XXXVIII. TEEMANDRACE^. 



In the genus Tremandra, wticli has giyen its name to this small 

 family, there was one species tolerably distinct from the others by 

 its exterior characters known as T. verticillata ' (fig. 98-103). Of 



Flatytheca verticillata. 



Fig. 101. Flower without tlie 

 corolla. 



Fig. 98. Floriferous 

 branch. 



Fig. 102. Lon^. antero-posterior 

 sect, of flower without the corolla. 



this, a separate genus has been made under the name of Platytheca^^ 

 which may be studied as the type, as it has regular pentamerous 

 flowers with two verticels to the androceum. The receptacle is 

 convex ; the sepals free and valvate ; the petals alternate valvate- 

 induplicate. Of the ten hypogynous free stamens, five are super- 

 posed to the sepals, and five more exterior and smaller to the petals. 



^ HuEG. Par. Vindob. fasc. 14, t. 73 (ex Walp. 

 Ann. i. 77). — Patek, Organog. 134, t. 29. — 

 Tetratheca verticillata Past, in Mag. of Bot. 

 xiii. 171, fig. — Flatytheca galioides Steetz, in 

 PI. Preias. i. 220.— Benth, Fl. Austral.i. 136.— 



P. Crucianella Steetz, op. cit. 221. — P. erasai- 

 folia Steetz, op. cit. 222. 



a Steetz, loc. cit. 220. — ^Endl. Gen. n. 66441. 

 — LiNDL. Veg. Eingd. .374.— B. H. Gen. 134. u. 

 2. — H. Bn. in Payer Fam. Nat. 308. 



