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^o^y^ persistent, 4-7-partite, often irregular ; sepals imbricate in bud. Petals 

 hA ^^9^^^^^ entire or lobed, equal or the posticous larger, open in 

 Dua Buk conspicuous, hypogynous (0 in Oligomeris). Stamens usually 

 ^auy, seated on the disk, free or connate, equal or unequaL Ovary 1-celled, 



w't ^^^^^^ carpels, often lobed at the top and open between the lobes 

 ^ch bear the sessile stigmas ; ovules on 2-6 parietal placentas, amphi- 

 wopous or campylotropous. i^rui^ capsular (a berry in OchraJenus), open 



f 1 i'^P' ^^^^ many, reniform, albumen ; embryo curved or folaed, 

 cotyledons incumbent.- Distrib. Europe, N. Asia, N. and S. Africa ; genera 

 o; species 20. x- * > c 



Petals 4-7, lobed ; ovary syncarpous 1. Reseda. 



petals 2; ovary syncarpous , . 2. Oligomeris. 



Petals 0; ovary syucarpous ; fruit a berry ....•.-. 3. Ochradenus. 



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1. RESEDA, Linn. 



Herbs. Leaves entire, lobed, or pinnatifid; stipules glandular. Cali/x 

 *-7-partite. Petals 4-7, clawed, unequal, multifid, posticous one with a 

 raetubrane above the claw. Bisk broad, dilated posticously. Stam^Tis 10-40. 

 ^vai-i/ sessile or stalked ; placentas 3. Capsiile many-sided, open at the top. 



•JJiSTEiB. Species 26, N. Africa, W. Asia. 



[1^% ^"'■opean R. luteola is found in Affghanistan, and JR. odorata (mignonette), 

 \.a- nilcilierrends, J. Mull. Monog. Kesed. 131), is commonly cultivated. 



pruinosa, Belile Fl jEgyj^t. 



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Mull. Monog. 



^lUs in the Western Punjab, Vicary, &c.— Distrib. Eastward to Egypt. 



tern- ^^\^^ perennial, 1-1 J ft. Leaves 1-2 in., upper with linear segments. Racemes 



itiM^i * ' ^r^ i°-i dense ; bracts subulate, deciduous. CapsuUa oblong or ovoid, short, 

 ^delj gaping. ' 



lea^.*' ^'^c'leri, Boiss. ; Fl. Oi-ient. L 434 ; glabrous or slightly papillose, 

 j^ves obovate-spathulate acute or obtuse, flowers small, bracts linear- 

 *jceoUte. J. MuU. Mmog. lA'^. 



ra»H, ^toc^a.—DisTRiB. Eastwards to Persia. . , ^ 



oranched perennial, 1-2 ft. Leaves 1-2 in., tapering into a long petiole. Ua- 

 "^emimal, dense ; flowers yellowish. Capsules as in R. pruinoaa. 



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2. OZiZGOMERXS 



l&i}^' r ^^^^^ ^near, fascicled. Flowers small, spiked. Cnr/yx 4-partite. 

 0ZlA^i^^ or connate. Bisk 0. JStamens 3-8, free or monadelphous. 

 anXn .^^?^' *"P "Pen, placentas 4 ; ovules many. Capsule snhglobose, 

 s^ea, 4-pomted.— DisTRiB. Species 4 ; 3 S. African, and the followmg. 



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MuU. Monog. 215. Reset 

 L and Jloei. Lond. Joum 



IWb w ^°«JAB, from the Jumna eastward, common ; rare in the Concan hiUs.- 



Au aiiTV,?"*^^""^ *o Spain and the Canaries. ; ^ - , „„ . 



1-2 inf^S; "'°* ; glaucous, much branched herb, 6-12 in. ; branches erect. Leave, 



*«Au2 \-'™'°^l; flowers greenish-wbite. Cajpsule very small, membranous. 



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