OEBANIAOE^. 



13 



turned outwards and upwards ;i Rhynchotheca^ (fig. 23-27), con- 

 sisting of shrubs from the Andes of South America, having an ovary 

 with five cells, .biovulate, like those of Wendtia, but with apetalous 

 flowers ; ^ and Viviania * (fig. 28-30), consisting of herbaceous or 



Viviania rosea. 



Kg. 28. Bud. 



Fig. 30. Long, sect, of flower (|). Fig. 29. Bud, without calyx. 



frutescent plants from the same countries,^ of which the type of a 

 distinct family has been made having regular flowers, with poly- 

 petalous corolla, contorted as in Balbisia, whose petals however are 

 valvate instead of being imbricate, the gynseceum being, like that of 

 Wendtta, reduced to three. Sometimes there are only two biovulate 

 cells ; the fruit being a loculicidal capsule with two or three panels. 

 The floral receptacle bears here, as in Geranium, some altemipetalous 

 glands. 



1 One species only, TF, gracilis Mey. loc. eit. — 

 W. Fappigiana Kl. in Linneea x. 432. — W. Sey- 

 noldsii Endl. mss. — Walp. Rep. v. 330. — 

 Larrea ? trigyva KzE. in Pcepp. Coll. PI. Chil. 

 iii. 129. — Ledocarpmn Beynoldsii Hook. leim. 

 t. 14. — Martiniera potentilloides GrxriLLEM. loe, 

 ■eit. 



2 K. et Pay. Frodr. Fl. Per.. 142. t. 15.— 

 DC. Prodr. i. 637.— Enbl. Gen. n. 6049.— B.' 

 H. Gen. 276 n. 11. — H. Bn. in Payer Fam. 

 Nat. 398. — Aulacostigma TuBCZ. in Bull Mose. 

 (1874), i. 149. 



' Probably only one species but very variable, 

 B. spinosa R. et Pav. Fl. Per. 142.— C. Gay, 

 Fl. Chil. i. — S. integrifolia H..B. K. Nov. Gen. 

 et Spec. V. 232, t. 464.— JJ. dmrsifolia H. B. K. 



loc. eit. t. 466. — Aulacostigma, inenne TuKCZ. 

 loe. eit. 150. Walp. Ann. i. 141. 



•• Cay. in Ann. Scienc. Nat. vii. 240, t. 9. — 

 Don, in Bdinb. New Phil. Journ. viii. 170. — 

 Kl. in Linneea, x. 343. — Endl. Gen. n. 6053. 

 — B. H. G-en. 276, n. 10.— H. Bn. in Payer 

 Fam. Nat. 401. — Macrcea Lindl. in Brand. 

 Quarterl. Journ. xxv. 104. — Xeropetalon Hook. 

 mss. (ex Endl.).— C(E««r«« Cambess. in M4m. 

 Mus. xviii. 373, t. 18. — Kl. in Linneea, x. 436. 

 — Endl. Qeii. n. 6052. — Cissarobryon Pospp. 

 Fragm. Syn. Fl. Chil. 29. — Linostigma Kl. in 

 lAmKea, x. 438. • 



5 Seven or eight species, Deless. k. sel. iii. 

 t. 41.— Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 148.— C. Gay, Fl. 

 Chili. 396, t. 11, 12. 



