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2-loculares, lociilis parallelis introrsis rima longitudinali, dorso 
affixse. Discus 0. Ovarium 2-carpellatum, 2-loculare, compres- 
sum, integrum, parte triente inf era, inf erne glabrum, superne 
basin styli circum dense albido-setosum; stylus validus, calycis 
lobis subsequilongus, adpresse rigide pilosus, bifidus, stigmatibus 
parvis terminalibus ; ovula anatropa, in loculo quoque solitaria 
(plerumque in uno abortivum?), ab placentis sub apice septi medii 
affixis pendula, funiculo brevi. Capsula oblique subobcordata, 
inaequaliter bilobata, complanata, bilocularia, loculo majore vacuo, 
angusti-septata, loculicide dehiscentia, valvis coriaceis a septo 
crustaceo tenui uninervio in loculum vacuum convexo semenque 
amplectente secedentibus, extus adpressis rigidis pilis vestita. 
Semen solitarium, septo pendulum, complanatum, obliquum, 
superne truncatum, inferne acutum, testa tenui comosa; embryo 
magnus, cotyledonibus carnosis ovatis plano-convexis accum- 
bentibus radicula longioribus, radicula supera tereti, albumine 
nullo.— Suffrutex pulvinatus, parvus, ramis congestis, omnino 
pilis rigidis adpressis vestitus. Dolia alterna, subimbricata, anguste 
spatbulata v. obovata, obtusa. Stipulse 0. Flores in axillis sessiles, 
spicas unilaterales breves formantes. 
Genus monotypicum anomalum pluribus notis Boragineis et Ver- 
benaceis maxime affine, ab illis fructu capsulari ovuloque pendulo 
differt, ab his ob cotyledones accumbentes, radiculam superam, 
foliorum cbaracteres babitumque exclusum. 
W, socoTRANA, Balf, fit. : species unica in campis Socotrse 
Insulae crescens. B.C.S. No. 569. Hunter. 
ILLECEBRACE^. 
Haya, Balf. fil. 
Flores hermapbroditi, parvi, ad nodes glomerati, bracteis scariosis 
stipuliformibus involucrati. Periantbium 5-partitum, album; seg- 
menta aequalia, oblonga, obtusa, mutica, erosa v. emarginata, tenuia, 
enervia, basi subcrassa. Stamina 5, basi segmentorum inserta, 
Btamiuodiis minutissimis alternantia, filamentis subulatis ; antlierae 
