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Evergreen shrnfa, or tr pposite, ^ 



Flowers yellow, terminal. Calj ■ 

 uii imbricate I aasti ration. 

 Stamens .'. inserted in the 

 throat, aln -mat. ■ with the 

 segments of the corolla ; 

 anthers roundish, 3-lobed, 

 bursting externally, each 

 consisting of three pairs of 

 narrow, somewhat sinuous 

 cells, which open longitudi- 

 nally, and which are place* 



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upon 





flesh} connective. Ovary inferior. 2-celled, 

 with an indefinite number of ovules ; stvle 

 simple, smooth ; Btigma capitate, '2-lobed. 

 Disk epigynous, Beshy. Fruit capsular, i- 

 celled, many-seeded, with both septicidal 

 loculicida) dehiscence; testa polished; em 

 bryo taper, erect, in the axis of fleshy 

 albumen, with oval obtuse cotyledons, 

 a taper radicle longer than the cotyledons. 



The late Professor Don, who tir-t noticed 

 this Order, think- it near Jasmines, with 

 which it corresponds •• in the structure and 

 ■estivation of the corolla, in the bilocular 

 ovary, and erect | I) ovules : and it :.. 

 both with them an. I Syringa in the structure 



and dehiscent f the capsule. The 



'litters however, essentially from Jasmine- 

 worts, by having an adherent ovary, by the 

 presence of a perigynous (!) «Ii— k I by the 

 undivided Btigma, and, lastly, by having 

 interior capsule with polyspermous cells.'' 

 He «as probably led to this notion by having 

 included in his Columelliads the genus M 

 dora, which is a genuine member of the 

 Jasminaceous Order. He also supposed that 

 an affinity could be traced with Halesu 

 has placed the genus as an anomalous torm 



view. Hut it is very clear that not f *h 



the neighbourhood of Columellia, which maj 

 Onagrad. Its indefinite seeds are entirely a: 

 Bbenads and Jasmineworts, to sai nothing 

 is impossible to say where it really oughl I 

 between Columellia, &c, and any other Ord 

 have it by the side of Cranberries and Cinchi 

 the latter, it may he compared. The m 

 stamens ■ these curious bodies, rudely 1 

 apparently composed each of three stamens firmly ■ 

 ti cells arranged in .'> pairs upon a 3-lobed fl< - 

 the corolla. Now this indicates an irregulai 

 and to which I find no parallel ; in ord 







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