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Loimc, Jof Tun 



Diagnosis. I 



Sty 



Herbai us plants, having sometimes a tendency to be< i shrubby, with a 



asionallj Btellate pubescence. Leaves alternate, without stipul 

 with 2 glands on tlie pi tiole Flowers axillary, tin ir pedicel i ither distil 



with the petiole ; with 2 bractlets. Petals yellowish, i u 

 ( ah \ inferior, often coloured, with 5 equal lob* -, imbricati 

 BestivatioB, lined by a very thin plate. Petals 5, inserted int-> 



,l " tul f the calj \. equal, with a twisted aestivation. - 



5, inserted into the tube of the calyx below thi petals, witli 

 which they are alternate ; filaments distinct ; antlu i 

 erect, 2-celled. Ovarj superior, I -celled, with I pla- 



centas ; ovules 00, anatropal ; styles 3, cohering nion 

 and simple, Bplit, branched or multifid at the apex. Capsule 

 3-valved, I -celled, opening from the point about :i~ 

 middle, the valves bearing the placentae in their median line. 



with a thin membranous Btrophioleon onesidi 

 reticulated ; embryo slightly curved, in the middle of fleshy 

 albumen ; radicle turned towards tin- hilum ; cotyl 

 somewhat plano-convex, acquiring t!i>- texture "i leaves when 



The little herbaceous plants I 

 tlii- < trder were oddly placed I 

 Candolle betwei □ ! his 



Fouquieracese, the formi r a group of 

 plants "itli an inferior ovary, and tin- 

 hitter an imaginary < >rdei . 

 whose two genera si eme itua, 



< hl.ti's station it in the \ icinit 

 Rock Roa s, from which it d 

 in the calj \. m tli<- in- 

 stamens, and in the appi 



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of the radicle to tlie hilum, agreeing with them in habit With Mallowworts tin 



s] '1- in the twisted aestivation of the corolla, and in habit But 



a :iml Lousads there is most in common : the presence ol glands upon tl 



the petioles "I Turnerads is a confirmati if their affinity to the forn 



distinguished from Loasada bj their fruit being Buperior, and b) their defiiiiti 

 inner character i-, however, weakened by 1 1 1 « - nearh aup< rior fruit I 

 The hypogynous petals of Frank* niada sufficiently distinguish that Ord< r, 

 nothing ol tin ir unguiculate petals. The forked Btyles of Turni 

 ives exclusively of the West Indies and South Aruerii 

 reason for supposing Turners triouiflora to be a native J 

 U d. 

 Tlii- lii rbage of some of them is rather aromatic, 

 ployed in Brazil against dyspepsia. Martiua 

 i tome and e> pectorant 



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Turnera 

 Turnera uh 





I'uriH-ni, Plum. 

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