512 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
erect, dilated stigmatiferous 3-lobed at apex; ovules in each cell 
2, descendent, sometimes separated by false incomplete septa, campy- 
lotropous; micropyle extrorse, superior. Fruit drupaceous ; cocci 
3, 4, subglobose, drupaceous; mesocarp thin; putamen osseous, 
sometimes 2-locellate by false oblique septa; locelli superposed, 
l-spermous. Seeds descendent from oblique funicle, uncinate-con- 
duplicate; albumen fleshy; embryo uncinate-hypocrepiform ; coty- 
ledons elongated, semiterete incumbent; radicle superior, terete.— 
Rather bitter unarmed small shrubs, glabrous or pubescent with hairs 
affixed at middle ; leaves small, simple, entire, elongated, coriaceous, 
epunctuate or at margin pellucid-punctulate ; articulate, exstipulate 
at base; flowers axillary, solitary or scantily cymose; peduncle 
more or less adnate to petiole; pedicels articulate below flower 
(Medit. Reg., North-West. Ins. Africa). See p. 421. 
XI. ZYGOPHYLLE. 
113. Zygophyllum L.—F lowers 4—5-merous; sepals imbricated, 
deciduous or persistent. Petals shortly unguiculate; præfloration 
imbricated or contorted. Stamens 8-10, inserted round small glan- 
dular angular or more rarely cupuliform disk, sometimes suboblique ; 
filaments free, exserted, with squamule inserted inwardly above 
base, sometimes wanting (pera). Germen sessile or shortly 
and thickly stipitate, 4, 5- or more rarely 2, 3-agonal ; cells same in 
number as petals, placed before them; ovules in each cell 2-0, 
2-seriate, descending ; micropyle extrorse, superior ; raphe more or 
less prominent or partly free; style angular, tapering, stigma- 
tiferous, not thickened at apex. Fruit 2—5-agonal or 2—5-pterous, 
subcapsular, scarcely dehiscent or with septicidal or loculicidal 
dehiscence ; endocarp sometimes solute. Seeds 1-»; testa crus- 
taceous; embryo scantily albuminous; cotyledons oblong ; 
radicle superior. — Undershrubs or small shrubs, often prostrate ; 
branches terete or angular, sometimes spinescent ; leaves opposite, 
2- or more rarely 1-foliolate ; folioles opposite, flat, unsymmetrical 
(Fabago, Repera), or more rarely terete (Ayrophyllum); stipules 2, 
lateral, often spinescent; flowers situated nearly at axil of stipules 
and lateral to them, 1 or 2, unequal in age (Asia, South Africa, 
Australia, N. America.) See p. 422. 
