368 THE VEGETABLE WORLD. 
Herbaceous _ and shrubby exogens, with polypetalous flow 
a many-leaved calyx, oldies stile. perfect stamens, anthers pater 
inwards, consolidated fruit ye albuminous seeds. The ees 
is divided into (L.) VIOLEA, a chiefly Siberian and Ameri 
plants, and a few to tropic e = cal species are chiefly 
shrubs, the ns Violets being 1 all herbaceous, or nearly so. (II.) 
ALSODEA, chietty South American and African, while Pentaloba belongs 
the Saleyan Hors. 
lype 01 
in the divisions 
pink, a tubular furrowed calyx, petals hypogynous, panctetir hy or taper- 
ing at — base. Pgs 2 re gy geet South of Europe, at the Cape, 
rea shrubs or herbs, with rod-like branches, oth sets flowers 
in close spikes or racemes, a many-leaved calyx, nous petals 
inserted at the base of the calyx, non ge styles, pode ds 
ascending, comose, without album The greater number 0 species 
are found on the shores of the ‘Mitietenaia + they possess some 
ies, ure mucilagi i 
a herbs or smooth shrubs, with siucaea ace generally 
borne in terminal panicles or Eig on slender thread-like stalks, a 
weany lonved calyx, h petals, stamens partly sterile and 
petaloid, anthers turning cncieats opposite the petals, naked, a con- 
ae ou fruit and albuminous seed. The species are al of Brazil, 
_— and the West casei but ~_ is Soran of their properti 
<4, 1 7 a + 
on emma usually sessile in cymes 3, ofte: 
the divisions of the cyme, leaves és entire om pinnate n-ne pre 
many-leaved, pe ypogynous, ont in folicules o at the suture. 
Some singular examples of structural vatlalioas os lated of the 
Houseleeks, In Semper vivum “Adotp é Brongniart found little bundles 
of ann an iral vessels immediately round the pith, and out- 
chyma without vi vessels with h vertical cords of three-sided parenchyma, in 
the midst of which iral vessels, most o which might still be un- 
+ — this ge Gel r, 133 belong to the Cape of Good Hope, four 
nao “beyond the tropics, and the others to re the 
es, China, pe apan, 98 hee 
Himsa exogens, ra polypetalous ary flowers, 
torted yellowish, rarely pea gana interior poh often ro hr teak 
pid pr rdoeag nonstipulate leaves. y are natives of the West Indies 
This important group of Orders, with three exceptions, form, 
CXVI. Crolacex. 
CXVILII. Tamaricacee. 
CXIX. Sauvagesicacee- 
CXX, Crassulacez, 
CXXI, Turneracee- 
as Dr. Lindley informs us, a perfectly natural group, the exceptions 
being the Moringacee, the Tamaricacee, and the Sauvagesicace® 
The Flacourtiacee are small trees or shrubs, natives of the 
parts of the East and West Indies, and Africa. The Loe 
grow in low places in equinoctial America. The Lam y dace 8° 
all tropical, and chiefly American. ‘The Passiflorace@,’ eee 
Dr. Lindley, “are the pride of South America and the 
Indies, where the woods are filled with their species, 
from tree to tree, bearing at one time flowers of striking wo 
and of so singular an appearance, that the zealous ue 
hottest 
beauty, 
