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formed by the union of many carpels round a common axis. Styles 
the same number as the carpels, distinct or united. Stigmas vari- 
able. Fruit mostly capsular, rarely baccate, its carpella being either 
one or many seeded, sometimes united into one, sometimes separate 
or separable. Seeds sometimes hairy. Albumen little or none. 
Embryo curved. Cotyledons twisted.—Herbaceous plants, trees, or 
shrubs. Leaves alternate, mostly petiolate, and with stipules. Hairs 
stellate, 
GENERA. 
Outer calyx or involucre three leaved ... Marva, v. 3. p. 944. 
Outer calyx or involucre six to nine cleft AtrHma, v. 3. p- 946. 
Outer calyx or involucre three lobed ,..... LavaTERa, v. 3. p. 943. 
ORDER XVII. TILIACEA.—Juss. 
Perianth double. Calya of four or five sepals, valvate in estiva 
tion. Petals four or five, alternate, with the sepals entire. Stamens 
hypogynous, distinct, generally indefinite in numbers. Anthers two 
celled, bursting longitudinally. Glands equal in number to the 
petals, and opposite to them adhering to the stalk of the ovary 
Ovary single, composed of from four to ten carpels, united together. 
Style single. Stigmas as numerous as the carpels, Fruit dry, of 
several cells. Seeds numerous. Hmbryo straight in the axis of 
fleshy albumen. Cotyledons flat, foliaceous.—TZrees or shrubs, with 
simple toothed stipulate leaves. : 
GENERA. 
Ovary five celled, villous............00e.. LILIA, V. 2. p. 768. 
ORDER XVIII. HYPERICINEA—De Cano. 
Perianth double. Calyx of four or five persistent sepals, distinct, 
or more or less united, imbricated, furnished with glandular dots. 
Petals four or five, hypogynous, twisted in estivation. Stamens in- 
definite, hypogynous, connected in three or four bundles at the base. 
Anthers oscillating. Ovary single, superior, free. Styles several, 
rarely united. Stigmas simple. J’ruit a capsule or berry, of many 
valves and many cells, the inner edges of the valves being curled 
inwards. Seeds minute, numerous, attached to a central placenta, or 
the marginal ones of the valves. Hmbryo straight. Radical in- 
ferior. Albumen wanting.—Herbaceous plants, shrubs, or trees, with 
a resinous juice. Leaves opposite, dotted with glands, or punctates 
Flowers usually yellow. 
