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ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 



who happens to find an accidental variation of plant, not comiRg within the very narrow lines of 



demarkation which separate such genera, the right of at once constituting it a new genu An 

 Ivy by having a narrower more contracted calvx limh hfinnm«« PnmtJ'r.r.i. „- u?u .L^. 



ivy by having a narrower more contracted calyx limb becomes Paratropia, or b? havin. its 

 styles cohering and somewhat elongated becomes a Giliberlia, or if its petals cohere LdfalHik 



fn^n^^^'^^'^rr'^'^r^'^'PT^^ when dried specimens are under examiraUon itCst 

 foSaodaphytlurn Can any thing be more trifling ? can the authors themrelve of such ' 

 neric charac ers look at them when thus analysed and contrasted, without sm ling ' ^ 



rlp^H T/ 5T^^ "''^ °'''^ f''^' y^^ ^^^'"S an ovary with only 2 or S-TeHs has its limits 

 Semtl [ f^o^ t'"Sr T^ -Portant point of Itructure,\u^? m^^^ 



gen.;\tr ct^dt^r^^^^^^^^ ^^± [^ another good 



Wall 



merit not the dis- 

 genera on such 



wwv..^., VI uciug laKen into account as generic charar-fpr^ . ^r.A f il- V 



oiwus, in both the perilnthl 4 ZShfjJtTT"'" ''^'"^"'i"«<l «' Ji'tincf ^Both are ai- 



the filaments united at the bLe S a .t"wi-,^'' '",^'""'io". the stamens in both are 4, 



dromus is erroneous) in both the anthVrT. f '^'.'"" 1"? '?'* P"'"' <>" «''»''"=•" i" 'h« P"' 



giludindly, in both {^^81°™ i, twh,in?.r f''"^ ''V''"'^ ''''='' ""^ ">= ''»«e. dehiscing Ion- 

 apex of the peduncles^Sng , "artlm in ,T' "''"""^ 'h^ Aowera congregated on the 

 base of the pedicels in botTafe furnkS . ?!. ""'t and a simple umbel in the other, the 

 »...d lastly, tfe structure of the stem is1hf slme ■nZh''Th'' ""'"" ^'"' ''"'"» " ^'J"»'""' 

 ln,rably represented by Mr. Griffith in Wallich's PA l^"' 'i',!","?' ™™«^,"Oocly plates so ad- 



s 



fion goes, only 



position which the identity of the lirionT!^ 

 floral one tends to confirm ,- tha strucrrpK." '''^^'' '^'" ,'^^'^ ^'^^'^ the similarity of the 

 order to which the genus belongs let "1 ^^ ^'^ unknown beyond this genus. The 



having referred one species and Meisner anXr %.'' I'" f.^^ermined. The circumstance of our 

 order finally proving its station hu untU thp L t^^«f «^^f seems strongly in favour of this 

 mere conjecture. ^' ^"^ "^^U the female plant has been discovered this r«sts on 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE lis. 



Paratroph venulosa. W. and A. . , 



1. Jiowering branch, natural size. . **' A Ao^cr, the petals separated at the base, but still 



L\!Z:Zr' " ^^^^ ''^ -lative position ofthe ""TT^Z^l^l ^^^ '— ' 



petals and stamens. " ^"'""^ ^ P'^^'^'o^ «f the sf An umbel of fruit 



ov^jIndTtigui?'''^' ''^'^"^'^'^ ^^«^»"S t^« stamens, each.^ ^""^' '"* ^^^"^^'^^-^^^y. 5-ceUed, with one «eed in 



«^all dTsr(epl;7n^^^^^^^^^ usually forming at its extremity a 



c l?r "^''^'^^ "'^^^ '^'^ calyx -tube PeLl?' ^' f ^"^"l ^°^^^«« ^nlirely, or rarely only 

 dsLc^^''''^^''^^^^«^^^«-«"tsideof thed^^^^ '"*« ^ gamopetalous corolla, 



''^"'*^*- '^''^' ^^*™^"s inserted on the corolla. Anthers 



