24 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 



show of rpason, as the points of distinction between the two are few, and some of them 1 think 



unimportanl. 'J he principal are the absence of a style, the stigmas equaling the number of the 

 cells of the ovary, sessile and pencillate or papulose, and lastly, the seed being albuminous and 

 pendulous in place of exallmminous and erect or ascending. Judging from analogy, the absence 

 or presence of a style can he of huf secondary importance, so also the character of the stigma whe- 

 ther capitate or divided. In Trapa the seed are equally pendulous, and some true Hatora^eae 

 have a sparing albumen. For these reasons I should perhaps at this time have folbwed LindTey's 

 view had we not already adopted the other in our Prodromus, and my departing from it here 

 might fend io cause confusion. 



The Indian species of this order, excluding CalUtricJiineae , all belong \:o the tribe or sub- 

 order Cercodeers and are referable to three genera, Haloragis, Myriophyllnm, and Senncula, 

 species of each of which are found on Hih Neilgherries. Hippuris a peculiarly northern genus* 

 has not, so far as I am aware, been yet found in India. As in the Prodromus we have con- 

 fined ourselves to giving the character of the tribe Cercodeece, I shall here give Lindley's char- 

 acter of the order, or, as he views it, sub order. 



« Calyx superior, with a minute limb, petals minute, inserted into the summit of the calyx 

 or wanting. Stamens inserted in the same place, equal in number to the petals, or occasionally 

 fewer. Ovary adhering inseparably to the calyx, with 1 or more cells; style none ; stismas 

 equal in number to the cells, papulose, or pencil-formed; ovules pendulous ; albumen fleshy; 

 embryo straight, in the axis; radicle superior, long and taper ; cotyledons minute. Herba- 



ZZUaT' m ""^^^-^^.^«'^«^ often growing in wet places. Leaves either alternate, opposite, 

 w whorled. 1 lowers axillary, sessile, occasionally moncEcious or diaecious." 



4 



Affinities. These hare been already sufficiently explained. 



Holla^nd" and'so'ulh sl\7ZT\ ^'"''^'' ^""' ■'*"'"'''«• ^f"'"' !»*«. China, Japan, Ne^ 

 Moiianrt, and bouth bea Islands, all claim representatives of this order, thooeh the whole 



ro« ha„ r.Tstt h"rbaria^''fh'"^-''"l ""'^ TT"''.'" ^^' »<' Probablyaf .hi time not 



Properties and Uses. None of any importance have yet been discovered 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 102. 



Mynoplylhm intermedium. ^ rp. ^ ^„_ , , , ^ 



1. flowering phnt-natural size. J' J.^f ,f ™" ^^t^ohed, 



2. A male flower. J- V , ^'^^'^sversely. 



3. The same opened to show the insertioa of the sta 10 \f ^'"^«<* ^^yP^*- , 



'" 1?: i rr^ ALT."??.-"^,. ^^^ P-^"lous seed 



mens. 



4. A stamen. 



5. A bisexual flower, 



6. Fruit— ?n situ. 



11. Embryo detached from the albumen. 



la. A cluster of flowers in situ. 



13. A leaf— «« more or less magnijied. 



LXVIII.-CUCURBITACE^. 



re^orsTf'th?erh"lftr^:^^^^^^^^ to the tropics and warmer 



met with dimbingin almost every heLrdtWuT f^ ^''^'^^ ^^^"^^^ ^hat they are to be 

 the surface of th! ground. Thos^ft^ientin; tt V^^^^^ -re equally frequent spreading over 

 size as completely to%over large trees with S 1^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^»" so great a 



order and some of the specie's very extensi'l r^^^^^^ '^^"^^ a well known 



stood, its structure and habits being^ so Sa^b^ >■!?'«?' '/'" ^^^ ^^^^™ ^eing well under- 

 to compare it. and learn, by analog^y, L^ u riatiis in Ik""^' *° ^"^ ^"^ ^^^^^ ^^'^ ^»^'^^ 



order thus stands almost alone, in f manner isolate "^i^" I^! ''^'}^^^' '^i"?^!-"^- While the 



and its species can 



