Order 83. Lentibulariea. 213 



3. GESNERACE.E. Also a very small order, with only five 

 species known in W. India, and those rare. Their characteris- 

 tics are much the same as those of Scroplmlarmese. 



4. BIGNONIACEA:. Trees, generally remarkable by the large 

 size of their leaves, flowers, and fruit. There are also some 

 well-known climbers belonging to the order in gardens. 



5. PEDALINEJI. A very small order of herbs, of which only 

 two species are found in W. India. 



6. ACANTHACE^:. Mostly shrubs, many of them very strong- 

 smelling and viscid. Leaves opposite : flowers generally 

 crowded together in spikes or racemes, surrounded by many 

 bracts. 



7. VERBENACEJ]. Mostly trees or shrubs, leaves opposite, 

 fruit a drupe or berry. 



8. LABIATE. Aromatic herbs, rarely shrubs ; stems square, 

 leaves opposite, ovary composed of 4 deeply separated lobes, 

 developing into a fruit of 4 one-seeded nuts, always visible at 

 the bottom of the calyx tube. 



Note. In small species it may sometimes be difficult to 

 decide whether the stamens are didynamous or equal, and in 

 a good many cases the corollas are obscurely 2 -lipped. In the 

 latter case the fact is mentioned either under the genus or the 

 species. 



Note. Wherever the stamens are not didynamous in these orders 

 it is so stated in the description of the genus : no mention of the 

 stamens meaning that they are didynamous. 



As far as exogenous dichlamyds are concerned, plants with two 

 stamens are found, outside these orders, only in Oleacege and Lenti- 

 bulariaceee. 



ORDER 84. SCROPHULARINE.E. 



Herbs, leaves without stipules, flowers usually irregular : 

 calyx inferior usually persistent and with 5 often unequal lobes : 

 corolla generally tubular and 2-lipped, stamens generally 

 didynamous, sometimes 2, anthers often with 2 distinct cells, 

 fruit capsular, seeds numerous. 



Note. There are shrubs and a few trees in the order : but none 

 of these are found in W. India. There are also genera with five 

 stamens, but none of these occur within these limits. This large 

 order is somewhat disappointing to the English botanist in 

 India, for though it is well represented as regards numbers, a very 

 large proportion of the species found here are very small and 

 insignificant. In England it is very different, the order there 



