NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
been described under the name of Fremontia.’ It may be considered 
as the type of a special section because of its habit, and the more 
membranous and drier consistency of its calyx, and on account of its 
stamens, which preserve almost to the end their verticillate arrange- 
ment, and whose cells become much more fornicate and curved within;? 
and also because of its short subglobose capsule. 
V. HERMANNIA SERIES. 
The flower of Hermannia’ (figs. 106-115) is regular and hermaphro- 
dite. The convex receptacle bears a gamosepalous calyx with five 
not very deep divisions, valvate in the bud, then five alternate free 
petals with hollow claws like gutters, and the limb contorted in 
the bud. More internally are inserted five oppositipetalous stamens 
with filaments free or connate at the base, flattened, petaloid, often 
valvate reduplicate, and anthers narrower than the filaments, extrorse 
dehiscing from the top downwards to a variable distance by two 
longitudinal clefts.‘ The superior gynæceum is composed of a sessile 
stipitate ovary with five cells alternating with the stamens sur- 
mounted, by as many styles which unite by their edges to form a long 
conical hollow stigmatiferous apex. In the interior angle of each cell are 
inserted a certain number of anatropous, horizontal or oblique ovules. 
The fruit is a loculicidal capsule’ (fig. 111), whose seeds,’ indefinite in 
number, enclose under their coats a fleshy albumen more or less com- 
pletely enveloped by the fornicate embryo (fig. 114). The Hermannias 
proper are about twenty-four in number. They are herbaceous 
suffrutescent, or frutescent plants, glabrous or more often covered 

1 Torr. in Smiths. Contr., vi. 5, t. 2 (Pl. 
Fremont.).—B. H., Gen., 212, n. 53, 982, 
n. 12 a.— Bot. Mag., t. 5135.—WALP., Ann. 
iv. 319; vii. 418. 
2 The wall of the anthers bears transversal 
parallel wrinkles. The tube formed by the base 
of the filaments is short and rather large. 
3 L., Gen. n. 828.—J., Gen., 289; in Mém. 
Mus., v. 242.—Lamx., Dict., iii. 177; Suppl. 
iii. 41; ZU., t. 570.—Tump., in Dict. Se. Nat., 
Atl., t. 144.—DC., Prodr., i. 493.—ENDL., 
Gen., n. 5340.—PayEr, Organog., 44, t. 9.— 
H. Bw., in Adansonia, iii. 176; ix. 338; in 
Payer Fam. Nat., 289.—B. H., Gen, 223, 
n, 20.—Tricanthera EWRENB., in Linnea, iv. 
401.—PL., in Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 4, iii, 292,— 
Burynema END, G'en., Suppl., ii. 292. 
4 Described as pores when they are at the apex, 
and very short. In all the Hermanniee which 
have been studied (Hermannia, Waltheria, Melo- 
chia), the pollen is ovoidal or spherical, with 
three (rarely four) short folds, with umbilici 
(H. Mout., in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 2, ili, 334). 
5 With apex muticous, or prolonged into five 
points. : 
6 They often have the rudiment of an aril 
(sce Adansonia, ix. 338), 
