410 SOLANACE-^. [part it. 



ORDER CXXXVIII.— CORDIACE^. 

 East Ixdia trees and shrubs of which Ehretia 

 is, perhaps, the best known. Nearly allied to 

 Boraginese. 



ORDER CXXXIX HYDROPHYLLE.E. 



This order is interesting from its containing 

 Phacelia, Eutoca, and Nemophila, all well 

 known Californian annuals. 



ORDER CXL.— SOLANACE^ (see Chap. IX. P. 141). 



The genera Verbascum and Celsia have been 

 removed from this order, and formed by some 

 botanists into another called Verbascinse, though 

 by Dr. Lindley they are included in Scrophula- 

 rinae. The plants left in the order Solanacese 

 have all a tubular calyx, which remains on the 

 fruit till it is ripe ; and the fruit itself is gene- 

 rally round and fleshy, with two or four cells 

 and numerous seeds. In some of the genera, 

 the permanent calyx looks like a capsule, but 

 on opening it, the little berry-like fruit will be 

 found inside. There are five stamens, the an- 

 thers of which are two-celled like those of most 

 other plants, and the filaments are inserted in 

 the corolla, which is generally partly tubular 



