ANALYSIS OF THE GENERA. 15 
ORDER III, NYMPHASACEA.— De Cann. 
Perianth double. Calyx of four to six oblong pieces, coloured, 
persistent, gradually passing into petals, arranged in numerous rows 
upon the fleshy disk, which surrounds the pistil. Stamens nume- 
rous, in many rows, inserved above the petals upon the disk, filaments 
petaloid, flat, anthers adnate, linear, two celled, bursting with a 
longitudinal cleft. Disk large, fleshy, more or less surrounding the 
ovary. Ovary numerous, united at the base, free at the apex, 
radiating upon an urceolate cup. Fruit many celled, indehiscent. 
Seeds very numerous, attached to the spongy dissepiments, and 
enveloped in a gelatinous arillus. Albumen farinaceous. Hmbryo 
small at the base of the albumen, and enclosed in a membranous 
bag, cotyledons foliaceous—Aquutie herbs with round horizontal 
trunks. Leaves peltate, or heart-shaped, fleshy, floating, the petioles 
elongated. Flowers solitary, radical, with long peduncles. 
GENERA. 
Flowers white ............ seceveesseoe NYMPHHA, V. 2. p.. 766. 
Flowers yellow, petals with a nec- 
tariferous opening at the back Nupuar, v. 2. p. 767 
ORDER IV. PAPAVERACE.—Juss. 
Perianth double. Calya of two concave deciduous foliaceous 
pieces. Petals four, or some multiple of that number, arranged in a 
single row, and inacruciate manner. Stamens hypogynous, indefi- 
nite, in one or many rows, the outer row adherent to the base of the 
petals. Filaments filiform. Anthers innate, two celled, opening bya 
double furrow. Ovary free, solitary. Style short, or none. Stigmas 
alternate, with the placentas, two or many, radiating upon the flat 
apex of the ovary. /’ruit one celled, ovate or oblong, and pod- 
shaped, with two parietal placenta, or capsular, with several placenta 
having seeds on both sides, and forming incomplete dissepiments 
Seeds numerous, sub-globose. Albumen between fleshy and oily; 
embryo minute, straight at the base of the albumen. Cotyledons 
plano-convex.— Herbaceous plants or small shrubs, with milky or 
coloured juices. Leaves alternate, toothed or lobed.  Peduneles 
elongated, single flowered. Flowers never blue. 
GENERA. 
Capsules rounded, or obovate. 
Stigmas four to twenty, sessile, ra- 
diating on the top of the disk. PapaveEr, vol. 2. p. 747. 
Stigmas four to six, free on a short 
BtY]O~\ enesccseveqevercvcanersitessse WLECANOPSIS, VOL 2. p., 754. 
