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leaves, and spicate flowers on axillary pe- 

 dicels furnished with small bracts and 

 i bracteoles. The calyx is regularly five- 

 parted : the corolla tube is short, and its 

 limb two-lipped, with the upper lip arching ; 

 i there are two stamens, with two-celled 

 • anthers ; and a slender rigid four-seeded 

 l capsule. The leaves and stalk of G. vul- 

 ! garis have, when rubbed, a strong and not 

 unpleasant smell, and are, after being 

 roasted, prescribed in India in cases of 

 ] chronic rheumatism attended with swell- 

 ing of the joints. [W. 0.] 

 GENESTROLLE. Genista tlnctoria. 



GENET. Genista. — BLANC. Cytisus 

 | albus. — D"ESPAGXE. Genista juncea. 

 — EPIXELX. Ulex europceus. 



GEXETTE. (Fr.) Narcissus Pseudo- 

 Narcissus. 



GEXETYLLIS. A small genus of Cha- 

 i mceiav.ciacece, distinguished by having 



sessile flowers with two small bracts, a 

 ! calyx of five short obtuse entire lobes, 

 ! five ovate slightly acute petals, twenty 

 t short stamens, the alternate ones sterile, 

 I a filiform bearded style, and a one-celled 

 i seed-vessel with four or five seeds. The 



flower-heads in one section of the genus 

 | are enclosed in large coloured ovate or 

 ! oblong involucres about an inch in length, 

 1 generally of a reddish hue, or white striped 

 i with red, and on this account they are 

 ; exceedingly handsome plants, particularly 



G. tulipifera, G. macrostegia, G. speciosa, 



Genetyllis tulipifera. 



and G. HooTceriana. The leaves are either 

 lanceolate, spathulate, or linear and three- 

 angled, full of glandular dots, the upper 

 ones generally membranaceous. The name 

 of Hedaroraa was given by Dr. Lindley to 

 certain of the involucrate species from 

 South-West Australia. The species are 

 remarkable for the exquisite sweetness 

 of their foliage, which with the half-ripe 

 fruit retain their fragrance for such a 

 length of time that they possibly might 

 be considered worth collecting for the per- 

 fumer. They are mostly heath-like shrubs, 



and are natives of the south and south- 

 west parts of Australia. [R. H.] 



GEXEVRETTE. A wine made from 

 juniper berries. 



„ GENEVRIER. Juniperus communis. — 

 A L'EXCENS. Juniperus thurifera. — 

 CADE. Juniperus Oxycedrus. — FE- 

 MELLE. Jimiperus tamariscifolia. — 

 MALE. Juniperus cupressifolia. 



GENICULATE. Bent abruptly like a 

 knee; as the stems of many grasses. 



GENICULTJM. The node of a stem. 



GEXTPA. A genus of tropical American 

 trees of the cinchona family, nearly allied 

 to Gardenia, but differing in the tube of 

 the corolla, which is much shorter than in 

 that genus, so that the five to six ovate 

 segments of the limb are longer than the 

 tube. The fruit is succulent, with a rather 

 thick rind, crowned by the calyx, and 

 tapering at each end. Some of the species 

 furnish edible fruits. Thus G. americana 

 produces the Genipap fruit, as large as an 

 orange, and with an agreeable flavour. In 

 Surinam the same fruit is called the Mar- 

 malade Box. The fruit of G. brasiliensis 

 furnishes a violet dye. A few of the 

 species are in cultivation as evergreen 

 stove plants. [M. T. M.] 



GEXIPAP. The fruit of Genipa ameri- 

 cana. 



GENIPI BLANC. Artemisia Mutellina. 

 — NOIR. Artemisia spicata. 



GENIP TREE. Genipa; also an old 

 "West Indian name for Melicocca bijuga. 



GENISTA. An extensive genus of legu- 

 minous plants, including' the Planta Ge- 

 nista or Plante genet of the French, from 

 which a celebrated race of English kings, 

 the Plantagenets, took their name, in con- 

 sequence of their wearing a sprig of the 

 plant as a distinctive badge. The genus 

 contains more than a hundred species, 

 chiefly abounding in the countries border- 

 ing on the Mediterranean, in Western Asia, 

 and in the Canary islands, three being in- 

 digenous to Britain. They are all small 

 branching shrubs, sometimes armed with 

 spines, seldom growing higher than five 

 or six feet, and often not more than a foot, 

 bearing simple or trifoliolate leaA-es, and 

 abundant yellow flowers, which are pro- 

 duced either singly or in racemes or 

 clusters from the angles of the leaves or 

 at the ends of the branches. They have 

 a five-toothed calyx ; a papilionaceous co- 

 rolla, of which the keel becomes curved 

 backwards after flowering ; ten stamens 

 united into an entire sheath, bearing long 

 and short anthers alternately ; and a flat- 

 tened or sometimes roundish pod con- 

 stricted between the seeds. 



The Petty Whin, G. anglica, is a small 

 prickly straggling English shrub, with nu 

 merous decumbent stems, bearing small 

 lance-shaped leaves and yellow flowers, 

 and armed with sharp spines, whence the 

 plant is frequently called Needle Green- 



