93 TITICES. [Cl. 8. 



slight, and scarcely discernible in any one point, except 

 the valves and fixed partitions of the Capsule in Sy- 

 ringa, obscurely resembling Justicia &c., but not, like 

 them, elastic, nor is there any resemblance in the 

 number, form or disposition, of the Seeds or their 

 supports. 



Mr. Brown separates the true Jasmine a, whose 

 Seeds are erect, with hardly any Albumen, and their 

 Corolla salver-shaped, in from 5 to 8 segments, with" 

 an imbricated twisted Aestivation; from the OleifH&Qf 

 Hoffmansegg and Link, whose Seeds are pendulous, 

 with a copious, dense, fleshy Albumen, and a deeply 

 four-cleft Corolla, sometimes wanting. 



Ord. 38. VlTiCES. " Calyx tubular, often per- 

 manent. Corolla tubular, for the most part irregular 

 in the limb. Stamens generally 4, didynamous, rare- 

 ly 3, or 6. Style I. Stigma variously shaped. Seeds 

 definite, either naked, or more frequently in a pulpy, 

 sometimes capsular, pericarp. Stem shrubby (or ar- 

 boreous), in a few herbaceous. Leaves opposite for 

 the most part ; as are the Flowers when corymbose ; 

 but when spiked they are alternate." These different 

 forms of inflorescence mark the 2 Sections. 



In the 1st, are Clerodendrum, Vitex, Callicarpa, 

 Cornutia, Tectona (Theha Juss.) c. ; in the 2d, Pe- 

 traa, Citharexylum, Duranta, Verbena, fig. 1 74, and 

 others. Eranthemum, Selago, and Hebenstretia stand 

 as " akin to ViticesT 



Jussieu has changed the name of this Order to- 



