TEYMEL^AGE^. 137 



mate. Stamens 8, inserted 2-seriately in throat ; filaments subulate, 

 often eoliereiit at base, exserted at apex ; anthers ovate. Germen 

 destitute of disk ; style lateral, apex stigmatose semiexserted capi- 

 tate. Fruit nucular, enclosed by persistent base of tube or sometimes 

 finally naked ; pericarp crustaceous or sometimes slightly fleshy, very 

 rarely [Chymococca^) baccate; seed albuminous. — Ericoid shrubs; 

 twigs tomentose or lanate ; leaves opposite, linear acerose, convex at 

 back; flowers^ sessile in uppermost axils solitary or in terminal 

 sometimes comose or short subcapitate spikes. {South Jfrica.^) 



31. Struthiola L.* — Plowers hermaphrodite, 4-merous (nearly of 

 Gnidia; glandules of throat 4, or oftener 8-12, exserted, fleshy or 

 horny ; each densely setose at base and there oftener confluent in 

 somewhat prominent ring. Stamens 4, alternating with lobes of 

 calyx ; anthers subsessile ; cells linear, adnate within to connective 

 produced beyond the cells. Grermen sessile, destitute of hypogynous 

 disk; style lateral, subequal to tube of calyx, at apex capitate 

 stigmatose. Fruit nucular, enclosed by persistent base at calyx; 

 seed albuminous. — Ericoid shrubs or undershrubs ; branches gene- 

 rally straight slender ; leaves opposite or sometimes alternate sessile, 

 oftener linear ; flowers * sessile in uppermost axils, solitary or binate ; 

 calyx 2-bracteolate. {South Africa.^) 



32 ? Eelleria Endl.'' — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-merous ; calyx 

 (coloured) funnel shaped, 4-fld ; squamules 4 ; inserted in throat, or 

 8, oppositisepalous in pairs ; tube continuous. Stamens 4, alternating 

 with lobes ; filaments inserted in throat subulate, exserted ; anthers 

 ovate obtuse, 2-rimose. Germen sessile, 1-ovulate, destitute of hy- 

 pogynous disk ; style lateral or subtermiual filiform exserted, at apex 

 stigmatose capitate, deciduous. Fruit nucular ovoid, finally naked ; 



^ Mbissn. Prodr. 665. ' White, golden or reddish. 



2 Oftener rather reddish, small. ^ Spec, ahout 20. Thunb. Fl. Cap. 382.— 



3 Spec. 4, 5. L. Spec. (ed. 1), 560 {Zachneea) ; Houtt. Pjl. Syst. v. 368, t. 40, fig. 2.— Bukm. 

 Mantiss. i. 236.— Thumb. Prodr. 75; Fl. Cap. Afr. 127, t. 47 {Thymelcea) .—Keiz. Ois. iii.25, 

 374. — PoiB. Diet. T. 40. — ^WiKSTK. Act. SoVm. 26. — Hornem. Sort. Hafn. ii. 955. — Wikste. 

 (1818), 232.— LoDD. Cat, (1816), 18.— W. Spec. Thymel. 286.— Ait. HoH. Kew. (ed. 2), i. 272. 

 ii. 434. — Meissn. Lmneea, xiv. 299. — Wendl. — Ecem. et Sch. Syst. iii. 20, 330. — Wendl. 

 Obs. 18, t. 2, fig. 15. Obs. 9, t. 2.— Andr. Sot. Repot, t. 113, 119, 149. 



* Mantiss. n. 1244.— J. Gen. 77.— Lamk. III. t. — Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 11, 74, 75, \il.—Bot. Mag. 



78.— PoiR. Diet. vii. 476.— Gr.»RTN. v. Fruct. iii. t. 1212, 2138. 



194, t. 125. — Endl. Gen. n. 2099 ; Suppl. iv. p. ? Gen. Suppl. iv. p. ii. n. 2096.— Meissn. 



ii. n. 2096. — Meissn. Linncea, xiv. 463 ; Prodr. Prodr. 665. — Daphnobryon Meissn. Prodr. 566. 

 566. — Bekala Adans. Fam. des PL ii. 285. 



