G-ENUS II. SUEIANA. 

 Pentandrla Pentagynla. Sex 



G-EN. Chab. Calyx 5-parted: petals 5, hypogynous, or in- 

 serted at the bottom of the calyx : stamens 5 — 10, some often 

 abortive : carpels 5, bearing laterally within a filiform style, 

 ending in a coriaceous, valveless, indehiscent nut: seed single 

 from the base, obovately kidney-shaped, without albumen. 



(1) S. MAEiTiMA, {Linn.) 



Ident. Linn. spec. 284. — Dec. prod. II. p. 91. — W. & A. 

 prod. {Sub nerho.) 



JEngrav. Lam. lU. t. 389.— Plum. gen. ed. Burm. 249, .t. 1. 



Spec. Chae. Shrub : leaves simple, oblong-spathulate, thickish, 

 somewhat velvety, without stipules, aggrega;ted at the tops of the 

 branches : flowers yellow, bracteate, almost terminal. 



Maritime parts of the Peninsula. 



ORDER GXXVI. SALSOLACE^. 



Calyx 6, seldom 4, 3 — 3-sepaled: sepals more or less 

 combined below, usually equal, glabrous or villous, herbaceous, 

 greenish, juiceless or fleshy after flowering, capsular or bac- 

 cate, furnished with small wings or spinelets, or else inap- 

 pendiculate, keeled or unchanged, imbricated in sestivation : 

 corolla none : stamens usually inserted on a receptacle or at the 

 bottom of the calyx, 5, all fertile, opposite the sepals : fila- 

 ments filiform or subulate, seldom longer than the calyx, 

 sometimes combined into a very short cup : anthers 2-celled, 

 erect, ovate or oblong, introrse, dehiscing lengthways, affixed 

 by the back : cells opposite, connate, sometimes separated at 

 the base : connecticum narrow, sometimes expanded into a 

 terminal, erect, more or less dilated, petaloid, flat, hooded or 

 vesicular appendage : ovary 1, ovate-oblong or depresso- 

 globose, usually free, 1-celled: ovule 1, sometimes sessile 

 and inserted at the bottom of the cell, sometimes horizontally 

 affixed by a short cord or pendulous, amphitropal : styles ^, 

 - seldom 3, terminal, either long or short, subulate-filiform, 

 more or less coalescing below, diverging at the apex : stigmas 



