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HymenantlieraT^ 



X. VIOLARIE^. 105 



\^v. august if oUa. Leaves quite entire, linear -oblong or linear-cuneatc, obtuse, and not 

 more than 1 m. long. Flowers almost sessile, tlie dorsal scale of the anthers brondly ob- 

 ovate. In all the flowers I have examined, both the anthers and the style appear to be per- 

 Icct— //. anfjusiifolia, R, Br. in DC. Prod. i. 315 ; Hook. f. PL Tasm. i. 27. 



Tasmania, Northern parts of the island. Port Dalrymple, K Brown; Launccston 

 arid summits of the AVestem Mountains to 3000-4000 ft., Arthur's Lakes, and Vale of Belvoir, 

 (junn.JD. Hooker. From the examination of nuuierous specimens, wild as well as culti- 

 vated, I had retained this form as a distinct species ; hut as F. Mueller assures me that in 

 cultivation it passes into the normal form, I have foUowcd him in umtiup; it with //. de?iiata 

 as a variety only. 



Or.D£E XI, BIXINEJE, 



Flowers regular. * Sepals 2 to 6, usually 4 or 5 and imbricate. Petals 

 either none, or as many as the sepals, or iudefiiiite, imbi'icate or contorted iu 

 the bud, deciduous. Stamens hypogynous or slightly perigynous, indefi- 

 nite or very rarely definite. Anthers 2-celledj opening by longitudinal slits or 

 rarely by terminal pores. Torus often bearing glands or a glanduhir disk. 

 Ovary free, usually 1-celled, with 3 or more, rarely 2 or 1, parietal placentas. 

 Styles or stigmas as many as placentas, free or united. Ovules 2 or more to 

 each placenta, ampliitropous or anatropous. Fruit succulent or dry, opening 

 lu valves, bearing the ]j]acentas in the middle, or indehiscciit. Seeds usually 

 ie\v,\vitb a copious and flesliy or rarely thin albumen. Embryo in the a:xis, 

 straight or curved, the radicle next the hiliim, the cotyledons usually broad. 



Trees or shrubs, in one genus twiners. Leaves alternate, simple, and often 

 toothed, or rarely palmately lubed or divided. Flowers axillary or terminal, 

 solitary or in clusters, corymbs, racemes, or panicles. 



A considciahle Order, dispersed over the tropical or warm regions both of the old and the 

 new world. Of the Australian genura, three are common to Asia and Africa, two of the 

 three bein^ also Americau. Tlie species, however, are all endemic, sts is also the fourth ano- 

 nialous genus. 



Anthers lone:, oi)cning in ti-rminal pores. Seeds curved. Trees 



or shrubs. Leaves di-itate. Mowers large 1. Coculosfermum. 



Anthers small, opening longitudinally. Seeds strai-ht. Trees or 

 shrubs. Leaves simple, ^l-'lowers small. 

 ^epals 4 to 6. Petals as many. Anthers with an appendage 2. Scolopia. 

 Sepals 4 to 6. Petals none. Anthers without any appendage 3. Xylosha. 

 Authers ]on;r, opening lougitudiually. Embryo very small. 

 Stem twining. Leaves simple *- Sxkeptothamntts. 



COCHLOSPERMTJM 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, imbricate, deciduous. Petals 5, large. 

 Stamens numerous. Anthers oblong or linear, opening in terminiil pores or 

 ^^cry short fissures, riacentas 3 to 5, projectiJig more or less into the cavity 

 of the ovary, with nnmerous ovules. Style simple. Capsule 3- to 5-valved, 

 t^ie membranous endocarp separating 'from the pericarp. Seeds kulney- 

 sjiapcd or spirally curved, covered with wool or bordered by long hairs.— 

 ■l^s, shrubs, or rarely undcrshrubs, usually yielding a yellow juice. Leaves 

 palmately lobcd or divided, liacemcs loose, few -flowered, in the upper axils 

 ^i' iu'terminal panicles. Flowers large, yellow. 



