). — Mart, et Zucc. Nov. Gen. et Spec- 7 Spec, about 3. Walf. Ann. i. 688 (Psilo- 



i. 66,t.34. solena). 



* Hook. Jrmrn. (1840), ii. 266, t. 10.— Endl. s Diss. Chenon (1751) ; Gen. (ed. 5), n. 437; 

 Gen. n. 2106 1 ; Suppl. iv. p. ii. n. 2106 14 .— (ed. 6), n. 486 ; Amoen. Acad. iii. 12, t. 1, fig. 7. 

 Meisbn. Gen. 331 (243); Prodr. 528,700.— — J. Gen. 79.— Lamk. Diet. iii. 287 ; III. t. 293. 

 Cyathodiscus Hochst. Flora (1842), 240. — — Schkuhr, llandb. i. 337, 1. 107. — Spach, Suit. 

 Psilosolcna Presl, in Ahli. d. Boehm. Ges. ser. 3, à Buffon, x. 436. — Endl. Gen. n. 2091 ; Suppl. iv. 

 v. 532; Bot. Bern. 102. — Eaiveya Plant p. ii. n. 2106 6 .— Meissn. Prodr. blT.—Dofia 

 (Meisbn.). Adans. Fain, des I'/, ii. 285. 



6 Sometimes thinly ghndulose-annular (on 



