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OEDEIt CXIil. CYHTANDRACEiE. 



Calyx 5-cleft or 5-'parted, usually equal : corolla hypogynous, 

 tubular at the base, more or less enlarged above ; limb 5-lob6d, 

 unequal or somewhat 2-lipped : lobes roundedj imbricated in 

 sestivation : stamens 4^5, adnate to the corolla* often only 2j 

 rarely 4, didynamous, posterior one usually barren or wanting ! 

 antjjers 2-celledj cells parallel or usually separating at the 

 base, 'sometimes confluent into a single cdl : ovary free, sur- 

 rounded by a glandular ring : style simple ; stigma bilamellate, 

 2-lobed or concave and undivided ; fruit usually capsular, 

 rarely baccate, 2-valved, 2-celled, falisely 4-cened, the partitions 

 rising from the middle valves, 2-lobed, the lobes revolute and 

 seed-bearing, the dehiscence is therefore loculicidal : seeds nu- 

 merous, minute,* pendulous, ovate or cylindric, naked, comose, 

 or rarely winged ; albumen none : embryo minute, terete, in- 

 verted : cotyledons oblong, shorter than the terete radicle. — ■ 

 Herbaceous perennials^ very rarely annuals, sometimes frutes- 

 cent: leaves usually opposite, entire or toothed: flowers um* 

 bellate, cymose, racemose or solitary : corolla purple, white or 

 very rarely yeljow. 



GENUS I. BABACTES. 

 llldynantia Anslosiierinla. Set: Ss/H.- 



Deriv. Alluding to a name of Bacchus, who is said to havei 

 tray?(lled in India. 



Gen. Char. Calyx ebraoteate, campanulate, o-parted : tube of 

 the corolla obliquely g-ibbous ; limb unequally 5-parted : stamens 

 2 fertile, 2 sterile, thick, villous : anthers 2-lobed, not furnished 

 with a bristle or spur : capsule oblong, thickish ; seeds flat, 

 membranaceoHsly winged at the margin. 



(l) B. OBIONGIFOLIA. ' {Dec.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. IX. p. 260. 



St/n. Incarvillea oblongifolia, Jftoxb. Jl. Ind. II. p. ll3.-«4 

 ^f^hynanthiis oblong|falius, G. Don, 



