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. anthers opening longitudinally, . 

 Trees or shrubs. Branches opposite, when young 

 sometimes towards the extremities of the branches alternate, entire, with gla 

 stipules at the base. Flowers usually in terminal panicles or racemes, 

 combined at the base, very unequal, the t«" outer the smallest, 1 1 » « - two in front the 



-i, imbricated in estivation, the upper 

 one much the largest and spurred. Petals 

 1,2, 3 or 5, alternate with th< segments oi 

 the calyx, and inserted into tlnir base, 

 unequal. Stamens )-">, usually op] 

 tin- petals, rareh alternate with them, 

 arising from the bottom of the calyx, for 

 tin- most part sterile, 1 of them hai ing sn 

 fertile 4-celled anther. Ovary free, 

 in- partially adherent, 3-celled ; ovules in 

 sacb cell, solitary or twin, or 00, attached 

 to tin- a\i-, amphitropal, with the fora- 

 men ii|i|>i'i-iiiiist ; iii-t'ii.sioiially 1 -celled, 

 with 2 snatropal ovules rising from the 



: Btyle and stigma 1. Capsule ••- 

 conn rtil, 3-celled, 3-valved, the valves 

 bursting along their middle, with a central 

 columella ; occasionally indehiscent, 1- 

 eelled, 1-a eded, and crowned b) the sepals 

 grown out into wings. >• ed without albu- 

 men, erect, usually winged; embryo 

 t~t: ui^lit in the capsular genera, with large 



cotyledons and a snort superior ra- 

 dicle; in tin- monospermous fruit, orthotro- 

 I'.il, cylindrical, with Bemi- cylindrical 

 cotyledons, and s short inferior radicle. 

 Such is the character that Botanists _'i\i 



most curious race of trees and shrubs, 

 which few have had the opportunity of 

 studying, but which are remarkable for 

 tlii- beauty of theirlarge and gaily coloured 



Bowers. It Beems, however, certain that the Order, aa thus described 

 which must hereafti r l" si parafc 1. snd that it cannot be at pn m nt i 

 all « ill limited 1><- Candolle Bpeaksofit as being in habit and i 1 

 Guttifers or Margraviads, but distinct from both in the stami 

 Am calyx . perhaps more directly connected with Afyn 

 rote cotyli dons and inverted seeds : andevi n perhaps allied • 

 <>t the abortive solitary stamen. Tome it still appears t" be mon n 

 an affinity Btrongly pomted out by the irregular Bowers, 

 also to be yet nearer Milkworts, from whirl) the calcarate fl 

 principally distinguish it. The main difliculty in a — dating 

 these i >rdei 9 belong, consists in the Btami us being trul 



ynous Alliance to which it seems referable, and th 

 3-celled ovary to the 5-parted calyx andcoroll 

 with the Sapindal Alliance. 



quinoctial America, where theyinhal 



us, sometimes rising up mountains 



with large spreading hi 



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CCLXV. - Ivertia convallario Ion 

 with the stamens; 3. a pistfl ; 4. a b 





