478 Lxxxv. DiAPENSiACEJi. (C. B. Clarke.) [Biapensia. 



Obdbe lxxxv. DXAPENSXA.CEH:. (By 0. B. Clarke.) 



Very small, prostrate shrubs. Leaves alternate or crowded, entire or toothed. 

 Flowers solitary or racemose. Calyx 5-paTtite, persistent ; segments imbricate. 

 Corolla bypogynous ; lobes 5, imbricate. Stamens 5, on the throat of the 

 corolla, alternate with its lobes ; anthers dehiscing by slits. Disc 0. Ovary 

 free, globose, 3-celled ; style cylindric, stigma shortly 3-lobed ; ovules few or 

 many in the inner angles of the cells. Capsule coriaceous, 3-celled, loculicidally 

 3-valved. Seeds many, minute, albuminous. — Species 8, in N. America, Europe, 

 Japan, and the Eastern Plimalaya. 



1. BIAFEKSXA, Linn. 



Very small, glabrous shrubs. Leaves crowded, obovate-oblong, entire, coria- 

 ceous. Flowers at the ends of the branches, solitary, peduncled, while or rose- 

 red. Calyx 2-3-braoteate ; sepals broadly ovate, obtuse. Corolla campanulate, 

 persistent ; lobes spreading, round. Anthers subsessile, cells oblique ; stami- 

 nodes 0. Seeds very many, minute, subcubic ; testa lax. 



D. blmalaica, -H". /. Sr T. in Hook. Kew Joum. ix. 372, t. 12 ; leaves 

 subacute, flowers subsessile, tube of the corolla twice as long as the calyx, 

 fruiting peduncle 1-3 iu. 



SiKJUM Himalaya ; alt. 10-14,000 ft., Lachen and Chola Pass, J. D. H., &e. 

 ^Densely tufted. Leaves ^ in. Sepals in flower-time ^-^ in., ovate ; in fruit 

 nearly ^ in., obovate-oblong. Corottoriube | in., lobes \ in. Capsule ^J in. diam. 



Okdbk LXXXVI. FXiUIUBACXNEa:. (By 0. B. Clarke.) 



Herbs or undershrubs. Flowers in terminal scapes or peduncles, capitate, 

 racemed or panicled ; bracts often scarious on the margins, usually sheathing 

 the flower ; bracteoles 2. Calyx inferior, tubular, 5-lS-ribbed, often hyaline 

 between the ribs, mouth frequently funnel-shaped, scarious. Petals 5, free or 

 connate at the base into a very short tube with the filaments, rarely united into 

 a linear tube, spreading. Stamens 5, opposite the petals ; filaments nearly free or 

 adnate below to the corolla ; anthers oblong. Hypogynous rfjse 0. Oaroy superior, 

 1-celled, 6-angular above ; styles 5, distinct from the base or connate below, 

 stigmas subcapitate ; ovule 1, pendulous from a basal ascending funicle, ana- 

 tropal. Capsule membranous or the apex hardened, included in the calyx (in 

 JEginlitis linear, long-exsert), circumsciss or rupturing near the thin base, the 

 hardened apex often 5-valved. Seeds cylindric (in yEgialitis elongate), pendu- 

 lous; albumen various or 0; radicle superior. — Species 200, throughout the 

 world, mostly in maritime or saline places. 



Tribe I. Statlceee. Styles 5, distinct; stigmas subcapitate. Stamens 

 very shortly united at the base into a tube with the corolla. 



Large shrub, with broad petioled leaves 1. JEgiaxitis. 



Herbs or small shrubs, with linear prickly leaves 2. Acantholimon. 



Herbs or small shrubs, with obovate leaves 3. Statice. 



Teibe II. Flumbagreae. Style 1, filiform, divided into 6 stigmatose 

 branches. 



Calyx glandular, stamens free, flowers spicate 4. Pliimbaqo. 



Oalyx eglandular, stamens adnate to the middle of the corolla- 

 tube, flowers capitate 5. Ceeatostiqha. 



Calyx eglandular, S-winged, stamens free, flowers spioate ... 6. Voqelu. 



