CCV. GEISSOLOME^. 701 



CCIV. PEN^ACEJE, Brown} 



[Flowers g . Perianth tubulwr, 4-loied, valvate. Stamens 4, on the throat, 

 alternate with the lobes, connective thich. Otaet free, 4-ceUed; stigsma 4-lobed, or 

 STIGMAS 4 ; OVULES 2-4 in each cell. Capsule locuKcidal. Embeto minute, in a 

 fleshy albumen. — Shrubs. Leaves opposite. 



Evergreen shrubs or undeeshrubs, with the hahit of Ericece or Epacridew. 

 Leaves opposite, often imbricate, flat or ericoid, quite entire, penninerved ; stipules 

 minute, setiform or glandular. Elowers ?, solitary in the axUs of the upper 

 leaves, or of coloured bracts, 2-4-bracteolate, sessile. Pbeianth coloured, accres- 

 cent; tube cylindric; lobes 4, valvate or reduplicate in aestivation. Stamens 4, 

 inserted on the perianth-throat, alternate with its lobes ; filaments usually very short, 

 connective thickened ; anther-cells adnate, introrse, dehiscence longitudinal ; pollen-- 

 grains ovoid, 6-8-sulcate. Ovaet free, 4-celled, cells opposite the perianth-lobes ; 

 style terete or with 4 angles that alternate with the cells ; stigmas 4, or one 4-labed ; 

 ovules 2 in each cell and erect, or 4, 2 erect and 2 pendulous from the inner angle, 

 anatropous. Capsule 4-celled, loculicidally 4-valved ; valves acuminate, breaMng 

 away from the style-base. Seeds oblong ; testa shining ; hilum excavated ; funicle 

 very short, white, thick ; albumen 0. Embexo fleshy, ovoid ; cotyledons 2, minute ; 

 radicle next the hilum, obtuse or concave. 



Teibe I. PBNiBEiE. — Ovales 2 in each cell, erect. Bracteoles 2 or 0. Fenma, Stylapterus, 

 Brachysiphoii, Sarcocolla. ^ 



Teibe II. Bndonemej:. — Ovules 4 in eaeh cell, 2 ascendiag, 2 pendulous. Bracteoles 

 2-4. Qlisehcrocolla, Endonema. 



A family of obscure aifinity, most closely allied, according to Lindley, to Shamnees, but differing 

 signally in the anthers, want of petals and disk, and in the stigma, which is indusiate, as in Ericece. It 

 has been also compared with JEpacrideis, JBnmiacece, and Proteacees, but with little reason. 



Natives of South Africa, of no known use ; some produce a nauseous viscid gum, called Saroocoll, 

 but which is not the Sarcocoll of the Greeks, whatever that was. — En.] 



CCV. GEISSOLOMEyE.^ 



(G-EISSOLOMBJE, EndUcher. — Geissolomaoe^, Bonder.) 



[Flowers g , subtended by imbricating bracts. PBRIANTH 4-parUte, segments im- 

 bricate. Stamens 8, at the bottom of the perianth-tube ; anthers versatile. Ovary 

 free, ^-celled; styles 4; stigmas minute; ovules 2, pendulous in each cell. 

 Capsule loculicidal. Embryo in the axis of a fleshy albumen ; cotyledons linear, 

 fleshy.— BnnvB. Leaves opposite. 



A shrub. Leaves opposite, quite entire. Buds terminal, acute, silky, with 



' This order is omitted in the original,— Ei>. 



