128 SAXiFRAGACE^. \8axifragaceci. 



epigynous, or hypogynous, or rarely none. Stamens as many or twice as 

 many, or very rarely more, inserted with the petals. Ovary single, either 

 more or less inferior or adherent, or free with a broad base; 3- to 5 -celled, 

 with axile placentas, or l-celled, with 2 or more parietal placentas ; the cai-pels 

 often shortly fi-ee at the top. Styles as many (or rarely twice as many) as 

 cells or placentas, or styles single, with an entire or lobed stigma. Fruit a 

 capsule, or rarely an indehiscent berry. Seeds several, usually many ; the 

 albumen usually copious, rarely wanting. 



A considerable family, ranging over nearly the whole World, the shruhby or arborescent 

 genera chiefly tropical, the herbaceous from the more temperate or colder regions of the 

 northern hemisphere, with a few extratropical southern ones. 



Shrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers paniculate. Calyx adherent. Fruit a 

 berry 1. Dichkoa. 



Shrubs. Leaves alternate. Flowers racemose. Calyx small, free. Fruit 



capsular 2. Itfa. 



Herbs. Leaves radical, with glandular hairs. Sepals free. Fruit capsular 3. Dkosera. 



1. DICHEOA, Lour. 



[Adamia, Wall.) 



Calyx-tube whoUy adherent, with B or 6 small distant teeth. Petals 5 or 

 6, sessile, valvate in the bud. Stamens twice as many. Ovary adherent to 

 above the middle, incompletely 3- to 5-ceUed, the pai-titions projecting far 

 into the cavity with the placentas on their margins, and numerous ovules. 

 Styles as many as cells, free from the base, diverging and thickened upwards. 

 Fruit a semi-inferior indehiscent beny. — Shrubs. Leaves opposite. 



The genus consists of a single species, unless indeed some specimens from the Philippine 

 Islands, with remarkably small flowers, be reaUy distinct. 



1. D. febrifiiga. Lour. M. Goehinch. 301. A shrub, with the habit of 

 a Hydrangea. Leaves opposite, oval-oblong, acuminate, 3 to 6 in. long, 

 serrate, nan-owed into a petiole at the base, sHghtly pubescent as well as the 

 young branches. Panicles terminal, dense, broadly coiymbose or pyramidal, 

 pubescent. Flowers numerous, of a dull or rai-ely bright blue. Beiiies green 

 at first, but assuming at length a bright blue cohxa. —Mamia versicolor, Fort, 

 in Joum. Hort. Soc. i. 298 ; Lindl. andPaxt. Fl. Gard. i. t. 5. ^. cMnensis, 

 Gai-dn. and Champ, in Kew Joum. Bot. i. 311. Oyanitu sylvatica, Blume; 

 DC. Prod. iv. 16. Dichroa Gyanitis, Miq. Fl. Ned. Ind. i. pars i. 721 ; and 

 probably D. latifolia, Miq. 1. c. 722. Also a smaller-flowered vaiiety, Jdamia 

 cyanea, WaU. Tent. Fl. Nept. 86, and PI. As. Eai-. iii. t. 213. Th» Bot. Mag. 

 t. 3046, represents a rather.larger-flowered variety, with pink flowers. 



Eavines of Mount Victoria and Mount Parker, rare, Ctmrnpion. South China, Cochin 

 Chma, and the Indian Archipelago, and the smaller-flowered variety in the Himalaya and 

 Knasia mountams. ' 



Kiilv„T^^' of °° '" ^°i*'°^"' slight varieties the three supposed species ii-om the 



mentS bv ^. O n*^' U 'fl ^"™- ^ ''f™ ''=''' '"'' """^ °^ ^^'^^^ J^^-^^^ varieties 

 mentioned by De CandoUe : it has narrow leaves, a somewhat elongated nanicle and the 

 flowers larger even than in the Chinese ones, with longer ^anthers. The CM^e speeim^s 

 have mostly broad leaves, and large flowers in a broad rather flat panicle • but i^ tome the 

 flowers are not larger than in some of the Himalavaa ones Thp K wl • ^°™\^°^ 



broad leaves but sLll flowers ; the Sikkim anTS Himlyau' nefh^ S^ leavT 

 and, w,th few exceptions, small flowers. In all, the number of parts of the flower appr^- 



