116 51. GOODENoviE^. [Scceuola:. 



aduate to tlie ovary ; limb 5-fi(l or nearly obsolete. Corolla-lobes T),. 

 valvate in bad. Stamens 5 ; antliers free or connate in a ring round 

 the style. Ovary 1-2-celled. Style simple, with a cup-sUaped 

 indusium> including the stigma. Ovules in each cell one or many,, 

 on the dissepiment. Fruit a drupe or capsule. Seeds-albuminous- 



SC-SIVOLA, Linn. 

 Shrubs. Leaves entire or toothed. Flowers axillary, in short 

 cymes or solitary. Corolla oblique, split at the base behind. An- 

 thers free. Ovary 1-2-celled, with two erect ovules. Fruit a drupe. 



Calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, enlai'ged in fruit ... S. KoetiUfii. 



Calyx-lobes very short, obtuse or subobsoletc .. S. Lobelia, 



S. Koenigii, Vahl. Symb. HI. 36 ; EL Br.l. 3.421 ; S. Taccada, Dalz; 

 & Gibs. Bomb. El 13-i. Bliadrali, M. On the sea-coast of the Konkan. 

 near Jlatndgiri, cultivated in gardens, Bombay. 



S. Lobelia, Linn.; M. Br. I. 3. 421. S. umfei-a. Stocks. Wight Ic 

 1613. Sea-coast of Sind o.ud South Deccan. Fl. Br. 1. Mouths of the; 

 Indus near Karachi. 



Order 52. MYRSIKE-SI. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire or serrate. Flowers- 

 small, regular, in axillary clusters, racemes or panicles, rarely termi- 

 nal. Calyx free (in Mcesa adnate to the ovary) ;. limb 4-6-lobed, 

 lobes persistent, often enlarged in fruit. Corolla regular, tube 

 short or 0, lobes 3-7, contorted or imbricate. Stamens epipetalous, 

 as many a.s divisions of the corolla and opposite to them. Ovary. 

 1-celled ; ovules few or*many, inserted on tlie free central placentsr.. 

 Fruit an indehiscent berry or drupe (dehiscent in jEgiceras), \- 

 several seeded. Seeds often with more than one embryo ; albumen, 

 pitted or ruminate. 



Calyx a;lnate to ovary,. 2-bracteolate. Berry many seeded. MiESA. 



Calyx free. Fruit 1-seeded^ indehiscent. 



I'etals free. Flowers racenied or panicled ... ... ... Embelia. 



Corolla with a short tube ; limb deeply lobed. 



Flowers in dense axillary fascicles. Corolla imbricate ... Myksine. 



Flowers in umbels, corymbs or panicles. Corolla lobes 



contorted in bud ... Ardisia, 



Fruit cylindric, curved, dehiscing longitudinally ... ... .^Eciceras. 



MJESA, Forsk. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves entire or serrate. Flowers small,. 



2-bracteolate, 1-2-sexual, 4-5-merous. Calyx ^--inferior, in fruit 



^-adnate; teeth small. Corolla campanulate ; lobes imbricate. 



Stamens 5. Ovary with numerous ovules on a globose placenta^ 



Berry globose. 



Leaves and branchlets glabrous ... ... ... ... M, indica. 



Leaves and branchlets rusty tomcntosc ... M. dubia. 



