' POLEMONIACEJE. (POLEMONIUM FAMILY.) 337 
Diffuse, hairy herbs, with alternate, entire leaves, and axillary and terminal sin- 
gle, clustered, or cymose purple or white flowers. 
1. N. Jamaicensis, L. Pubescent; stems prostrate, diffusely branched, 
angled or slightly winged by the decurrent leaves; leaves spatulate-obovate, 
obtuse, tapering into a petiole ; flowers solitary or 2-3 together, short-pedun- 
cled; calyx-lobes linear, ciliate, as long as the corolla; capsule oblong, splitting 
loculicidally into 2 valves, and at length septicidally into 4 valves, leaving the 2 
placentz free, — South Florida. — Stem 12-18’ long. Leaves }/-1! long. 
Corolla anall, purple, ciliate. Capsule 4-angled, smooth. 
Orper 98. POLEMONIACEÆ. (Pprrwowiux Faux.) 
Chiefly herbs, with opposite or alternate leaves, and regular solitary or 
cymose flowers. — Calyx 5-cleft or 5-parted, with membranaceous-mar- 
gined lobes, imbricated in the bud. Corolla 5-lobed, convolute or (in No. 
4) imbricated in the bud. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube of the corolla. 
Ovary 3-celled, with 3 — many amphitropous ovules attached to the cen- 
tral placenta. Style 3-cleft. Capsule 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved. 
Seeds angular. Embryo orbs in the axis of icum albumen. Eid 
dons leafy. Radicle inferior, ^ — 
Svante. 
Tazz L POLEMONIEZE. — Lobes of the corolla convolute in the bud. Anther-cells 
parallel, opening lengthwise. 
l PHLOX. Corolla salyer-form. Filaments unequally inserted on the tube. Leaves entire. 
2. GILIA. Corolla tubular-funnel-shaped. Filaments equally inserted near the throat of the 
corolla. Leaves pinnately divided. 
3 POLEMONIUM. Corolla short-bell-shaped. Filaments inserted on the throat of the co- 
rolla. Leaves pinnate. 
Tree IH. DIAPENSIE XK. — Lobes of the corolla imbrícated in the bud. Anther-cells 
opening transversely. : 
4 Ne Anther-cells awned at the base. Leaves entire. Flowers solitary. 
L PHLOX, L 
Calyx cylindrical or bell-shaped, 5-cleft. Corolla salver-form, with a long mi 
slender tube, and obovate or roundish lobes. Stamens 5, included, unequally 
inserted on the tube. Style filiform. Ovules solitary in the cells. Capsule 
ovoid, 1-3-seeded ; the valves at length separating from the central placenta. 
Seeds erect. — Mostly perennial herbs, with opposite or (the upper) alternate 
entire leaves, and showy purple or white flowers in terminal panicled cymes. 
§ 1. Stems herbaceous, erect or ascending. 
* ian calyx-teeth lanceolate-subulate, not awn-pointed (nyi 
H: lobes of the corolla entire. — © 
a P. paniculata, L. Smooth; iir 
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