46 NATURAL HISTORY OP PLANTS. 



exterior bear outwardly one or two series of stipitate glands,^ 

 and the flowers are united in terminal spikes or racemes, elongate, 

 simple or formed of few-flowered cymes. Two species of tliem are 

 distinguished,^ whose membranous leaves are alternate, penninerved, 

 dentate like a saw and accompanied by intrapetiolar stipules. 



II. HTJGONIA SERIES. 



The flowers of Hugonia^ (fig. 77-79) are very analogous to those 

 of the Flaxes in their general organization. They have, upon a convex 



Sugonia serrata. 



Fig. 78. Bud without Fig. 77. Floriferous branch. Fig. 79. Bud without 



"''^y^ «^- perianth (f). 



receptacle, five sepals often unequal, quincuncially imbricated, five 

 petals contorted and caducous, and ten monadelphous stamens of 



I This together with the form of the inflores- ' L. Gen. n. 831.— Adans. Fain, des Fl. ii 



cence makes these plants resemble Plumbago. 344. — J. Qen. 275. Lamk. Bid. iii 148 ■ III 



"Geifp. Notul. iv. 534, t. 693.— Fenzl. t. 572.— Gjertn. J'm(!i;.i.281,t. 68.— DO. pVo*-.' 



Bant. Vier Pfi. Qatt. 21, t. 3. i. 522.— Endl. Gen. n. 5404.— Pl. in Kooi. 



