292 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOTANY OF [ Cyrtandracea. 
cially in fields of rice and sugar-cane; while O. caryophyllacea of Smith, found in 
Europe, and figured by Ledebour from the Altai mountains, is found at Pungee in 
Kunawur, where we have already seen so many genera and species of those mountains. 
In the upper regions of the Himalaya, which we have seen to approximate to the 
European Flora, we have Lathrea squamaria, which I found in abundance on the 
shoulders of Urrukta. ginetia is peculiar to the country, and the same species, 
Zi. indica, as we have seen in so many other instances, extends from the southern to 
the most northern parts along the forest-covered base of the mountains, as in the Kheree 
Pass, Deyra Doon, and valleys within the Himalayas. 4. abbreviata occurs with the 
last in Silhet and the Indian and Malayan Peninsulas. A doubtful species of Phelipea 
probably grows in similar situations, as it was found mixed with specimens of 4. ab- 
breviata, in the Madras Herbarium. (Benth. Scroph. p. 55.) 
119. LENTIBULAREZ. __ : 
The Lentibularee, frequently placed near Primulacee on account of their 1-celled 
ovarium and free central placenta, are also very closely allied to Scrophularinee, some 
of which, as several Limnophilas, they greatly resemble in habit. Like other plants, 
delighting only in aquatic situations, they indicate more the presence of moisture than 
the nature of the climate ; we therefore find them in many places where this is present, 
though the Pinguiculas affect the colder, and the Utricularias the warmer parts of the 
globe. Of the last, we find many species in India, either floating on pieces of water, 
or luxuriating in the moisture of a rice-field. A few species also occur in Nepal. 
U. stellaris, figured by Dr. Wight (Bot. Misc. Suppl. t.xxvii.), is well worthy the attention 
of the vegetable physiologist for the elegance and size of its utriculi and semi-transparent 
structure, through which many vegetable phenomena might be observed. The admirable 
fitness of these air-bladders for enabling the plant to float on the water, is also worthy 
the attention of those who admire the beautiful adaptation of every thing in the creation, 
for the purposes it is intended to serve. 
120. CYRTANDRACEZ. 
In conformity to the usual custom, I have continued to consider this as a distinct 
family, though it would be safer to unite it, though exalbuminous, with the Gesneriacee, 
as Mr. Brown, in his observations on Avhinia, in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. p. 66, states, 
‘ that in the forthcoming first part of Dr. Horsfield’s Planta Javanice Rariores, 1 have 
entered at some length into the subject of the structure and affinities of Cyrtandracee, 
and the natural family (Gesneriacee@) to which I have referred that tribe.” Professor 
Von Martius also, in his latest work, Conspect. Regni Vegetab., considers them as tribes 
of the same family. The Gesneriacee, generally distinguished from Cyrtandracee by 
having albuminous seed and usually a semi-adherent ovarium, are confined to the 
tropical parts of the New World, from the West-Indies as far south as Rio Janeiro. 
Like the Cyrtandracee, they are closely allied to the three preceding, and to the two 
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