PHOMIAI 



M.l'l.N I II M 





OauBR XCIV. M.l'l.N I HAC1 I 



Diagnosis. / 



II, , . ..u- or half-shrubb) caul< bo nt plants. I 

 at the base, with :i dilat< d foliaa ous petiole, pitcher-shaped ;tt the i nd, which 

 lated with a lid-like lamina. Stem without concentric zones, with an 



spiral .11 the « I, pith, and bark, and also with a dense layer ol tin 



between the \\ 1 and the bark. Rao mes terminal, 



, many-flowered. Flowers dioec I dyx 



re I, iuferior, oppositely imbricated in aestivation, 

 ihering in a sohd column, bearing :it the 

 it 16 anthers, collected in various directions 

 in one In id ; anthi ra 2-o Qi 1. longitudinally 



and externally, j Ovary B cornered, 



i, with an indefinite number of ascending ovules 

 to the sides of the dissepiments : Btigma 

 Bile, Bimple. Fruit capsular, l-celled, 4-valved, with 

 th, the sidi a ol the dissepiments, 



which proceed from the middle of the vi 

 indefinite, ascending, very minute, fusiform, with a 

 la\ outer integument ; nucleus oblong, much less than 

 the - ed, lying about the middle of th<- outer integu- 

 ment, suspended by the chalaza : embryo in the 

 midst of fleshy albumen, with 2 cotyledons pi 

 to face; radicle turned towards the hilum. 



The rehvtion that is borne by the highly curious 

 plants which this < hrder contains was not even gui 

 at until Adolphe Brongniart pointed out a resemblance 

 between them and Cis- 

 tusrapes, which had not 



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1 tn t which he consider 1 

 bo important as to justi- 

 fy him in placing the 

 two » >rdi re togi ther. 

 lint it is impossible to 

 in this conclusion, 

 nothing of the 

 extreme dissimilarity in 

 habit between these 

 plants, the structure <>t 

 their fruit app< ars to 1"' 

 ntially different ;aud 

 the seeds of Cytinus h<'- 

 ing unknown, the re- 

 Bemblance between it 



I V penthes is reduced to a similarity in the amu 

 not in tin' present case be < I ol much im] 



upon the unisexuality of the flowers of both 

 Order has been made by Brown, who points out 



which the structure of the w I it 



that Order, it i- zoneless, although plainly ej 

 characterise it. that the system of s[ir.il \- 

 an\ other plants. Endlicher adopts the 



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