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pels : 2-4-cielied with the inargins of the carpels tonHiag the 

 primary pairtitidns, or by these partitions sometimes splitting 

 trithin the cavitjr and introflexed, 4-8-celled : ovules usually so- 

 litary in the ccllSj rarely geminate, collateral, or two opposite, 

 erect from the base, anatropous in verbefiacese, in the other tribes 

 pendulous frdm an ascending parietal sperttiopbrt'e in the cen- 

 tral angle of the cell : style terminal, simple : stigma undivided, 

 capitate or bifid : fruit either capsular of 2-4, or rarely 6, one- 

 seeded coccij separating at maturity, or drupaceotis, 1-3-celled : 

 ^eeds brectj exalbuminous : pmbryo straight, cotyledons thick,' 

 oily : radicle inferior, short. ^Herbs, shrubs, or large tre6s, 

 Sometimes scandent, often furnished tyith re'sinotta glands, 

 thence aromatic or fetid : branchlets 4-sided : leaves bpposJte, 

 whorled or alternate, simple or pinnate, ineispd, divided or digi- 

 tate : stipules none, inflorescence either indefiinite (centripetal), 

 racensoso-spicate, capitate or definite (centrifugal) di-Or tricho- 

 tomously cymose : cymes axillary or forming teftninal panicles : 

 calyx and bracts often coloured, enlarging with the fruit : cordlla 

 variously coloured, white, red, blue, yellow, often small and 

 inc6hspicuous. 



GENUS t. PRIVA. 



DidyiiilMiila Anjirldiperinla. Sex .- Sgati 



Gen. Chab. Calyx tabular, S-folded, shortly 5-toothed^ : corolla 

 almost iiypocrateriforta, tube cylindric, limb 5-cleft, somewhat un- 

 equal, oblique : sfcamons 4, didynainous, inserted* on the tube of 

 the corolla, included : anthqrs brect, 2-cleft at the base, 2-celled, 

 cells dehiscing by a gaping longitudinal cleft : ovary 4-celled, 

 cells i-Ovuled : style equalling the lower stamens, stignia lateral, 

 ■soniewhat laminar^ often curved back suddenly : capsulie enclosed 

 -by the enlarged membranaceous Calyx which is often twisted at 

 the apex, when ripe septioidally separating into tWo Cocci some- 

 times 2, Or by abortion, l-celled : pericarp hard and dry, tuber- 

 ■cled or angled at the back, angles muricated, prickly or eehinatej; 

 rarely smooth. 



