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and Loganiacee, near which Lindley places them in his ‘ Vegetable 
Kingdom.’ The free petals and their estivation, the stamens 
inserted on a perigynous disk, not in the tube of an essentially 
gamopetalous corolla, the placentation and other points, appear to 
‚ me to remove them far away from any of the orders between 
Which the Loganiacee form the connecting link. 
The number of genera of Legnotidee now known is nine; 
' but аз they most of them consist of only one or two species, and 
some are but imperfectly known, it is probable that a better ac- 
quaintance with the flora of their chief geographical area—across 
tropical Africa, through the Mascarene Islands, Ceylon and the 
Indian Archipelago to tropical Australia,—may enable their future 
consolidation into natural groups. Of these genera, three, Carallia, 
Pellacalyz and Haplopetalum, have the seed-bearing part of the 
ovary and fruit completely adnate or inferior; three, Gynotroches, 
Crossostyles and Anstrutheria, have the ovary superior, but attached 
by a broad base to the broadly turbinate calyx-tube; and the 
remaining three, Blepharistemma, Dactylopetalum and Cassipourea, 
have the ovary much less dilated at the base, quite free within a 
‘ampanulate or ovoid calyx, as in Lythracee. 
‚ CARALLIA. 
This genus, originally established by Roxburgh, has been more 
accurately described in detail by Blume, Mus. Bot. vol. i. p. 128. 
He shows that although the fruit is often by abortion one-celled 
and one-seeded, the ovary is divided into 4 or rarely 8 or 5 cells 
With 2 pendulous ovules in each; not one-celled, as stated in 
Arnott’s observations, ‘ Ann. Nat. Hist.’ i. p. 371, in consequence 
Probably of Roxburgh’s having so described one of his species. 
Blume also first described the albuminous seeds of Carallia with 
a curved embryo, which I have verified in different specimens of 
C. integerrima, and in the С. lanceafolia also, ва far as I could 
tell in a not quite ripe fruit. | 
With regard to the species of Carallia, they have evidently been 
much multiplied. There is one very common one, extending from 
Ceylon and the Indian Peninsula to Khasiya, China, the Indian 
Archipelago and north-west Australia. The leaves in the Cin- 
galese specimens are often all obovate and very obtuse; in some 
Chinese and Philippine Island ones, narrow-oblong and acumi- 
nate; in the majority of specimens from the greater part of the 
area, oval-elliptical, with or without a short acumen ; but in each 
district these forms appear to pass gradually one ee other, 
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