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NATURAL m STORY OF PLANTS. 



or less charged witli silky and whitish, hairs. The leaves are 

 alternate or opposite, often tripartite, exstipulate. The flowers 

 are solitary, terminal, pedunculate. Immediately below the calyx 

 are inserted about ten narrow elongated bracts forming an 

 epicalyx.^ 



Bhynchotheca spinosa. 



Fig. 23. Moriferoua branch. 



Fig. 27. GrynsEoeum, one cell open (4). 



Fig. 24. Flower (f ). Fig. 26. Bud without perianth (f). Fig. 25. Long. sect, of flower. 



Beside Balbisia is placed Wendtta,'^ consisting of plants of the 

 same country, mainly distinguished by having in each of its ovary 

 cells, reduced to three, but two deseendent ovules with micropyle 



1 The species, prohahly the only one, but very 

 Tariable as to the thickness and the state of the 

 surface of the leaves, is B. verticillata Cat. Ic. 

 ined. (ex DC). — Kl. in Ziiineea, x. 431. — B. 

 pedanmlaris Don, in Bdini. New Phil. Journ. 

 (1832), 277.-5. Meyeniana 'KL.—CEnothfra 

 acoparia, E. et Pav. Herb. ! — Ledocarpum chiUnse 

 Desf. loc. cit. — I. pedunculare Lindi. in Bot. 

 Beg. t. 139. — L. cistijlorum Meyen, Beis. 1. 470. 



L. Meyeniaimn Walp. Bep. i. 460 ; v. 280.— i. 

 argenteum FsussT^.—CmckhanMa ciatiflora HooK. 

 loc, cit. 



= Meten, Beis. i. 307.— Kl. in Linneea, x. 

 432._Endl. Gen. u. 6051.— B. H. Gen. 275, n. 

 12.— H. Bn. in Foyer Fam. Nat. 398.— jlfo;-- 

 tiniera Guillem. in DeUss. Ic. Sel. iii. 23, t. 40 

 Sypermn Prebl, Epim. Bot, 211. 



