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IX. Oldenlandie^.^ — Herbaceous, rarely frutescent, plants, with 

 small stipules, entire or divided at the margin, or with none. Corollary 

 valvate. Ovules numerous,^ inserted on a placenta ordinarily fixed 

 by a short foot at a variable height or at the base of the internal 

 angle. Fruit inferior or rarely semi-inferior, or free,^ generally 

 capsular, more rarely indehiscent or fleshy.'^ Seeds small, angular, 

 peltate, rarely winged. — 15 genera. 



X. PoRTLANDiE^.^ — Woody plants. Stipules smaller than the 

 leaves. Corolla valvate, imbricate or contorted. Fruit capsular, 

 polyspermous. Seeds generally wingless.^ — 17 genera. 



XL CiNCHONE^.^ — Woody plants. Stipules smaller than the leaves. 

 Corolla valvate, imbricate or contorted. Fruit capsular, inferior or 

 rarely superior.^ — Seeds winged or appendiculate. — 32 genera. 



XII. DiERviLLEJE.^ — Woody plants. Leaves opposite, without 

 stipules. Corolla imbricate. Fruit capsular. Seeds winged. — 1 genus. 



XIII. LoNiCERE^.^" — Woody, rarely herbaceous plants, ^^ without 

 stipules or rarely with large interfoliar stipules.'^ Corolla regular or 

 irregular. Ovarian cells 1- or many-seeded. Fruit fleshy. — 7 genera. 



XIV. Sambuce^.^^ — Woody or rarely herbaceous plants. Leaves 

 opposite or verticillate, simple or imparipinnate ; stipules often glan- 

 duliform or large, foliaceous, or none. Corolla imbricate or valvate, 

 rotate or with a short tube. Fruit fleshy. — 2 genera. 



XV. ? Adoxe^.^* — Perennial herbaceous plants, with alternate ter- 

 natisect leaves. Corolla rotate, imbricate. Stamens unsheathed. 

 Ovules generally solitary and descending. Fruit fleshy. — 1 genus. 



1 Hedyotidcce Cham, et Schlchtl, Limiaa, iv. 557. — B. H. Gen. ii. 9, Trib. 1. 

 150.— DC. Prodr. iv. 401, Trib. 3.— B. H. Gen. 8 Iq Platycarpum. 



13, Trib. Q.—Rondeletiece B. H. Gen. ii. Trib. 5 » H. Bn. Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 203 (18'"9). 



(part). "£ndl. Gen. 366, Ord. 128 (part).— B. H. 



2 Reduced to a few or even to one in several Gen. ii. '^ {CaprifoliacearumTxilo. 2).—Caprifolia 

 species of Oldenlandia. J. Gen. 210 {^^xi).—Gaprifoliacew A. Rich. Diet. 



^ Particularly in Sijnaptantha and Polypre- Class, iii. 172. — DC, Prodr. iv. 321, Ord. 97. — 



mum; the latter referred by some authors to the Lindl. Introd. (ed. 2) 247; Veg. Kingd. (1846) 



Loffaniacece. 766, Ord. 294 (part).— H. Bn. Adansonia, i. 353, 



^ In Coceocypselum. t. 12. 



^ Condamineece B. H. Gen. ii. 12, Trib. 4 i' THo^f^wm consists of perennial plants. 



[Condaminiece) — Eondeletiece B. H. (part). 12 jn Pentapyxis. 



^ Except in some species of Portlandia, which ^^K.H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. iii. 424. — 



have a winglike seminal margin. DC. Prodr. iv. 321, Trib. 1.— Endl. Gen. 569, 



' Rich. Rub. 185, Trib. W.—Cinchonacece'DG. Subord. 2.— B. H. Gen. ii. 2, Trib. 1 (part).- 



Prodr. iv. 343 (part).— Endl. Gen. 553, Trib. 12. Vi'mrnece Bartl. Ord. Nat. 214. 

 ~^.B..Gen.n.l2,T:xi\i.2.—Henriquezie(B^.R. '^ p^yer, Organog. 413 (Ord.).— J. G. Ac. 



Gen. ii. 12, Trib. Z.—Nrndeea DC. Prodr. iv. Theor. Syst. Plant. 77. 

 243 (Cinchonaccarum Subtrib.). — Endl. Gen. 



