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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



seed copiously albuminous. — Dwarf csespitose musciform shrubs or 

 undershrubs ; stems sometimes prostrate ramose ; leaves opposite 

 sessile small densely imbricate ; flowers l terminal subcapitate few, 

 pedunculate or subsessile, imbricate in upper leaves, involucrate. 2 

 (New Zealand, Australia, Tasmania, Borneo?) 



33. Drapetes Lame. 4 — Flowers of Kelleria ; calyx funnel-shaped, 

 4-fid; throat esquamate; limb articulate above germen, deciduous ; 

 persistent base surrounding fruit. Seed and other characters of 

 Kelleria. — A small dwarf undershrub ; leaves small sessile decussate 

 densely imbricate and inflorescence 5 of Kelleria. (South America, 

 Magellanic continent and islands. 6 ) 



34 ? Schœnobiblus Mart, and Zucc. 7 — " Flowers dioecious, 8 4- 

 merous ; male calyx (corolline) 4- partite ; tube very short funnel- 

 shaped, pilose at bottom ; throat esquamate ; lobes patent linear, 

 glabrous within. Hypogynous scales 0. Stamens 4, exserted, 

 opposite lobes of calyx and subequal and adnate to them below ; 

 filaments filiform ; anthers oblong, dorsally affixed above base ; 

 rudiment of germen 0. Female flower . . . ? — A tree or shrub ; 

 leaves few ; umbels terminal pedunculate. (North. Brazil. 9 ) 



35. Pimelea Banks and Soland. 10 — Flowers hermaphrodite or 

 rarely polygamo-diœcious (nearly of Struthiola or Gnidia), 4-merous ; 

 tubular throat of (coloured) calyx esquamate ; tube continuous or 



1 Eather small. 



2 A genus by Bentham {Fl. Austral, vi. 35) 

 conjoined with Drapetes, to -which indeed it 

 is Tery close, but from -which it is decidedly 

 distinct by the scales of the throat (absent in 

 Drapetes). 



3 Spec, about 3. Hook. Lotid. Journ. ii. 497, 

 t. 17 (Drapetes).— Hook. f. Fl. N.-Zel. i. 223; 

 ii. 222 ; Handb. N.-Zeal. Fl. 245 ; Hook. Icon. 

 t. 895 ; Mook. Journ. (1853), 299, t. 7 {Drapetes). 



4 Journ. d'Hist. Nat. i. 186, t. 10, fig. 1 ; III. 

 t. 915.— Pom. Diet. Suppl. ii. 523.— Banks. 

 Garln. Fruet. iii. 199, t, 215, —J. Ann. Mus. 

 vii. 479. — Wikstr. Thymel. 284. — Endl. Gen. 

 n. 2097 ; Suppl. iv. p. ii. n. 2094.— Meissn. 

 Prodr. 518 (not Benth.). 



' Calyx petaloid coloured. 



6 Spec. 1. D. museoides Lamk. — Gaudich. 

 Voy. Uran. Bot. 133.— D'Ukv. Mtm. Soc. Mist. 

 Nat. Par. iv. 605. — I), museosus Koîii. et Sch. 



Syst. iii. 333. — Hook. F. Antarct. Voy. Bot. i 

 313 {not Fl. N.-Zel.).— C. Gay, Fl. Chil. v. 317. 



7 Nuv. Gen. et Spec. i. 65. — Endl. Gen. Suppl. 

 iv. p. ii. n. 2106 >=.— Meissn. Prodr. 519. 



8 " White, puberulous." 



9 Spec. 1. S. daphnoules Mart, et Zuco. — 

 Meissn. Mart. Fl. Bras. Thymel. 65, t. 28, fig. 1 



10 G.krt.v. Fnict. i. 186, t. 39. — Dkyand. 

 Ann. Bot. ii. 205.— Wikstr. Act. Holm. (1820), 

 118, 270, 273.— Spach, Suit, à Buffon, x. 448.— 

 Endl. Gen. n. 2098 ; Suppl. iv. p. ii. 60. — 

 Payer, Organog. 4S2, t. 96. — Meissn. Prodr. 

 496, 700. — Banksia FoRST. Char. Gen. n. 4 (not 

 L. norDoMB.). — Cookia Gmel. Syst, i. 24 (not 

 Sonner, nor Sprenq.). — Thecanthes Wikstr. 

 loc. cit. 269, 271. — Endl lent. t. 11. — Hetero- 

 topia Fisch. et Mey. lnd. Sem. Hurt. Petrop. 

 (1845), 46. — Gymnucocca Fisch. et Mey. loc. cit. 

 — Macrostegia Turcz. Bull. Moac. (1852), iii. 

 177. 



