132 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY 



AuJ> until lately, many Botanists seemed disposed to adopt this distribution ; viewing the two 

 orders rather as sections of one, than two distinct families, though, so long ago as 1806 they 



been 



In 1810 Mr* Brown declared them abundantly distinguished by the 

 position of the ovules and structure of the seed, added to the divisions and aestivation of the 

 corolla.^ While fully coinciding with that most learned Botanist, as to the propriety of their 

 separation, I do not think the reasons assigned quite satisfactory. As regards the position of the 

 ovules and structure of the seed on which he founds it, they are interblended, unless we are pre- 

 pired to advance a step further, and constitute the section Chionanthece a senarate ordpr '"^ ' 



This 



loculis 



pendulis coUateralibus. Semina albumine dense 



carnoso, copioso ;" of JasminecE, ''ovarium loculis l-sperraia; ovuHs erectis. Semen albumine 

 imllo vel parcissimo." I am enabled to set against these, the fact of the ovules of the section, 

 Uiionanthea;,oi OlencecE, being ascending or even erect, and the seed exalbuminous, and that, 

 of many species of the section ^^rrifoliatce' oi Jasminum, having dispermous cells, and the 

 ovules descending, or at all events araphitropous, that is, attached by the middle. I certainly 

 have not yet met albumen except very sparingly in any Jasmimim, but examples of the others 

 vil be adduced, shon;ing that as regards the ovary, ovules, and seed, the two orders pass into 

 ri^^t A" ;l^i:"l"ll'^ ^^^"^^^' ^^'^ --^ J-k therefore to other parts of their organ- 



i/atlon for distinctive marks! 



„erslSnt" +:deft Z ^iS^T-f ^',7'" ''«™='Pl'f<'di'« or dioicous. Calyx monophj-llons, 



, ,„.^„ „.*..„i..g, by abortion, 



Stamens 2, attached to the base, alternate 



1 ;i.-j- _ii„ ^ . , « ... . 



withthelobe^ornpfnl^.Vnfr o *" -^^""f «:'"V ^^amens 2, attached to the base, alternate 

 rhypoffynous disk tnlltd VI. o'"l?'/'H'''^"^>"«^^^"^^«^")^- O^^O' simple, free, without 

 1 or^Lnestlma bifid or nn7 \ '°^i^^TL' ^'°*^"^'^"« ""^ amphitropous"^ ovules n ea^h ; style 

 W aZrti;n Ted usua 1 V nit?' ^'t ^^^^P^«««"«' or baccate, or capsular, often 1-seeded 

 sparbgor wantin/ Ztvo^ wh 1l ^^^'^^-'^ ^^"^^""^ «^P^«"«' dense, fleshy ; sometimes 

 se'ed, cVledonl"fSiaclas?Xn;\r!^^^^^^^^^^ ^'^th """"T ^^^^ the'length of the 



site, simple or unequally pinnate llam^ Ra/e^ ' ^°^>^f ^''^^o'^.-.Trees or shrubs with oppo- 



teate. Flowers oftL figJantrwhi" or lilac eorured' ^ "' ''^"'''^"' '^ *^™""^^' "" ^''" 



andcWu?J!idrtt:ir*tffin!l"^'^^^ of this order often greatly differ both by habit 

 will graft on the Lh the Chionan « r^''.^ ^'^'-"^^^ *^ ^'>^t b| grafting. "Thus the Lilac 



Persian Lilac live 10 years oX ^"J^ ^ ^^""^ ^^'" '^^'^''^'^ "^ ^^^^"^ '^' 



iiv«n nn f>,» A =1, i.t. I ' """^ ^^ Phillyria latifoha. The Olive will fnl-P nn +I.a Phnivrl^ and 



even on the Asli, but we cannot graft Jasmine on an 

 confirms the propriety of separting these two orders " 



-...VI JL. iiOTc even succeeaeu iii inaKing ^-u^ 



The Olive will take on the Phillyria and 



pretty wel^ayrTed, nelrlv^Tl'^rUrrlnrtn '•^^jtionships of this order, Botanists seem 



U remotel/ related ; the nearer one llT^CifV'"''''^ ^^ ''''^^'^ ^« ^^^^ ^^^^ " 

 obvious. In De Candolle's Prodromns If Z. \ f i'^'^^Pt'on perhaps of Jasminece, are not so 

 ly their dicarpillary ovaries, as forZV,..? v*^' H^^ '^ ^^^ ««"«« of orders distinguished 

 the two groupLf ciroliiflorius frS- th^^^^^^^^^^ *^« ^^"^^^ arrangement, between 



with rare exceptions, limited to two ' Rp^SnA?- ^^'^^"^ °^°''^ *^'^^n two carpels, and those, 

 constancy in orders where it does orrnr -f^ this structure in mind, as well as its extreme 

 between the Olives and Ebonies Hollies' <t/'"''I[^'' .* "^^^"'^^ invariable line of separation 



'Z^'!^i ' ^T ''"' S^"'^*' referable to /S^ has . J'^^lf I^'^ "^^^^^ ^"««d- ^ «^^ "«''■'>' 

 the other side is not so well marked I mSnf^ . u'''"'^ ^^'^'-J- The line of distinction on 



order,. The order is itself highly com owL'^^ ^'^^'«^" ^^^ Olives and other dicarpillary 

 which might almost be elevated to themnkVan"^ composed of a number of groups each of 



