133 NATUBAJ, HISTORT OF PLANTS. 



seed copiously albuminous. — Dwarf csespitose musciform shrubs or 

 undersbrubs ; stems sometimes prostrate ramose; leaves opposite 

 sessile small densely imbricate ; flowers ^ terminal subcapitate few, 

 pedunculate or subsessile, imbricate in upper leaves, involucrate.^ 

 {New Zealand, Australia, Tasmania, Borneo?) 



33. Drapetes Lame.* — Yloweics oi Kelleria; calyx fuunel-sbaped, 

 4 -fid; throat esquamate ; limb articulate above germen, deciduous ; 

 persistent base surrounding fruit. Seed and other characters of 

 Kelleria. — A small dwarf undershrub ; leaves small sessile decussate 

 densely imbricate and inflorescence ® of Kelleria. {South America, 

 Magellanic continent and islands?) 



34 ? Schoenobibltis Mart, and Zucc.'' — " Flowers diceeious,® 4- 

 merous ; male calyx (corolline) 4-partite ; tube very short funnel- 

 shaped, pilose at bottom ; throat esquamate ; lobes patent linear, 

 glabrous within. Hypogynous scales 0. Stamens 4, exserted, 

 opposite lobes of calyx and subequal and adnate to them below ; 

 filaments filiform ; anthers oblong, dorsally affixed above base ; 

 rudiment of germen 0. Female flower . . . ? — A tree or shrub ; 

 leaves few ; umbels terminal pedunculate. {North. Brazil?) 



35. Pimelea Banks and Soland.^° — Flowers hermaphrodite or 

 rarely polygamo-dioecious (nearly of Struthiola or Gnidia), 4-merous j 

 tubular throat of (coloured) calyx esquamate ; tube continuous or 



> Eather small. Syst. iii. 333. — Hook. r. Antarct. Voy. Bot. 



2 A genus by Bentham {Fl. Austral, vi. 35) 343 {notFl. N.-Zel.).—G. Gat, Fl. Chil. v. 317. 



conjoiiied witli Drapetes, to -which indeed it ' Nov. Oen. et Spec. i. 65.' — Endl. Gen. Suppl. 



is very close, hut from which it is decidedly iv. p. ii. n. 2106 '^.—Meissn. Prodr. 519, 



distinct by the scales of the throat (absent in s " White, puberulous." 



Drapetes). ' Spec. 1. S. daphnoides Mart, et Zucc— 



•■• Spec, about 3. Hook. Land. Jown. ii. 497, Meissn. Mart. Fl. Bras. Thymel. 65, t. 28, fig. 1 



t. 17 {Drapetes).— B.ooiL. y. Fl. N.-Zel. i. 223; '" G^erts. Frmt. i. 186, t. 39. — Dktand. 



ii. 222; Bandb. N.-Zeal. Fl. 246; Hook. Icon. Ann. Bot. ii. 2(i5. — Wikssb.. Act. Bolm. {l^iO), 



t. 895 ; Book. Journ. (1853), 299, t. 7 {Drapetes). 118, 270, 273.— Spach, Suit, a Buffon, x. 448.— 



* Journ. dMist. Nat. i. 186, t. 10, fig. 1 ; III. Endl. Gm. n. 2098 ; Suppl. It. p. ii. 60.— 



t. 915.— PoiR. Diet. Suppl. ii. 523.— Banks. Payer, Organog. 482, t. 96.— Mbissk. I'rodr. 



Qarln. Fruct. iii. 199, t. 215, — J. Ann. Mus. 496, 700. — BanksiaYon&i. Char. Gen.n. 4 (not 



vii. 479.— WiKSTK. Thymel. 284. — Endl. Gen. L. nor Dome.). — Cookia Gmel. Syst. i. 24 (not 



n. 2097 ; Suppl. iv. p. ii. n. 2094.— Meissn. Sonner. nor Spksng.). — Tliecanthes Wikstr. 



Prodr. 618 (notBENTH.). loo. eit. 269, 271.— Endl- Icon. t. l\.—Eetero- 



■ * Calyx petaloid coloured. liena Fisoh. et Met. Ind. Sem. Bort. Petrop. 



6 Spec. 1. D. muscoides Lamk. — Gaudich. (1846), 46.— ei/mnococca FiscH.et Met. loc. eit. 



Voy. Uran. Bot. 133.— D'Urt. MSm. Soc. Bist. —Macrostegia Turcz. Bull. Mosc. (1852), iii. 



Nat. Par. iv. 605.— .Z). muscosus Kcem. et Sch. 177. 



