386 THE VEGETABLE WORLD. 
plants the liber of the limes yields the most strongly organised 
fibre ; hence it is extensively employed in making cordage. The 
wood, which is easily wrought, is employed chiefly by joiners and 
carvers. 
The Sparmannia Africana, a pretty flower from the Cape of 
Good Hope, has evergreen leaves, white flowers disposed in 
umbella, anthers of the flowers being irritable. The leaves of 
Corchorus oletorius are used in Egypt as a pot-herb. Fishing 
lines, nets, and a coarse bagging are made from the fibre of 
Corchorus capsularis in India. In general terms the order may = 
be said to abound in plants both useful and ornamental. 
SAPIDNALES. 
ypogynous exogens, flowers monodichlamydeous, unsyM- 
metrical; placentz axile; calyx and corolla imbricated ; stamens 
definite, ‘mnbigy with little or no’albumen. 132 genera, 1,656 
species. 
TN NE a ge 
Slender heath-like a: exogens, with hairs usually glan 
partially complete, large and showy agp seagnbeoh atte a Paivene cals CXXXII. Tremdudacee® 
and two apne goes ——' opening by pores. They are all plan 
of Australia, e known. 
xogens, with complete, ) 
at 
saad : 
uraitia at the - ape; by Monnina and Badiera in Bons CXXXIII. Polygalace®. 
Z ca, esperma is foun ‘* Foineeh and — Polygala oo urs 
in Cayenne and on the Swiss m The r is anomalous aad 
scarcely forms a natural gr ps eae rot the genera on ve claims to sepa- 
aa although it is difficult to find more suitable places for them in the 
wers, y in erm 
The o ure all natives of the forests of equin inoctial A. — OXXXIV, Vochy 
tole habitat’ hole the banks e streams, sometimes read: | : 
mountains to a 2 considerable height, pela mine by their lange spr pe e 
ing heads, as described by Schomburgh. 
Exogenous shrubs, with partially complete symmetrical flowers 
terminal stalked racemes Bh pier oh Beare rig ascending ¢ ovules, prin CXXXY. ylea- 
stigmas, — leaves pa ge Stipules. The few known "age - * grime 2! an 0 
nuts are svattered over the globe. Of the wing 9 
een e in North America, one in Japan, t lie one ‘in 
Exogenous trees of conside) twining shrubs bearing ten- # 
drils ; sometimes climbing pants, with Legion unsymmetrical flowers CXXXVI. Sapindace®. 
in racemes, or racemous panicles ; Bigad wis, with an appendage, 
anthers opening longitudinally; three d usually axillate and ae 
