418 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
style slender, clavate at vertically stigmatiferous apex. Drupe dry, 
somewhat compressed, villous, 1-seeded.—A tree; leaves verticillate 
simple dentate; flowers in axillary racemes; bracts many flowered 
(South Africa’). 
28. Cenarrhenes Lasitu.?— Flowers regular, hermaphrodite 
(nearly of Persoonia) ; calyx-leaves 4, free equal deciduous. Stamens 
4, inserted at base of perianth ; anthers apiculate. Hypogynous 
glands 4, alternate with stamens. Germen sessile; ovule 1, de- 
scending orthotropous; style capitate stigmatiferous. A drupe; 
putamen very hard; embryo exalbuminous thick.—Glabrous trees ; 
leaves alternate rigid-coriaceous flat nearly veinless shining ; flowers 
in terminal and axillary spikes; bracts usually 1-flowered ( Oceania’). 
29. Agastachys R. Br.‘—Flowers regular, hermaphrodite (nearly 
of Persoonia); perianth-leaves 4, elongated equal free, deciduous. 
Stamens adnate to middle of perianth; filaments short; anthers 
elongated muticous. Hypogynous disk 0. Germen sessile, 3- 
gonous ; ovule 1, descending orthotropous; style slender, apex 
dilated subclavate compressed, 2-fid, laterally stigmatiferous. 
Fruit... .?—A glabrous shrub; leaves alternate ; flowers’ in 
numerous axillary and terminal many-flowered spikes ; bracts alter- 
nate concave, 1-flowered (Zusmania). 
IV. FRANKLANDIE. 
30. Franklandia R. Br.—Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Pe- 
rianth hypocrateriform ; tube cylindrical, straight, persistent; limb 
4-fid deciduous; lobes acute, valvate-induplicate deciduous.  Sta- 
mens 4, inserted at middle of perianth; filaments flattened and 
elongated, and anthers elongated, adnate to tube of perianth ; 
Species 1. B. stellatifuliwm L,, Spec,,ed.2, loc. cit.), with obtusely dentate-serrate leaves; 2 
177 ; Mantiss., 332.— B. stellulifolium L., 
Syst., xiii, 764.—B. stellatum Tauns., Prodr, 
Fl. Cap., 31; Fl. Cap., 156.—Brabyla capensis 
L., Mantiss., 137. 
2 Nouv.-Holl., 36, t. 50.—R. Br., in Trans. 
Linn. Soc., x. 158; Prodr., 371; Suppl., 12.— 
Lamx., Dict., viii. 855; Suppl., v. 522; vd. 
t. 914.—Enph, Gen. u. 2137. — MEIssy., 
Prodr., 328. 
3 Species 3: 1 Tasmanian, C. nédida (LaxiL., 
New Caledonian, with subentire leaves (Br. & 
Gr., in Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 5, iii. 203).— Bent. 
& F. Muri, Fl. Austral., v. 379. 
‘In Trans. Linn. Soc., x.158; Prodr., 871; 
Suppl., 11.—Enopz., Gen., n. 2136.—MEIssn., 
Prodr., 328. 
5 « Yellowish.” 
Species 1. 4. odorata R. Br., loc. cit.— 
Bentu. & F. Mur. Fl, Austr., iv. 379. 
