126 RUBIACE^E. [CI. 11. 



a chaffy Common Receptacle, surrounded by a Com- 

 mon Calyx of many leaves." 



Morina, Dipsacus, Scabiosa, fig. 5-7, Knautia, Al- 

 lionia, and Valeriana are the genera, all except the 

 last having- aggregate Flowers. 



Ord. 57. Rubiace^:. " Calyx simple, it's limb 

 almost always divided. Corolla regular, mostly tu- 

 bular, with a divided limb. Stamens definite, 4 or 

 5, seldom more, inserted into the tube of the Corolla, 

 alternate with it's segments, and agreeing with them 

 in number. Germen inferior. Style 1, very rarely 2. 

 Stigmas generally 2. Fruit either of 2 single-seeded 

 lobes or grains, not bursting, and resembling naked 

 seeds; or a capsular or pulpy Pericarp, often of 2 

 cells, with 1 or many Seeds in each ; sometimes of 

 only I cell, or of many : it is either crowned with the 

 permanent Calyx, or naked" (having a scar where the 

 Calyx has been). "Embryo oblong, slender, in a large, 

 horny, lateral Albumen. Stem herbaceous, shrubby 

 or arboreous. Leaves (simple) in a few instances 

 whorled, in most opposite, their Footstalks combined 

 at the base either by a simple sheathing intrafolia- 

 ceous Stipula, or a fringed membranous lax one." 



A vast and important Order, which Jussieu has all 

 the merit of having brought into due notice. The pecu- 

 liar stipulation is, in the shrubby gen era, a ready mark 

 of distinction. There are eleven Sections, of which the 

 first two might well constitute an Order by them- 

 selves ; the rest are mostly tropical, with woody Stems. 



