GUTTIFERJE. 
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A shrubby plant, 1-2 feet in height, mueh and dichotomous] y 
branched, of a brownish colour, chaflfy : branchlets compressed 
ancipital. Leaves opposite, sessile, oblongo-linear, blunt, gla- 
brous, minutely pellucido-punctulated : glandules 2 at the base 
of the leaf at its insertion. Flowers terminal, solitary, pedi- 
eelled, yellow. Calyx, the 2 outer sepals small and linear ; the 
2 inner large, subrotundo-ovate, nerved, pellucido-punctulated, 
enclosing the petals, than which they are about 3 times larger, 
persistent. Petals spreading, cruciate, oblong, subacute. Sta- 
mens numerous, shorter than the petals; anthers roundish. 
Ovary oblongo-ovate, compressed; styles 2, short, erect, op- 
pressed : stigmata obtuse. Capsule covered with the mares- 
cent inner sepals of the calyx, oblong, compressed, apiculated 
with the persistent styles, 1-celled, 2-valved, many-seeded. 
Seeds oblongo-cylindrical, minutely scrobieulate, attached to the 
inflected edges of the valves of the capsule. 
According to the character of this Order, given by De Can- 
dolle, the fruit is many-celled. There is an exception in this 
species at least. It is also stated, that the number of styles 
correspond to that of the cells, whereas in the plant before us, 
it is to that of the placentae, which are attached along the in- 
flected margins of the valves. This plant delights in clayey 
soils, and is usually found in mountain pastures with the fox- 
tailed grass and the broom (Calea scoi*aria). No description 
of stock appear to feed upon it. The Negro women tie 
bunches of it together, and make use of it as a broom, for 
which purpose it is well adapted. 
ORDER XXXV. GUTTIFERfE. 
Calycine sepals 2-0, persistent, rounded, imbri- 
cated, opposite. Petals hypogynous, 4-10, generally 
yellow. Flowers hermaphrodite, monoecious, dioeci- 
ous, or polygamous. Stamens numerous, hypogy- 
nous, rarely definite : anthers elongated, longitudi- 
nally dehiscent on the inner surface. Ovary 1, free : 
style none, or single, and usually short : stigma 
either sessile and peltato-radiated, or at the apex of the 
style and many-lobed. Capsule berried, or a berry 
or drupe, with the pericarp corticose, thick and many- 
valved ; either one-celled, few-seeded, dry or filled 
