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called the Tree Mignonette, rising three or four foot from the pot 
in which it is grown. 
The Capparrpaces® are chiefly found in the countries bordering 
on the'tropics; they resemble Crucifers in being stimulants, anti- 
scorbutic, and aperient; the principle of acridity becoming so 
concentrated in some of them as to be dangerous. Some of the 
African Capparids are poisonous. 
Matyats. 
Flowers monodichlamydeous, placentz axile, calyx valvate in 
estivation, corolla imbricated or twisted, stamens definite, embryo 
with little or no albumen. One hundred and sixty genera; nine 
hundred and thirty-three species. 
tured trees and shrubby exogens, with perfect two-celled stamens, 
outwards. Pigs order ot Bio. ey or at least of hot — 
ce trees egal, r sal and : 
great lon vity, belo ong to the orn The Bombax of American Soreata, CXXVL. Sterculiacez. 
with hg oe pecjectiog from their nenqnesa fi Bien e.. bs 
the order, and most of the great trees o of the order possess v aluabl 
casi trees, shrubs, or undershrubs, oc soonahanalty with a climbing 
habit, nee monodelphous stamens, partly sterile and two-celled; 
anthers turned in ; flowers often in eye joneoegenthrs spikes or é 
panicles; calyx four » five-lobed, valves. in , or arched and | COXXVIL. Bythneria- 
drawn out into a strap . ous, ence, oe and opposite the ces, 
Petals; fruit generally a yore ar are natives of hg countries. 
The Cacao, a chief Pandies cate in ode belongs to the order, and 
many species yield valuable fibres for cordage. 
juminous ent petals, and ribbed calyx, 
flowers white or ae a in nicles or ¢ ‘ ten ribbed, : 
: a five valvan divts a irk 2g with claws, h yetamens ten, } CXXVIII. Vivianiacez. 
'ypogynous, 
ypogynous 5 
kaowe those opposite the sepals inse ried. i in a fleshy gland. The 
ii are natives of Brazil and Chili. Their properties are 
gencion herbaceous exogens, of tender texture, and trailing © 
habits, with one-flowered auillery peduacls len 5 | ower suis Siglo let, 
orange, or io free stamens; no disc; seeds out albumen, and an 
in den The Indian Cresses, a wong which their acrid 
has procured for them, are natives of temperate America. 
CXXIX. Tropzolacez. 
— , shrubs, and herbaceous plants, with showy flowers, 
: m enclosed in in an involucte ba various forms, columnar stamens, all 
¢ Perfect, and one-celled anth ward. 
sraaagenons trees and shrubs, with i, hance, Pe hag 
aagebsncecqger gre se an embryo, Some ie 
: Ss sara are — plants of the tropics, sometimes dsome er — 
OCXXX. Malvacee. 
| 
Herbaceous, or half-shrubby exogens, with free stamens, wi without disc, 
alb seeds, emb urved, perman ae al 
Among the Srercutrace®, which are large trees or shrubs, 
all natives of the apapioe, having the columnar stamens of the 
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