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ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 



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the upper part of the plant, clothed with viscid pubescence. The flowers are of a licrht 

 pmk, and very numerous, ° 



^fiie plant figured gives a very imperfect idea of fhesped^^^ alarc^eslze 



but was selected on account of its diminutive growth rendering it so suitable for the purpose' 



Kalanchae grandiflora. Wall. 

 1- A small plant, natural size » 

 2-y. Dissected flower. 



4, Stamen^. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE, 111. 



5. Pollen. 



6. An ovary cut longitudinally- 



7. Cut transversely. 



magnified. 



LXXVI.-CACTE^. 



the country. One circa mTan^.TvlTM '^^^^^ "? '' '' °"^^' ^"""^^ apparently indigenoHS all over 

 is, that I have n'er s oTar ^r^ v -ti 7' "^''" ''''''''^'^' '' '" ^^*^""' ^^ ^^^ introduction, 

 ofmnn, while o"her ^innhr l^t^ ^««'?"^5 ««" serves me, met u'ith it far from the habitations 

 with in the most rem ,"e itut on, t.f ^^ mdi^^enou,, such as the large Euphorbias, are n.et 

 This remark is i S ced S^ '^ «"PP-« "-- ever inhabited, 



eliciting f.,.ts and obser^tforSo'to^etThlte.:;^ "i ^IT^'^ ^" ^^^ circumstance, and 



composing 



ehcitm, fa<,.ts and observations tendmg to set this qlastTon a! r 



it, here ;:« W 'the Zl77:Z''ir'''f/^ " '"^'^'^^ ^''^ '-^>''« "^ ^^- P^-^'.^ - - . 



the cord like ones of SS an ZT '^ ^^pu.'^^^, the triangnlar-win.ed^ ones of CneJ, 

 are for the most par foZicu u^ !i h . T^^ melon-shaped ones of .l/./ocac/... The flowers 

 noc always easy t^o telfXh is ihid!^ "^' ^ ^'^'^'"'^ ^'^^"^'^'"'^ ^'^^ <^-l>-^ to corolU that it is 



the ^a^^r^^n^ltHS ^£^^^ P^^^ls, ei.h. crowning 



gular, inserted at the mouth of he cakx' Sr "»^"?«7^<i«.. usually indefinite, sometimes irre- 



petals and sepals: filaments Ion<., filiform anthpr"' r^'^'''^''': ^"^^'-'''g "^ore or less with the 

 with the tube of the calvv K.olilf !.'''''" .!:^^'^^^^' ^^'S^tde. Ovarium fleshv. cohering 



with the tube of the calyx l-ceffed 31;? J'fi' •?'"'"' r''""'*^- ^v^nam flesh- 

 parietal, as many as the^tiUsr'^f^;i!":±tl^ 'rt'!''^^^ f '^-- -veral. 



oe»as many^ after having lost 



fleshy, cohering 



Placentae 



parieul a. many as the^tUmrr VVurr^^^^^^ , ,-, . - - -- 



their adhesion nestling in a pulp ovate ornl^,,,, 'a , "''• ^"''« '"■'"J: »"" having lost 



spiral : radicle thick, obtuse^ne'^t the hUnm S ' ^^^'TV'""' ^ ""'''^J" ""i-''". '""-i <" 

 ■og, when present fleshy, snlooth, euLe or^spi'S'^Vt::" sesX^^ '''"'"^' "'*^^' "'■"" 



Natural System of 



Botan/Tar^a^d^i^^^^^^^^^^^ con^lereV'"" ,"^ M"'^'^^'^ -^-- ^^y-- - 



were separated „u,re on account of theidirren^^^^^^^^^ ^^ was said they 



ence of structure between the two ; the definite ^ '' '5*" ^^^ '^"y ^««"y important diff^er* 



not bemg esteemed of sufficieHt weight of S^^ albumenous seed of the laiter, 



«m„lar appearance of the two sets o p ants a idet^^^^^^ them, had not the very dis- 



rX?'';' J ^'"^^'.y'^ ^^«^«' ^« explained in he fi.^ /'•'"• Such, as I understand them, 

 takes a different view, and probably a more o rect n '"^'/'"'V"^ ^'' ""'•^- »" t>i« ^e^'^^d he 

 Jeep l^ IT' ^'' «f -"«ther nature ar^l are he^t , 'v' VT. ^' '^y' '^^' " ^^' '^-^ -ffi^i^'^* 



seed which hemg wanting in Cacte^ LdioaTelhe wfnf f 'i' '-^^ ^"^^^^ "^ -">""^^n i° '^e 



t o this reasoning I am «,ni;n„ ». .r^.?^ ^^^. ^^^l' <>f affinity between these orders. 



T^ fk- * ."«"ii»g m uacteaB indicates rha »,a«< V Ai c^^^ess or aiDumen m 



readv r ,n5 ''T"^"? ^ "»^ ^'^"'"g to sub cr be when rl "^ '^ ' '^^ '"^*^«'^ '^^^^ ^^J^'"-^- 



taken f^o^nM f '""'^^^^ ^^^ construct our^econdl'' P'^P^I^'y ^^"'^^^^^^ it seems not improba- 



^ble that if 'T^'^ "^ ^^^ «e«^, but beforewr/ '''" "' ^''''^''-y ^*-««P^ «" chai^^xcters 



femflies ITI °?l^ '^.^'^^ ^ <'«"^ta'nrnot aTucruatin" ''7^'' "' l''*' P'""^ '^ «««'"« ^^ ''^P«'»- 

 1 cTSe n. r^-^'S " t^ '' ^ ^ery high value in on^^ "'/*' *^" '^'"^ ^'••"'^'"'•e i" ^I'^^'ent 



I conceive Dr. Lmdley has doae i/ th? con tru t o^'.^k" l"^ ^ ^'^yJ.- <'- i" ano, her. This 



groups. The presence of albumea 



