442 CHI. LOASE^E. 



TRIBE I. CASEARIEJE. Leaves alternate. Calyx free, 4-5-merous. Petals 0. Stamens 

 6-30, inserted in one series within the calyx-tube, usually alternating with as many staminodes. 

 Casearia, lAinaria, Samyda, &c. 



TRIBE II. BANAREJ:. Leaves alternate. Calyx free, 4-5-merous. Petals 45, or more. 

 Stamens many, inserted in many series on a perigynous disk. Banara, KuJilia, &c. 



TRIBE III. ABATIE.E. Leaves opposite, sub-opposite, or whorled. Calyx 4-partite, valvate. 

 Petals 0. Stamens 8 or indefinite, 1- or many-seriate, staminodes 0. Abatla, Ralcii/liia, 

 Aplicerema. 



TRIBE IV. HOMALIEJE. Leaves alternate, rarely sub-opposite or whorled. Calyx free or 

 adnate to the ovary, 4 15-merous. Petals 415. Stamens as many as and opposite to the 

 petals, or if more, in bundles opposite to the petals, and alternating with glands. HomaUum, 

 Byrsanthus, &c. 



A small order intermediate between Passi/lorefr and Sirinea-, differing from the former in habit and 

 the want of a corona, and from the latter in perigynism : it is also near Vwlarie.a; and Canellacecc. The 

 species are few, wholly tropical, and found in both the Eastern and Western hemispheres. 



The general properties of the order are astringent, but none are of any known value ; some are 

 bitter, others mucilaginous, and others again are said to be acrid. ED.] 



[For illustrations, see p. 247.] 



GUI. LOASEJZ, 



(LOASEjE, JuSSieU. LOASE^E VER.E, Kunth. LOASACE^G, Linll.) 



COROLLA polypetalous, epigynous, anisostemonous, valvate or imbricate in bud. 

 STAMENS more numerous than the petal*, rarely all fertile, the outer usually fertile 

 and united in bundles, the inner sterile. OVARY inferior, l-celled, placentation parietal. 

 OVULES pendulous, anatropous. FRUIT a capsule. EMBRYO albuminous. RADICLE 

 superior. 



Erect or climbing HERBS, often dichotomous, usually covered with stiff often 

 hooked stinging bristles. LEAVES opposite or alternate, simple, usually palmilobed, 

 exstipulate. FLOWERS 3 , regular, solitary or aggregated, on 2-bracteolate pedun- 

 cles, axillary or terminal, or leaf-opposed from the elongation of the axillary branch. 

 CALYX superior, 4-5-partite, lobes usually 3-nerved, imbricate or valvate in bud, 

 PETALS deciduous, inserted on the calyx, rarely equal to its lobes in number, and 

 alternate with them, often double in number, of which the 4-5 outer are alternate 

 with these same lobes, and induplicate-valvate or imbricate in bud, and as many 

 inner opposite to the calyx-lobes, smaller than the outer, sometimes antheriferous, 

 generally squamiform, dorsally naked, or awned below the top. STAMENS inserted 

 with the petals, double in number or indefinite, rarely all fertile ; the outer usually 

 fertile, various in number, grouped in bundles before the largest petals, the inner 

 sterile, differently shaped, in groups of fours, opposite to the smallest petals ; fila- 

 ments filiform or subulate, free or united in bundles ; anthers introrse, 2-celled, 

 dorsifixed, dehiscence longitudinal. OVARY inferior, l-celled, with 3-5-4 parietal 



