130 SAXiFBAQACEiE. [JOrosera. 



late, about 3 ot 4 lines broad and long, narrowed into a petiole not so long, 

 thickly fringed with fine red glandular hairs. Stipules soarious. Eadical pe- 

 duncles or scapes solitary, or 3 or 3 from the same tuft, slender, 4 to 6 in. 

 high. Spikes usually simple, pedicels glg,brous. Sepals divided nearly to the 

 base. Styles 5, undiyided, iilifonn, erect at the base, slightly dila.ted a,t the 

 top, with fringed stigmas. Placentas 5. 



Hongkong, Wright, a few specimens mixed with those of the following species. Widely 

 spread over India and the Archipelago, extending northwards to the Pbjlippines and the 

 Chinese continent. 



a. D. Iioureiri, Sook. cmd Am. Bot. Beech. 167, t. 31. Leaves radi- 

 cal and rosulate, with scarious stipules as in B. Burmanni, but narrower, ob- 

 long-cuneate, contracted into a petiole as long as the lamina, and with it 6 

 to 10 lines long, fringed with red hairs, which are however fewer and paler 

 than in the last species. Scapes 3 to 5 in. high, slender. Pedicels glabrous 

 and sepals deeply divided, as in B. Burmanni ; the flowers are however rather 

 larger, and the styles stiff and curved upwards, connivent at the top, appa- 

 rently 6, but really 3, cleft to the base. Placentas 3. 



Ahundant in Qiacshes, Qhaw/pien, and others. Also on the adjacent continent. Not as 

 yet recorded from elsewhere, tut probaHy some of the Vroseras &om the Indian Archi- 

 pelago, described as allied to it, may prove not to be really distinct, 



Oeder L. HAMAMELIDEJE. 



Calyx-tube more or less adherent or rarely entirely free ; the limb 4- or 5- 

 lobed or toothed, or rarely entire. Petals either as many, inserted at the base 

 of the calyx-lobes, or fewer or none. Stamens either as many or twice as 

 many, inserted with the petals. Anthers erect ; the cells opening laterally in 

 various ways, the connective often produced beyond them. Ovary inferior, 

 semi-inferior, or rarely wholly superior, with 3, or rarely more cells, and 1 or 

 2 ovules suspended from the apex of each cell; or rarely more, on axUe pla- 

 centas, the 3 carpels with distinct styles. Fruit coriaceous or woody ; the 

 carpels usually diverging at the top, and each one opening in 3 short valves. 

 Seeds usually solitary, with a copio^is albimien and straight embryo. — Trees 

 or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, or slightly toothed, with stipules. Flowers 

 hermaphrodite or unisexual, often in compact heads, or rarely in looser ra- 

 cemes. 



A small Order, dispersed over Asia, S. Africa, and N. America, showing great diversity in 

 generic forins, some of which are scarcely separable from Saxifragacece, whilst others are 

 more nearly connected with Cornacene. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite, united in a head smrounded by imbricate 



bracts, the petals of all the flowers on the circumference of the 



head. Ovules several 1. Rhodoieia. 



Flowers monoecious, the males in oblong heads of stamens only, with- 



out perianth, the females in globular heads. Ovules several . . 2. LiquiDAMBAB, 

 Flowers hermaphrodite, in heads or short racemes, without petals. 



Ovules solitary in pacli cell. 

 Ovary half-inferior.' 

 Anthers sessile, obtuse, 2-valyed. Stigmas very long and flat 3. Eustigma. 

 Anthers on distinct filaments, with a subulate point, 4-valved. 



Styles subulate 4. TETRATHTruuM. 



Ovary superior . . . S. DistyUum. 



