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I XXII. CISTA< 



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Shrubs or b - plants. Branches often viscid, 



alternate, stipulate "t- exstipulate, generally feather-veined, bul 



illy unilateral. Flowers white, yellow, or red, verj I 

 sontinuous «ith the pedicel, J, the three inn< i 



}, verj rarely 3, hypogynoua, fugitn . ipled in 



1 in a direction 

 iry to that of the 

 Stan 

 nite or indefinite, hypo- 

 is, >li~t in.-t ; an- 

 thers . opening 

 tudinally. Ovary 

 I- or many-celled ; 

 - • • .v ery 

 rarely anal 



single ; stigma 



ample. Fruit capsular, 



ly M- or 5-ralved, 



- ionally 10-valved, 



•• 1 -celled with pa- 



pbicentte in the 



of the valv< - 



10- 

 . witli dissepii 

 ding from the 

 middle of the va 

 and touching each other 

 in the centre. 



te or 00. Embryo im i ther Bpiral or 



curved, in the midst of mealy, or Bomewhat horny 

 albumen. Radicle n mote from the hilum. 



These plants tl) distinguished from 



tworts, with which they were former!} 

 annular and inverted eml 

 from Bixads bj this lasl character, by their n 

 albumen, habit, and not having the lea 



! : f<"°m i by the latter character, and 



structure ol the fruit ; thej 

 Poppyworts by the gc nus I •• i In mi 

 <-f their affinit others that may have I 



mentioned by other Botanists, appear, ho 



s, t ■ which their curved embryo and parietal | I 

 ver\ near From all the Cistal Alliance thej are,mon 

 albumen in some abundance. 



markable plant, found in Asia, Africa, an i S 

 ift'er the most highly d 

 i very little except it- habit B 



except its 



al placenta?, anisomerous tl 

 men, seem fatal objections to tl 





1 ' XI. 1.— 1. ,i s, rti • • 

 ianthemiiD) ran.iriense. — HV66. 



