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with a simple ovary, to which succeeds a soft fruit with many cells. 

 To this family belongs the tea shrub. 11. Meliacece : This family 

 comprehends exotic trees and shrubs, remarkable for their flowers 

 having monadelphous stamina, of which the anthers are placed at 

 the summit or on the internal face of the tube formed by the junc- 

 tion of the filaments. The corolla is composed of four or five large 

 petals ; the ovary is simple, and the fruit is a berry or capsule. 

 12. Viniferas or Sarmenlacece : Climbing shrubs with alternate 

 leaves furnished with stipulae. Their flowers are hermaphrodite 

 with four or six petals or stamina, the ovary simple, and a single 

 style. The fruit is a berry and the seeds are stony. 13. Gera- 

 noidecK, so named from the seeds being terminated by an elongated 

 beak which has been compared to the bill of a crane. The leaves, 

 furnished with stipulse, vary much in disposition and form. The 

 peduncles bear often many flowers, which arise from the opposite 

 side of the leaves when they are alternate, and from their axillae 

 when they are opposite. The corolla is formed of five often un- 

 equal petals, with from five to ten stamina, generally joined by fila- 

 ments. 14. Malvaceae : Herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs some- 

 times in the same genus. They are distinguished by their calyx 

 and double or single corolla of five pieces ; by their monadelphous 

 stamina, and their simple fruit, composed of many cells or many 

 capsules. Their leaves are generally simple and alternate. 15. Tuli- 

 piferce : Trees and shrubs of which the solitary flowers are very 

 large and odoriferous. Their leaves are alternate, with caducous 

 stipulee. The flowers have stamina varying in number, and always 

 many ovaries. 16. Glyplospermce : Exotic trees or bushes, so named 

 from their seeds being always furrowed across. Their leaves are 

 alternate, destitute of stipulae, and their flowers are composed of a 

 calyx of three lobes, and of a corolla of six petals, of which the in- 

 ternal three are smallest. The stamina are numerous, as well as the 

 ovaries, and the fruit is a capsule or berry. 17- Menispermoidece : 

 Exotic and ligneous plants, generally twisted or climbing, with al- 

 ternate leaves and axillary flowers, often unisexual by abortion, and 

 disposed in clusters or in a spike. 18. Berberidece : Herbaceous or 

 ligneous plants of which the principal character consists in the inser- 

 tion of the anthers upon their filaments by the external surface, and 

 opening from the base to the summit. 19. Tiliacece : Trees with 

 a flexible fibrous bark, with alternate stipulate leaves ; the flowers 

 commonly hermaphrodite j the stamina numerous or monadelphous, 

 and the fruit a berry or a capsule. 20. Cistce or Cistoidece : Lig- 

 neous or herbaceous plants with simple and very often opposite 

 leaves ; large flowers, disposed in clusters or a corymb, but of short 



