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LXVI. CONVOLVULACEiE 
in. long, cylindric, becoming globose in fruit ; lobes erect. 
Styles distinct, diverging, nearly as long as the linear stigmas. 
Temperate Himalaya, 5000-12,000 ft. — Central and W. Asia, Europe 
Britain, Greater Dodder). 
LXVI I. SOLANACE^E 
Herbs or shrubs, usually erect. Leaves alternate, simple ; 
stipules none. Flowers axillary or lateral, 2-sexual, regular. 
Calyx free, 5-lobed or 5-toothed, sometimes 5-parted almost to the 
base, persistent, often enlarged in fruit. Corolla hypogynous ; 
tube short or long ; limb usually spreading, 5-angled or 5-lobed, 
often folding at the angles. Stamens 5, alternate with the corolla- 
lobes, attached to the tube ; filaments free ; anthers 2-celled, 
usually free, coherent in Solarium. Ovary free, 2- rarely 5-celled ; 
style terminal, slender, undivided, stigma usually capitate ; ovules 
numerous in each cell. Fruit an indehiscent berry or a capsule 
opening by 4 valves or by a transverse slit ; seeds numerous, 
usually flattened. — A large Order widely dispersed through all 
warm and temperate regions. 
Many useful and some poisonous plants belong to this Order. In addition 
to the species described and mentioned the following are commonly cultivated 
