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large raceme, glomerate or solitary crowded.^ {Warm Asia, Indian 

 Archipelago, warm North America, and North-west South America ^) 



14. Scutia CoMMEES.^ — Flowers nearly of Berchemia; petals 

 erect unguiculate, flat or cucuUate, often 2-lobed. Disk un- 

 dulate at margin. Stamens nearly equal in length, to petals. 

 Germen globular or ovoid free; cells 2-4; style short, 2-4-fid, 

 branches obtuse stigmatose at apex. Fruit dry or slightly fleshy, 

 globular or ovoid, surrounded at base with cupular receptacle ; 

 pyrense 2-4, angular. Seed compressed; testa various; albumen 

 slight or ; cotyledons of slightly fleshy embryo plano-convex. 

 Other characters of Ceanothus. — Glabrous shrubs, unarmed or oftecer 

 spinous; spines straight or curved ; branches often angular; leaves 

 opposite, sub-opposite or 2-nate oblong, ovate or obovate, entire or 

 serrulate, coriaceous penninerved, petiolate ; stipules small ; flowers 

 in axillary scarcely stipitate umbelliform cymes. {Africa, Asia, 

 and trap. South America.*) 



15. Ceanothus L.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite (nearly of Scutia)', 

 receptacle concave, or hemispherical, or shortly and depressedly tur- 

 binate; sepals 6, 8-angular, valvate, membranous (often coloured), 

 connivent. Disk thick filling the cavity of the receptacle. Petals 

 and stamens same in number long-stipitate, extending between the 

 sepals. Germen immersed in centre of disk, free or adnate at base, 

 of glandular with 3 slightly prominent angles; style short, 3-fid; 

 branches stigmatose within or to apex. Fruit drupaceous free, sub- 

 globosely 3-lobed or depressed at apex ; exocarp finally dry ; cocci 

 3, cartilaginous or crustaceous, solute within and dehiscing longitu- 



1 A genus distinguishable from the preced- Fl. Cap. i. 477.— Kl. Pet. Sets. Mossamh. Bot. 

 ing only by the nature of ite inflorescence. 110, t. 21.— Tul. Ann. So. Nat. s&. 4, viii. 116. 



2 Spec, about 10. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. — Ohapm, Fl. S. Unit. St. 72.— Ebiss. Mart. Fl. 

 vii. 50, t. 619 {Mamnus). — ^Torr. and Gray, Bras. Shamn. 92, t. 24, 30.— Walp. Ann. i. 

 Fl. N.-Amer. i. 263.— Chapm. Fl. S. Unit. St. 193 ; vii. 692. 



73._WiGHT, Icon. t. 19 {Berchemia).— Boiss. ^ Gen. n. 267.— J. Gen. 380 (part.).— Gjeetn. 



Fl.Or.u.22. — Tjs,. loc. cit. 3S1.—MA-K.m. Mam. Fruct. t. 106, fig. sup. — Lamk. Diet. i. 659 



Or.-Asiat. 20. (part.) ; Suppl. ii. 140 ; III. t. 129.-DC. Frodr. 



3 Ad. Br. Bhamn. 55, t. 4.— Endl. Gen. ii. 29 (part.).— Ab. Br. Bhamn. 62, t. 4.— 

 u. 6724.— B. H. Gen. 379, n. 14.— Hook. Fl. Spach, Suit, a Buffon, ii. 457.— Endl. Gen. n. 

 Ind. i. 640.— Baker Fl. Maurit. 51. 6726.— A. Gray, Gen. III. t. 169.— B. H. Gen. 



* Spec, 7, 8. Vahl, St/mb. iii.t. 68 {RUmnus). 378, n. 13.— H. Bn. Fayer Fam. Nat. 328.— 



—Wight. Icon. t. 1071 ; III. t. 73.— DC. Frodr. Forrestia Eafin. N.-Torlc Med. Bepos. ii. hex. v. 



ii, 29 {Ceanothus, sect. 1).— Harv. and Bond, 360 (ex Ejidl.). 



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