BUBIACE^. 401 



in pulp ; albumea scarce cartilaginous ; cotyledons of thick axile 

 embryo obtuse superior. — ^An erect (foetid) shrub ; branches numerous 

 pendulous ; leaves opposite or verticillate small linear acute ; stipules 

 connate in scarious sheath, persistent ; flowers ' crowded axillary 

 and terminal or compound racemose. (Canary Isles.') 



23. Putoria Pebs.' — Flowers generally 4-merous ; calyx superior 

 unequally dentate, persistent. Corolla at base rather long-tubular; 

 throat bare; limb patulous, 4-lobed, valvate. Stamens inserted in 

 throat; filaments erect; anthers dorsifixed near base oblong introrse 

 exserted. Disk epigynous rather thick. Germen 2-celled; style 

 slender, 2-dentate at stigmatose apex. Fruit oblong drupaceous ; 

 pyrenes 1, 2, finally solute; flesh scanty. Seed oblong; albumen 

 fleshy; cotyledons of large embryo narrow superior. — Low branched 

 (foetid) shrublets ; leaves opposite linear-oblong ; petioles short ; 

 stipules short interpetiolar ; flowers * in terminal compound capituli- 

 form or umbelliform cymes ; pedicels short or very short, bracteolate. 

 (Europe, Mediterranean Asia and Africa.^) 



24. Phyllis L.* — Flowers polygamous ; receptacle of males small; 

 of female and hermaphrodite rather compressed obovate-pearshaped, 

 longitudinally sulcate above. Sepals 4, 5, dentiform or larger, some- 

 times subnil, deciduous. Corolla shortly campanulate ; lobes 4, 5, 

 valvate, revolute. Stamens as many, inserted at bottom of tube; 

 filaments very slender ; anthers basally affixed introrse, exserted, 2- 

 rimose. Germen 2-celled; ovule in cells 1, erect; micropyle extrorsely 

 inferior; style branches 2, not thickened, everywhere papillose, in 

 female flower exserted. — An undershrub; branchlets herbaceous terete ; 

 leaves opposite or verticillate, lanceolate; stipules connate with 

 petioles in subentire sheath (blact spotted); flowers' terminal and 



' Small or minute, veryeimilar to those of (Ernodea). — Bbichb. lo. Ft. Qerm. t. 1182. — 



Anthospermum and Galopma. Sieth. et Sm. Fl. Grcec. t. 143 {Ernodea). — 



' Spec, li P. pendula Ait.— Reiohb. Icon. Boies. El. Or. iii. 12. — ^Willk. et Lakg. Prodr, 



Exot. t. 11. — Webb et Berth. Phyt. Cmar. ii. El. Sisp. ii. 299. 



191. 6 ge„_ n. 323.— J. Gen. 198 ; Mim. Mui. yi. 



, i. 624.— EioH. Mub. 80.— DC. Prodr. 370.— Lamk. III. t. 186.— Gjertn. Erucf. i. 123, 



iv. 677 (part).- Endl. Gen. n. 3110,— B, H. t. 25.— Rich. Eut. 60, t. 2, fig. 3.— DC. Prodr. 



ilen. ii. 136, n. 292. It. 678.— Enbl. Gen. n. 3108.— H.^N. Payer 



* Pink or white, small or moderate. Earn. Nat. 232.^B. H. Gen. ii. 140, n. 305. — 



' Spec. 2, 3. Lamk, Diet. iv. 326 (S/ierardia). Nobula Adans. Earn, dm PI. ii. 146. — Bupltv 



— ^Lbek. Stirp. t. 32 (Aspernla). — Oykill. PI. roides Boerh. (ex DC). 



Neap.t. 1 {Pavetta). — Bibih. El. Grcec. t. K3 7 Greenish; styles whitish; 



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