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the segments subequal. Petals 5, their claws conniving in a 
split tube or slightly cohering above or below; limbs sub- 
equal, spreading as a 2-lipped corolla. Stamens 5; filaments 
pilose ; anthers free, often hispid at back. Ovary inferior or 
half-inferior, 2-celled, many-ovuled ; style simple ; stigma with 
an obsolete, ciliate indusium. Capsule 2-celled, many-seeded. 
— Fl. Cap. iii. p. 597. 
Erect or climbing perennial herbs, mostly with succulent or tuberous, 
edible roots. Leaves alternate, undivided or pinnate-parted or lobed. 
Flowers blue white or pink.—20 species, dispersed. 
TrIsE 4. GOODENOVIES. 
20. SCAIVOLA, Linn. 
Calyx-tube adnate with the ovary; limb 5-parted or 5- 
toothed, or nearly entire. Corolla longitudinally cleft down 
one side and opened out into a 1-labiate or secund, 5-lobed 
limb, the lobes winged at the sides. Anthers free. Stigma 
with a ciliate indusium. Drupe fleshy or dry, crowned by the 
calyx-lobes, 1—4-celled ; cells 1-seeded— 7. Oap. in. p. 604. 
A large but chiefly Australian genus of varied habit.—S. Thunbergii, 
E. and Z., our only species, is a seacoast shrub, with obovate, obtuse, fleshy, 
glabrous leaves, and axillary, short, forked peduncles.—Found along the 
South and South-Eastern coasts. 
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Orper LXXII. ERICACEZ. 
Tribe Ericen. 
Flowers 4-parted. Corolla marcescent, monopetalous, either 
bell-shaped globose ovoid tubular or salver-shaped, 4-lobed. 
Stamens 4-8, hypogynous ; anthers usually connate before the 
flowers open, opening by pores, or rarely slitting. Ovary free, 
1-2-4-, very rarely 8-celled; ovules 1 or many in each cell. 
Fruit dry, mostly capsular and dehiscent.—Small shrubs or 
undershrubs, with entire, evergreen, small, usually narrow and 
very generally whorled leaves.—The “ Heaths.” 
Subtribe 1. EvEricem. Ovary 4-8-celled ; ovules 2 or more in each cell. 
Stamens 8 (very rarely 6-7). 
Sepals 4, in opposing pairs, much nee than the 
deeply 4-lobed corolla . . . 1. Maonasta. 
Calyx equally 4-parted or rarely 4-fid : "corolla very 
variable in size and shape, but rarely (and then 
not greatly) shorter than the calyx. . . . 2. ERIoA. 
Calyx unequally 4-fid or parted, one sepal lar ger, 
frequently revolute; corolla minute . . . . 3. PHrmippra. 
