146 ANGIOSPERMJE. 



Herb; 0; fls. pink; W. Ind., S. Am. S. geminiflora ; ; fls. red( 

 Mex. 2. Lavradia. Fls. white or pink, panicled. Small ev. shmbs, 

 6 spec, Brazil. 3. Schuurminsia. Fls. yellow, panicled. Sds. 

 winged. Ev. trees, shrubs. 2 spec, Ind. Archipelago. Tribe 2. 

 Pet. equal or sub-equal ; claw short. Berry or boll. 7 gen., 53 spec, 

 both worlds. 1. Melicytus. Fls. usually J* 9 1 small, fascicled. 

 Berry edible. 4 spec. , large ev. shrubs or trees. New Z. 2. Leonia. 

 Pet. 5. Sta. 4. Fls. small. Berry edible. Ev. trees ; 2 spec, Peru, 

 Brazil. L. glycicdrpa. Berry as large as an orange, yellow. 8. AI- 

 sodeia. Ev. trees, shi-ubs; 40 spec. ; trop. Af., Asia, Am. Tribe 3. 

 Pet. sub-equal ; claws sub-coherent. Boll. 3 gen., 10 spec. ; trop. 

 Am., Sandwich Islands. 1, Paypayrola. Fls. in branching spikes or 

 clusters. Ev. trees, trop. Am. 2. Isodendron. Small trees, shrubs, 

 Sandwich Islands. Tribe 4. Corolla irreg. ; lower pet. dissimilar. 

 Boll. 7 gen., 251 spec. 1. Ag^tion. Fls. small, greenish. Ev. 

 shrubs, often climbing. 5 spec, Feejee Islands, N. Caledonia. 2. 

 Nois6ttia. Fls. fascicled or racemed. 2 spec, ev. shrubs, small, S. 

 Am. 3. lonidium. 1 pet. much larger than the others. Lvs. opp. 

 Ql. herbs, ev. slirubs, 40 spec, both worlds. Ets. emetic, purgative. 

 I. Ipecacuanha, White Ipecac. Trop. Am. I. capense, fls. white ; 

 ev. shrub. Cape G. H. I. verbendceum, fls. blue ; Q|., low, Mex. 4. 

 Viola. Pet. nearly equal, lower 1 spuiTed. Sta. 5, often monadel- 

 phous in a sheath around the ova. ; 2 lower (and 2 lower sta.) often 

 spurred, Lvs. usually cordate, sometimes 3-5-7-parted. Low Q|., 

 rarely @, rarely suffrutescent. 200 spec, cosmop. Types given. 

 Caulescent: V. (Solea) concolor, fls. small, green, boll V long; l°-2° 

 high; V. canadensis, l°-2° high, fls. whitish; V. striata, low, fls. 

 cream-colored ; V. rostrdia, fls. purple; V. hastata, fls. yellow, U. S. ; 

 V. tricolor. Pansy, Hbaktsbasb, © (2) Q|. ; pet. of 3 colors. Eur. 

 Fig. 204. Original of all varieties by crossing with V. grandiflbra, 

 Switzerland, V. altdica, Tartary. Acaulescent; Ql. Rhiz. erect. Lvs, 

 of ten parted : V. peddta, Bied-poot V. ; V. delphmifdlia, V. sagittdta, 

 V. cuculldta, fls. blue, U. S. Rhiz. slender, creeping. Lvs. often cor- 

 date : V. ildnda, V. primulcefolia, V. lanceoldta, fls. white ; V. rotundi- 

 fblia, fls. yellow, U. S. V. odordia, fls. blue, fragrant. Eur., Asia. 

 Original of Parma and Tree V. One of the Four Cordial Flowers. 



Ord. 146. Droseraceae — Very near Violacese, but nearer Nepen- 

 thacese and SarraceniAcese. See Ord. 96. 



Ord. 147. Cistaceae. — Fls. §, reg., sol., or in cymes, racemes. 

 Pet. 5-3. Sta. oc. Sty. simple. Boll 3-5-valved. Lvs. simple, opp., 

 rarely alt. Stip. foliaeeous or 0. Herbs, Undershrubs, Shrubs. 4 gen., 

 150 spec, S. Eur., N. Af., rare in Am. and Asia. A. Boll 3-valved: 

 1. L6chea. Pet. 3. Q|. herbs ; fls. small, green, racemed or panicled. 

 4 or 5 spec, N. Am. L. major, l°-2° high; L. minor, L. thymifdlia, 

 smaller; common, U. S. 2. Hudsonia. Pet. 5. Low heath-like 

 shrubs with crowded yellow fls. 3 spec. H. ei'icoides, H. tomentbsa, 

 Jlaine to Va. ; latter along Great Lalces to Minn. H. montdna, 2'--4' 

 high. Table Eock, N. C. 3. Heliinthemum. Pet. 5, fugacious. 

 Fls. sol. or racemed, showy. Ev., low shrubs, or suffrutescent, 6''-4° 

 high. About 100 spec, both worlds. Fls. yellow : H. vulgdre, British 

 EoCK-EosB. Sta. sensitive. Fig. 243. Eur. H. canadense, fls. di- 

 morphous ; earlier ones large, sol.; later small or apet., clustered. 

 Can. to Gulf. H. corymbbsum, fls. dimorphous ; earlier large, sol., or 



