120 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY- 



groups both under one name; but most other Botanists seem to think otherwise, and keep them 

 distinct. One advantage certainly attends their separation, it gives greater precision to the 

 characters of both orders, without any resulting inconvenience, so long as they are kept together. 

 The same rules apply to the disposition of orders in the general system, as to genera in an 

 order; and as examples are not wanting of hypogynous and epigynous genera meeting in the 

 same order, so neither should an epigynous group of genera, so intimately related to a 

 hypogynous order that there is no other line of separation, be denied the same indulgence. 

 Analogy, therefore, is in favour of Endlicher's arrangement and, as already remarked, I coincide 

 with him, in such a case, in attaching but secondary value to the extension of the calyx tube, 

 and its cohesion to the ovary, and therefore esteem it a matter of no moment, vrhether we y'lew 

 these two groups as one order, composed of two sub-orders, or as two adjoining orders, but I 

 cannot yet approve of their separation on such grounds as those adduced by Dr. Lindley. 



Character of the Order. Calyx 4-5-cIeft, nearly equal, inferior, persistent. Corolla 

 hypogynous, ponopetalous, 4-5-cleft, occasionally separable into 4-5 pieces, regular or irregular, 

 often withering, with an imbricated estivation. Stamens definite, equal in number to the 

 segments of the corolla, or twice as many hypogynous, or scarcely inserted into the base of the 

 corolla; anthers 2-celled, the cells hard and dry, separate either at the apex or base, where they 

 are furnished with some kind of appendage, and dehiscing by a pore. Ovary surrounded at the 

 base by a disk, or secretmg scales; many-celled, many-seeded; style one, straight; stigma 1, 

 undivided or toothed, or 3-cleft, with an indication of an indusium. Fruit capsular, many- 

 cefied, with central placenta^; dehiscence various. Seeds indefinite, minute; testa firmly 

 adhenng to the kernel; embryo cyhndrical in the axis of fleshy albumen; radicle much longeT 

 Pn?" L /f'"'''' ^^*^-/'''^* .*^' hilum.-Shrubs or under-shrubs. Leaves evergreen, rigid, 

 rricteatl ilndL' "^ '' ""^ '^'^''^''* Inflorescence variable, the pedicels generally 



adhertnTJ^o7;S'TSj!^''i^«' publication of Jussieu's Genera Plantarum, most of the leading 

 adoS^^^^^^ System of Botany have, certainly not without an occasional demu?, 



pml of its inaeTtln H^"'"^ ^ higher value to the varying forms of the corolla, than to the 

 ^Vi^^^^^^ ^i-fy^e,on^. being based 



series. Sin L ljl'^1.^'!:^'^.'^'''' the question, Whether these or the tertiary 



"Method," attached the hiiTher va n^ fn ^ ormtne second, and Insertion the third place in his 

 view, giving the pref renS Instt on iZJ" ^ M^'"' and Lindley advocate the opposite 

 ..h high authorLs, but thinkT^ maVh?^ Tt.^S^ ^TE^'^^ M '^^'!}^!l 



ters, and both liable'to var ation pn^ "^^ ! •'''' ^^*^ «^^««- Both are structural charac- 



of the same genera while nome if J^^tf^ ^" ^\ ''^' ^^"^^^^'^ «>• ^^^^ ^^'^^ «P^"^^ 

 P^nV^nn. L :^' _,.^? ^?™^ 1^ IS hard to say, whether ih^. Jn^Prflnn ;« virrr.n.Lnns or 



Perigjn 



Perigyn 



a sub-class, by the way, with Xh li r '"'^'i,'''^'^'^"" ""' ^^^^i^"' VacciniacecB k Epigynous: 

 distinct from the perijinous wh ch howl '\' »^,«^°/% dispenses as not being s2ciently 

 Corolliflore, nearly V^e^UoElde^^^^^^^^ ^'''^'' ^^'« *^^ «^«ti«^^' Calyciflore and 



chanfe:i^;^nSo^^^^^^ to determine what advantage is gained by the 



one or other, we estabUsh a dLtkdat .f ? ''^'.^""^' ^"^ ^^^^ according^s wl build on the 

 venient in practice, and both eSv Jd. 'm'^' T'' ?^ ^®"^t^^«' Probably both equally con- 

 as the basis of his arrangemer Ic-f V • '^•^- , J^^«»^"' ^^^Pt^^g the form of the corolla 

 orders; while Lindley, adS th^el^^^^^^^^ the middle of theVoup of monopetalous , 



the Local alliance in the m!d^^f aC ^rTf''^ "^ ^^' '^"^'^^ ^^ t^e basis of his, places 



ung series ot polypetalous ones. The question now to be 



