ALLIANCES OF PLANTS. 



217 



Alliance 3. Labiates. Fruit nucamentaceous. Inflorescence 

 gyrate. Flowers unsymmetrical. 



Fruit divided into four 205. Lamiaceae or 

 lobes." Labiatae. 



Fruit consisting of about 4 206. Verbenacese 

 cells. Radicle inferior. 



Fruit consisting of about 207. Myoporaceae 

 four cells. Radicle supe- 

 rior. 



Fruit two-celled. Ovules 208. Selaginaceae. 

 pendulous. Anthers one- 

 celled. 



Fruit two-celled. Ovules 209. Stilbaceae. 

 erect. Antherstwo-celled. 



Tonic, stomachic 

 (Thyme, Mint, 

 &c.) 



Slightly bitter. 



Tanning. 



GROUP V. DICARPOS.E. 



Alliance 1. Bignoniales. Neither albumen nor hooks to the 

 seeds. 



Seeds winged . . .210. Bignoniaceae. 

 Fruit hard and like a nut . 211. Pedaliaceae 

 Placentae 4. Seeds wingless 212. Cyrtandraceae. 



Emollient. 



Alliance 2. ScropJiulales. Seeds numerous, with albumen. 



Leafy plants with a superior 213. Scrophulariaceae. Suspicious (Digi- 

 ovary. talis). 



Leafless plants with a mi- 214. Orobanchaceae. 

 nute embryo. 



Leafless plants with a one- 215. Gesneraceae . Harmless, 

 celled ovary, partly in- 

 ferior. 



Alliance 3. AcantJiales. Seeds without albumen, with hooks 

 to the seeds. Calyx remarkably imbricated. 



216. Acanthaceae. 



Alliance 4. Lentibales. A free central placenta. 

 217. Lentibulaceae. 



