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with the Mesembryanthemums, but it is found so essentially different from that order, that it is now formed into 
an order of its own, and placed in a different division of the Natural System. The chief peculiarity which dis- 
tinguishes these plants from the genus Mesembryanthemum is, that the stamens grow from below the seed-vessel 
instead of being attached to the calyx. 
GENUS I. 
REAUMURIA Lin. THE REAUMURIA. 
PDD DDD III 
Lin. Syst. POLYANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Generic Cuaracter.—Calyx five-parted, inyolucrated by leaves on | Capsule five-celled, five-valved ; dissepiments easily separated from the 
the outside. Petals five, furnished with a ciliated appendage on each | valves; sceds two in each cell, very hairy. (G. Don.) 
side at the base. Ovarium distinct. Stigmas five or six, filiform. 
Description, &c. 

There are only two species belonging to this genus, and they are both oriental shrubs, with 
fleshy dotted leaves, which exude globules of saline alkali, and are of a glaucous colour. The flowers are produced 
at the ends of the branches. The genus is named after the celebrated entomologist Reaumur. 
1.—REAUMURIA HYPERICOIDES Willd. THE HYPERICUM-LIKE REAUMURIA. 
Synonymes.—R. linifolia Salisb.; R. cistoides Zin. ; R. vermiculata var. 8 Buxb.; Hypericum alternifolium Zab. 
Eneravines.—Bot. Mag., t. 2057; Bot. Reg., t. 845 5 and our fig. 4, in Pl. 14. 
Speciric Cuaracter. — Leayes lanceolate, flat, rather remote. (G, Don.) 
Description, &c.—This species is a native of Syria and Persia, in dry sandy places. The stem is half shrubby; 
and the leaves are narrow, fleshy, and covered with glandular dots. The leaves, when chewed, have a slightly acid 
and yet salt taste. The plant was introduced about the year 1800; and it flowers from May till August. The 
flowers are pretty, and rather singular, as the petals are of a reddish purple, and the anthers are blue. The hairs 
on the seeds are quite woolly. The plant should be kept in a greenhouse, but it does not require any 

extraordinary heat. 

OTHER SPECIES OF REAUMURIA. 
R. VERMICULATA Lin. 
This species is a native of Sicily, Barbary, and Egypt. ‘The flowers are of a pale red; and the hairs on the 
seeds are of a rusty colour and very stiff. The plant flowers from July to October, and it was introduced in 1828. 
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SAPINDACE A Dec. 
Description, &c.—Only two or three plants belonging to this order can be called ornamental, and even those 
rather belong to the stove than to the greenhouse. Most of the species, indeed, are natives of the Hast Indies, 
Jamaica, and the west coast of Africa, so that they require great heat to be grown at all in this country. There is, 
however, one hardy tree, the K6lreuteria paniculata, and one ornamental greenhouse shrub, Diplopeltis Hiigelii, a 
native of New Holland, introduced in 1838. Itisa pretty little plant, with small pink flowers and glaucous leaves: 
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