ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 57 



In the accompanying plafe (No. 117) T have giren tlif?sections of one spccins of each of 

 DeCandolle's tribes found in this part of India, in which I have endeavoar^nl to represent their 

 respective peculiarities, an attempt in which I fear, owin^^ partly to the minuteness of ihe ob- 

 jects and theoretical character of the distinctions, and partly to the imperfections of the graphic 

 art amont; us, I have not succeeded to the extent I could have wished. 



In explanation of these dissections 1 shall now subjoin his abridged charac(ers of each tribe. 



L Suborder ORTHOSPERMiE. Albumen flat, or nearly so, within, neither involute nor 



convolute, next the commissure. 



feet. Fruit icithout vlttae. 



o 



1. HvDROcoTYLKAR. Fruit compressed laterally; Mericarps convex or acute on the back. 



Hijdrocofijle polycephala. 



2. Saniculkar. Fruit ovate globose. Sanicnia elafa. 



* * Umbels compound or perfect ; vittne in the fruit various, rarely wanti 



t Pancijugate^ namely^ furnished with primary ridges ordy. 



3. Ammenear* Fruit laterally compressed or dedymous. Ptychotis ajowan. 



4. Seselineae. a transverse section of the fruit, round or roundish or witli the miricarps some- 



what compressed on the back. Foeniculam vulgare. 



5. Peuckda\!^ae. Fruit compressed from the back of the mericarps, raphe marginal, margin 



on each sidej. //i 



t t Multi/u^at 



( 



/ 



and secondary ridges 



6 CuMiNEAE. Fruit from the sides of the mericarps somewhat compressed all the ridges wing- 

 less. (The transverse section in the figure does not very well correspond with this charac- 

 ter, perhaps the fault of the draftsman.) Ciiminum Cywinum, 



'. Daucinkab. Fruit somewhat compressed or round from the l)ack of (he mericarps, with the 

 lateral priniary ridges placed on the flat commissure, the secondary ones either expanded 

 into free prickles or the prickles united into a wing. Daucus Carola, 



(The transverse section of the figure does not agree well with the character,! believe from 

 having had bad subjects to represent). 



II. Suborder CAMPYLOSPERMAE. Albumen marked with a longitudinal furrow, owing to 



the involute margins. 



t 



Caucalinrjs. fruit laterally contracted or roundish, 



placed 



the plain of the commissure, all the secondary ones expanded into prickles or bristles. 



t t Paucijugate. 

 8. ScANDiciNEAE. Ffuit laterally compressed or Contracted, elongated, often beaked. Ozadla 



faenicula 



C^LOSPERM 



dinally, that is from the base to the apex. 



longifu- 



(A very useless division, as the few genera belonging to it might have been with equal 

 convenience referred to the first.) 



9. CoRiANOREAE. Fruit laterally contracted and didymous or subglobose, primary and secon- 

 dary ridges wingless, often scarcely distinct. Coriandrum sativum, 



Caucalineaeis omitted in the plate, partly for want of room, partly because I do not think 

 it a native of this part of India. * 



That Tausch's classification might not be altogether unknown among us I shall now give 



belong 



bes, indicating under each the name of the subtribes and 



