SOLANAI 



SOLAN'ALEH 





(I tentianace • conl 



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DUadena, 



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1 1 lesfontainia probably be! 



Alliance XLVI. SOLANALES.— Thb S i Aolix 



Diagnosis P 



axil' placenta, 2S-celled fruit, largt cmbryo,ly no in a m ill 



All these plants are clearly held together by the common chai 

 Ions corolla, utile placenta?, regular bj mmetrical flowi re, and an ino 

 of albumen. It is the last circumstance, witli the axile placentation, which d 

 them from the < rentianal Alliance. The free central placenta "i ( lorl 

 guishes thai Alliance. 



Here and there anomalous genera occur, with no corolla, 

 they are rare, and do nol Beem t" invalidate the Alliance, which joins 

 Oliveworts, which are nearly allied t.. Ebenads and Hollyworts, and 

 xils by the Polemoniads, which are so very near Hydrophyte that the two wei 

 blended in the same Natural Order. 



Lateral affinities are here very important. Nothing what) v< i 

 of their flowers separates Nightshades from Figworts in the Bignonial A 

 worts touch Jasmineworta among Echials ; Asclepiads I' 

 Bindweeds the Nolanads of the Echial Alliance. 



Nui bal Orders op Soi vn i 



Stamens free, 2 or 4 2 



Stamens free, 5. P . 1 238. S 



Anthers and stigma consolid 'umn 



Stamens free, 5. Placenta axile. Cotyled 



tiidinally 



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s ttm ns free, 5. PI I 



Stamens free, b. Placenta ou ' . I yledons str 

 convex J" 



