110 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 



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of the cleft, irregular corolla and united anthers of the one, and regular corolla and free anthers 

 of the other. 



Character of the Order. Calyx 5-lobed, more or less adnata to the ovary, lobes usually 

 equal and persistent. Corolla persistent, more or less divided, the lobes or petals alternate with 

 the divisions of the calyx, often irregular, two- or one-lipped, or two petals free and three united, 

 sometimes nearly regular ; the tube entire or cleft longitudinally, the fissure between the lobes of 

 the smaller lip, before flowering, inferior, afterwards, through a twist of the flower (resupination), 

 usually above or opposite to the axis of inflorescence. .Estivation sub-valvate. Stamens o, al- 

 ternate With the lobes of the corolla, sometimes free, sometimes attached to the petals: filaments 

 usually free at the base, more or less united above: anthers connate, two-celled, introrse, opening 

 longitudmally ; the inferior ones smaller, usually furnished at the apex with a tuft of hairs or 

 bristles; the upper ones naked or bearded. Pollen, when dry, ovoid, smooth, often furrowed. 

 Uvary inferior or half superior, two- or rarely one-celled, the placentse then parietal. Ovules 

 numerous. Style 1; stigma bound by a ring of haiys, long, covered by the anthers, usually 2- 

 Jobed. J< rmt usually dry, opening at the apex by two septiferous valves, or more rarely by an 

 S ht""' '*'* '' ""' '^ indehiscent. Seed numerous. Albumen fleshy. Embryo 



u.nr.!^'^^^'AY'^^''^'''^Y'' ^'^^^"^escent plants, or rarely small trees, with alternate, exstipulate, 

 frrr'"^ fl ^^'^''' inflorescence various, axillary, solitary, or racemose; pedicels twisted when 

 blooming; flowers usually blue, but sometimes red or yellowish. 



•FiNiTiES. The structure and habit of the plants of this family very evidently associate 

 coroTia Pnhi.-'^ of CawpanwW and Goodenoviea^, d\ffefmg from the former in their irregular 

 iSnifP nil ^^ "'"' ^f °^i'^ fT n^raerously-celled ovary: and from the latter in their 



orders are klnfTr ' fT"^' ^^^ "^H"^' ""^ ^^^^^^^^^^ '^'^S^^' 0" «"^'I^ grounds these three 

 oraers aie kept distinct bv mnaf mnrli^^ R^^-^^Tr,*^ i,„i. ^1°. _ • , n, .P. , -.. . • „,, 



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well be 



since that tJmo ha. i^T t TT- x- . , wnoie, out arterwards separated Lobeliacea?, wnicn, 



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value. ' M 



^ o/^LS^It:^^ 0.denoWe.,=ng^ ZT^li^^S^inly^^- 

 are also nearallSrof «nn!. ri ^ '"''"'. ^ "^'""^^^ ^^''^ ^^^ »« order to rest upon. They 

 juice, in Sriark^^^^^^^^ i" habit in their milky 



their several ce&^^^^^ ^"'''''^ ^"1^" ^^'^ ^^^'^ anthers: but diff-er abundantly in 



associated a vet near v'Xdn'l^''""^^ '''^' ^runoniacece and Stylidece are 



India, and I Im^nnacanl-n i^ ^I^u'.f '^^^^ ^^ ^^'"^ ^^^^ representatives in this portion of 

 forme'r, which, Toweverfudl^^^^^^ ^f"' ^''^ f ^"^ ^^«* anomalous forms, especially the 

 in this neighbouZod Vut f of/ T ^""""^ ^""^ clescriptions only, seems scarcely well placed 

 points of aSy ' '^''^^^ '"^^^'^ ^ "^^'^ «"^'table station, as it certaifily has many 



ifesta 



S^ll!""'f- P™)-^'^^^ =r (CZ L^flo'S 



seem as yet to have been 



w^i-ir^^ . — J^^ *'" "»ve oee 



It may however be weirt„T,"ot 1 .S""* ■ ,*' "•"■ '"«'' occur in Ainslie's Mater.» 



30 many of the family are known to be 



