388 THE VEGETABLE WORLD. 
fluid in the month of June. The celebrated Snake-root 
( Polugala Senega) is acid and acrid, and acts as a sudorific, and many. 
of them are valuable as febrifuges. Among the Sapindas many of 
the leaves are poisonous, while the fruits are wholesome and deli- 
cious. Different species of Nephelium produce fruits of great 
delicacy in the Indian Archipelago. The roots of the American 
Horse Chestnut (2sculus hippocastanum), which belongs to this 
order, are poisonous; and the seeds of the common Horse Chestnut, 
although they are said to be excellent feed for sheep, are not free 
from suspicion. 
GUTTIFERALES. 
Hypogynous exogens with monodichlamydeous flowers; pla- 
cent axile, imbricated calyx, and imbricated or twisted corolla, 
embryo little or no albumen. The flowers throughout the orders 
forming the group are symmetrical in their calyx, corolla, and 
stamens; they are also remarkable for their resinous secretions. 
Gigantic exogenons trees, with simple alternate leaves, large convo- | 
lute Aon unaed -symmetrical flowers, usually large, in racemes, terminal and 
pani i 
ged . : 
are trees of India and the satiees ards ipelago, of majestic vies and } CXLI, Dipterace®. 
—e bag with beautif tered flowers fey “tichly-col ured 
winged fruit, bearing some resemblance to ne Magnolia in their peculiar 
rolled-up stiles, and to the oak in foliage, All the species yield 
fe 
long style. “the — r part of the order are beautiful trees or shrubs 0 
coe od ence n forests agin a few natives of China, India, Africa, 
‘ iia us ia arge size, with opposite palmate leaves, large 
symmetrical aowien: arranged in racemes, equilateral petals, — 
stigmas. solitary seeds and mbryo, with enormous radicle. The order 
_consists of a tew large trees of the South American forests in the hottest 
ane. s. er yield a delicious nut, and an oil not inferior to that of 
ap hronail trees and shrubs, with simple opposite leaves, without st 
pules ; numerous symmetrical axillary f go equilateral petals ; nate 
beakl seeds, 
€ss anthers; solitary, or and sessile 
stigmas, All are Pg y vhad of the t omen ‘aos tly South American, a few 
of Madagascar and Africa, growing amidst excessive heat and humidi 
Exogenous trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing and rooting, wi 
simple alternate entire leaves, without stipules ; unsymmetrical syetsioasct = 
umbels, racemes, or terminal spikes: equilateral petals; versat 
thi i ; and innumerable minute seeds. Native of ie 
equinoctial regions of America, with one species belonging to New C: — 
donia. They are handsom me and curious plants, ergot for the’ 
gtingie corollate bracts, adhering by their rooting fibres to the trunks 0 of 
ae 
they are not, however, strictly spe 
Hertes eous exogens, sometimes annual plants, shrubs, 0 
oblique glandular petals, numerous naked seeds, and wn, te distinot es 
having a resinous juice; flowers mostly yellow and regular, with v 
forms of inflorescence. They are widely Sustain i prea og 
mountains and valle eys, “marshes Pay dry aia 8, meadows and heath, in 
Austral: 
Small exogenous tenis with akg cites leaves, alternate, without 
stipules, and overspread by resinous sunken glands; suet & ged 
‘petals, a tew anaes seeds, and long distinct styles, They are 
of the shores of the Mediterranean and the salt plains of Northern Asia. 
