CONSPECTUS OF THE ORDERS CONTAINED IN 
L THE FIFTH VOLUME. 
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Cohort xxiv. Personales (continued).— Corolla more or less irregular or 
Ovary superior, of 2 carpels. Ovules sometimes 2 to each carpel, usually more, 
often numerous, tf 2 superposed, or in a few genera collateral, Fruit usually a 
capsule. 
XCVIII, ACANTHACEA. Calyx divided nearly to the base. Ovary 2-celled 
(1-celled in Afromendoncia) ; ovules 2 in each cell or more, superposed (collateral in 
|! Thunbergia and Afromendoncia), rarely solitary. Fruit a loculicidal capsule (a drupe 
jin Afromendoncia and Gilletiella); valves of the capsule often rising elastically. 
Seeds exalbuminous, borne on retinacula except in the first tive genera, Hiernia and 
1 @illetietla. 
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| | oblique. Stamens 5-2; when 5 the posticous smaller than the others or infertile, 
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Cohort xxv. Lamiales.— Corolla more or less irregular or oblique. Perfect 
stamens 4 or 2, the posticous absent or at least infertile. Ovary superior, of 2 carpels, 
rarely 1 by abortion, each with 1 or 2 collateral ovules, or very rarely with more, 
‘« Fruit usually enclosed in the calyx, of 1-seeded (rarely 2- or more-seeded) nucules, 
veru rarely dehiscent. 
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te XCIX. Myoportnem, Shrubs, rarely trees, usually with simple alternate leaves, 
} ‘lowers axillary, Ovary normally 2-celled but often spuriously many-celled. Radicle 
iy uperior. 
{ C, SELAGINER, Small heath-like shrubs or undershrubs, or tufted perennial 
ierbs, usually with simple alternate leaves. Flowers in terminal spikes or corymbvuse 
' janicles, Ovary 2-celled, or 1-celled by abortion. Radicle superior. 
