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ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 



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and then usually few-seeded. Seed albuminous or sub-albuminous, carpels anterior and posterior 



Stigma di- 



ays ?)• 



Ovaries double. Fruit follicular. Seed comose, albumen sparing. 

 laled, 5-angled, angles furnished with corpuscules to which the pollen becomes 

 attached. Pollen solid, waxy or granular. iEstivation of corolla usually valvate. 



Ovaries either simple or double, 2- or rarely 1-celIed. Fruit, when simple, baccate 

 or capsular, when double, follicular. Seed sub-albuminous. Anthers 2-celled, 

 often produced at the apex into a long appendage and spurred or sagittate at the 

 base. Pollen pulverulent. -ZEstivation of corolla convolute. 



Ovaries simple, 2-celled, placentae axile. Stigma simple or slightly 2-lobed. ^ An- 

 thers free, pollen pulverulent. Fruit capsular or baccate. Seed albuminous. 



Estivation 

 Flowers regular, corolla 4-5-lobed. JEstivation 



lobes. 



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twisted. Stamens as many as the 

 Carpels 2, anterior and posterior; placentiferous margins more or less 

 introflexed. Stigma bifid or two. Fruit capsular, septicidal, seed numerous, 

 albuminous. Herbs, rarely shrubs. 



AsclepiadeaB. 



I 



Apocynaceae. 



Loganiaces. 



Gentianacese. 



Group V. Ovary of 2 or more carpels, 1- or 2-celled or spuriously 2 or more celled from 

 the introflexed carpillary margins imperfectly meeting in the axis. Placentae either strictly 

 parietal, or borne on the dilated loosely introflexed margins of the carpels. Fruit capsular, 

 many, or rarely few-seeded, dehiscing loculicidally or rarely septieidally. Seed exalbuminous. 



Flowers irregular. Carpels 2 or more? when more than two placentae strictly 

 parietal; when two, the margins usually introflexed dilated and revolute, bearing 



the placentae on their loose margins, occasionally partially meeting in the axis, 

 forming a spuriously 2-ceiled ovary. Fruit capsular, loculicidal. Seed albu- 

 minous; testa scrobiculate. Parasitic, herbaceous plants, with scales in place 

 of leaves. 



Flowers irregular. Stamens 2. Fruit capsular, of 2 carpels dehiscing laterally, 

 many-seeded, seed exalbuminous sometimes peltate, testa rugous. Herbaceous, 



8UD-aquatic plants. 



Flowers irregular, ovary l-celled. Carpels 2, anterior and posterior, placentiferous 

 margms^dilated, loosely introflexed, revolute- " 



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• , —- -w viLv,M uuiijc uu tt luiig sieuuer pouosperm. 



Flowers irregular. PJacentoj axile. Capsule compressed, dehiscence marginal 



, ^^^^ winged, exalbuminous. Shrubby or arboreous. 



?nT T;^ ; r"P'> \''^l' ^"•^ ^'^' °f '^^ ^^'^J ^"g'ns introflexed, meeting 

 n^,lvf.VJ ^^^'"^"S. (•\Sesamum) a 4-angled central placenta j and spuri- 

 r^r^ till°7'^' ""' introflexed and revolute, forming, in Pedalium, an imper- 



Orobanchacea&. 



« , .- . Fruit capsular, loculicidal, or bac- 



beed exalbummous often borne on a long slender podosper 



loculicidal? 



Lentibularieae* 

 Gesneraceae, 



sub-order 

 Cyrtandraceze. 



BignoniaceaJ. 



fectly 2-4-celled ovary. 



Herbs. 



0U3. 



Fruit capsular, septicidal orl)ony. Seed exalbumin- 



ing in the axis. 



Stamens 2-4, dldynamous. 



Flowers ,rre.ular. oiumens 2^, d.dynamous. Carpels 2, inflexed, often not meet- 

 uniting ,l,e m.rgJ'oTal'^^r^U-'''''''^^ '"' '°'"''"™" "' =" """"""'' 



dal d^bi^^^^^^^^ Seed exalbuminous, usually Vtt"achTd\7h^^^^^^ 



Herbs or shrubs, or rarely sub-arboreous. ^ 



Pedaliaceas. 



Placenta parietal. Fruit capsular, loculici- 



cesses. 



Acanthaces. 



V 



E 



Seed erect or ascend- 



baccate^ 



Radicle inferior^ 



Ovary 2-4- 



'''^To'idTclKX' ^IT- f ":'= '• r P" ' '"«- ^-'^n: -^y deeply 

 Seed .«lbumkor ^ ' '"°'' '" '"''■ ^™' * (""'y 1) " 



Verbenace®. 



Labiat£e 



