ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 



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put It into a separate section or group, but I thought it unnecessary. It differs from the 



Pnmulaceous and Mjrsineous groups m vvantmg aJbumen. Were it not for that character 



' ^""'' '•'^''^ '^^ ^'^ ^' '^'^V- Scrofulariace^. J prefer placing it as above to Se; 



I would have 



brought it 



my old place, or to De Candolle'.. ] t is in no way connected ,vitL any other order; and 

 it comes withm my artificial character." j ^ ^ 



In the following Conspectus the orders referable to the Indian Flora are alone included 



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Group I. Ovary of several carpels. Plac 



COROLLIFLORM 



free. P 



arely 2-cened. Seed several or solitary by abortion, albuminous or exalbuminous! 

 A. Flowers regular. Stamens opposite the lobes of the corolla. 

 Fruit capsular, many-seeded. Seed peltate, albuminous. Herbaceous plants. Primulacea." 



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Fruit drupaceous or baccate, usually 1-seeded by abortion, rarely inferior, several- 



seeded. Seed albuminous. Shrubby or arboreous. . 

 Fruit follicular, 1-seeded. Seed exalbuminous. Shrubs or trees growing in salt 



marshes, seed germinating on the tree. 

 Ovary 1-seeded. Fruit capsular with a single seed pendulous from the apex of an 



Myrsineaceffi 

 ^giceraceas. 



erect podosperm. Seed sparingly mealy albuminous. Herbs or under-shrubs. Plumbaginacea^ 



B. Flowers regular. Stamens alternate with the lobes of the corolla. 



Fruit baccate, seed solitary, erect, exalbuminous. Shrubs or trees. ' 

 Fruit capsular, 1- or spuriously 2-4-celled, seed few or several, albuminous. Em- 

 bryo transverse. 



Group II. Orary free or rarely adherent. 3 or inorfi oA^9.A. with onR r 

 ovules in each. 



Salvadoraceae. 

 Plantaginaceae, 



Fruit baccate, several or often bj abortion, one-seeded. Seed albuminous. 



Ovary free, 4 or more celled, ovules solitary, pendulous. Fruit baccate, several or, 

 by abortion, 1-seeded. Corolla few or many cleft. Stamens twice the number 

 of the lobes, those alternate with the lobes usually sterile. 



a pendulous ovule in each. Stlgriia sessile. 



4-6 



with 



Sapotacea2. 



suspended from a fleshy carunculus. 



4-6 



Ovules often 



Ilicineas. 



■4-8 



corolla, with a solitary pendulous ovule in each. Flowers often dioicous: male, 

 with the stamens two or more times as numerous as the lobes of the corolla; 

 female with the style conspicuous, seed compressed, albuminous. 

 Ovary inferior, usually 3-celled, rarely 2- or 5-celled, ovules 2 or more in each, 





Ebinace® 



pendulous. 



Fruit baccate, several or, by abortion, 1-seeded. 



Seed albumin- 



ous. Flowers regular, stamens numerous, inserted on the base of the corolla. 

 Arboreous. 



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Styraceae. 



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Group III, Ovary 2-ceIled with 1 or 2 ovules in each. Carpels right and left of the axis. 



Ovules erect, horizontal or pendulous. Fruit baccate or drupaceous. 



Flowers unsymmelrical, tubular, 4-cIeft or deeply 4-parted. Stamens 2. Ovary 2- 

 celled, with 1 pendulous rarely ascending ovule in each. Fruit drupaceous. 

 Seed albuminous or rarely exalbuminous. 



Flowers symmetrical, dioicous. Corolla deeply 4-parted or 4-petaled. Ovary 2- 

 celled, ovules solitary, erect. Fruit baccate, seed compressed, exalbuminous. 



Flowers unsymmelrical. Corolla regular, tubular. Estivation twisted, limb 5-8- 

 cleft. Stamens 2. Ovary 2-cel!ed, with 1 or 2 ovules in each. Fruit baccate, 

 double or single by abortion. Seed exalbuminous or sub-albuminous. 



OliacesB. 



Azimacea^. 



Jasminacese. 



Group IV. Ovary 2-celled, simple or 

 rouble, follicular, with numerous, usually 



double (i. e. not cohering in the axis). Fruit, when 

 imbricating, seed ; when single, capsular or baccate, 



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