28 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



" 1. BiEBEESTEiNEiE.i— Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, diploste- 

 monous, with convex receptacle. Carpels oppositipetalous, inde- 

 pendent, indehiscent. Ovules solitary. — 1 genus. 



2. Geeanib^.^ — Flowers regular or irregular (with spur not free), 

 and convex receptacle. Carpels oppositipetalous, united in a pluri- 

 locular ovary, with geminate ovules. Fruit rostrate, in panels 

 separating from central columella. — 4 genera. 



3. Neurade^.^ — Flowers regular, with concave receptacle. Ovules 

 solitary. Carpels 5-10, dehisciug at the apex and lodged in the 

 concavity of the persistent receptacle, dry. — 2 genera. 



4. Balbisie^.* — Flowers regular, with or without corolla, having 

 a convex receptacle. Carpels alternipetalous, united in a pluri- 

 locular ovary. Ovules 2-qo . Fruit loculicidal or septifragal. — 

 4 genera. 



6. Trop^olb^.^ — Flowers irregular, with concave receptacle, 

 prolonged at the back into a free spur. Stamens perigynous, dis- 

 posed in fours in two verticils. Carpels 3, uniovulate, indehiscent, 

 separating from the columella at maturity. — 1 genus. 



6. Balsamine^.^ — Flowers irregular, with convex receptacle. 

 Posterior sepal prolonged into a free spur. Stamens 5, hypogynous. 

 Carpels 5, united into a pluriLocular ovary. Cells pluriovulate. 

 Fruit capsular, with elastic dehiscence, or fleshy, indehiscent. — 

 1 genus. 



- 7. FiiCERKEiE.'' — Flowers regular, 3-5-merous, with plano-convex 

 receptacle. Carpels free in the flower and fruit, with gynobasic style. 

 Ovules solitary, ascendent. — 1 genus. 



- 8. OxALiDB^.^ — Flowers regular, di- or triplostemonous with 



' Endl. Gen. 1165 {O-en. Zygophylleis&Sii..). — ' J. in MSm Mus. m. 447 (1817). — ^DC. Frodr. 



Ag. Theor. Syst. 167 {Rosac). i. 683, Ord. 47.— Endl. Qen. 1174, Ord. 268.— 



' Gercmiacece DC. Fl. Ft: iv. (1805), 828 Ao. op. cit. 20S. —Tropeolacece Lindi,. Veg. 



Prodr. i. 637, Ord. 46.— Endl. Qen. 1166, Ord. Kingd. 366, Ord. 129. 



254.— LiNDL. Veg. Kingd. 493, Ord. 187.— Ao. « A. Rich, in Diet. Hist. Nat. ii. 173 (1822).— 



Op. Cit. 170. DC. Prodr. i. 685, Ord. 48.— Endl. Qen. 1173, 



^Ncuradete DO. Prodr. ii. 548 {Eosao. trib. Ord. 257. — A.a. op. cit. 5d. {GSnothereee ?). — Ml- 



i). — ^Bndl. Qen. 1249 [Rosac. subord. 4). — saminacete'LT.tfD'L. Introd. ed. 2, 138; Veg. Xingd. 



Lindl. Veg. Mngd.566 {Rosac.tnb.-r. ?). — Ag. 490, Ord. 186. — Rydroeerece Bl. Bijdr. 241. 



Op. Cit. 288. (1825). 



* H. Bn. in Payer Fam. Nat. 397, Earn. 172.— ' Limnanthece R. Br. in Land, and Mini. 



Z,edocarpeee'M.SY-ETS,Reis.i.Z07. — Rhynehothecea, Phil.' Mag. and Journ. (July, 1833). Endl. 



Ledocarpte, Vivianiets {Qe>-an. affin.) Endl. Gen. 1175, Ord. 269.— Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 367, 



Gen. 1169. — ^Ag. Op. Cit. 20Z.—OxaUdaeecB Trop<Bolac. trib. 2. — Ag. op. cit. 67.— Zimnan- 



(part.) Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 489. — Vinaniacecs thacea Lindl. Introd. ed. 2, 142. 



Kl. in linncea, x. (1836), 433.— Lind. op. cit. « DC. Prodr. i. (1824), 69, Ord. 489.— Endl. 

 365, Ord. 128.— Wendtiea B. H. G^n. 270, 275. 



