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united, with imbricated seeds; the rest have pulpy fruits. 

 Most of the other genera referred hither, as Gardenia, 

 Cinchona, Portlandia, &c. belong to the great order of Ru- 

 biacece in Jussieu, of which the Linnsean Stellata, No. 47, 

 make a part. It must be allowed, nevertheless, that the 

 corolla of Gardenia answers to the character of the Con- 

 tort a:. Mr. R. Brown, in the Wernerian Transactions, has 

 thrown much light on the principal genera of this family, 

 under the title of Asclepiadea and Apocinea, with the ad- 

 dition of numerous new ones. 



Order 31. Veprecul^. No explanation of this occurs 

 in the Prcclectiones. The genera are Dais, Quisqua/is, 

 Dirca, Daphne, Gnidia, Struthiola, Lachncea, Passerina, 

 Stellera, with Thesium, and in the manuscript Scleranthus 

 and S ant alum. These three last do not properly belong 

 to the others, which constitute a most natural order of 

 generally small shrubs, as the name implies. They are 

 known by their tough branches; silky inner bark; sim- 

 ple entire leaves; acrid and even burning flavour; and 

 sweet-scented flowers, whose calyx and corolla are united 

 into one integument, most coloured within. 



Order 32. Papilionace.se. An extensive and very 

 natural family, " consisting of the Leguminosee of Ray ; 

 which Tournefort," (following an idea of Baptista Porta), 

 "called Papilionacecc ; Rivinus flores tetrapetali irregu- 

 lares ; and Magnol pentapetali. They have not all five 

 petals, for in many the claw of their keel is simple ; in 

 some the keel is separated towards the base into a double 

 claw; while in a few only, the whole keel is composed of 

 two distinct petals, as in Spartiurn." 



" Their character is as follows. Perianth of one leaf, 

 irregular, inferior, generally withering. Corolla nearly 

 the same in all. Its standard either emarginate or entire, 

 either reflexed or not at the sides, for the most part very 

 large, compared with the other petals. Wings, if present, 

 always two, opposite, frequently large, sometimes, as in 

 Co/utea and Hedysarum, very short. Keel simple, either 



