CXXXII. BPACEIDE^. 



523 



Archeria hirtella. 



Vertical section of ovary, 



showing the upright 



OTiiles and basilar 



style. 



Lertcopogon. 



Transverae section «f 



fruit (mag.). 



Zpucopogon. 



Vertical section of fruit, showing Leucopog&n . 



the peniient seeds and sub- Seed cut Terti- 



terminal style (mag.). ' cally (mag.). 



Shrubs or small trees, stems and branches inarticulate. Leaves alternate, 

 often close-set, rarely opposite, usually petioled, sometimes sheathed at the base, ex- 

 stipulate. Flowers ^ , rarely incomplete by suppression, in terminal spikes or 

 racemes, or axillary and solitary, pedicels with 2 or more cylindrical bracts. Calyx 

 4-5-partite, persistent. Corolla monopetalous, inserted on the receptacle, tubular, 

 bell- funnel- or salver-shaped, base of tube naked within or with bundles of hairs 

 or glands alternating with the stamens ; limh 4-6-fid, regular, valvate or imbricate 

 in bud ; lobes rarely cohering, in which case the corolla dehisces transversely above the 

 persistent base of the tube (Richea, Gystanthe\ Stamens 4-5, rarely fewer, hypo- 

 gynous or epipetalous, alternate with the corolla-lobes ; anthers basifixed, simple, with 

 2 longitudinal valves, and one complete poUiniferous septum; |)oMe?i sub-globose or 

 3-globate. Ovart free, sessile on a disk, or surrounded at its base by free or connate 

 hypogynous glands, 2—10- (rarely 1-) celled; style simple; stigmas undivided; ovules 

 pendulous, rarely erect {Archeria)), solitary from the top of the cell, or many on pro- 

 jecting placentas, anatropous. Fruit 2 or more, rarely 1-celled (by suppression), 

 either a drupe with many 1-seeded stones, or a septi-loculi-cidal many-seeded capsule 

 with the placentas free or attached to the central column. Embrxo straight, cylin- 

 dric, in the axis of a fleshy albumen ; cotyledons very short ; radicle superior in the 

 drupes, various in the capsules. 



Tribe I. Sttphblie^. — Ovary with 1-ovuled cells. Fruit a drupe. 



Pentaohondra. 

 * Leucopogon. 

 Monotoca. 



PEINCIPAL GENERA. 



Acrotriche. 



Lissanthe. 



Trocliocarpa. 



Melichrus. 

 * Stenanthera. 

 Conostephium. 



* St.yphelia. 

 Astroloma. 

 Cyathodes.. 



Tribe II. Epaore^. — Ovary-cells many-ovuled. Fruit capsular. 



Lysinema. 

 Kicliea. 



PEINCIPAL GENERA. 



Archeria. 

 Sprengelia. 



* Bpacris. 

 Andersonia. 



Prionotis. 

 Dracophyllum. 



