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GENUS III. VOGBLIA. 



Pentantlria Jtlonog^ynia. Sex. Syst : 



Deriv. Named after Herr Vogel, a German auther and 

 botaaist. 



Gen. Chae. SepaJs ovate or oblong, rib broad, rnfescent : 

 corolla gamopetalons, funnel-sbaped, limb 5-parted : stamens five, 

 *iypogy'i°'^j filaments free : anthers oblong, emarginate at the 

 base : ovary linear : style puberulous, scarpely equalling the 

 stigmas which are long and filiform and glanduliferous on the 

 inner side : utricle linear, pentagonal, separating in five valves, 

 seed sustaiaed by a funiculus. 



(1) V. ARABicA. ( Boissier.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XII. p. 696. — Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 220. 



Syn. V. Indica, Gibson in Wight's Icon. ^ t. 1075. 



Spec. Char. Erect undershrub of a singular whitish glaucous 

 hue : branches twiggy, striated, dichotomous : leaves ovate or 

 oboyate, sessile or perfoliate, coriaceous, smooth : sepals lanceolate, 

 undulated : flowers small on long slender spikes, petals emarginate, 

 mucronulate. 



Hunmunt Ghaut. Mount Aboo. Deecan. 



ORDER CXXIV. PLANTAGINACEiE. 



Calyx imbricated in aestivation, 4-parted, persistent : corolla 

 membranous, monopetalous, hypogynous, persistent, with a 

 four piarted limb : stamens 4, inserted into the corolla, alter- 

 nately with its segments : filaments filiform, flaccid, doubled 

 inwards in aestivation : anthers versatile 2-celled : ovary com- 

 posed of a single [?] carpel, sessile, without a disk, 2- very sel- 

 dom, 4-celled, the cells caused by the angles of the placentae : 

 ovules peltate or erect, solitary, twin or indefinite : style simple, 

 carpellary : stigma hispid, simple, rarely half bifid : capsule- 

 membranous, dehiscing transversely, with a loose placenta 

 bearing the seeds on its surface : seeds sessile, peltate, or erect 

 solitary, twin or indefinite : testa mucilaginous : 6mbryo lying 

 across the hilum in the axis of fleshy albumen : radicle remote 



