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LIII. DIOSMEJE. 



(RuTACEAEUM genera, Jussieu. — Diosmeakum genera, Br. — Diosme^, Adr. Jussieu.) 



D. tenui/olia. 

 Flower-bud (mag.). 



B. tenuifoha. 

 Expanded flower (mag.). 



Diosma longifolia. 



D. tenuifolia. 

 Seed, entire and cut Tertically, 



showing the 

 testa surmounted by a crest. 



Z). tenui/olia. 

 Flower cut Tertically (mag,). 



D. tenuifoUa. Fruit (mag.). 



D. ericoides. Diagram. 



B. ienvifoUa. 

 Seed depriyed of its testa, 

 showing the inner chalaza 

 (mag.). 



J), alba. 



Seed with lateral 



hilum (mag.). 



, Diosma. 

 Exalbuminoufl 

 embryo (mag.). 



Petals 5-4, inserted on a hypo- 

 gynous disk, imhricate. Stamens equal 

 and alternate with the petals, or double 

 the number. Ovaries distinct or co- 

 herent, 2-ovuled. Feuit a capsule, divid- 

 ing into cocci. Seeds albuminous or 

 exalbuminous. Embeto usually straight. 

 — Scented plants. Stem woody. Leaves usually glandular- dotted, exstipulate. 



Small teees or shetjbs. Leaves opposite or alternate, coriaceous, usually- 

 simple, sometimes 3-foliolate {Spiranthera, Zi&ria, &c.), rarely pinnate [Boronia), 

 usually glaudular-dotted ; stipules 0, or replaced by glands at the base of the 

 petioles. Plowees ^ , or very rarely imperfect by suppression {Empleurum), regular, 



. axillary or terminal, solitary, or in an umbel, corymb or panicle, rarely in an involu- 

 crate capitulum {Diplolwna). Calyx 4-5-fid or -partite, imbricate in aestivation. 

 Petals 4-5, inserted under a free or rarely sub-perigynous disk, imbricate in aestiva- 

 tion, usually free, rarely connate, or conniving by their dilated bases into a cylin- 

 drical tube, and then valvate in aestivation: [Gorrea, Nematolepis, &c.), or {Em- 



pleurum). Stamens inserted with the petals, generally equal, rarely double in 



