PHYTOLACOACEÆ. 39 
and a free gynæceum which appears to be formed of one carpellary 
leaf! The one-celled ovary is surmounted by a slightly eccentric 
style expanded at the apex into a little stigmatiferous head. The 
Adenogramma galioides. 

id SS 
Fra. 58. Fria. 59. Fia. 60, Fria. 61. Fra. 62. 
Flower (12). Longitudinal section Fruit (42). Seed (12). Longitudinal 
of flower. section of seed, 
placenta is subbasilar and bears a campylotropous ovule which is 
inserted at the summit of a slender funicle. The fruit placed on a 
conical dilatation at the apex of the pedicel, has the form of an 
unsymmetrical cone, with a thick, dry, often rugose pericarp inde- 
hiscent or opening lengthwise like a follicle. The seed, more or less 
bent, contains under its coats a fleshy albumen partly surrounded by 
an embryo fornicate or bent in the shape of a hook, the radicle being 
superior. The Adenogrammas, natives of Southern Africa to the 
number of half a dozen species are slender ramose herbs, whose 
leaves are brought together in false verticils, simple and generally 
narrow, with stipules little developed. In their axil, or at the 
summit of the branches, are found the flowers, small and numerous, 
arranged in cymes, often umbelliferous. 

V.? THELYGONUM SERIES. 
Thelygonun (figs. 63-65), which constitutes by itself this small 
series, has monœæcious flowers. In the male flowers (fig. 63) a little 

1 Because of the obliquity of the ovary and Dict., vii. 623; IU., t. 777.—Dxrt., in Ann. 
the unilateral groove observed upon the fruit. Se. Nat., sér. 1, xix. 370, t. 13.—NeExEs, Gen., 
2 Korn. et Zeyu., Enum. Pl. Cap., 183.— ii. 69.—ENDL., Gen., n. 1888.—LEM. et DONE., 
Harv. et Sonp., FV. Cap., i. 151. Tr. Gén., 506.—Cynocrambe T., Inst,, Coroll., 
3 L., Gen., n. 1068.—J., Gen, 405.—Lamx., 52, t. 485.—Apans., Fam. des Pl, ii, 497. 
