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has two or four cells, and as many seeds. Some 

 botanists make Halesiacere a separate order. 



ORDER CXX.— MYRSINE^. 



Showy shrubs, with evergreen leaves, and 

 cymes of white or red flowers, which require a 

 stove or greenhouse in England. The plants 

 belonging to this order may be easily known on 

 cutting open their flowers, as they are the only 

 nionopetalous flowers among the stove plants 

 that have the stamens opposite the lobes of the 

 corolla ; the general position of the stamens 

 being between the lobes. The principal genera 

 in this order are Myrsine, the species of which 

 are greenhouse shrubs ; and Ardisia, the latter 

 being well-known stove shrubs, with white 

 flowers and red berries. Theophrasta, Clavija, 

 and Jacquinia, were included in this order; but 

 they are now formed into a new one, under the 

 name of Theophrasteae. 



ORDER CXXL— SAPOTE^. 



This order is best known by the genera Arga- 

 nia, SideroxT/lon, Chrysophyllum^ and Bumelia, 

 all of which are stove or greenhouse plants. 

 The seeds ofAchras Sapota contain abundance of 



