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bud. Stamens as many as corolla-lobes and alternate with them, or rarely 
fewer, inserted in the tube. Ovary 1-celled, but with 2 parietal placentas 
often projecting into the cavity so as to partially divide it into 2 or ng 
cell 
ells. Ovules numero Style single, entire or shortly 2-lobed. Frui 
capsule opening sapticiially into 2 valves, or an indehiscent berry. a 
small. Embryo cylindrical in fleshy albumen. — Herbs or shrubs, usually 
glabrous and bitter. Leaves opposite, entire, often 3- or more-nerved at 
the base, without stipules. sages usually in cymes. 
An Order chiefly abundant in the temperate or mountainous regions of the northern 
ya aay with a few tropical or mse os species. 
1. ERYTHRAEA, Pers. 
Calyx tubular, 5—4-parted into narrow keeled lobes. Corolla funnel- or 
salver-shaped, with a slender tube and a 5—4-parted limb which in 
withering twists round the pod. Anthers erect, exserted, twisting spirally. 
Style slender; stigma SS Capsule 2-valved, 1- or incompletely 
2-celled, with 2 spongy placentas. — Erect herbs with angular stems and 
often connate leaves. Flowers in i pecielisal dichotomous cymes. 
A small genus, spread over the temperate regions chiefly of the northern hemisphere. 
1. E, sabaeoides, Gray, in Proc. Am. Ac. VI, 41. — A glabrous erect 
annual, about 6‘ high. Leaves sessile, ovate to obovate, 5— 7” xX 3-5", 
obtuse or shortly acuminate. Flowers on very short pedicels, in fetid 
gat 
4—5“, its divisions unequal, erect, two or three of them keeled. Corolla 
pale pink, funnel-shaped, constricted at the throat, 4—5-lobed, its tube 
about as long as the calyx, the oblanceolate lobes half as long. Stig- 
matic lobes thick triangular or Fae cohering at first. Capsule 
cylindrical or fusiform, as long as the calyx, the valve-margins moderately 
projecting within. Seeds ‘tial: ME scrobiculate. — Schenkia sabaeoides, 
Griseb. in Bonplandia, I, 226. 
On grassy plains near neat ened Oahu! absent Puloa, Kahuku ; Molokai! W Lopapac 
isthmus of Maui. Nat. n : «Awiwi». Res sates closely the Mediterranean E. spice 
which has also found Hoy wae to the United Sts 
Orprer LIT]. LOGANIACEAE. 
Calyx 5- or 4-lobed or -toothed, or the sepals free. Corolla regular, 
the limb with 5 or 4 or rarely more lobes, valvate, contorted or other- 
2 
center. Style single, with an entire or lo Ovules one or 
more in each cell. Fruit a berry or septicidal capsule. Beods albuminous. 
