516 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. ‘ 
semiterete obtuse; flowers axillary or sublateral solitary (or in 
scanty cymes); pedicels 2-bracteolate at base (Cape of Good 
Hope’). 
120? Sericodes A. Gray.*— Flowers 5-merous; sepals ovate- 
lanceolate, persistent. Petals rhomboid-ovate, late deciduous. 
Stamens 10, subperigynous ; filaments free; alternipetalous, inwardly 
enlarged at base with scales, 2-fid; anthers oblong. Germen sessile 
very villous, 5-lobed, 5-locular; style 5-agonal clavate above ; angles 
stigmatiferous ; ovules solitary descendent. Fruit dry, very villous ; 
cocci 5, coriaceous, separating from axis indehiscent; seed descend- 
ing; embryo exalbuminous; cotyledons ovate-—A much ramified 
humble shrub ; leaves small simple fasciculate (fascicles alternate) 
sessile oblong-spathulate entire, sericeous; stipules minute spine- 
scent; flowers’ 1-3 in the same fascicle as the leaves, shortly pedi- 
cellate” (Worth Mexico’). 
121. Guaiacum Pium.’—Flowers 4—5-merous ; sepals imbricated, 
deciduous. Petals 4, 5, more or less unguiculate, imbricated, de- 
ciduous. Stamens 8-10; filaments naked (Awguatacum), or inwardly 
at base furnished with membranous squamules (Porlieria Larrea,’ 
Guiacidium*),or more or less thick fleshy (Bu/nesia,’ Pintoa”), simple or 
more or less lacerate ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen free, in- 
serted at summit of receptacle beyond insertion of androceum short 
(Pintoa, Larrea, Porlieria) or more or less elongated (Luguaiacum, 
Bulnesia); cells 2, 3, or 4, 5, opposite petals, style subulate stig- 
matiferous subentire at apex, or scarcely dilated or lobed; ovules in 

Guiacidium A. Gray, Larrea Cav., Pintoa C. 
Gay, Porlieria R. & Pay.). 
6 R. & Pav., Prodr., 55, t. 9—DC., Prodr., 
i. 707.— A, Juss.,in Mém. Mus., xii, 457, t. 
16, fig. 6.—Spacn, Suit. à Buffon, ii. 308.— 
Envt., Gen., n. 6039.—B. H., Gen., 268, n. 13. 
1 Spec. 1, salsuginosa. À. capensis THUNB., 
loc. cit. — Hary., Gen. S.-Afr. PI, 409. — 
Harv. & Sonp., Fl. Cap., i. 355. 
2 Pl. Wright., i. 28, not.—B. H., Gen., 265, 
n. 4. 
3 « Flavis.” 
4 Spec. 1. 8. Greggù A. Gray, loc. cit.— 
Watp., Ann., iv. 403. 
5 Gen., t.17.—L., Gen., n. 518.—J., Gen., 
296.—Lamx., Dict., ii. 614; Suppl., ii. 712; 
Lil, t. 342.—GÆRIN., Fruct., ii, 148, t. 113.— 
DC., Prodr., i. 706.—A. Juss., in Mém, Mus., 
xii, 456, t. 16, fig. 7—Spaou, Suit. à Buffon, ii. 
309.—Enpt., Gen, n. 6041.—A, Gray, Gen. 
IU., t. 148, 149.—Ae., Theor. Syst., t. 18, 
figs. 11, 12.—B. H., Gen., 267, n. 12.—H. Bn., 
in Adansonia, x. 315 (incl.: Bulnesia C. Gay, 
7 Cav., in Ann. Cienc. Nat., ii. 199, t. 18, 
19; Zcon., vi. 39, t. 359, 360.—DC., Prodr., i. 
705.—A. Juss., in Mém. Mus., xii. 456, t. 15, 
fig. 5,—ENDLz., Gen., n. 6038.—A. Gray, Gen, 
Ili., t. 147.—B. H., Gen., 267, n. 11. 
8 A. Gray, Gen. Iii, ii. 121, t. 149. 
9 C. Gay, Fl. Chil., i, 474, t. 15.—B. H., 
Gen., 268, n. 16.—Gonoptera TurRcz., in Bull. 
Mose. (1846), i. 150. 
10 ©, Gay, loc. cit., 479, t. 16.—B. H., Gen. 
269, n. 17. 
