18 NATURAL ORDERS AND 
Stigma simple. Fruit capsular, three to five, rarely ten valved, either 
one celled, with parietal placentas in the axis of the valves, or imper- 
fectly five or ten celled, with dissepiments, proceeding from the 
middle valves, and approaching each other in the centre. Seeds 
numerous, small, Hmbryo either spiral, or curved in the midst of 
mealy albumen.—Shrubs or herbaceous plants. Leaves simple, mostly 
alternate, and with or without stipules. Flowers very fugacious, 
diurnal. 
GENERA. 
Capsules with three valves ......e0000+0. HELIANTHEMUM, V. 2. 753. 
ORDER IX. VIOLACEA.—Luinp. 
Perianth double. Calyx of five sepals, persistent, imbricated in 
zstivation, mostly elongated at the base. Petals five, hypogynous, 
equal or unequal, the lower one saccate, or spurred at the base. 
Stamens five. Anthers two celled, bursting inwards, either separate 
or cohering, and lying close upon the ovary. Filaments dilated, 
elongated beyond the anthers into a flat membrane ; in the irregular 
flowers two are generally furnished with an elongated appendage or 
gland at their base. Ovary one celled, with three parietal placentas. 
Style single, with an oblique hooded stigma. Capsule of three valves, 
bearing the placentas in the axis. Seeds numerous. Albumen fleshy. 
Embryo straight.— Herbaceous plants or shrubs, mostly with alternate 
stipulate leaves. 
GENERA. 
Anthers combined into a cylinder, the 
two lower ones spurred behind. Vioxa, v. 1. p. 314. 
ORDER X. DROSERACEZ.—De Canp. 
Perianth double. Calyx of five equal sepals, imbricated in esti- 
vation. Petals five, regular. Stamens distinct, equal in number 
with the petals, and alternating with them, or two, three, or four 
times as many. Ovary single. Styles three to five, united at the 
base, or distinct, bifid, or branched. Capsule one to three celled, 
three to five valved, with the placentas either in the middle or at the 
base. Seeds naked, or furnished with an arillus. Hmbryo straight, 
erect in the axis of a fleshy or cartilaginous albumen.—Delicate 
herbaceous plants of marshy grounds. Leaves alternate, mostly fur- 
nished with stipulary cillie. 
GENERA. 
Stamens simple... CeCe eee eee eee eee ete DrosERA, Va ATF p. ADT. 
