20 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
e following extract from the same work, (Lindley’s Natural System of Botany) explains 
the changes of position which the seed undergoes, in its progress from the ovule, to the mature 
fruit 
the side of a straight ovary, which after fecundation gradually incurves its apex until the style 
touches the base of the pericarp, when the two surfaces being thus brought into contact unite, 
and a drupe is formed, theseed of which is curved like a horse-shoe, and the cavity of which is 
divided by a spurious incomplete dissepiment, consisting of two plates : the attachment of the 
seed is at the top of the false dissepiment, on each side of which it extends equally. 
P|. Usuelles, No. 35. The whole order requires careful revision by means of living plants, and 
is well worth the especial attention of some Indian botanist,” 
Grocraputcat Disrersution, As already stated, this is mainly a tropical order, the 
species of which are, with a few exceptions, natives of America, and Asia Only five are 
nown from Africa, and Siberia has one. : € mentions some species as extending up. 
to the foot of the Himalayas, and states that, Coceulus laurifolius is o 
on these mountains, of from 3,000 to 5,000 feet. Of the 
order, it seems at present impossible to do more than mak 
which prevails in regard to them: many having been describ 
names, or vice versd, two or three under one. ee 
. 
though moderate, will he found rath 
of the actual number, on excluding 
a member of this order 
er to exceed than fall 
r. R. Brown does not consider 
y, So strong] I ; 
Transactions,) is statin. dooce g J oe as a febrifuge, (s 
o pervade every member of the order. The Cocculus (meni 
f , . . = = ; 
Successfully cultivated in Madras, but being confined to a minecabindy : 
