252 '^'HE BOTAI^ICA L MA OAZINE. ^VjI. xxv. n... 299. 



Division. EMBRYOPHYTA SIPHONOGAMA. 

 Subdivision. Angiosperm^. 

 Class. DICOTYLEDONEM. 



Subclass. AJRCHICHLAMYDE^. 



Series. Mitrastemonales Makino, no v. 



Flower hermaphrodite. Perigone simple, truncate. Co- 

 rolla O. Stamens monadelphous. Ovary superior, 1-celled ; 

 ovules numerous, on the septiform parietal placentas. Fruit 

 baccate. Seeds numerous, minute. Parasitic herb. 



This series may be placed near the Nepetithales . 



Family. M ITRASTEMON ACE^ Makino, nov. 



Flower regular, hermaphrodite. Perigone simple and gamo- 

 phyllous, truncate with an entire-margined mouth, erect, thickish, 

 persistent. Corolla O. Stamen hypogynous, 1-seriate but en- 

 tirely united into one and mitriform, erect, much exserted, at first 

 loosely capped upon the style and stigma and then deciduous ; 

 synema cylindraceo-tubular, firm ; anthers united into a belt-like 

 broad ring, extrorse, porous-dehiscing, at first covered with a 

 very thin membrane all over and sc Dn irregularly bursting, the 

 connective-tip depressed-conijal, provided with a minute closed 

 orifice at the top, firm ; pollen fleshy, sphserical, smooth, ^^ellow. 

 Ovary solitar}^ superior, free, large, ovoid-globular, sessile, 

 1-celled, with very prominent lamellose distinct septiform parietal 

 placentas, which are covered bj^ the very numerous ovules ; style 

 solitary, terminal, thick, short, sub-jointed to the ovary; 

 stigma terminal, thick, semisphasrico-conical, sub-bilobed at the 

 top. Ovules minute, with a funicule, anatropous ; integument 

 cellulated. Fruit baccate, indehiscent (?), many-seeded. Seeds 

 minute, covering the lamellate placentas ; testa hard, reticulated. 

 Embryo 



Parasitic herb on the bark of the root of a dicotyledonous plant, 

 Quercus cuspidata Thunb., glabrous, cream-pale. Volva short- 

 globular, distant or aggregated, annual. Stem solitary, simple, 

 erect, carnose, squamose, annual ; scales conspicuous, ooposite, 



