84 CAMPANULACER. [ Scevola. 
celled, with numerous ovules in each cell; style simple or divided 
at the top into as many stigmatic lobes or branches as there are 
cells to the ovary. Fruit usually a capsule, opening either in short 
valves at the top or in lateral pores or slits, rarely an indehiscent 
try. Seeds numerous, small. Embryo straight, often very small, 
in a fleshy albumen.—Herbs or rarely shrubs or little trees, usuall 
with milky juice. Leaves alternate or very rarely opposite, simple 
or rarely pinnatifid. Stipules none. Flowers solitary or clustered 
and axillary, or in terminal spikes, racemes, or panicles. 
Of this order 14 species inhabit Burma, but only one of this 
may pass as a shrub or little tree. All the true Lobeliads are 
of a suspicious character, and Isotoma longiflora; a West Indian 
plant, now fully nuturalized in Java and Singapore, is a mos 
poisonous plant. 
SCAIVOLA, L. 
Calyx-limb usually very short, 5-parted. Corolla oblique, the 
tube slit on the upper side down to the base, the lobes nearly equal, 
or the upper ones shorter, u at length digitately expanding. 
Stamens free. Ovary wholly inte it 
between two bractlets, sessile or dwhiclad "ass Cae 
often dichotomously peduncled, axillary, the pedun 
r ] bese . oss z ong, more 
oe nny Puvescent, especially within, the lobes obovate-oblong, blunt; 
fringed; drupe the size of a pea, ovoid or almost globu- 
Has.—F t in” . ‘ 
serim and tay eee ~ a Foes opty the shores :of- Teams 
~ Reet Weld fibrous, coarse, milky, useless, the pith soft and spongy- 
