436 — THE VEGETABLE WORLD. 
hottest parts of India, America, and the West Indies. The 
SauRURACE# agree in habit with the Peppers, but differ in the com- 
pound nature of the ovary. They are natives of North America, 
China, and the North of India, growing in marshy places. . 
Shrubs or herbaceous plants, with articulate stems, opposite leaves ; 
flowers sessile or pendulate, » ‘spikes or terminal ; 
arranged on one side or round the ovary; a solitary carpel; erect ovules. 
Herbaceous p! or under-shrubs, with jointed stems; opposite and 
simple leaves, with sheathi ing petiole and inte: rmediate stipules ; flowers CXCVII. Chloranthacez. 
in terminal spikes; stamens lateral; a soli pended 7 
Herbaceous marshy plants, with alternate stipulate leaves; flowers * 
spikes, naked ; stamens three and six, clabate and hypogynous ; neveedt CXCVIII. Saururacee. 
distinct carpels ; erect ovule and embryo lying in a vitellus, 
t CXCVI. Piperacee. 
