RUTACEÆ. 515 
usually solitary in cells; embryo exalbuminous ; cotyledons ovate, 
radicle superior, short.—Loose ramified nodose usually sericeous- 
pilose herbs; branches usually prostrate articulate ; leaves opposite, 
one in each pair smaller, or aborted aiternately, abrupt pinnate stipu- 
late ; flowers lateral to leaves, pedunculate (4// Warm Regions). See 
p- 425. 
118? Sisyndite E. Mny.'—“ Flowers (nearly of 7ribulus) 5-merous ; 
sepals unequal, imbricated. Petals 5, a little longer. Disk 5-lobed, 
crowned with 5 scales, hypogynous, ä-fid or lacerate, opposite lobes. 
Stamens 10; filaments subulate, of which 5 are inserted between 
scales and lobes of disk; other 5 alternate. Germen sessile, 5-locular ; 
ovules solitary in each cell descending ; style stigmatiferous clavate, 
5-sulcate at apex. Capsule plumose-hirsute ; cocci 5, finally 
dehiscing by ventral suture; seeds exalbuminous.—A spartioid 
glabrous shrub ; branches terete, spongy subaphyllous, 2-chotomous ; 
leaves opposite, stipulate pinnate ; folioles few subopposite coriaceous ; 
flowers’ axillary (?) solitary pedunculate” (Cape of Good Hope’). 
119. Augea Tuuns.'— Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle (?) 
obeonical concave. Sepals 5, inserted at margin, unequal mem- 
branous-marginate, imbricated, persistent. Disk urceolate central 
shortly stipitate, submembranous, subulate-10-dentate at margin, 
bearing 10 stamens alternating with teeth and 10 scales opposite 
stamens, exterior. Scales membranous, 3-fid, narrow at base.’ 
Staminal filaments obcuneate, 3-fid; lobes antheriferous at middle ; 
anthers oblong, introrsely 2-rimose ; connective produced beyond cells 
in short glands. Germen central, 10-locular; style short thick 
obtusely 10-sulcate, subentire stigmatiferous at apex ; ovules in each 
cell 2—4, obliquely ascending. Capsule oblong, 10-costate, 10-valved ; 
seeds solitary in cells, oblong; embryo exalbuminous; cotyledons 
flat, rather thick.—Annual fleshy glabrous herbs ;° root fusiform ; 
branches articulate; leaves opposite, stipulate, connate simple, 

1 In Herb. Dreg. (ex Harv. & Sonp., Fl. Cap., n. 1875.—Enpu., Gen., n. 6742.—B. H., Gen. 
i. 354).—-B. H., Gen., 265, 998, n. 2. 265, n. 3. 
2 “ Magnis, luteis.” 5 Perhaps petals or staminodes exterior to 
3 Spec. 1. S. spartea E. MEy. loc. cit.— fertile stamens reduced to filaments. 
Harv., Thes. Cap., t. 120.—Watpr., Ann., vii. ® Mesembrianthemums, or with habit and 
479. leaves of some Portulacace. 
4 Fl. Cap., 389 (nec RETZ.) —SPRENG., Gen., 
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