136 NATURAL HISTORY OB PLANTS. 



28. Arthrosolen C. A. Met.'— Flowers (nearly of Thymelma) 

 hermaphrodite, 4-5-merous; limb of funnel-shaped (coloured) calyx 

 regular, 4-5-partite, finally open ; inferior part of tube articulate 

 below middle persistent around fruit ; throat esquamate. Stamens 

 8-10, 2-seriate, inserted in throat ; the upper semiexserted ; anthers 

 subsessile, oblong or linear. Germen destitute of hypogynous 

 disk ; style lateral slender, longer than germen, enclosed, at apex 

 stigmatose capitate, extending to the throat. Fruit nucular ovoid. 

 — Shrubs or undershrubs ; leaves alternate or opposite sessile; 

 flowers either axillary solitary or very few, or terminal, capitate and 

 involucrate. (South, or West. Jfrica.^) 



29. Diarthron Tuecz.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite; tube of gla- 

 brous calyx elongate, narrow (herbaceous), above the germen con- 

 stricted articulate, below persistent around fruit, above deciduous ; 

 throat esquamate ; limb (coloured) erect, 4-fid. Stamens 4-8, 

 enclosed, inserted 1-2-seriately in throat ; anthers subsessile oblong, 

 introrsely rimose. Germen girt with thin annular disk, glabrous, 

 1 -ovulate; style subterminal or lateral, apex stigmatose slightly or 

 not at all thickened obtuse. Nucule enclosed by calyx ; seed slightly 

 albuminous. — Slender herbs ; leaves alternate linear ; flowers * in 

 very slender terminal and lateral spikes, ebracteate. ( Central Jsia.^) 



30. PasserinaL.^— Flowers hermaphrodite (nearly of Thymelcea); 

 tube of cup-shaped (coloured) calyx thin, narrowed above germen 

 and there solute; limb 4-partite patent deciduous; throat esqua- 



{Daphne).—A-LL\o^. 11. Pedem. i. 139; Auct. 9. 20 (Passeri««).— Andk. Bot. Cab. t. 311. (Pas- 



—PotyR-B.. Chlor.Narbon.i'l {Passerina).~L}ME.. serina). — Pkesl, Bot. Bern. 107.— Meissn. im- 



Dict. iii. 436, 437 ; III. t. 290 {Baphne).—J)G. ruea, xiv. 390, 396, 398 {Passerina). 



Fl. Fr. iii. 72 {Passerina), 356 {Daphne) ; vi. 3 Bull. Mosc. (1832), v. 204 ; (1862), ii. 464, 



466 {Passerina).— Dms. Fl. All. i. 331, t. 95 t. 11.— Endl. Gen. n. 2096 ; Suppl. iv. p. ii, n. 



{Passerina).— WiKSTR. Jet. Rolm. (1818), 320 2099.— Meissn. Prodr. 658. 



{Passerina). -dvss. Fl. Sicul. Prodr. i. 466; * Very small, purple or sometimes 2-coloured. 



Suppl. 1. 114 (Si«?&m).— Cameess. Enum. PI. 5 Spgp_ g. Ledeb. Fl. Moss. iii. t. 644.— 



BaUar. 183 {Passerina).— D'\]B.y. Fnum. PL 'PiBcu. et Msy. Bull. Most. (1839), 170.— Kak. 



Archip. 42.— SiBTH. et Sm. Fl. Qr<ec. i. t. 355 et Km. Enum. PI. Alt. n. 801.— C. A. Met. 



(fl«pA«e).-NEES, Fl. Germ. iii. t. 47 {Passerina). BuU. S.-Petersb. iv. n. 4.-jAnB. et Spach, III. 



— Boiss. Foy. Esp. ii. t. 157 {Passerina).— Pl. Or. ii. t. 105.— Waip. Ann. i. 105. 



Gben. et GoBK. Fl. de Fr. iii. 60 {Passerina). 6 ]g[„t giiff. 146, t. U ; Gen. (ed. 1), n 856. 



1 BuU. S..Petersb. iv. n. 4. — Endl. Gen. — C. A. Mey. Bull S.-Petersb. iv. n. 4.— Spach, 

 Suppl. IV. p. u. n. 2100.— Meissn. Prodr. 559. Suit, a Buffon, x. 446.— Endl. Gen. Suppl. iv. p. 



2 Spec, atout 8. Thunb. Fl. Cap. 75, 376 ii. n. 2097.— Meissn. Prodr. 561. 

 {Passerina). — Wendl. Obs. 19, t. 2, fig. 19, 



