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indefinite ; style filiform ; stigma 4-lobed or capitate, papillose 

 or villose. Emit a capsule, generally splitting loculicidally, more 

 rarely septicidally or indeliiscent, in which case it is either dry or 

 succulent. Seeds indefinite or solitary in each cell, anatropous, 

 without albumen, rarely albuminous ; cotyledons often foliaeeous, 

 and with 2 auricles at the base. 



Sub-Order I.— CENOTHER.E. 



Leaves opposite, alternate, or more rarely whorled, entire, 

 toothed, or pinnatilid. Petals generally large, rarely absent. Ovary 

 4-, rarely 2-celled, with numerous (rarely solitary) ovules in each 

 cell. Seeds ex-alhuininous. 



GENUS I.—E PILOBIUM. Linn. 



Calyx-tube 4-sided, adnate to the ovary ; limb 4-partite, splitting 

 in a circumsessile manner and falling off after flowering. Petals 4. 

 Stamens 8. Style filiform. Stigmas 4, spreading in the form of a 

 cross, or connivent into a club. Capsule linear, tetragonal-cylin- 

 drical, 4-celled, opening from the apex by 4 recurving valves. Seeds 

 numerous in each cell, crowned at the chalaza by a coma or tuft of 

 silky hairs. 



Herbs, rarely under-shrubs, with the lower leaves opposite, and 

 the upper alternate, or more rarely all alternate, or in whorls of 3. 

 Elowers axillary, towards the termination of the stem, or in terminal 

 racemes or spikes. Corolla purple, rose-colour, flesh-colour, or 

 nearly white. 



The name of this genus of plants conies from the words eitt ('7"')> upon, and Xopvr 

 (lobws), a pod, the flower looking as if it were seated on the top of a pod. 



Section I.— CHAjEEXERION. Tausch. 



Elowers irregular, rotate. Limb of the calyx divided to the 

 base. Petals entire or very slightly emarginate, the lower pair a 

 little smaller and wider apart than the upper 2. Stamens and 

 style more or less declinate. Leaves all alternate. 



