!)() 



N.rrraAL iirs-ronr of plaxts. 



eomose. SuLerect or scandeut shrubs (Bredemef/era), or oftcner suffru- 

 toscont herbs erect or volubile (Eiicoiiieyjerma) ; leaves alternate, 

 risually suiall [Eacomcspcrmu) or ovate, obloug, wide, subcoriaceous 

 penuiuerved (7ir('(/f/wf^fr«); flowers iu simple or ramified racemes. 



{Trop. America. [B/rJcn/c/fem^l, Australia.-) 



7. Securidaca L." — Flowers nearly of Polijgala ; sepals 2, very 

 large, wiugshaped snbpetaloid. Petals of Polyf/ala ; the lateral often 

 joined to the keel. Stamens 8 (of Fohjyala). Germen 2-locular ; 

 one cell often very small, empty ; the other 1-ovulate. Fruit indc- 

 hiscent, coriaceous or ligneous, often cristate at base, at apex pro- 

 duced in a wing, elongated rarely short {Coryth(ilohium^\ sometimes 

 much dilated above [Lnphos;fiiIis°) often narrow at base (samaroid); 

 seed 1, cxarillate, oxalbuminous ; cotyledons of straight embryo, 

 thick-fleshy ; radicle very short, retracted between them. — Shrubs 

 often scandent ; leaves alternate, usually entire, 2-glandular ; flo^^'ers 

 in terminal and axillary racemes, simple or compound, sometimes 

 short, rarely fasciculate-'2-chotomous {Conjlliohbtuni). [All warm 

 regions [except Ausfralia.^) 



8. Carpolobia G. Don.'^ — Flowers nearly of Polf/gala; lateral 

 sepals larger. Petals 5, connate in a corolla cut at back ; the anterior 

 carinate, coneave-galeate, entire or shortly cristate at apex. Stamens 5, 

 connate at base in a sheath ciit at back, and outwardly adnate to 

 corolla ; antherless filaments sometimes 1-3 ; anthers dehiscing 

 obliquely inwards. Germen thickly stipitate, 3-locular. Other 

 characters of Polijgala. Fruit fleshy, subglobose ; seeds 1-3, exaril- 



1 Spec, about 10, A. S. II. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. 

 t. 90, 91. — I'lEiT. ft Endl. Nov. Gen. et. Spec. 

 iii. t. 273 {Catocomn). — Tr. et. Vl. in Ann. So. 

 Kat. ser. 4, xvii. 133 {C'ltnmma). — Hassk. in 

 Aim. Mils. Liriil.-Bat. i. 187.— Walp. Hep. i. 

 213; V. 614. 



- Spec, about 20 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. t. 20. — 

 1'". JIuELL. Fl. rict. t. 8.— Benth. fl .Au-tral. 

 i. 141.— Wali'. Ann. ii. 82 ; vii. 251. 



=• Gen. n. 852.— J. Gch. 366.— Pom. lUit. viii. 

 60; Suppl. V. 124.— Lamk. III. t. 699.— DC. 

 Pi-'ulr. i. 340.— A. S. II. et MoQ. in Mem. Miis. 

 xvii. 354, t. 31 ; xix. 335. — Spach, Suit, a Bii/fun, 

 vii. 148.- Fndi.. a:ii. n. 5653.— B. H. Gai. 138, 

 974, n. 9. — H-Jil'diicilid 'Mia. iu Zim.wc, xviii. 

 685. 



■* -Mart, e.v Benth. iu ^Inn. Mna^ Tiiidoli. 



ii. 93. 



^ HocHST. in Fhra (1842), 229,— A. Rich. 

 Fl. Alii/ss. Tint. i. 39, t. 10. 



" Jacq. Amei: t. 183.— Deless. Ic. S'l. iii. 

 t. 22.— A. S. H. Fl. Bias. Mer. ii. 67, t. 96.— 

 GuiSEii. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 29; Cat. PI. Ciih. 

 14. — Hassk. in Miis. Lugii.-Bat. i. 190. — Hook. 

 F. Fl. Brit. Iiid. i. 207.— Oliv. Fl. Trop. A/r. 

 i. 134.— Benth. Fl. Uonr/knng. 45.— MiQ. Fl. 

 In<l..But. i. p. ii. 128 {Lophosti/l,s).—TR. et Vl. 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xvii. 134. — Walp. liiji. 

 i. 246 (part.) ; v. 67 ; Ann. i. 75 ; ii. 86 ; iv. 240 ; 

 vii. 253. 



' (?(■». Si/.'^f. i. 370 (part,).— Eni>l. Gen. n. 

 5055; Sujiiil. iii. 90.-11. II. 6V«. 139, 974, 

 n. 11. 



