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Order CCXXVI. STACKHOl SIAC] . 

 rosis.— Mamml I 



Herbaceous plants, occasionally Bomewhal shrubbi 



■ometimea rate. Stipules lateral, verj minute 



terminal, each flower with 3 bracts. Calyx li 



equal with an inflated tube. Petals 5, equal, arising from the* 



!"l'"' tl ,' ,,,ul «' the calyx ! their claws combined in a tube 



longer than the calyx ; their limb narrow, 

 5,distmct, unequal (2 alternately shorter), arising from the 

 ""•"•;""' the calyx Ovary Buperior, ; lied, the cells 



partially separated, adhering to a central column, i ach with a 

 Bingle erect anatropal ovule; styles from times 



combined atthe base ; Btigmas simple. Fruit of n- .. t., 5 



indemscent, winged, or wingless pieces ; column central, per- 

 nstent Embryo erect, in the axis of, and almost as Ion 

 in.; Hesny aJbumen, with short obtuse cotyledons and an 

 inferior radicle. 



Tin- Order should Btand between Spindli 1 Spuree- 



worts, according to Brown; from the latter of which it 

 differs m the structure of the fruit, and in the position of the 

 •s I..-.SI.I.-S ,.th»-r characters : from the former in the 

 presence of stipules, in the cohesion of the petals in a tube, in 

 »e deeply lobed ovary, and so on. The hermaphrodite floi 



J'""";;' the Order, however,from Spurgeworts; it-, .opeta- 



lous flowers are much at variance with the structure 

 Spmdle-trees. Nevertheless, the 3-celled ovary, in flowers 

 otherwise pentamerous, i- entirely that of Hippocrateads and 

 bpradle-trees, and recalls the Sapindal AUiance, to which a 

 ttose Orders would be referable if their stamens were not so 

 distinctly pengynous. 

 A t.-u New Holland shrubs compose all that is known 

 Hair properties are unascertained. 



GENERA. 

 Btaebhoosia, Smith, \ i r;I 



Ni mi.i us, tiis. 2. Sp. 10. 



Position.— Celastraee83. Stackhous 



Euphorbiacea. 





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■ -}. Stai-khousia : 2. it. corolla; 

 »od( oi its cocci cut across; 6. an ova 



