. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. very remai-kable, I only know from Rox-burghs account, the substance of which isquoted from the Flora Indica. The mannerin which the plates of the placenta overlapthe foramen (I beheve not till after impregnation) is exceedingly curious ; these are nodoubt what ultimately become the aril. In the genus Scepa the ends of the o^-ules arebuiied in a thick mass of hairs proceeding from the placentary suture near the base ofthe cell. Forestiera does not appear to differ from Scepads
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. very remai-kable, I only know from Rox-burghs account, the substance of which isquoted from the Flora Indica. The mannerin which the plates of the placenta overlapthe foramen (I beheve not till after impregnation) is exceedingly curious ; these are nodoubt what ultimately become the aril. In the genus Scepa the ends of the o^-ules arebuiied in a thick mass of hairs proceeding from the placentary suture near the base ofthe cell. Forestiera does not appear to differ from Scepads more than the genera ofSpurgeworts from each other. It has no aril, and its fniit is indehiscent; butit is amentaceous. Piptolepis of Bentham, placed next it by Endlicher, seems to mevery different, on accovmt of its hermaplirodite of the tropical forests of India. The wood of the Kokra, Lepidostachys Roxburghii, is very hard, and is used forvarious economical purposes. GENERA. Scepa, , , , Poir. Bigeloma, Smith. Borya, Willd. Adelia, L. C. Fig. CXCV. Position. Numbers. Gex\. 3. Sp. —Scepaceae.— Fig. viUosa. 1. a cluster of g catkins; 2. a ^ branch ; 3. a ^^ flower; 4. its calyx,.5. an ovary J 6. a cross section of it; 7. the ovules in situ; 8. one of them forced downwards. 284 CALLITRICHACEiE. [Diclinous Exogexs. Order XCII. CALLITRICHACE^.—Starworts. Lavielle in Ann. Soc. Linn. Par. p.; Endl. Ixxxiv, ; Meisn. p. 336. DC. Prodr. 3. 71; Callitrichineae, Link. Enum. 1. 7- (1821)Ed. pr. (1836 Diagnosis.—-Ewp^or6iaZ aquatic Exoyens, with definite suspended anatropal ovules, and a supjerior radicle. Small aquatic herbaceous plants, with opposite, sunple, eutiie leaves. Flowers axil-lary, solitary, very minute. Flowers unisexual, monoecious, naked, with 2 fistular colom-edbracts. $ Stamen hypogynous, single, rarely 2; filament filiform, furrowed along themiddle;
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