150 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



28. Arthrosolen C. A. Mey. 1 — Flowers (nearly of ThymeUea) 

 hermaphrodite, 4-5-merous ; limb of funnel-shaped (coloured) calyx 

 regular, 4-5-partite, finally open ; inferior part of tube articulate 

 below middle persistent around fruit ; throat esquamate. Stamens 

 8-10, 2-seriate, inserted in throat ; the upper semiexserted ; anthers 

 subsessile, oblong or linear. Gormen destitute of hypogynous 

 disk ; style lateral slender, longer than germen, enclosed, at apex 

 stigmatose capitate, extending to the throat. Fruit nucular ovoid. 

 —Shrubs or undershrubs ; leaves alternate or opposite sessile ; 

 flowers either axillary solitary or very few, or terminal, capitate and 

 involucrate. (South, or West. Africa.-) 



29. Diarthron Turcz. 3 — Flowers hermaphrodite; tube of gla- 

 brous calyx elongate, narrow (herbaceous), above the germen con- 

 stricted articulate, below persistent around fruit, above deciduous ; 

 throat esquamate ; limb (coloured) erect, 4-fid. Stamens 4-8, 

 enclosed, inserted 1-2-seriately in throat ; anthers subsessile oblong, 

 introrsely rimose. Germen girt with thin annular disk, glabrous, 

 1-ovulate; style subterminal or lateral, apex stigmatose slightly or 

 not at all thickened obtuse. Nucule enclosed by calyx ; seed slightly 



•albuminous. — Slender herbs; leaves alternate linear; flowers + in 

 very slender terminal and lateral spikes, ebracteate. ( Central Asia. 5 ) 



30. Passerina L. 6 — Flowers hermaphrodite (nearly of Tht/melœa); 

 tube of cup- shaped (coloured) calyx thin, narrowed above germen 

 and there solute ; limb 4-partite patent deciduous ; throat esqua- 



{Daphnc).— Allion. Fl. Pedem. i. 139; Juct. 9. 20 (?«.«m'»«).-AsDR. Bot. Cab. t. 311 {Pas- 

 — Poubk. Chlor d . Narbon. 27 (Passerina), — Lamk. serina). — Presl, Bot. Bern. 107. — Meissn. Lin- 

 Diet, iii. 436, 437 ; III. t. 290 (Daphne).— DC. nota, xiv. 390, 396, 398 (Passerina). 

 Fl. Fr. iii. 72 (Passerina). 356 (Daphne) ; vi. 3 Hull. Mosc. (1832), v. 204 ; (1852), ii. 464, 

 466 (Passerina).— Desf. Fl. All. i. 331, t. 9.5 t. 11.— Endl. Gen. n. 2096 ; Suppl. iv. p. ii, n. 

 (Passerina).— WlKSTR. Jet. Holm. (1818), 320 2099.— Meissn. Prodi: 558. 

 (Passerina). — Guss. Fl. Sicul. Prodr. i. 466; 4 Very small, purple or sometimes 2-coloured. 

 Suppl. i. 114 (Stellera). — Camiïess. Enum. PI. 5 Spec. 2. Ledeb. Fl. Boss. iii. t. 544. — 

 Balear. 183 (Passerina).— D' Qrv. Enum. PI. Fisch. ct Mey. Bull. Mosc. (1839), 170.— Kar. 

 Archip. 42.— Sibth. et Sm. Fl. Grœc. i. t. 355 et Km. Enum. PI. Alt. n. 801.— C. A. Mey. 

 (Daphne). — Nees, Fl. Germ. iii. t. 47 (Passerina). Bull. S.-Pétersb. iv. n. 4. — Jaxib. et Sfach, III. 

 — Boiss. Voy. Esp. ii. t. 157 (Passerina).— PI. Or. ii. t. 105.— Walp. Ann. i. 105. 

 Giien. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. iii. 60 (Passerina). 6 Sort. Cliff. 146, t. 11 ; Gen. (ed. 1), n. 856. 



i Bull. S.-Pétersb. iv. n. 4. — Endl. Gen. — C. A. Mey. Bull S.-Péttrsb. iv. n. 4.— Spach, 



Suppl. iv. p. ii. n. 2100.— Meissn. Prodr. 559. Suit, a Bnffou, x. 446. — Endl. Gen. Suppl. iv. p. 



2 Spec, about 8. Thunb. Fl. Cap. 75, 376 ii. n. 2097.— Meissn. Prodr. 561. 

 (Passerina). — Wfndl. Obs. 19, t. 2, fig. 19, 



