710 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Phlox. 
Order LXXXYVII. POLEMONIACE®. 
Herbs, rarely aa erect or climbing. Leaves alternate or 
a entire or or dissected; stipules 0. Flowers 
, berm epbrpdte, chive solitary fascicled or panicled. 
Sepals 5, connate in an inferior calyx; lobes slightly imbricate or 
valvate. Petals connate in a gamopetalous corolla; lobes 5, 
twisted to the right. Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla-tube, 
alternate with the lobes; anthers versatile; dehiscence longi- 
tudinal, introrse. Carpels wi connate in a superior, 8-celled 
ovary; ovules very many, he inner angle; style simple; 
stigma shortly 3-fid. Frwta seyret 3-valved capsule. Seeds 
many; albumen fleshy or cartilaginous; embryo straight. 
602. Phlox Linn. 
Herbs, erect or diffuse, usually perennial, sometimes annual; 
leaves opposite or the uppermost alternate. Flowers usually 
showy, solitary or in terminal cymes. Sepals connate in a narrowly 
campanulate, 5- em deeply 5-fid calyx; lobes acute, often with 
- scarious edges. tals 5, connate in a salver-shaped corolla, with 
slender tube and ie throat ; lobes equal, obovate, orbicular, 
or obcordate. Stamens 5, included, unevenly adnate to corolla- 
tube. Carpels gerd in a 38-locular, oblong or ovoid ovary; 
ovules in each cell 1 or 2, rarely more; style oe with shortly 
3-fid apex, the lobes stigmatic within. Fruit an ovoid, 3-valved 
capsule. . void, with narrow wings or cone 
1293. Patox DrumMonpi Hook. 
8 in the cold season; occasionally subspon- 
taneous on rubbish heaps in C. Bengal, but only the ~ 
white-flowered form 
An annual herb ; aera of N. America. 
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Order LXXXVIII. HYDROPHYLLACEA. 
Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves radical or alternate, very 
rarely opposite, entire or toothed; stipules 0. Flowers regular, 
hermaphrodite, u sually in unilateral or dichotomous cymes, some- : 
a 
ntorted. Biestii te 5, adnate to outs 
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