28 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



1. BiEBERSTEiNE^.^ — Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, diploste- 

 monous, with convex receptacle. Carpels oppositipetalous, inde- 

 pendent, indéhiscent. Ovules solitary. — 1 genus. 



2. GERANiEyE.- — Flowcrs regular or irregular (with spur not free), 

 and convex receptacle. Carpels oppositipetalous, united in a pliui- 

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

 separating from central columella. — 4 genera. 



3. Neurade^.^ — 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. Balbisie^.* — Flowers regular, with or without corolla, having 

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

 lociilar ovary. Ovules 2-co , Fruit loculicidal or septifragal. — 

 4 genera. 



5. Trop^olejE.5 — Flowers irregular, with concave receptacle, 

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

 posed in fom-s in two verticils. Carpels 3, uniovulate, indéhiscent, 

 separating from the columella at maturity. — 1 genus. 



6. Balsamine^.^ — Flowers iiTegular, with convex receptacle. 

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

 Carpels 5, united into a phu-ilocular ovary. Cells pluriovulate. 

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

 1 genus. 



7. Flœrkejî.'' — Flowers regular, o-5-morous, with plano-convex 

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

 Ovules solitary, ascendent. — 1 genus. 



8. OxALiDEiE.® — Flowers regular, di- or triplostemonous with 



1 Endl. Gen. 1165 {Om. Zygophylleis &&!!.).— ' J. in Mém Mus. iii. 447 (1817).— DC. Prodi: 

 Ag. T/icor. Si/st. 167 {Sosac.). i. 683, Ord. 47.— Endl. Gen. 1174, Ord. 258.— 



2 Gei-aniaceie DC. Fl. Fr. iv. (1805), 828 Ag. op. cit. 208.— Tropeolacete Lindl. Vey. 

 Prodr. i. 637, Ord. 46.— Endl. Oen. 1166, Ord. Kinyd. 366, Ord. 129. 



254.— LiNDL. Veff. Kingd. 493, Ord. 187.— Ag. « A. Rich, in Bid. Hist. Nnt. ii. 173 (1822).— 



Op. Cit. 170. DC. Piodr. i. 685, Ord. 48.— Endl. 6e>i. 1173, 



^ Netimdcœ DC. Prodi: ii. 54-8 (TJootc. trib. Ord. 257.— Ag. op. cit. 50. {Œiiot/iereœ ?).—lial- 



4). — ^Endl. Oen. 1249 {Rosac. subord. 4). — sainii,aceie 'LmDL. Introd. cd. 2, 1S8; Veg. Kingd. 



l,mij-L. Veg. Kingd. 565 {Rosac.tiib. y.?).—Ag. 490, Ord. 186.— Hgdrocerere Bl. Bijdr. 241. 



Op. Cit. 288. (1825). 



■* H. Bn. inPayo- J^«)». iV«<. 397, Fam. 172.— ^ Limnanthea R. Br. in Lond. and Edinb. 



LedocarpeeaMEYETf, Sets. i. SOT. — Rhynchothecea:, Phil. Mag. and Journ. (July, 1833). — Endl. 



L:doear/j(e, Vivianiea {Gcrait. affin.) Endl. Gen. 1175, Ord. 269. — Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 367, 



Oen. 1169. — Ag. Op. Cit. 203. — 0.ralid«ceœ Tropicolac. trib. 2. — Ag. op. cit. 57. — Limiian- 



(part.) Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 489. — Vivianiaceœ thacc<e Xiitmi,. Introd. ed. 2, \i2. 



Kl. in £iHH<rff, x. (1836), 433.— Lind. op. cit. ^ DC. Prodr. i. (1824), 69, Ord. 489.— Endl. 

 365, Ord. 128.— Weiidtiece B. H. &en. 270, 275. 



