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whitish hairs. Flowers scarcely a line 
long, disposed along the extremities of the 
ramules, in simple, unilateral, erect, brac- 
teolated, finally lax and somewhat elongat- 
ed racemes. Pedicels supra-axillary, nearly 
capillary, two or three times longer than 
accrescent, 
deeply five-parted, externally pubescent 
like the young leaves; sepals distinctly 
biseriate; the two exterior very minute, 
flat, linear-filiform, acute, expanding, never 
imbricated; the three interior much broader 
than the exterior, usually somewhat shorter, 
cucullate (one of the sides rather membra- 
nàceous), obtuse, with a very apparent, 
cristate, dantioulated dorsal keel; 
margins before and after flowering imbri- 
cated and connivent, so as to form a three- 
winged spheroid. Receptacle — a 
short stipitiform thecaphorum. Disk in- 
conspicuous. Petals three, inserted at «á 
summit of the thecaphorum, alternate with 
the interior sepals, and somewhat shorter, 
marcescent, subaccrescent, oblong, or spa- 
thulato-oblong. Stamens three, inserted 
opposite the base of the petals, persistent, 
somewhat longer than the pistil, a little 
shorter than the petals; filaments capillary ; 
anthers very minute, basifixed, innate, ob- 
reniform, connectivum as narrow as the 
filament. Ovary very minute, subglobose, 
inadherent, incompletely  three-locular, 
ntas three, biovulate, each of them 
forming-a thin elliptico-orbicular plate of 
nearly the same breadth as the diameter of 
the cavity, fixed along the axis of its pos- 
terior face to the anterior edge of the cor- 
responding dissepiment, and having its 
sides slightly curved towards the periphery, 
except on the apex, which tends towards 
the centre, and is probably in connexion 
with the style; ovules orthotropous (pro- 
vided with primina, secundina, and nu- 
cleus), arrect, basifixed, oblong, collateral, 
inserted (by means of a very short ascend- 
ent capillary funicle) at the base of the 
posterior face! of the placentas; one on 
! This structure is peculiar to the present genus, 
and to Lechea; all the other Cistacee having their 
DESCRIPTION OF SOME NEW CISTACEZ. 
each side of the dissepiment. Sf 
duous, short, filiform, rectilinear, 
brown, globular, obtuse, slightly € 
incompletely three-locular, three-valved 
ent, navicular, obtuse, breaking frome ; 
dissepiments ; dissepiments cartilaginous, 
separable longitudinally in two plates, be- 
fore maturity fixed by their posterior edge 
to the axis of the corresponding valve, the 
anterior edge never separating from 
placentas, endocarp adhering, scarcely 
tinct; placentas three, nearly central, per 
sistent, subcartilaginous, connivent at 
summit, somewhat thickened on the 
gins, nearly the same length and breadth 
as the valves, of the same conformation 
in the ovary. Seeds coramonly two 
each placenta, attached as in the ov 
arrect, orthotropous, almost filling up 
space between the placentas and a peri- 
carp, smooth and shining, ovate, trig! 
(convex on the back, angular on their 
tegument and perisperm; 
crustaceous, micropyle terminal, P i 
form; hilum and chalaza confluent in " 
dark-brown basilar areola ; perisperm thin, 
corneous ; embryo rectilinear, axile, anti- - 
tropous, a little shorter than the perispems 
or on the margins 
f the above 
ovules attached on the anterior face. f 
wards the centre of the ca : 
centas to cobere by their pigi surface, : 
of separa 
by their line 
valves, then should we have a six-celled I 
a solitary ovule attached to the central 2 
cell, 
