ONAGRARIACEJE. 



479 



island of Juan Fernandez. Their leaves are opposite or often er 

 alternate, especially at the top of the plant, sometimes entire, some- 

 times dentate or pinnatifld, accompanied by two small caducous 

 stipules ; often replaced hy hracts at the summit of the branches. 

 The result is that the flowers, 1 axillary to a certain point, may above 

 form a spike or terminal cluster. In the axil of each leaf or bract 

 is either a solitary flower, with or without lateral bracts, or a cyme, 

 or a few-flowered glomerule ; the pedicels, when present, are short 

 and often pendant. 



Meionectes 3 and Loudonia are very near Haloragis, and should 

 not be separated from it. The former is Haloragis on a dual 3 type, 



J.ondohia aurez. 



Fig. 462. Flower (f). 



Fig. 464. Gyn;ecium. 



Long. sect, of flower. 



that is with two sepals, two petals, two verticils of two stamens, and 

 an ovary with two uniovulate cells. M. Brownii, the only species 

 known, 4 herbaceous and glabrous, grows in South Australia and 

 Tasmania. Loudonia 5 (fig. 4G2-464), native of the same countries, 

 has dimerous or tetramevous and 4-8-androus flowers, and the 4- 

 winged ovary has two or four cells, the separating partition of which 

 disappears more or less completely at a certain age and is represented 



i. 293 ; ii. 537, 53S (Qoniocarpw) ; iv. S83 ; vii. 

 940. 



1 Small, yellow, greenish or reddish. 



2 E. Br. Flind. Toy. App. ii. 550.— Endl. 

 Gen. 1197.— B. H. Gen. 675, n. 3.— H. Bn. 

 Adansonia. xii. 34. 



3 We have shown that this character does 

 not permit its being made other than a section 

 of the genus Haloragis. 



4 M. Brownii Hook. v. SooJc. Icon. t. 306 ; Fl. 



Tarn. i. 123.— Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. iSe.—M. 

 Preissii Nees, PI. Freiss. i. 224. — Haloragis 

 Meionectes R. Br. 



5 Lindl. Su-, liiv. App. 42, c. ic; Teg. King. 

 (1846) 722, fig. 382.— Endl. Gen. n. 6139.— B. 

 H. Gun. 674, n. 1.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 

 377 ; Adansonia, xii. 34. — Glischrocaryon Endl. 

 Ami. TFieii. Mus. ii. 209 ; N. st. Mus. Vindob. 

 Dee. n. 88. 



