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DICOTYLEDONS 



The lower lip forms a nice landing place for visiting insects 

 which when probing the tube for honey, shake the stamens and 

 have their back powdered over with pollen. 



Ovary two-celled. Style long. 



Fiff. 96. — Adhatoda vasica. 



4. Fruit. — A bilocular capsule with two small seeds in each 

 loculus. It opens with great force when ripe, and the stalks by 

 which the seeds are attached to the placenta being springy, the 

 seeds are jerked out and fall to the ground at some distance 

 from the mother plant. 



Other Acanthaceae. 



Barleria prionitis [Kan. ^lullugorante), a tliorny shrub, 

 mucli l)ranched. Thorns axillary, three-forked, representing 

 metamorphosed branches. 



