36 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
XIII. —RESEDACEA. 
A small, extra tropical, order of herbaceous or suffraticose plants, with alternate, simple, 
entire, or pinnatifid, exstipulate, leaves ; hermaphrodite flowers, arranged in terminal 
racemes, having their pedicels furnished with bractoles. soe é 
Calyx 4 to 6 parted, persistent, slightly imbricated in cestivation. Petals usually equaling 
the number of sepals, hypogenous, deciduous, unequal, the larger ones behind, lacerated, with a 
broad claw. Stamens 10 to 20; free, not covered during cestivation. Torus short or resembling 
a stipes, usually bearing under the stamens, an obtuse nectariferous scale, Carpels 3 to 6, each 
with 1 style, distinct, or united into a single |-celled ovarium, open at the apex ; placentas 
several, parietal, nerve-like, many-ovuled: ovules pendulous. Fruit either consisting of several 
follicles dehiscing internally, or of a unilocular polyspermons capsule, dehisciug at the apex. 
eeds pendulous, testa crustacious: albumen thin : embryo curved, terate, radicle superior, coty- 
ledons fleshy semi-cylindrical. 
_ Arrinitizs. The nearest affinity of this order is to Capparidee, with which it has many 
points of agreement, such as the parietal placenta, reniform seed, tapering curved embryo, &c. 
Also the ] arge disk from which the stamens arise. 
_Groorapuicat Disrrisution, This order is almost entirely confined to Europe. The 
specimen from which the accompanying figure was taken, was however gathered on the Neilgher- 
ries, and under circumstances that seemed to indicate its being a native, but I greatly fear that 
it is an introduced plant. 
,in spite of its very unpretending flowers, has received in France, the distinguished 
amo ome gardeners, by the application of heat to the pots, in which it is 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 15, 
1. Flowering branch of reseda alba—natural size. int , ‘ 
Nagata eee y show the relative paler ag of Hoey song ae et qonweeling the potions 
48, petals, and stamens. 6. The same laid open to show the pedicel 
Shot detached petal. 4. Anthers back and front “i Ovary laid opee,. showing the pecicial placente, 
5. Stamens and ovary, showing the filaments united ee 
XIV.—FLACOURTIAN Ed, 
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flowers. : “ty, Solitary, or racemose, hermaphrodite or unisexual 
withered pulp. flac oaks er the surface of the Hine irregularly attached 
umned towards the hilum ; cotyledons fat fole ioe en em2° straight in the axis, with the radicle 
ped ina pellicle of dry 
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