160 CAR1TOPHYLLE2E. [Cl. 13. 



and alternately inserted upon them or under the Ger- 

 men, which is always simple. Styles several, rarely 

 solitary, with the same number of Stigmas. Fruit 

 capsular, of 1 or several cells, with numerous Seeds, 

 on a central Receptacle. Embryo incurved, surround- 

 ing a farinaceous Albumen. Stem mostly herbaceous. 

 Leaves opposite, combined at the base, or rarely 

 whorled ; in a few instances accompanied by Stipulas. 

 but more usually without. Flowers either axillary, or 

 more commonly terminal." 



A large and very natural Order, much more akin, 

 except in having Petals, to some of Jussieu's earlier 

 Orders, as the Amaranthi, both in habit, nature of 

 the Albumen, and even insertion of Stamens, rightly 

 considered. But the laws of system, with regard to 

 the Corolla, have almost obliged this learned author 

 to place these two families widely apart, which neces- 

 sity is rendered somewhat less unfortunate, by an agree- 

 ment, as to the Albumen, with the 1st Order of the 

 next Class. The Caryopliyllece are chiefly of Euro- 

 pean growth, and their genera have scarcely undergone 

 any controversy, or received any addition or altera- 

 tion, except Cucubalus, since their establishment by 

 Linnaeus, who first reduced them to any thing like 

 scientific order. Jussieu's Sections are the following. 

 Number, it must be observed, is often variable in 

 these plants. 



Sect. 1. Calyx deeply divided. Stamens 3. Style ], 

 or more frequently 3. Orfegia, Loeflingia, Holo- 



