302 LI, ONAGRARIEZX. 
sometimes very short or scarcely any ; stigma entire or divided into as many 
lobes as cells to the ovary. Ovules usually numerous, in 1 or 2 rows in each 
eell, anatropous, rarely, in genera not Australian, solitary. Fruit various, in ` ` 
the Australian genera capsular and elongated, opening Trelai the apex down- ` 
wards in as many valves as Ki or splitting laterally between the ribs of the 
calyx. Seeds usually small; testa membranous, coriaceous or rarely spongy. — — 
Albumen none or Zeen thin. Embryo usually ovoid; cotyledons E 
plano-convex (except in Trapa), with a very short radicle. — Herbs, annual or — 
nnial, or, in a few genera not Australian, shrubs or even trees. ves 
opposite or alternate, without ere entire serrate. or very rarely divided. 
ers usually solitary i in the axils, sometimes forming leafy racemes or 
je omg at the ends of the brenóhics often with 2 small briicteoles WW the 
pe 
e Order is KC over nearly the Mee nre of the globe. of the 4 Australian 
D one, Epilobium, has nearly as extensive a range as the whole Order; e June 
and Ludwigia, (ege chiefly to the warmer re sis e Zeien extended into temperate 
climates ; the fourth, @nothera, is almost e entirely Am 
bo sibi e podus above the ovary. Capsule vem en the summit 
Seeds naked. Stamens twice as eg as ca —— lobes or s 
1. CENOTHERA. 
degt not produced above the 
Capsule open g from the s comin GE in 4 valyes. Seeds with 
a tuft of hair ze Stamens 8. 2. EPILOBIUM. 
a d ue I bes the ribs of the calyx o or at the sum- 
naked. 
Sheds twiee as many a sta or petals ET 
Stamens of the same nis as calyx-lobes or petals .va vanos <n 
. 1. QNOTHERA, — 
Gef in 4 valves staining from the persistent axis. Seeds without D 
tuft of hairs 
lower ones opposite, entire or variously toothed or lobed, Flow 
solitary or very rarely in pairs, sometimes forming terminal Ce or m ; 
rarely contracted into heads. S 
A large American oe chiefly extratropical or Andine, a very few species now miu 
- in various parts of the Old World. Of the two Australian ch eer A one is a I 
^el American origin, the others apparently endemic, but very closely allied to à 
Tall T plant, with pro yellow flowers in a terminal spike. Stigma 
sel rie p plant, Flowers small in : the axils of the stent jem leaves KE asmanitt- 
T1 CB — Linn. ; DC. Prod. iii. 46. A biennial, 2 or äer 
the stems almost simple and ise er less hairy. Leaves ovate-lanceo Ge 
lanceolate, slightly toothed, hoary or downy. Flowers pets yellow, 
