204 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 86. 
1. Photiana notoniana—natural size. 7. Ovary cut transversely, 2-celled, and two ovules 9 
2. An expanded flower, side view. each. a 
3. Front view. 8. A fruit nearly mature cut transversely, two of th 
4. The same dissected, showing the stamens and the © ovules aborted. 
ovaty forcibly detached from the calyx tube. 9. A seed—natural size. 
5. Stamens. 10. Magnified. 
6. The ovary cut vertically, showing its cohesion with 11. Cut transversely. 
the calyx. 12. Cut vertically. 
13. Cotyledons and embryo detached. 
LVIII.—SALICARIEA. 
In most modern works on Botany this order occurs under the name of Lythrariae, owing, T 
presume, to the genus Salicaria, having been reduced to the older one Lythrum. We have 
however retained older name Salicarieae in our Prodromus, and [ continue to adopt it from not 
seeing adequate grounds for changing an eae established name of an order, because the genus 
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- Calyx tubular or campanulate, lobed, the 
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next the hilam: cotyledons flat and foliaceous 
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resemblance to Celastraceae is com- 
