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pendulous, oblong ; testa thin, transversely rugose ; raphe prominent and lateral ; 

 albumen copious, fleshy. EMBRYO minute, straight, axile ; cotyledons hypogeous in 

 germination ; radicle superior. 



PEINCIPAL GENERA. 

 *Garrya [see Cornea, p. 476.] Simtnondsia [see Buxcai}. 



The affinities of Garrya are obscure. A. de Jussieu makes the same observations as on Gunneracecr., 

 and places it between Gunncra and Cornea. Like the latter, Garrya has epigynous stamens, suspended and 

 anatropous ovules, a fleshy fruit, a minute embryo at the top of an abundant albumen, a woody stem, and 

 opposite leaves. As in Gunnera, the styles are stigmatiferous throughout their length. Garrya approaches 

 Hamamelidece in the inferior ovary, the pendulous anatropous ovule, the two distinct styles, the albu- 

 minous and axile embryo, and the woody stem ; but Hamamelidece have frequently petals, and are poly- 

 androus, the ovary is 2-celled, the fruit a septicidal capsule, the embryo large, and the leaves are 

 alternate. 



Garrya elliptica grows in Mexico and California [and G. Fadyeniin Jamaica and Cuba]. There is 

 nothing to be noticed respecting their useful properties. 



CXVII. CAPRIFOLIACE^. 



(CAPRIFOLIA, A. L. de Jussieu. CAPRIPOLIACE^E, De Candolle. CAPRIFGLIACE^E and 

 SAMBUCE^E, Kunth.*- CAPRIFOLIACE^E and VIBURNE^E, Bantling. LONICERE^E, 

 Endlicher.) 



COROLLA monopetalous, epigynous, isostemonous, imbricate in bud. STAMENS 54, 

 inserted on the corolla. OVARY with 2-5 one- or m,any-ovuled cells. OVULES pen- 

 dulous, anatropous. FRUIT a berry. EMBRYO albuminous. LEAVES opposite, exsti- 

 pulate. 



Plants with a woody or partially woody stem, very rarely herbaceous perennials. 

 LEAVES opposite ; stipules absent, sometimes represented by filiform or glandular 

 appendages, situated at the base of the petiole. FLOWERS perfect, regular or 

 irregular; inflorescence various, generally definite. CALYX superior, 5-fid or -toothed. 

 COROLLA superior, monopetalous, tubular or infundibuliform or rotate ; limb 5-fid, 

 regular or ringent, imbricate in bud. STAMENS inserted on the corolla-tube, alter- 

 nate with its lobes ; filaments filiform, equal or didynamous ; anthers introrse, 2- 

 celled, dehiscence longitudinal. OVARY inferior, 2-5-celled; style terminal, some- 

 times filiform with a capitate undivided or bilobed stigma, sometimes nearly or 

 quite obsolete, with 3-5 stigmas ; ovules sometimes solitary and pendulous near the 

 top of the cell, sometimes many, 2-seriate at the central angle, anatropous. BERRY 

 several-celled, rarely 1-celled by the disappearance of the septa. SEEDS inverted ; 

 testa bony or crustaceous, raphe dorsal or ventral. EMBRYO straight, occupying the 

 axis of a fleshy albumen ; radicle superior. 



