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ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY, 



the 



minal, simple ; stigma uudivided, capitate or bifid. Fruit either capsular of 2-4, or rarely 6 

 one-seeded cocci, separating at maturity, or drupaceous, 1-2-cened. Seeds erect, axalbuminous • 

 embr^jo straight, cotyledons thick, oily ; radicle inferior, short.— Herbs, shrubs, or large trees] 

 sometimes scandent, often furnished with resinous glands, thence aromatic or fetid : ramuH 4-sided'. 

 Leaves opposite, whorld or alternate, simple or pinnate, incised, divided or digitate ; stipules 

 none. Inflorescence either indefinite (centripetal), racemoso-spicate, capitate or definite (centri- 

 fugal) dl- or trichotomously c^mose ; cymes axillary or forming terminal panicles. Calyx and 

 bracts often coloured, enlargmg with the fruit. Corolla variously coloured, white, red, blue 

 yellow ;^ often small and inconspicuous. ' 



This, as it now stands, is a large and heterogeneous order, which, it is my Impression will 

 yet be split into several. For the present, Schauer distributes it under the following tribes : 



Tribe I. Verbenee. Inflorescence indefinite, racemose, splcate or capitate. Ovules erect 

 trom the base of the cell anatropous.— Herbs or shrubs, very rarely trees. Leaves simple, often 



cut, but never compound. 



Tribe II. Vite^. Inflorescence definite, di-trichotomously-cymose ; 



cymes axillary or 



collected into a compound panicle. Ovules inserted about the base of the cell, on the central 



angle, pendulous, amphitropous or sub-anatropous.— Trees or shrubs, very rarely herbs. Leaves 

 simple or digitate. *' 



Tribe III. AvicENNiE.!:. Inflorescence capitate or spicate, centripetal. 



Fl 



t^^^^cUr.. ^ u L ji — -I -— V...V.V. ^cvj^itatc ui BpicuLc, ceiitripeiaj. r lowers sessiie, 



opposite , each supported by a bractea and two imbricated scale-like bracteoles. Ovary 2-celled 



rnrLpo.^! ; 't'?-'^ ; ^^'}']''^T ^'T *^' ^P^"" ^f *^^ ^^"tral angle, amphitropous. Capsule 



foX Tr'nn- ll r' '• T'^\'^^' 'T^'^'^ germinating within the pericarp, at length bursting 

 loith. Iropical trees inhabitingf salt swamn« nlnn^v wWk »a.-.,^..7.„„„ _.^j 7r._-°.._ * 



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Affinities. 



Each of the above tribes, while certainly more nearly allied to each other 

 h^^P 7rrnn^l^^'"l'"f '' '""S ^^ ""'^ ^""^ themselves a different set of affinities. The first, as 

 iZl tZKt w""''? ^'11'9'^f^ ^^^ LaUatecE, seem to occupy the most suitable place 

 near but stm tl .^ '^T'/"' the relationship between them and LaUatece is certainly 



Iv L 1 . ^^'^ ''^'' ''?''^^y ^« comfounded. They also approach -—---•-- 



Helioti 



fronTLabiatei and Zr - ' .f T^^^^' excluding Symphoremece, on the other hand, recede 

 ^Z^t^ in tlat t^l /l ^'^ 'X ^^'^'' ^'^T'^y' ^^^^^' ^"^ "^^rJy ^mo^^^ both CordiecB and 

 fharactTr; of theiV fln^^^^^ Vy!""'" wJ^' ^^" *' ^"^ ^^«^' ^"*^ widely depart from them in the 

 ovary exalL^^^^^^^^^^ fl'^^^^^)' ^^^^'"^ to their spuriously 2-celled 



S AndTa"?r!/,^;.r PP*''^ir^i^'\? ^«^^^«' they approach the Bignonal 



o^eside fndJ^fLfrnnT li ^^^'^"^^ ^°thby habit and structure to Wo^or.^, on the 



P od fmns ref^T[t tlf bnf / 'm ' ' e" ""'l'^^ '""^''^ *° ^^^ ^^«t, that Mr. Brown has in his 

 fo £ry eed w?th Av cennel tnl T* ^^"^^^°^f ^^^ ^^^o^Iate, by their ovarial structure and 

 habit. ^S more ti^otoffl V "^^"^ ^^"^ ^^'"^ ^" ^^' ^^^"^ture of their seed and scandent 

 tions to the t^uth it fo lowf t w' fv r^"«^\^° ^^- ^^ these views are even approxima- 

 it is heterogeneous In Us species ''^' ''^'^ '' "^°^^ ^« «^"^P^- - ''' ^^^'^''^ '' 



the tt'p'cs TboT h^LTsn wi'^V ?' ^^^^^ /erbenaee^, as a whole, is abundant within 

 are founTL Afrba anHufe predominate in America, Vite^ in Asia. A few 



buted over vast "acts of corntr^:! ^^'^' ^^^"^^ ''' ^^""^ '^^'."■ 



and Southern Africa a few are nZmST /V\ ''^^^^^ ^^""^ ^^^ natives of both America 

 and temperate reiiolis all round ?briu' ^ f-'"''' "^^'^'^^^^^ ^°^ "^W^^ nodijlora) In warmer 

 tropics of both Smispheres ^vzcennew are natives of salt marshes within the 



Pkoperties and Uses. 



by man from this family are of very secondary 



With 



indis) 



three 



As medicinal agents sev 



