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ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 124. 



1. Mmsrtnda Jrondosa. 

 Flowering branch, natural size. 



2. Detached corolla split open. 



3. Ovary, style, and stigma, with the calyx partially 

 removed. 



4. Anthers, back and front 



5. Ovary cut vertically. 

 6. cut transversely. 



7. An immature fruit. 



a 



cut transversely. 



9, Detached seed. 



Lgnified 



1. Hedyotis LeschenaidtiL 

 Flowering branch, nature 

 Corrolla split open. 

 Ovary, style, and stigma. 

 Anthers, back and front 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 125. 



7. Capsule, natural size 



2. 



a 



4. 

 5. 



8. 



a 



magnified, 

 cut vertically. 





Ovary cut vertically; and 6. transversely, but in 

 both cases the ovules badly represented, as if there 

 were only one, in place of many. 



10. A detached seed. 

 IL A detached stipi^e. 



1. Morinda 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 126. 



^, , natural size. 



Corolla split open, throat hairy. 



2. 



3. Anthers, back and front 



4. Ovary, style, and stigma. 

 5. 



cut transversely. 



■t 



6. Full-grown fruit, cut transversely. 

 7.^ Detached seed. 



8. Cut transversely J and 9, vertically, showing the 



embryo in situ. 



10. Embryo detached. 



All more or Iara mnarnifiArl 



1. 



Psyckotria amhigua. 

 Flowering branch, natural size 

 Corolla split open. 



EXPLANATION Of PLATE 127. 



2. ^„ 



3. Anthers, back and front views. 



5. 

 6. 



berry. 

 cut transversely. 



, . . , stigm 

 cut vertically. 



transversely. 



7. A m 

 8 



9. Detached seed. 

 10. One seen from within. 



31* cut transversely. 



All more or less magnified 



1. 



2. 

 3. 

 4. 

 5. 

 6. 



Knoxia corymbosa. 

 Corolla split open. 

 Stamens, back and front 

 Ovary, style, and stigma. 



cut vertically. 



transversely. 



Natural size. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 128. 



7. A mature capsule. 

 8- cut transversely. 



in S^^^ ^^^ capsule cut vertically. 

 10. Detached seed cut vertically, showing the embry 

 m situ. ^ ' ^ 







11. Embryo detached. 



lgnified 



Diagnosis.— Cinchona/ 



LXXXIV.— GALIACE^ 



Stellates. 



Herbac 



ous fruit 



with epipetalous stamens, straight anthers, bursting 



P, . - plants, with whorled leaver 



eqnai to those of the calyx. Stam 

 ^temate ,nth them. Ovary peltate 



stems 



EU: ^r tL*'^ ot^" ±^^^^^ TV^ nnmber'to the lobes^ oF the 



simple. Fruit a dSymounndett!r,r ''"''^ ' -T^^' '^^^^^y^ «rect ; styles 2 ; stigma 



peltate, solitary ; eiZvn^^.rAt?!?^^!^'^^^^^^ with 2 , cells and 2 seeds. Seeds erect or 



destitute of stipules, and angular 

 4-5- or 6-lobed. Corolla monopetalous, 



calyx; the number of its divisions 



corolla, and 



into the 



There cai be little donbt tW ilT, -^^ •""" ' ""^'"^^ '"''''"»' ; cotyledons le 

 J, have as stron":": o£\^K?iir.?.^Pi?"™^.. --^^ .»f -i-h tL Order 



is com- 



but the 



very 



characters are to be obtain 



want is abundantly- supplied by the sjuare stems and "^rtVcikr leaves w. 



name Stellate is derived 



stipules, forming a k nd 7/ star SL U I '^""'^ '^''^' ^^^ 



fi "u oi star, trom which circumstance the 



thout 



