THYMEL^ACEJE. 137 



mate. Stamens 8, inserted 2-seriately in throat ; filaments subulate, 

 often coherent at base, exserted at apex ; anthers ovate. Germen 

 destitute of disk ; style lateral, apex stigmatose semiexserted capi- 

 tate. Fruit nucular, enclosed by persistent base of tube or sometimes 

 finally naked ; pericarp crustaceous or sometimes slightly fleshy, very 

 rarely ( Chymococca l ) baccate ; seed albuminous. — Ericoid shrubs ; 

 twigs tomentose or lanate ; leaves opposite, linear acerose, convex at 

 back; flowers 3 sessile in uppermost axils solitary or in terminal 

 sometimes comose or short subcapitate spikes. (South Africa?') 



31. Struthiola L. 4 — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-merous (nearly of 

 Gnidia; glandules of throat 4, or oftener 8-12, exserted, fleshy or 

 horny ; each densely setose at base and there oftener confluent in 

 somewhat prominent ring. Stamens 4, alternating with lobes of 

 calyx ; anthers subsessile ; cells linear, adnate within to connective 

 produced beyond the cells. Germen sessile, destitute of hypogynous 

 disk; style lateral, subequal to tube of calyx, at apex capitate 

 stigmatose. Fruit nucular, enclosed by persistent base at calyx; 

 seed albuminous. — Ericoid shrubs or undershrubs ; branches gene- 

 rally straight slender ; leaves opposite or sometimes alternate sessile, 

 oftener linear ; flowers 5 sessile in uppermost axils, solitary or binate ; 

 calyx 2-bracteolate. (South Africa. 6 ) 



32 ? Kelleria Endl. 7 — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-merous ; calyx 

 (coloured) funnel shaped, 4-fid ; squamules 4 ; inserted in throat, or 

 8, oppositisepalous in pairs ; tube continuous. Stamens 4, alternating 

 with lobes ; filaments inserted in throat subulate, exserted ; anthers 

 ovate obtuse, 2-rimose. Germen sessile, 1-ovulate, destitute of hy- 

 pogynous disk ; style lateral or subterminal filiform exserted, at apex 

 stigmatose capitate, deciduous. Fruit nucular ovoid, finally naked ; 



1 Meissn. Prodr. 665. s White, golden or reddish. 



3 Oftener rather reddish, small. 6 Spec, about 20. Thune. Fl. Cap. 382. — 



3 Spec. 4, 5. L. Spec. (ed. 1), 560 (Zachntea) ; Houtt. Vfi. Syst. v. 358, t. 40, fig. 2.— Burm. 



Mtmtiss. i. 236.— Thunb. Prodr. 75; Fl. Cap. Afr. 127, t. 47 {Thymelœà).— Eetz. Obs. iii.25, 



374.— Poir. Diet. v. 40.— Wikstr. Jet. Holm. 26.— Hornem. Eort. Hafn. ii. 955. — Wikstr. 



(1818), 232.— Lodd. Cat. (1816), 18.— W. Spec. Thymtl. 286.— Ait. Sort. Kew. (ed. 2), i. 272. 



ii. 434. — Meissn. Lmnœa, xiv. 299. — Wendl. — Kœm. et Sch. Syst. iii. 20, 330. — Wendl. 



Obs. 18, t. 2, fig. 15. Obs. 9, t. 2.— Andr. Bot. Repos, t. 113, 119, 149. 



* Mantiss. n. 1244.— J. Gen. 77.— Lamk. III. t. —Lodd. Sot. Cab. t. 11, 74, 75, 141.— Sot. May. 



78.— roiR. Vict. vii. 475.— G^rtn. f. Fnict. iii. t. 1212, 2138. 



194, t. 125.— Endl. Gen. n. 2099; Suppl. iv. p. 1 Gen. Suppl. iv. p. ii. n. 2095.— Meissn. 



ii. n. 2096.— Meissn. Linntca, xir. 463; Prodr. Prodr. 665. — Daphnobryon Meissn. Prodr. 566. 

 566. — Sehala Adans. Fam. des PI. ii. 285. 



