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posterior separated by a narrow partition supporting in each, cell 

 a descendent, anatrapous ovule with micropyle looking outwards 

 and upwards.^ The fruit, generally accompanied by the persistent 

 calyx, is a loculicidal compressed capsule of varied form,^ whose 

 descendent seeds generally contain under their coats an embryo 

 accompanied or not by a more or less abundant fleshy albumen. 

 The exostome presents an arillate excrescence entire or lobed. The 

 Milkworts (Fr. Laitiers) are shrubs, undershrubs or herbs. The 

 leaves are alternate, more rarely opposite or even verticillate, simple, 

 entire or nearly so and exstipulate. The flowers ^ are in simple or 

 more rarely compound racemes or in. spikes sometimes short and 

 capituliform, sometimes few flowered. Each is inserted in the axU 

 of a bract accompanied by two lateral bracteoles often articulate at 

 the base. 



In p. diversifolia * and Pencea^ woody species from the Antilles, 

 whose inflorescence is axillary, the lateral sepals are not much larger 

 than the others, and the exterior petals are a little more developed 

 than in other species of Poly gala, for which reason they have been 

 made a genus under the name of Badiera.^ To the ovary, supported 

 by a short foot, succeeds a fruit of which one cell is generally but 

 little developed.''' 



"In certain species, of which the genus Chamcehuxus^ has been 

 made, the seeds have little or no albumen, and the cotyledons become 

 thick and plano-convex ; there is, as regards this, every transition 



more developed than the anterior sometimes Brit. W.-Ind. 29. — B. H. Gen. 137, n. 3 (nee 



spreading . into a flat concave or fimhriate Hassk.).— P««<8a Plum. (re«. 22, t. 25 (nee L.). 

 sheet etc. ' Perhaps it would he well to place in the 



1 It has a douhle envelope, and the exostome same genus with the American, Badieras, Acan- 



already thickens more or less irregularly. thocladus (Ki. in PI. Sellow. exs. ex Hassx. in 



'^ Generally compressed, oval, ohoval# or Ann. Mm. Ludg.-Bat. i. 184 ; — B. H. Gen. 97*, 



orhicular or didymous, often emarginate mem- u. 6 a), a genus proposed for Mundia ira- 



hranous or sometimes, coriaceous, with cells, sinensis (A. S. H. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. 57, 92 ;— 



sometimes unequal narrower and thinner, one Walp. Sep. i. 246), a plant which has spi- 



less fleshy than the other, especially in nescent branches, the foliage of Badiera, the 



Badiera. flower of certain Polygalas, and, it is said, a 



3 White, yellow, pink, violet or purple, more compressed subdidymous capsule dehiscing hy 



rarely blue. the edges, organised in fact like that of the 



■" L. Amcen. ii. 140.— P. Bb. Jam. t. 5, fig. Milkworts. 

 3 4_ 8 DiLLEN. Nov. Gen. t. 9.— DC. Prodr. i. 331 



' 5 L. he. oit.^VhVU. Ainer. (ed. Bxirm.), t. 214, {Polygalce sect. 7).— Spaoh, Sttit. & Btiffon, xii. 



g, i_ 125. — Hassk. in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 152. 



° DO. Prodr. i. 334.— Deless. le. Sel. iii. t. — Badiera Hassk. Sort. Bogor. 227 (neo. DC). 



21.— A. S. H. et Moa. in Mem. Mus. xvii. 351, Phylace Nob. MSS. (ex Hassk. loo. eit.).— 



t. 29, fig. 1.— Endl. Oen. n. 6648.— Gbiseb. Fl. Walp. Eep. v. 64. 



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