240 MANN, 



in one species (the Hawaiian) imparipinnate witli entire leaflets. Sti- 

 pules small, riowers corymbed, few or numerous, bracted. 



Genus of 8 species, aU natives of the Andes, except the Hawaiian one, which differs 

 from the others in having pinnate leaves. 



0. ANTHYLLiDiFOLiA Lindl. (Enum. No. 127.) A low, very much 

 branched and widely spreading"shrub ; the young branches, &c., finely 

 silky with soft hairs. Leaves Ih'-S' long. Leaflets 11 -21, oblong, 

 obtuse and usually mucronulate, rarely retuse, cuneate at the base and 

 sessile, 3" -9" long, smooth and shining above, silky-hairy beneath, 

 or sometimes glabrate. Peduncles 1 - few-flowered, and, with the 

 calyx, silky or downy. Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, a little more 

 than 1" long, one-third the length of the oblong obtuse white petals. 

 Fruit at first hirsute, at maturity smooth, white and edible, i' or more 

 in diameter. 



Very common In many places. Also (a smaller leaved form) from the Loo Choo 

 and Bonin Islands. 



Ordee XXVII. SAXIFEAGACE^. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with alternate or opposite leaves. Calyx 

 of 4 - 5 more or less united sepals, either free fi'om or more or less ad- 

 herent to the ovary, persistent. Petals as many as the sepals, rarely 

 wanting. Stamens as many or usually twice as many or more, peri- 

 gynous. Ovaries or cells mostly 2 (but in our plant 5) usually united 

 below and distinct above, sometimes completely united and even the 

 styles also. Seeds numerous, with a straight embryo, in fleshy albu- 

 men. — A very diversified order. 



1. BROUSSAISIA Gaud. [Kanawao.] 

 Plowers polygamo-dioecious. Male : Calyx short, free, 5-parted, 

 the lobes triangular or ovate-lanceolate. Petals 5, larger than the 

 sepals, oblong, with a valvate aestivation, deciduous. Stamens 10, in- 

 serted with the petals at the base of the calyx ; filaments thick, subu- 

 late ; anthers ovate, 2-celled, longitudinallj^ dehiscing. Ovary imper- 

 fect, the ovules abortive. Pemale : calyx-tube ovoid more or less 

 adnate to the ovary, with a more or less free, 5-parted persistent limb. 

 Petals small, scale-like persistent. Stamens none ? ovary 5-celled ; 

 the placentiE thick, projecting from the angles of the cells, 2-parted, 

 many-ovuled. Style veiy short; stigma thick, radiately 5-lobed. 

 Pruit a many-seeded berry. Seeds oblong, anatropous, with a striate 

 testa. — Much branched shrubs with opposite or whorled leaves, with- 

 out stipules. Cymes tei'minal and many-flowered. 



Genus peculiar to the Hawaiian Islands. 



1. B. ARGUTA Gaud. {Enum. No. 128.) Large shrub or small tree, 



