28 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



1. BiEBERSTEiNE^.i — Flowci's regular, hermaphrodite, diploste- 

 mouous, with convex reccptack\ Carpels oppositipctalous, inde- 

 pendent, iudehiscent. Ovules solitary. — 1 genus, 



2. Geranie^.- — Flowers regular or irregular (with spur not free), 

 and convex receptacle. Carpels oppositipetalous, united in a pliu'i- 

 locular ovary, with geminate ovules. Fruit rostrate, in panels 

 separating from central columella. — 4 genera. 



3. NEURABEiE.^ — Flowers regular, with concave receptacle. Ovules 

 solitary. Carpels 5-10, dehiscing at the apex and lodged in the 

 concavity of the persistent receptacle, dry. — 2 genera. 



4. Balbisieje.'' — Flowers regular, with or without corolla, having 

 a convex receptacle. Carpels alternipetalous, united in a pluri- 

 locular ovary. Ovules 2-oo . Fruit loculicidal or septifragal. — 

 4 genera. 



5. Tropjeole^.^ — Flowers irregular, with concave receptacle, 

 prolonged at the back into a free spur. Stamens perigynous, dis- 

 posed in fours in two verticils. Carpels 3, uniovulate, iudehiscent, 

 separating fi'om the columella at maturity. — 1 genus. 



6. BALSAMiNEiE.'"' — Flowcrs iiTcgular, with convex receptacle. 

 Posterior sepal prolonged into a free spur. Stamens 5, hypogyuoiis. 

 Carpels 5, united into a plurilocular ovary. Cells phuiovulate. 

 Fruit capsular, with elastic dehiscence, or fleshy, iudehiscent. — 

 1 genus. 



7. Flcerke^.' — Flowers regular, 3-5-merous, with plano-convex 

 receptacle. Carpels free in the flower and fruit, with gynobasic style. 

 Ovules solitary, ascendent. — 1 genus. 



8. Oxalide.^;.® — Flowers regular, di- or triplostemonous with 



' Endl. Gen. 1165 {Gen. Zygophjlkisa.&D..). — ' J. in M4m Mm. iii. 447 (1817). — DC. Prodi: 



Ac. Thcor. Si/st. 167 {Bnsac.). i. 683, Ord. 47.— Endl. 0:ii. 1174, Ord. 258.— 



5 Geranincetc DC. Fl. Fi: iv. (1805), 828 Ac. op. cit. 20S.—Tioj)eolace,c Lindl. Ve>/. 



Fiodr. i. 637, Ord. 46.— Endl. Gen. 1106, Ord. Kingd. 366, Ord. 129. 



254.— LiNDL. Vcg. Kinrjd.i'ii,OiA. 187.— Ac. « A. Rich, in i);:^. .ff"/,«<. iV«(l. ii. 173 (1822).— 



0]>. at. 170. DC. Prodi: i. 085, Ord. 48.— Endl. Gen. 1173, 



3 NatradeaDC. Prndr. ii. 54-8 {Rosiic. trib. Ovi.1ol.—A.a.op.cit.6'i.{(Eiiotlieretc?).—Bttl- 



4). — Endl. Oen. 1249 [Ros/ic. sutord. 4). — sann/,ace<s JjifiDi,. Jnf rod. ei. 2, ISS; Veg. Eiiigd. 



IjISD-l. Veg. Kingd. 505 {Rosac.trih.v. ?). — Ao. 490, Ord. ISG.—Hi/droceiea: Bh. Pijdr. 241. 



Op. Cit. 288. (1825). 



* K. B:i. in Pager Fain. Nat. 397, Tnm. 172. — ^ Liiniiniitheii; R. Bk. in Lond. and Edinb. 



Lt'docarpca;ME\'Eii,l{eis.i.S07. — Rhgnchothecece, Phil. Mag. and Journ, (July, 1833). — Endl. 



Lsdocarpa:, Vivianicai {Qcran. affin.) Enbl. Gen. 1175, Ord. 209. — Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 367, 



Oen. 1169. — Ao. Op. Cit, 203. — OxalidacciB Trupaolac. trib. 2. — Ao. op. cit. 57. — Limnaii- 



(part.) Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 489. — Yivianiacea thacemXimvi,. Iiitrod. ei..2, \i%. 



Kl. in liiimca, x. (1830), 433.— Lind. op. cit. « DC. Prodr. i. (1824), 69, Ord. 489.~Endl. 

 365, Ord. 12S.— JFcndtie(e B. II. Gen. 270, 275. 



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