CONSPECTUS OF THE ORDERS CONTAINED IN 
THE FOURTH VOLUME.—SECTION 2. 
Cohort VIII.—Polemoniales. Corolla reguiar. Stamens usually as many 
asthe corolla-lobes and alternate with them, Leaves alternate. 
LXXXVIII. Hyproruytiace®. Corolla-lobes imbricate, rarely contorted. 
Ovules 2-0. Capsule loculicidal. Endosperm copious, fleshy. Herbs or under- 
shrubs. 
LXXXIX. BoraGinex. Corolla-lobes imbricate, rarely contorted. Ovules 1-2 
in each cell. Fruit of two or four 1-2-seeded nutlets or pyrenes. Endosperm 
Scanty or none. Herbs, shrubs or trees. 
XC. CONVOLVULACE®. Corolla-lobes induplicate-valvate, or limb more or less 
plicate. Ovules 1-2 in each cell. Fruit usually capsular, more rarely indehiscent 
and fleshy or woody. Endosperm copious, cartilaginous ; embryo straight. Herbs, 
undershrubs or shrubs, often climbing ; leafless parasites in Cuscuta, 
4 ~XCI. Soranace#. Corolla-lobes induplicate-valvate or imbricate, or limb 
plicate. Ovules numerous. Fruit baccate or capsular. Endosperm fleshy ; embryo 
more or less curved. 
| Cohort IX.—Personales. Corolla more or less irregular or oblique 
Stamens 5-2; when 5 the posticous smaller than the others or infertile. Ovary 
“superior, of 2 carpels. Ovules sometimes 2 to each carpel, usually more, often 
numerous, if 2 superposed, or in a few genera collateral. Fruit usually a capsule. 
XCII. ScroPHULARIACE®. Herbs or small shrubs. Leaves alternate, opposite 
or verticillate, simple. Inflorescence various. Ovary perfectly 2-celled ; ovules 
many on axile placentas. 
XCIII. Oropancuace®. Leafless parasitic herbs. Spikes or racemes terminal, 
few- or many-flowered. Ovary 1-celled; placentas 4, parietal, distinct or fused in 
pairs. 
