Oldenlandia. 915 
filaments various; anthers usually oblong or linear, 2-celled, dehiscing 
by lateral slits towards the face, rarely connivent and dehiscing by 
apical pores; attached at the back or base. Disk at the top of the 
ovary, between the insertion of the corolla and that of the style, 
usually annular or cushion-shaped, sometimes inconspicuous or lobed. 
Ovary 1—12-celled, usually 2-celled; style solitary, entire, toothed 
cleft or partite; stigma terminal, various in form, entire or lobed; 
placentas on the septum or at one of the extremities of the cells. 
Ovules solitary or indefinite or a few in each cell, variously attached to 
or impressed on the placentas. Fruit various. Seeds albuminous; 
albumen copious or scanty, uniform or occasionally ruminated; embryo 
straight or curved. 
Shrubs or trees, or in some genera herbs, occasionally scandent; 
rarely spinous. Leaves opposite or verticillate, simple, quite entire 
(or rarelly repand-dentate); stipules inter- or intra-petiolar, various in 
shape, persistent or deciduous, entire, cut or lobed, free or connate or 
adnate to the leaf-base or petiole, absent (or foliaceous) in the tribe 
Galieae. Inflorescence various, bracteate or ebracteate; flowers usually 
tetramerous or pentamerous, but sometimes even decamerous; rarely 
the calyx is spathaceous or the corolla only trimerous. 
One of the largest Natural Orders, chiefly tropical and subtropical, and 
most richly represented in America. 
AOvO Vales: Hunverous’. -.).- ee oe. ee OL, Olenilandia. 
B. Ovules solitary. 
I. Leaves stipulate; stipules unlike the leaves . . 2. Gaillionia. 
Il. Leaves exstipulate, verticillate, or the stipules 
foliaceous, like the leaves. 
a) Fruit berry like .... sos ¢ we eat, SEO LEE 
b) Fruit dry, composed of one, Sinica mericarp 4. Callipeltis. 
c) Fruit dry, composed of twin, spherical, oblong 
or crescentic mericarps, rarely by abortion 1. 
1. Flowers axillary, ternate ........ 5. Vaillantia. 
2. Flowers in cymes or fascicles often pani- 
culate, rarely nearly solitary. Fruit compos- 
* ed of twin hemispheres rarely by abortion 1 6. Galium. 
3. Flowers in imbricated, 2—3-rowed spikes 7. Crucianella. 
515. Oldenlandia Plum. 
Calyx-tube globose obovoid turbinate or obconic-oblong; limb 
small, regular, deeply 4- or rarely 5-lobed, rarely with alternating 
teeth, persistent. Corolla salver-shaped, funnel-shaped, campanulate or 
subrotate, membranous; tube straight or somewhat curved; throat 
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