UJJTAGEM. 



are the same in number. 1- ac -ovulate. Ovules often descending, 

 with superior and exterior micropyle. Fruit dry. crustaceous or 

 coriaceous, sometimes with from .0—12 shells separating from the 

 columella, or with septicidal cells. .-ds albuminous or exalbu- 



rninous. — Woody or herbaceous plants, not bitter, not punctuate, with 

 branches often articulate, leaves opposite, or alternate by abortion, 

 accompanied by geminate stipules, almost constantly compound, 

 2— /:-foliolate. Flowers generally drawn upon the axis, which be. - 

 them to the side of a leaf at a greater elevation. — '11 genera.) 



XII. Nitrakie.j:.' — Flowers hermaphrodite, with cucullate petals, 

 valvate-induplicate, with stam ds double or triple in number to the 



rary 0-6-celled, with a single descending ovule in each cell, 

 adoi and e::~. ri : - micropyle. Fruit fie-' tone fluted or 



:ulated outwardly, G-valved at apex, monospermous. Embryo 



fleshy, exalbuminous. — Shrubs from the salt plains of the temperate 

 ons of the Old World, not bitter, not punctuate, with simple 



alternate leaves, and flowers in uuiparous scorpioid cymes. — 



(1 . 3.) 



XIII. CoRiARlEiE. 3 — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, with 

 diplostemonous androceum, free carpels alternate with the pei 

 when they are the same in number, with free styles. Ovules solitary, 

 descending.- with int i r and superior micropyle. Fruit formed of 

 5-10 sheik, surrounded by accrescent petals, coriaceous or fleshy. 

 Seeds exalbuminous, or with albumen reduced to a more or less haid 

 membrane. — Shrubs, often sarmentose, with opposite or verticillate 

 leave-.: nnctuate, with axillary inf] i ence. — (1 genus.) 



XIV. Soriasejb.' — Flowers hermaphrodite, with diplo-temonous 

 androceum, free, oppositipetalous carpels, and gynobasic free styles. 

 Ovules geminate in each ovary, descending, with superior and 

 exterior micropyle. Fruit formed of free drupes, surrounded by 

 the persi- calyx, with thin mesocarp, and solitary ascending 

 seed. Embryo exalbuminous, folded upon itself, with superior and 



1 yitrariacecB Livdl., S :-d. 1, n. " — '■-, 1065. — Ac... op. 



!4 9 (1 . —Mart., Cfawp, n- 255 (1835),— t 21.— B. H. - Ord. 64. 



E>d: 1094. — AG., op. tit., 367. — rmea ESDI*, &e»„114 - ianacem 



DC., P. :—Mal- Wight & Ae>\, Prodr.. L .— LlMHu, 



laeea ( par:, i hvsvh., Veg. K\q-L, 383.— \ - U2, Ord. 107; Veg. Kinnd., 



.ihyllem (part.; B. H.. G .,265. — Ag. 5 op. tit., 16'J, t. 14.— T acta 



ir., L (1824), 1 1. 64.— (part.) DC. / - imarubea (part.) 



Li>bl.. Nat. Syst., ed. 1, Kiagd., K - B 



