EXPLANATION
1. Musscenda Jrondosa.
Flowering branch, natural size.
2. Detached corolla split open.
3. Ovary, style, and stigma, with the calyx partially
removed.
4. Anthers, back and front
EXPLANATION
1. Hedyotis Leschenaultii,
Flowering branch, natural size.
2. Corrolla split open.
3. Ovary, style, and stigma.
4. Anthers, back and front.
5. Ovary cut vertically; and 6. transversely, but in
both cases the ovules badly represented, as if there
were only one, in place of many.
EXPLANATION
1. Morinda bradeata.
Flowering branch, natural size.
2. Corolla split open, throat hairy.
3. Anthers, back and front
4. Ovary, style, and stigma.
5 . -- -cut transversely.
EXPLANATION
1. Psychotria ambigua.
Flowering branch, natural size.
2. Corolla split open.
3. Anthers, back and front views.
4. Ovary, style, and stigma.
5 . ---cut vertically.
6. ■— transversely.
EXPLANATION
1. K n o x ia corymbosa. Natural size.'
2. Corolla split open.
3. Stamens, back and front
4. Ovary, style, and stigma.
5. ----- cut vertically.
6. ----- transversely.
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5. Ovary cut vertically.
6 . ------------------ | cut transversely.
7. An immature fruit.
8 . ----- cut transversely.
9. Detached seed.
All more or less magnified.
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7. Capsule, natural size.
8. *4-— magnified.
9. ----- cut vertically.
10. A detached seed.
11. A detached stipule.
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6. Full-grown fruit, cut transversely.
7. Detached seed.
8. Cut transversely; and 9. vertically, showing the
embryo in situ.
10. Embryo detached.
All more or less magnified.
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7. A mature berry.
8 . ----- cut transversely.
—9. Detached seed.
10. One seen from within.
11. ----- cut transversely.
All more or less magnified.
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7. A mature capsule.
8 . ------------------ cut transversely.
9. Seed and capsule cut vertically.
10. Detached seed cut vertically, showing the embryo
in situ.
11. Embryo detached. All more or less magnified.
LXXXIV.—GALIACEiE. Stellates.
Diagnosis.—Cinchonal JEooogens, with epipetalous stamens, straight anthers, bursting
longitudinally§ didymous fruity and verticillate leaves without stipules.
Herbaceous plants, with whorled leaves, destitute of stipules, and angular stems.
Flowers minute. Calyx superior, obsolete, or 4-5- or 6-lobed. Corolla monopetalous,
valvate, rotate, or tubular, regular, inserted into the calyx; the number of its divisions
equal to those of the calyx. Stamens equal in number to the lobes of the corolla, and
alternate with them. Ovary peltate or 2-celled; ovules solitary, erect; styles 2 ; stigma
simple. Fruit a didymous, indehiscent pericarp, with 2 cells and 2 seeds. Seeds erect or
peltate, solitary; embryo in the axis of horny albumen; radicle inferior; cotyledons leafy.
There can be little doubt that the inconspicuous weeds of which this Order is composed,
have as strong a claim to be separated from Cinchonads, as that Order from Capri-
foils. I t is true that no very positive characters are to be obtained from the fructification,
but the want is abundantly supplied by the square stems and verticillate leaves without
stipules, forming a kind of star, from which circumstance the name Stellate is derived.
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