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Ordi CCXLVIII. MYRSINAC] 



Ophlotperma, FenL Jat : ■ , . 



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a,roi^cr^i3i hr ° b, ' wi ""■•' 



axillaxy,seldomterminal. Flow- 

 ers -mall, w hite or red, often 

 marked with sunken do 

 glandular lines. Flowers 

 occasionally J f > . Calyx i or 

 persistent Corolla 

 monopetalous, hypogynoui 

 5-cleft, equal. Stamens 

 opposite the segments ol the 

 corolla, into the bases of which 

 they are inserted ; filaments 

 distinct, ran U connate, some- 

 times wanting, sometimes 5 



rile pctaluid alternate ones ; 

 anthers attached by their emar- 



'"' base, uiili 2 cells, dehis- 

 cing longitudinally. <>. 



in^e«edTSn^ e ^J^ a8ing,ecellanda fl 

 short ^stiJmlS ormde ^"«°'imberofcampuUtr 



. I l^ed or undivided. Fruit fleshy, mostlj 

 'ltd. Seeds angular or roundish, with a hollow hilum , 

 v "", T ""'"V' ""Bameshap astb 



; :, ;""" hehl l«mwhen the seed is solitary or h 

 "'!' ' deseeds are numerous and lateral ; cotyledons short 

 The, arborescent habit, fleshy fruit, and sockettedplace.il 



to be relied upon in distingujBhing this Order from I'm 



oi great value as is shown al p. 644. Brown remarks that th, I 

 '•■l , ? ou ° b .•'•"•'i;"n.: 1 . and .,, Primworts through HI, 

 a ;'" I*"". *'th <\ ''•' l ' i ' of a Pothos, and an induj 

 art polypetalous. Maasa is to other Ardisiads what -. 



11 vrnott remarks to me that in Borne genera In 

 »* in Samyds. 



Ardisiads "are for t |„. m ,, st ,...,,-, inhabit 

 wi«'ii)ie, and thej particularly abound in insular local 

 -■ ■an. Mauritius, Bourbon, and Madagascar. Their in.,: 

 I seems to be the Azores, lat 38 V. Madeira 

 §»« o» the adjacent continenl of Africa do the) cross th. N 

 u-.j are entirely wanting, and in Asia extend onl) I J 

 .''' '? V' rv nilv "' N- America, and especially I 

 apeeies inhabiting the United States, the M. ti 

 me southern state, whose name it bears, 

 pii.'iv (except in New Zealand), are found to tin 

 mere in >. Urazil only, h, Africa tlwy reach I 

 i neir extension into tlie 53rd degree in the S I 

 arcumstance, and probably in some measure t 

 »ture which tlie New Zealand Islands , 



aon to tlie other dicotyledonous vegi tat n 



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