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Caljx about an inch long or longer, tlie lateral nerves of leaves beneath distinct, but thin 



and immersed, F. aurictdaria. 



Calyx only about \ inch long, the nerves of the leaves beneath not or almost not 



visible F. obovala . 



Flowers clustered in small cymes^ forming a terminal peduncled raceme, Arbort' 

 ous climbers. 



Leaves very ample, penninerved 2^. racemosa. 



Flowers small, in terminal or axillary long-pedttncled many-flowered corymbs. 

 Erect trees. 



Nerves of leaves beneath very obsolete and immersed F. fragrans. 



STRYCHHOS. (Erect trees, without tendrils.) 



Corolla not villous at throat, the tube long. 



Corymbs peduncled, terminal or on axillary shoots. Berries as large as an orange or smaller 



with a thick corky-granular rind, several-seeded, S. Nux vomica. 



Corolla villous at throat. 



Panicles very short, axillary ; corolla-tube about 2 lin. long ;, berries l-seeded, with a thin 

 coriaceous rind, S. potatorum, . 



Panicles large, brachiate, terminal ; corolla-tube 4-5 lin. long , . , 8. Wallichiana 



BORRAGINE^. 

 Conspectus of genera, 



(Fmit a dmpe, indehisceut or separable into pyrenes.) 

 CoRDlA. Style twice forked ; calyx more or less tubular, forming a cup under the fruit. 

 KusEiu.. btyle 2-lobed, the lobes entire. Calyx deeply cleft. 



GORDIA. 



t Leaves beneath and calyx densely tomenfose. 



Calyx 0. 4 lin-long ; fuUgrown leaves smooth above and white dotted, . . .,C. fragranthsinui. 

 Calyx 0. 2i lin. long ; leaves above very scabrous from short hairs, C. polygama. 



I t Leaves glabrous or pubescent beneath ; the calyx glabrous or puberulous. 



Glabrous ; leaves without white dots on the upperside ; drupes from the size of a cherry to 



that of a prune, acuminate, C. Myxa, 



As former, hut young shoots brown-pubescent ; leaves puberulous beneath, .... 0. brunnea. 



Leaves white-dotted above ; drupe the size of a pea, blunt with a mucro, , C. grandis, 



EHRETIA, 



X Leaves entire. 



Leaves, especially beneath, pubescent, F. aspera. 



Leaves glabrous, , F. laevis. 



X X Leaves sharply serrate. 



Calyx- and corolla-lobes very blunt E. sei-rala. 



BIGNONIACE^, 



Conspectus of genera, 



Seeds in a single row along the edges of the septum. 



O Septum continuous, flat. 

 Stbnolobium. Calyx more or less distinctly 6-ribbed and 5-toothed, maroesoent-persistent. Leaves unpaired 

 pinnate with serrately cut leaflets. 



O O Septum more or less corky-medullary, jointed. 

 StkEBObpeemi:m. Calyx not ribbed, marcesoent-persistent Seeds spuriously 2-oe1led Leaves pinnate. 



Seeds in 2 or more imbricated rows along the edges of the continuoos septum. 



O Calyx more or less circumsciss-deciduous. 



X Leaves ternately bipinnate or decompound. 

 Eadebmacheea. Calyx urceolate, obsoletely 5-toothed. Filaments inserted at the constriction of the tube. 



Anther-cells divaricate. 

 Mayodendkon. Calyx spathaoeous, slit to about its middle. Filaments adnate np to the middle of the corolla; 

 anthers parallel. 



X X Leaves unpaired-pinnate. 

 Bfathodea. Calyx spathacoous, slit to the base. Filaments inserted at the constriction of the tube ; anther-cells 

 divaricate. 



O O Calyx persistent or marcescent-persistent. 

 X Leaves nupaired-piuuate. 



