142 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY
7. The ovary cut transversely, 3-celled.
8. The same cut vertically, ovules erect.
9. A small but mature fruit, natural size.
10. The same cut transversely.
11. A portion of a leaf magnified to show the pubescence—
with the exceptions mentioned, all more or less
magnified.
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 52.
1. Dodonsea Burmanniana, (D. C.) natural size. ■
2. A bisexual flower, but with the male organization
highly developed.
3. Stamens removed to show the ovary.
4. The ovary cut transversely.
5. The same cut vertically, showing in this instance
solitary ovules. ■ . Z
6. A bisexual flower, the female organization predominating.
7. Stamens.
8. The ovary cut transversely.
9. Cut vertically, showing the ovules double and
superposed, the one ascending the descending.
10. Detached ovules, showing-their large curunculoid
funeeulus.
11. A different view of the same.
12. A mature fruit showing its winged carpels, natural
size. •' .
13. The same cut transversely, natural size.
14. A mature seed—with the exceptions mentioned, all
more or less magnified.
XXXVIII.—MILLINGTONIACE.fi.
' This is a small Indian order limited as yet to- a single genus of arbortous plants,
distinguished by their alternate exstipulate leaves, which are either simple or pinnate, and in
the lafter case are rendered still more remarkable by their being e.ther abruptly or unequally
Dinnated The inflorescence is panicled, the panicles being either terminal or axillary neai the
sumndts of the branches. The flowers are small sometimes almost inconspicuous, neaily ses-
sile on short lateral peduncles of a pale greenish yellow and very, numeious. p ,
ver^base thre! exterior sterile, oppose to the larger petals; two interior fertile, opposite to
S H M Fruit a 1-celled, 1-seeded drupe; the dissepiment evanescent above, ha d-
me" T J in .in ^ to the bilurn Trees Leaves alternate, without stipules, entire, or rarely
the horizontal branches of the panicles. (W. and A. 1 iod.)
S i f t c a n L fa c e a false step the better, and
o AI IND AC
Datjonæ3aa BBurmanniana. (D.CJ