Scaivola,] 



51. COMPOSITiE. 



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Order 52. GOODENOVIE^. 



Shrubs or herbs. Leaves alternate or radical ; stipules 0. Flowers 

 axillary or terminal, racemed or panicled, irregular or regular. Calyx- 

 tube adnate to the ovary; limb 5-fid or nearly obsolete. Corolla-lobes 

 5j valvate in bud. Stamens 5 ; anthers free or connate in a ring round 

 the style. Ovary 1-2-celled; style simple, with a cup-shaped 

 indusium including the stigma ; ovules in each cell one or many, on 

 the dissepiment. Fruit a drupe or capsule. Seeds albuminous. 



SCiEVOLA, Linn. 



Shrubs. Leaves entire or toothed. Flowers axillary, in short 

 cymes or solitary. Corolla oblique, split at the base behind. An- 

 thers free. Ovary 1-2-celled, with two erect ovules. Fruit a drupe. 



Calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, enlarged in fruit ... 1. S. Koenigii, 

 Calyx-lobes very short, obtuse or subobsolete ... 2. S, Lobelia, 



1. S. Koenigii, Vahl. Symb. III. 36; Fl. Br. I. 3. 421. 8. Taccada, 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 184. Bhadrak, M. Sea shores of India from 

 Sind to Oeylon, Burma, Malacca. Oa the sea-coast of the Konkan 

 near Ratnd,giri ; cultivated in gardens, Bombay. 



Wood soft, coarse, milky, fibrous, useless. Fruit a small white 

 spherical drupe. 



2. S. Lobelia, Linn. ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 420 ; 8. uvifera, Stocks. ; Wight. 

 Ic. 1613. Sea shores of India from Sind to Ceylon. Sea-coast of Sind 

 and South Deccan. Fl. Br. I. Mouths of the Indus near Kardchi. 



Closely resembles 8. Kcenigii, The leaves are smaller. Drupe purple. 



Order 53. MYRSINE.^. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate^ entire or serrate, usually gland- 

 dotted. Flowers small^, regular, in axillary clusters, racemes or pani- 

 cles, rarely terminal. Calyx free (in Masa, adnate to the ovary) ; 

 limb 4-6-lobed, lobes persistent, often enlarged in fruit. Corolla 

 regular, tube short or 0, lobes 3-7, contorted or imbricate. Stamens 

 epipetalous, as many as divisions of the corolla and opposite to them. 

 Ovary 1-celled, narrowed into the filiform or columnar style ; ovules 

 few or many, inserted on the free central placenta. Fruit an in- 

 dehiscent berry or drupe (dehiscent in jEgiceras), 1-several seeded. 

 Seeds often with more than one embryo ; albumen pitted or ruminate ; 

 embryo transverse. 



Fruit a many-seeded berry. Calyx adnate to the ovary. 1. M^SA. 

 Fruit 1 -seeded, indehiscent. Calyx free. 



Flowers in axillary fascicles. Corolla with a short 



tube 2. Myesitte. 



Flowers racemed or panicled. Petals free, imbricate, 3- Embelia, 

 Flowers in umbels, corymbs or panicles. Petals free, 



contorted in bud 4, Ardisia. 



Fruit cylindric, curved, dehiscing longitudinally ... 5. ^gioeraS. 

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