Carallia.] RHIzophore*. Ill 



taining a single globmkr seed. Albumen abundant. Embryo curved not 

 growing before the seed falls.— Trees or shrabs. Flowers small, in axillary, 

 pedunculate, usually trichotomous cymes. 



A small genus, limited to tropical Asia and Australia. 



1. C. integerrima, DC; BentJi. in Journ. Linn. &c.iiif-65. Usually 

 a tree, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves sessile, obovate, elliptic&l or oblong, 

 m the Chinese specimens usually acuminate, and about 3 in. long, but some- 

 times very obtuse, conaceous. Cymes axillary, or from old leafless nodes, on 

 short peduncles, each short branch bearing 3 to 5 sessile flowers. Fruit glo- 

 bular, about 3 lines diameter, crowned by the short connivent teeth of the 

 calyx.— 0. zeylanica. Am.; Wight, lUustr. t. 90. 0. sinensis, Arn. ; Seem. 

 Bot. Her. 376. 



In a ravine of Mount Victoria, but very rare, Champion; also Wright. Widely spread over 

 East India and the Archipelago, extending eastward to N. Australia, and northward to the 

 Philippines and South China. The Chinese, like the PhUippine specimens, have the leaves 

 usually more acuminate and rather narrower than in the generality of Indian ones, but the 

 difference is by no means constant. 



Order XL. LYTHRARIE^. 



Calyx-tube free, but usually enclosing the ovary, vidth as many or twice as 

 many teeth as there are petals. Petals 4, 5, ou sometimes more, rarely defi- 

 cient, inserted at the top of the calyx-tube, crumpled in the bud. Stamens as 

 many or twice as many, or rarely indefinite, inserted in the tube of the calyx, 

 often lower down than the petals. Ovary free from the calyx, but generally 

 enclosed within its tube, 3- or more celled, with several ovules in each cell. 

 Style single. Fruit a capsule; sometimes becoming 1-celled by the drying up 

 of the partition; Seeds small, without albumen. — Trees, shrubs, or herbs. 

 Leaves mostly (as least the lower ones) opposite, entire, without stipules. 

 Flowers axillary, or in terminal racemes, or spikes, or panicles. 



A considerable Order, some of the herbaceous genera spread over the greater part of the 

 globe, the larger woody-stemmed ones confined to the trojjics in the New or the Old World: 

 Small-flowered herbs. Capsule opening transversely or septicidally. 



Seeds angular - ... 1. Ammannia. 



Showy shrub. Capsule opening locidicidaUy. Seeds winged ... 2. Lagekstr(emia. 



1. AMMANIflA, Linn. 



Calyx-tube campanulate; the limb 4- or sometimes 3- or 5-toothed, often 

 with as many external small accessory teeth. Petals as many, or sometimes 

 deficient. Stamens as many, or rarely twice, as many. Ovary 3- to 4-celled. 

 Style filiform, with a capitate stigma. Capsule membranous, 2- to 4-celled, 

 rarely 1-celled by the drying up of the partition, opening either transversely, 

 or iti septicidal valves.^ — Herbs, either annual or with a perennial stock, and 

 usually glabrous. Leaves opposite. Flowers small, single, or clustered in the 

 axils of the leaves, or forming terminal spikes. 



A considerable genusy chiefly tro])ical and Asiatic or African, with a few species from tro.* 

 pical or northern America, or from more temperate Asia. 



1. A. rotundifolia, Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 485. A glabrous, low herb. 



