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Orper LXXVII. PLANTAGINER. 
Sepals 4-38, persistent, imbricate. Corolla tubular, scarious, 
persistent, with a 4-3-parted limb. Stamens 4, mserted in 
the base of the corolla-tube, alternate with its lobes. Ovary 
free, 2-4- rarely 1-celled; ovules 1 or many; style simple ; 
stigma hispid, filiform, simple, rarely 2-fid. Fruit a pyxidium 
(membranous, transversely slitting), enclosed within the dry 
corolla. Seeds albuminous.—Herbs, with small, spiked flowers, 
and radical or scattered leaves. Astringent and mucilaginous. 
1. PLANTAGO, Linn. 
Flowers spiked. Calyx 4-parted. Corolla tubular, with a 
4-parted limb. Stamens 4, much exserted, slender. Style 
simple. Fruit 2- or many-seeded—DC. Prod. xii. p. 693. 
The Cape species of this cosmopolitan genus have radical leaves and 
scapes.—Species dispersed. 
Orper LXXVIII. SAPOTEZ. 
Flowers bisexual. Calyx divided, persistent. Corolla re- 
gular, with as many or twice as many lobes as the calyx. 
Fertile stamens as many as the corolla-lobes and opposite 
them, or twice as many; anthers 2-celled, mostly extrorse, 
often taper-pointed ; sterile stamens petaloid, frequently pre- 
sent. Ovary free, of several cells; style 1; ovules solitary, 
axile. Fruit a drupe or berry. Seeds with or without albu- 
men.—Trees or shrubs, mostly tropical, with milky-juice, 
leaves alternate, entire, penninerved; stipules 0. Flowers 
axillary, solitary or tufted or umbelled. Fruit often edible. 
Corolla 5-lobed or parted. Stamens 5 and 5 
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Corolla 12-24-parted or lobed. 
Corolla-lobes in 1 row; anthers shorter than 
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Corolla-lobes in 2 rows; anthers longer than 
filaments; sterile stamens alternating with 
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1. SIDEROXYLOW, Linn. 
Calyx 5-parted, imbricate. Corolla semi-5-fid, 5-fid, or nearly 
5-parted ; the lobes spreading, imbricate in bud. Stamens in- 
serted in the tube of corolla; 5 sterile, petaloid, included ; 5 
fertile opposite the lobes; the anthers ovate, obtuse, shorter 
than the filament. Ovary hairy, mostly 5-celled (4—2-celled) ; 
style rather longer than the ovary. Fruit berried, ovoid or 
globose.—DC. Prod. viii. p. 177. 
1. SIDEROXYLON. 
