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GENERA. 
§ 1. Cleome^, DC. 
Dactylaena, Schrad, 
Cleomella, DC. 
Peritoma, DC. 
Gynandropsis, DC. 
Podogyne, HfFg. 
Cleome, L. 
Siliquaria, Forsk. 
Polanisia, Rafin. 
Cristatella, Nutt. 
Jacksonia, Rafin. 
Physostemon, Mart. 
Rorida, Forsk. 
§ 2. CAPPAREiE, DC. 
Corynandra, Schrad. 
Tovaria, FI. Peruv. 
Crataeva, L. 
Othrys, Pet. Thou. 
Niebuhria, DC. 
Boscia, Lam. 
Podoria, Pers. 
Cadaba, Forsk. 
Strcemia, Vahl. 
Schepperia, Neck. 
Macromerum, Burch. 
Ataraisquea, Miers. 
Capparis, L. 
Sodada, Forsk. 
Stephania, Willd. 
Steriphoma, Spr. 
Morisonia, Plum. 
Busbeckea, Endl. 
Thylacium, Lour. 
Maerua, Forsk. 
Hermupoa, Loeffl. 
Roydsia, Wall. 
? Sin^ana, Aubl. 
Sterheckia, Schreb. 
Order XLII. RESEDACEiE. The Mignonette Tribe. 
Resedace/e, DC. Theor. ed. 1. 214. (1813) ; Lindl. Synops. 219. (1829) ; Aug. de St. HU. 
Ann. Soc. Roy. Orl. vol. 13. 
Essential Character. — Calyx many parted. Petals lacerated, unequal. Disk hypo- 
gynous, one-sided, glandular. Stamens perigynous, definite; filaments erect; anthers 
2-celled, opening longitudinally. Ovary sessile, 3-lobed, 1 -celled, many-seeded, with 
3 parietal placentae. Stigmas 3, glandular, sessile. Fruit dry and membranous, or succu- 
lent, opening at the apex. Seeds several, reniform, attached to 3 parietal placentae ; 
embryo taper, arcuate, without albumen ; radicle superior. — Herbaceous plants with alter- 
nate leaves^ the surface of which is minutely papillose ; and minute, gland-like stipules. 
Affinities. In the former edition of this work and elsewhere I described 
the structure of Resedacese very differently, considering the apparent calyx as 
an involucre, the petals as abortive male flowers, and the disk as the calyx of 
a central bisexual flower. I am, however, now convinced, by the arguments 
of Henslow, that this view was erroneous, and I accordingly revert to the old 
view of its organization -and affinities. These latter are chiefly with Capparidaceoe, 
to which the seeds, and the great disk out of which the stamens arise, along with 
the parietal placentae, agree. In habit it is extremely like Datiscaceae. 
Geography. Weeds inhabiting Europe, the adjoining parts of Asia, the 
basin of the Mediterranean, and the adjacent islands. 
Properties. Nothing further is known of them than that Reseda luteola 
yields a yellow dye, and that the Mignionette (R. odorata) is among the most 
fragrant of plants. 
GENERA. 
Reseda, L. Ochradenus, DC. 
Sesamella, Reichenb. Astrocarpus, Neck. 
Alliance II. VIOLALES, 
Essential Character. — Stamens few, with no collection of abortive petals or stamens 
into an external ring. Embryo never curved. 
With the exception of Moringaceae, the orders combined under this alliance 
are most naturally connected. Sauvagesiae point towards Hypericaceae, while 
Samydaceae, notwithstanding their apetalous flowers, so completely agree with 
Violaceae in their fruit, that the accuracy of their position can hardly be 
doubted. The coloured internal face of the calyx of the former order gives 
that part the same sort of claim to be considered corolline as the analogous or- 
gan in Ranunculaceae. 
