270 GENTIAN FAMILT. 



§ 2. Pod nodding on the short recurved peduncle, rather fleshy, bursting irregular- 

 ly, otherwise as in the foregoing section : flowers large, showy. CuU./rom 

 warm regions for ornament. ® y, 



D. M^tel. Clammy-pubescent ; leaves ovate, entire or obscurely angled- 

 toothed ; corolla white, the 10-toothed border 4' wide. 



D. meteloldes. Cult, from New Mexico (sometimes under the name of 

 D. WrIghtii ) ; like the other, but pale, almost smooth, the flower sweet-scented, 

 and the corolla with more expanded 5-toothed border 5' -6' wide, white or paJe 

 violet 



§ 3. Flower and smooth 2-celled pod hanging, the former very large, 6' - 10' longt 

 calyx splitting down lengthwise ufier flowering. Tropical American tree- 

 like shrubs, cult, in conservatories : flowers sometimes double. 



D. arbbrea, has ovate or lance-oblong entire or angled pubescent leaves, 

 long teeth to the corolla, and unconnected anthers. 



D. suav&olens, has mostly entire and smooth leaves, short teeth to the 

 corolla and the anthers sticking together. 



13. CESTIIUM. (Name given by the Greeks to some different plant, 

 the derivation obscure. ) Shrubs of warm climates, chiefly American ; a few 

 cult, in conservatories. 



C. dlegans, or HabbothAmnos elegans, from Mexico, has the branches 

 and lower face of the ovate-lanceolate or oblong pointed leaves downy-pubescent, 

 terminal corymbs, and rose-purple club-shaped corollas less than 1 ' long. 



C. noctarnum, from W. Ind. ; with smooth ovate leaves, and axillary 

 clusters of yellowish green slender flowers, very sweet-scented at night. 



C. F^qui, from Chili ; has lanceolate smooth leaves very acute at both 

 ends, and a terminal panicle of crowded spikes or racemes of tubular-funnel 

 form or partly club-shaped dull-yellow flowers, fragrant at night. 



14. LYCITJM. (Named from the country of the original species, la/cta.) 

 Trailing, climbing, or low spreading shrubs, usually spiny, with small leaves 

 often clustered on lateral spurs, and small flowers, in spring and summer. 

 Ii. vulgkre. Matrimony Vine. From the Mediterranean region : planted, 



and sparingly running wild in some places, slightly thorny, with very long and 

 lithe recurved or almost climbing branches, oblong-spatulate leaves, slender 

 stalked flowers clustered in the axils, and pale greenish-purple 5-cleft corolla 

 about equalling the 5 stamens. 



L. Carolini^num. Wild in salt marshes S. : low, spiny, with fleshy 

 thickened almost club-shaped leaves, scattered small flowers, and 4-cleft purple 

 corolla shorter than the 4 stamens. 



85. GENTIANACE.S!, GENTIAN FAMILY. 

 Known generally from the other monopetalous plants with free 

 ovary by the 1 -celled ovary and pod with 2 parietal placentae 

 covered with small seeds, along with regular flowers, their stamens 

 as many as the lobes of the corolla and alternate with them, and 

 the leaves opposite, simple, entire, and sessile, without stipules. The 

 exceptions are that in some cases the ovules cover the whole inner 

 face of the ovary, and in one group the leaves are alternate and 

 even compound. They are nearly all very smooth and bitter-tonic 

 plants, with colorless juice, the calyx persistent. Ours herbs, none 

 in common cultivation. 



§ 1. Leaves opposite or whorUd and entire, sessile. Qyrolta with the lobes mostly 

 convolute in the bud, someumes alsoptattea in the sinuses. 

 •*- Style slender, deciduous from the pod : anthers soon curving. 

 1. SABBATIA. Calyx 5 -12-parted, the divisions slender. Corolla wheel-shaped, 

 5 - 12-parted. Style 2-parted. Pod globular, mauy-seeded. Slender heros. 



