ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANV. 



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D. Ovary 2-4-celled; fruit 2-4 nuts (pyrens); stigma bilamellale. 



a. Flowers and fruit sessile, densely aggregated on a globular receptacle. 



6. Flowers not sessile, on a globular receptacle, fruit dry, 2-4-partible. 



c. Fruit somewhat fleshy, not partible. 

 § 3. Ovary l-celled, with a single ovule. 



A. Fruit adliering, laterally capitulate, afterwards dehiscing, 2-valvcd. 

 B- Fruit dry, indehiscent (winged with the persistent lobes of the calyx). 



SpERMACOCEiE. 



Cephalantheaj. 



Euspermacoceae. 

 Putorieae. 



Opercularieae- 

 Jackiacea*. 



N. B- Opercularieas have not, so far as I am aware, been found in any part of India, and Jackia has 

 only been found in the Eastern Islands, they are therefore introduced merely as examples of the 3d section. 



The Flora of India and. the neighbouring Islands furnishes representatives of all these 

 divisions and sub-divisions, except CepfialidecB and Opercularieoe. Stellata?, for the reasons given 

 above, I have excluded. They are, however, easily known by their verticelled leaves, hi-partible 

 fruit and capitate stigmas. Hamelieae is scarcely known in the Continental Flora> I have how- 

 ever one species forming the type of a ne^ genus. (This I have dedicated to Mr. Law, of the 

 Bonabay Civil Service, an honour well merited, by his assiduity in investigating the Flora of that 

 portion of India, amidst the interruptions unavoidably incident to one in his situation,) Two 

 or three species of Awanthus are natives of Ceylon, and several others of Malacca, where 



Urophyllum is also indigenous. 



foetida 



met with in gardens in the South of India, and is a native of Bengal. From Assam I have 

 specimens of a species Lyyodysodea, a genus first discovered in South America. 



Of the genera described in our Prodromus, I suspect two, GriMihia and Grumilea^ 



referred to Lasianthiis. 



Mephitidia, D. C, Griffith 



History) 



be kept distinct fi*om Randia^ the points of separation between these genera appearing of speci- 

 fic or possibly sectional, rather than generic value. As, however, it has been adopted by all 

 subsequent writers, it is not my intention to disturb their decision. With regard to Grumilea^ 

 it appears that, in a practical point of view, the distinction between it and Psychotria is of 

 very secondary value, whatever it may be in a physiological, not being supported by habit 

 or any available difference by which a herbarium specimen, not provided with ripe fruit, 



be distinguished. The only difference between the 

 ruminated albumen while Psychotria has plain. If both genera are 



of the present species of Psychotria will, in course of time, change their 



can 



tw^o 



suspect many 



genera is, Grumelia having 



to be maintained, I 



name, at least several of those in my H 



were, in the course of a recent ex- 



amination, so transferred, though, judging from general appearances and characters, I should 

 never have suspected them to be GrumeliaSy and, but for the circumstance of my specimens 

 being furnished with seed sufficiently mature to enable me to determine the point by 

 dissection, could not have discovered that they were so. 



In the accompanying plates, five of the above Tribes have been illustrated, not quite 

 so neatly as I could have wished, a defect originating in the then deficient skill of the 

 workmen employed, but which subsequent practice has done much to remedy. I therefore 

 trust that, for the future, the plates will be better calculated to please the eye, as well 

 as more Instructive, by their more comprehensive analyses. 



Since 1841, when the preceding part was published, many additions have been made 

 to the Order, most of which are published in my Icones, to which I beg leave to refer 



for both figures and characters. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 123. 



1. JSTaucha parvlflora* 

 Flowering branch, natural size. 



2. Detached flower. 



3. Corolla split open. 



4» Anthers, back and front 



5. Ovary and calyx, with the style and stigma. 



6. Ovary cut transversely (not good). 



7. Mature fruit detached. 



8. Mature fruit cut transversely. 



9. Detached capsule, showing its mode of dehiscence 

 from the base. 



10. Capsule cut vertically. 



11. Seed as seen after the separation of the capsule* 



12. Detached seed. 



All more ox less magnified. 



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