74 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 



and inter-petiolar stipules. Were we in this instance constrained to take our ordinal characters 

 from the fructification from which the best characters are for the most part obtained this order 

 would require to be divided into nearly as many orders as it now contains tribes. The capsular 

 fruit and minute, often almost pulverulent, winged seed of Cinchoneece, but for the onnoslte 

 entire leaves and intermediate stipules common to both, would ill associate with the indehiscent' 

 occasionally hard and woody fruit, and globose, stony seed of GardeniecB, which is still further 

 dis ingmshed by the twisted aestivation of the corolla. Neither would the numerous-seeded, t7o. 

 celled capsules of Hedyohdece associate with the solitary-seeded cells of CajfeecE, &c., but here 

 again the opposite leaves and inter-petiolar stipules supply the connecting link, and all^w of ou 

 nS?Ud?vl.ionf ""' '^ '^' reproductive organs to the construction of well-defined Td 



thus aiforded 



,„,„.. "" ,." "-»-"-<*sc uc*« ueeii lasen or ine taciiities thus attbrded, is a point on 



fhn W^.i?-TP^'^*'^'^^ J™^^'^ acquaintance with the order, does not permit me to decide^ 

 though I think more might have been made of them. But still, as they now stand the diffi 



T}'^t i?i^m^.^°„"f ' - -^^-.^ out a genus in the long list of nearly 1^0 Lera ann rtaint 



to this family, are not very great. 



Loaaniace^o^lh^ZC. ZCvt'T^ '\ . ''^'^^' ^'^ CaprifoliacecB, on the one side, and 

 d^ffeZnrthe aWnoP of «r 1 ^^^^^^1^^^ a most be viewed as sub-orders, the former only 

 it X near V ahtdto ?f '^^^"!f ' t?^ ^' ^^"'^ "^ ^^^^"^ ^ «^P^^i«r ^^^^y. Lindley consider^ 

 evir bVanv meat^l nt^^^'f ^' ^^' relationship existing betvveen the two orders is not how- 

 ment a^re "umerous and Zr.t' ""^ '• ^' represents. With Apocynec the points of agree- 

 ^rtS onHnes^hat kpp ^^ «Y?''r'S7.^"^ ^^^"* «f inter-petiolar stipules of the latter 

 from the rest^ of the o d^f^n l'""- ^''^'°'*- ^^" ^'^' Opercular^ is a curious one, differing 

 peculiarities proba^^^^^^ ^ T?-f" i"'"'^ "^^"^^ ^'^^ ^ ^^^^^^^T, erect ovule. These 



tnbeTd^sIinct from RuMZt \^) ^"^^t ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ many eminent Botanists to view this 



distinct. 



tli.f V"^ V r '^^^^^^^^.^as long ago removed 

 that Caprifohacece has been bv ntd. -R....:.. 



ifoliacece 



viewirs'CrnfiTmed'b^'^aTmos^^'^"^^^; ^'^ "^"* ^^ stip^ules. ^ T^hJ co;;;^^ of this 

 pointed out to me in^he conr p nf ^'''''■^^' observer, the late Mr. Griffith, who long ago 

 this tribe being s milar to thS nf ^S"'/''''^'^^"^^"^^' ^^""^ ^^^^ ^^^^ no corolla, the flower of 

 bracing the ovary, and an ex Jn/f T?'1' v^T^^ ^ «%^ ^'ith a herbaceous tube, em- 

 DeCandolle and m^ost ofher BoS ' P'^^^^? ^''^^: ^^'^ ^^ «<^«rse settles the question, 

 consisting of one ^ar of true W ^""""'fV. ^^' ^'"'^"'^ ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ constant in this tribe as 

 This position is met by L2v inT; /?i ^•'' f^ermediate ones as diluted, leaf-like stipules. 

 there is this objection whLh I eonce^vpT'"A*?T': "^xS ^^'' ^^^^^^' ^^^ »«t real distinction 

 oi Galium were stipulls ?hev mn«f b'.^'' ^1^- ^^ ^*- ^^ ^ P^^*^ «^ ^^^ leaves of each whorl 

 M^hori to consist of two leavel Taoh ^^^^.^ ''.'^^'^ proportion to the true leaves ; suppose the 

 of parts in each whor7must be^ix Jd n n T^''' ^^^ consequently the ^hole number 



But of the first forty species of Galh?^ i„ 1^ p''!f',A^^°r^^^ "^"«' ^« «^^e power of three, 

 and the frequent te Jdefcy of thorfs t ' v.£'f '''^'i^! ' Prodromus, only 13 confoVm to this rule, 

 to me an incontrovertibl^ proTtll fb? ^ "" ^*^ ^' *^' ^^^"^ ^ *« 6, or from 6 to 8, seems 

 modification of stipules." ^ *^^ m^^^rii leaves of ^/e//«^^ are true leaves and not a 



lleys Vegetable Ki 

 has reachpfl mo Jt 



^nestion.' I shaU treXe' h" e 11 X subtc^ "'? ^T "^^'^ ^^'-^^ bis' usrar ability, this 

 article in his own words as bein? mul tSL! ^ fi! ^''^- ""^'"^ *^^ ^^^^^ I^eading reproduce the 

 their place. A sub-order St poss^brbL ^' ^T^ ^^"° ^"^^ *^^°g I «ould substitute in 

 course would virtually be b^elk nrdown tb^ wr7'^ J^' P"^P««^' ^^t to have adopted that 



geneous in its elements, and only heinLethp7^^?.''^^ ^^^^^' ^' ^^'^^^7 «hown, is hetero- 

 petiolarv at nnla. ' ^^ ^^^^ together by the sol tar v. T.„f «««„*„.,/. u„..__.L ^f ,s.fpr. 



petiolary stipules. 



