. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. , C. A. Mey. Skllara, , Tournef. Lathrasa, Litui. Squamaria, , Encll. A»oplim, ^^^lll^. Anblatum, ^ginetia, Linn. jITyobanche, Ientronota, DC.] Cailronia, , \a, , L. Numbers. Gen. 12. Sp. IIG. —Geutianacece.—Orobanchace^.Gesncracece. rr2 612 GENTIANACE^. [Perigynous Exogens. Order CCXXXVI. GENTIANACEiE —Genttanworts. Gentianese, Juss. Gen. 141. (1789); R. Brown Prodr.
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. , C. A. Mey. Skllara, , Tournef. Lathrasa, Litui. Squamaria, , Encll. A»oplim, ^^^lll^. Anblatum, ^ginetia, Linn. jITyobanche, Ientronota, DC.] Cailronia, , \a, , L. Numbers. Gen. 12. Sp. IIG. —Geutianacece.—Orobanchace^.Gesncracece. rr2 612 GENTIANACE^. [Perigynous Exogens. Order CCXXXVI. GENTIANACEiE —Genttanworts. Gentianese, Juss. Gen. 141. (1789); R. Brown Prodr. 449 ; Von Martins Nov. Gm. ^c. 2. 132 ; Nat. 199 ; Royles Illustrations, 27(); Endl. Gen. cxxxiv.; Grisebach Monogr. (1836); Id. inAtph. DC. Prodr. 9. 38.—Desfontaineae, Endl. Gen. p. 669. Diagnosis.—Gentianal Exogens, ivith no stipules, simple stigmas at the end of a manifeststyle, parietal placenteB, and regular floioers. Herbaceous plants, seldom shinibs, generally smooth, sometimes twining. Leavesopposite, entire, without stipules, sessile, or having their petioles confluent in a little. Fig. CCCCXIV sheath, in most cases 3- 5-ribbed ; very rarely brown and scale-Hke ; sometimes alter-nate. Flowers terminal or axillary, regular, or very seldom irregular. Calyx divided,inferior, persistent. Corolla monopetalous, hypogynous, usually regular, and persistent ;the limb regular, sometimes furnished with delicate fringes, its lobes of the same numberas those of the calyx, generally 5, sometimes 4, 6, 8, or 10, occasionally extended at thebase mto a bag or spur, with a plaited, or folded, or imbricated twisted inserted upon the corolla, all in the same line, equal in number to the segments,and alternate with them ; some of them occasionally abortive. Ovary composed of2 carpels, 1- or partly 2-celled, many-seeded. Style 1, continuous with the ovary ; stig-mas 2, right and left of the axis ; ovules 00, anatropal, parietal. Capsule or benymany
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