Order CVII. SURIANACEiE. 
Essential Character. — Calyx 5-parted, slightly imbricated. Petals the like num- 
ber, equal, shortly clawed. Stamens indefinite, hypogynous, placed in a single row ; fila- 
ments subulate ; anthers roundish, incumbent, bursting internally by 2 longitudinal fissures. 
Carpels 5, distinct, attached to a very short gynobase, 1 -celled with 2 ascending collateral 
ovules ; styles rising from near the base of the carpels ; stigmas simple. Pericarp woody. 
Seed solitary, erect, compressed. Embryo annular, without albumen, terete, with the coty- 
ledons about the same length as the radicle which is turned to the hilum. — Woody plants. 
Leaves alternate, without stipules. Hairs capitate, jointed. Flowers racemose. 
Affinities. I have intentionally constructed the foregoing character upon 
Suriana alone. If H eterodendron and Cneorum really belong to the same 
order, as De Candolle {Prodr. 2. 91) suggests, the number of parts in the 
flower will vary from 3 to 5, the ovules will be sometimes pendulous (as in 
Cneorum) and petals will occasionally be absent (as in Heterodendron). 
Suriana itself appears, meanwhile, to be very near Coriariacese, and also 
Geraniacese, as Kunth has remarked. Its relation either to Rosacese, or any 
Terebintacese, is not obvious. 
Geography. Found in all the warmer parts of the world ; South America, 
India, New HoUand, New Caledonia, the South of Europe, and the Canaries. 
Properties. Unknown. 
GENERA. 
Suriana. 
V Heterodendron, Desf. 
? Cneorum, L. 
Alliance IV. FLORKEALES. 
Essential Character. — Herbs. A simple style. Fruit divided into deep lobes. 
Gynobase never fleshy. Stamens perigynous. 
Order CVIII. LIMNANTHACEtE. 
LiMNANTHEiE, R. Bv. in Lond. and Edinb. Philosoph. Mag. July 1833 ; Bindley Bot. Reg. 
t. 1673. (1834); Nixus Plantarum,p. 11. (1833); Martius Conspectus, No. 212. 
(1835). 
Essential Character. — Calyx 3-5- parted, persistent, valvate in gestivation. Petals 
3-5, regular, convolute in gestivation. Stamens twice the number of the petals, either equal 
in length, or those opposite the petals shortest, perigynous ; the filaments opposite the 
sepals at least having a projection on the outside at their base. A thin perigynous dish. 
Ovary consisting of as many distinct carpels as sepals, opposite to which they are placed ; 
carpels firmly combined by a single solid style, with 3-5 simple stigmas. Nuts 3-5, berried, 
one-seeded. Seed erect ; embryo large amygdaloid, without albumen, the radicle next the 
hilum. — Soft herbaceous plants. Leaves divided, hairless, without stipules. Flowers 
axillary. 
Affinities. The gynobasic structure, the deeply-lobed ovary, the solid 
style, the regular flowers, bring this little order near Rutacese, from which it 
differs in its soft texture, its dotless leaves, its indehiscent, somewhat berried, 
fruit, &c. It also approaches Geraniacese in its one-seeded carpels and regular 
flowers, but the valvate aestivation of its calyx, &c. remove it from them. It 
is probably with Tropaeoleae that the affinity is greatest ; with that sub-order 
