420) 2. CARYOPHYLLEZ (Sond.) [Dianthus. 
According to Eck. & Zey. the Hottentots call this plant ‘‘ Daweep,” and the Boers 
‘* Abiquasgeelhout.” The species is found also in North Africa, Arabia, and Persia. 
Orver XVIII. CARYOPHYLLEA, Juss. 
(By W. Sonver.) 
(Caryophyllez, Juss. Gen. 299. DC. Prod. 1. p. 388. Endl. Gen, 
No. cevii.; and part of Portulacex, Endl. cevi. Caryophyllaces, Lindl. 
Veg. Kingd No. clxxxviii., and Hlecebracex, No. clxxxix.) 
Flowers regular, sometimes apetalous. Calyx free, persistent, 4-5 cleft 
or parted, with imbricated estivation. Petals as many as the calyx 
lobes (rarely indefinite) or none, hypogynous or slightly perigynous. 
Stamens as many or twice as many as the calyx lobes, rarely fewer or 
more numerous, hypogynous or slightly perigynous; filaments slender, 
free, or connate at base. Ovary free, sessile or stipitate, unilocular, or 
imperfectly or completely 3-5 locular; ovules one or many, on cords 
_ rising from the base of the ovary or from axile placentz ; styles or fili- 
form stigmas as many as the carpels. Fruit dry, either a one-seeded 
 wtricle or a mariy-seeded, dehiscent capsule; very rarely baccate. Seeds 
reniform or lenticular, with floury albumen. mbryo excentric, curved 
round the margin of the seed; the radicle next the hilum. 
Herbs, rarely suffrutices, of small size, dichotomously or trichotomously, rarely 
2 win but oe. in their stipules, and in general aspect they harmonize so 
however, Dr. 
. Harvey is alone responsible; and at his suggestion Acrosanthes and 
rebiy 
_ general habit, All the Sub-Orders are very closely alli 
Forealand: ae eee d ; and to Chenope insets tal Aeaealbaetes antacee on the other; 
‘De Candollean system, we are compelled to place thei in diffrent sub-division. 
