PHYTOLACCACEÆ. 29 
arranged in exstipulate false verticils.'. The small flowers are 
united in the axils of the leaves in cymes or glomerules, sometimes 
capituliform. Four or five species’ are known inhabiting Asia or 
tropical Africa. 
Beside Giseckia is placed Limeum* (figs. 31-40). It has herma- 
phrodite or polygamous flowers. The receptacle is slightly convex, 
supporting a calyx‘ of five sepals, membrahous upon the mar- 
gin, arranged in quincuncial prefloration in the bud. With them 
alternate five, four or three petals? of variable size and shape, 
which however sometimes quite disappear (figs. 32, 33). The 
stamens vary in number from five to seven, eight or ten. In the 
first case they are superposed to the sepals; otherwise two or more 
of them are replaced by a pair.’ 
Limeum africanun. 

Fra. 40. 
Fra. 38. Fra. 39. 
Fruit with the two shells separated. Seed (5). Longitudinal section of 
seed. 
Each is composed of a filament united to the neighbouring fila- 
ments for a very short distance, and a bilocular, introrse anther, 
dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts. The gynæceum is formed of 
two carpels, one flattened ovary being applied to the neighbouring 
unilocular and uniovular ovary. The ovule is almost erect, supported 
by a short funicle ; campylotropal, with the micropyle turned down- 
wards and on one side. Two styles expanded and stigmatiferous 

1 They are like the calyx, riddled with small 
whitish cystolites. 
2 Roxs., Pl, Corom., t. 183.—WIGnT, Icon., 
t. 1167, 1168.—Forsk., Fl. Æy.-Arab., 58, n. 
95 (Pharnaceum).—Hocust.,in Kotsch. It. Nub., 
n. 2.—Rœuscn, Nomencl., 141 (Milius). 
3 L., Gen. n. 463.—J., Gen, 314.—LAME., 
Dict., iii. 514; Suppl., iii. 435 ; IU., t. 275.— 
GærTN., Fruct., i. 367, t. 76.—ENDL., Gen., n 
5258.—Mog., Prodr., 20.—B. H., Gen., 859, n. 
22.—Linscotia ADANS., Fam. des Pl., ii. 269.— 
Dicarpea Prest, Symb., i, 37, t. 26.—Guadinia 
J. Gay, in Bull. Féruss., xviii. 412.—Acantho- 
carpea Ku, in Pet. Mossamb., Bot., 137, t. 24. 
+ Here and there are tetramerous flowers. 
° Thus, when there are seven stamens, it is 
because the two stamens superposed to the outer 
sepals are doubled. 
