Turneracee. [ Turnera. 
bo 
LVla.—TURNERACE:. 
Herbs; leaves simple or lobed, exstipulate; fls. hermaph- 
rodite, regular; cal. 5-lobed, lobes imbricate; pet. 5, stam. 5, 
free or connate at base; anth. 2-celled, introrse; ovary 
superior, I-celled; placentation parietal; ovules numerous, 
anatropous; capsule loculicidally dehiscent; seed arillate; 
endosperm horny or fleshy; embryo straight. 
TURNERA Linn. 
Leaves alternate, usually with 2 glands at the base; fils. 
solitary, axillary or rarely racemose.—Sp. 70; American. 
T. utmiFoiia Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 271 (1753). 
Perennial herb, sometimes woody below; 1. lanceolate, 
2-4 in. long, serrate, 2-glandular at base; petiole about 4 in. 
long; fls. up to 2 in. diam.; capsule subglobose, usually 3 
valved; seeds obovoid-oblong, curved, pale brown. 
Common in waste places about Colombo. Fls. Oct., Apr. ; yellow. 
A native of Tropical America, also naturalised in India. 
LVII.—PASSIFLORACE/E. 
Fruit a capsule; fis. dicecious ‘ ; ‘ : . I. ADENIA. 
Fruit a berry; fls. hermaphrodite . : : . . 2. Passiflora. 
Page 240.—For Modecca Linn. read: 
1. ADENTIA Forsk. 
For Modecca Wightiana Wall. read: 
1. Adenia Wightiana Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XV, p. 573 (1893). 
Modecca Wightiana Wall. Cat. no. 6764 (1830); Wt. Ic. 179 (1840). 
For Modecca palmata Lam. read: 
2. Adenia palmata Engl. Nat. Pfl. III, 6, p. 84 (1893). 
Bryonia palmata Linn. Sp. Pl. p. ro12 (1753) pp. Modecca palmata 
Lamk. Encycl. IV, p. 209 (1796). 
2. PASSIFLORA Linn. 
Climbing or rarely erect herbs or shrubs; leaves alternate 
or rarely opposite; tendrils usually simple, rarely wanting; 
stip. 2 or wanting, sometimes leafy; fls. solitary and axillary 
or racemose, usually hermaphrodite; cal.-lobes 4-5, usually 
more or less petaloid; pet. 4-5; corona simple or double; 
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