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20. RUT ACE JE. 
unequal f often clawed sometimes abortive folded together and 
convolute in the bud. Stam. 8-10 free inserted on the recept. 
yet almost perigynous. Ov. mostly 3-celled 3-lobed rarely 
2-5-celled 2-5-lobed ; ovules 1 in each cell ; style 1, stigmas 
3 or 2. Fr. not bursting, spongy dry or baccate ; carp, mostly 
3 attached to the base of the style, 1-celled 1-seeded. Seeds 
large without albumen. Embr. large with thick finally con- 
ferruminate cot. eared at their base and a short radicle next the 
hilum. — Smooth trailing pi. with showy fl. and a pungent cress- 
like flavour, of a juicy tender substance and quickly withering. 
L. alternate without stipules. Fl.-st. axillary solitary. 
tfl. Trop^olum. Cal. 5-partite, lobes equal, the upper 
spurred. Pet. 5 unequal, the 3 lower smaller or abortive. 
Stam. 8 wholly distinct or free. Fr. spongy or corky of 3 
(by abortion 1 or 2) indehiscent 1-seeded kidney-shaped 
carp, ribbed and rounded at the back. 
1. Trop-EOLITI L. 
tfl. T. MAJUS L. Nasturtium. Chagas. 
L. peltate orbicular slightly 5-7-9-lobed or angular, the 
nerves not produced beyond the edge ; pet. 5 obtuse. — BM. t. 23 ; 
Brot. ii. 15 ; DC. i. 683 ; Spr. ii. 226. — Herb. ann. or per. Mad. 
reg. 1, 2 ; ■§. PS. reg. 2 ; r. Waste ground and bramble 
hedges amongst gardens and vineyards about Funchal, and 
quite naturalized in the north along the sea-coast road between 
Ponta Delgada and S. Vicente, and at the latter place. PS. in 
a thicket by the half-built church of N. S. de Gra 9 a. April- 
Sept. but at almost all seasons. — Whole pi. smooth juicy and 
succulent with long trailing fleshy brittle st. L. glaucescent, 
throwing oft' water like drops of quicksilver. Fl. large orange 
more or less approaching to red, streaked with deep blood-red, 
and so together with their shape suggesting to Linnaeus the 
name of Trophy-flower. 
Order XX. RUTACE^E. 
The Rue Family. 
Fl. perfect regular. Cal. 3-5-partite persistent imbricate in 
the bud. Pet. 4 or 5 alternate distinct with short claws inserted 
at the base of a short gynopliore or glandular stalk or cup-shaped 
disk which is either free or united to the cal., twisted or twisted- 
imbricato in the bud. Stam. as many or 2 or 3 times as many 
as the pet, inserted with them, mostly hvpogynous, sometimes 
perigynous. Ov. either stalked or sessile on the longer or 
shorter gynopliore, deeply 2-5-lobed, 2-3-5-celled ; ovules 2-4 
