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132 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



hirsute, persistent, 4-fid ; lobes equal, imbricate ; tliroat esquamate. 

 Stamens 8, 2-seriate ; filaments short or very short ; anthers erect 

 oval enclosed (in female flower 0). Germen (in male flower rudi- 

 mentary) hirsute ; ovule 1,^ descending (of Lagetta) ; style terminal 

 slender, in fruit persistent and finally lateral, apex stigmatose 

 capitate. Hypogynous disk consisting of squamules generally 8, 

 linear-setaceous and sericeous pilose intermixed. Drupe finally 

 siccate, closely enclosed by increased coriaceous hirsute perianth; 

 putamen fragile ; seed exalbuminous. — Shrubs ; liber tenacious ; 

 leaves herbaceous alternate, opposite or subverticillate elongate ; 

 flowers terminal or axillary to uppermost leaves cymose; cymes 

 pedunculate or sessile, sometimes few- or 1 -flowered j pedicels very 

 short bracteate. .{Brasil.^) 



21. Peddiea Harv.* — Flowers hermaphrodite ; perianth (coloured) 

 subcampanulate or cylindrical ; lobes of limb 4, 5, imbricate, re- 

 volute, esquamate at throat.^ Stamens 8-1 ; anthers enclosed, 

 subsessile, inserted above the middle of the tube. Germen girt at 

 base with cup-shaped membranous crenate disk; cell 1 -ovulate;® 

 style slender, shorter than tube of perianth, deciduous, at apex 

 stigmatose depressed capitate. Drupe naked, with 1 pyrena; seed 

 exalbuminous. — Glabrous shrubs ; branches oftener 2-chotomous ; 

 bark thin ; leaves, alternate or approximate subopposite subsessile ; 

 flowers in terminal pedunculate umbels (?) ; pedicels articulate at 

 base, {South, and trop. West. Africa!'^ 



22. Dirca L.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite ; calyx Qbconieo-campanu- 

 late glabrous, deciduous ; limb obliquely cut above (hence slightly 

 irregular) and there unequally crenulate or sometimes subentere^ 



' Sometimes atnormally 2, 3 (Makt.), wtence acooimt of yery thin disk being there a little 



2, 3, pyrensB occasionally occur in fruit. thickened). 



' Textile ductile. « Sometimes, as said, 2-OTulate ; drupe hence 



' Spec. 2. Eaddi, Viant. Bras. add. 12 2-pyrenate (?) 



{Daphne). — ^Mart. et Zuco. Nov. Gen. et Spec 7 Spec, about 3. Walp. Ann. i. 688 {Fsilo- 



i. 66, t.34. solena). 



* Sook. Journ. (1840), ii. 266, t. 10.— Endl. s Diss. Chenon (1751) ; Gen. (ed. 6), u. 437 ; 



Gen. n. 2106'; Suppl. iv. p. ii. n. 2106".— (ed. 6), n. 486 ; ^mffin. ^casd. iii. 12, t. 1, fig. 7. 



Meissn. Gen. SSI (243); Frodr. 528,700.— — J. Ge». 79.— Lamk. Die«. iii. 287 j J». t. 293. 



Cyathodiscus Hochst. Flora (1842), 240. — — Sohkuhe, Bandb. i. 337, 1. 107.- Spach, Suit. 



Psilosolena Presl, in Abh. d. Boehm. Ges. ser. 3, d Buffon, x. 436. — ^Endl. Gen. n. 2091 ; Suppl.iv. 



V. 532 ; Bot. Bern. 102. — Harveya Plant p. ii. n. 2106 ^. — Meissn. Prodr. 52T.— Sofia 



(Meissn.). Adans. Fam. des Fl. ii. 286. 



' Sometimes thinly glandulose-annular (on 



