. Analytical class-book of botany : designed for academies and private students. Plants. OEDEE L. CACTACBiE. OEDEE LV. SAXIFEAGACEjE. 113 A large and chiefly tropical order, (listingnislied by dotted leaves, and aro- matic properties. ^Myrtns, the M'jHIp,, and Punica, the Pomegranate, are examples of this family, which al^o in'Mudes the CaryopJiA/lhis aromaticus, or Clove-tree, and the 'Eugenia I'imenta, the dried fruit of which is known in cookery as Allspice. GROUP X, Order XLVII.—MelastomaceEe. Trees, shrubs, or herbs, with square branches. Leaves oppo- site, ribbed, entire. Sepals 4—6, uni
. Analytical class-book of botany : designed for academies and private students. Plants. OEDEE L. CACTACBiE. OEDEE LV. SAXIFEAGACEjE. 113 A large and chiefly tropical order, (listingnislied by dotted leaves, and aro- matic properties. ^Myrtns, the M'jHIp,, and Punica, the Pomegranate, are examples of this family, which al^o in'Mudes the CaryopJiA/lhis aromaticus, or Clove-tree, and the 'Eugenia I'imenta, the dried fruit of which is known in cookery as Allspice. GROUP X, Order XLVII.—MelastomaceEe. Trees, shrubs, or herbs, with square branches. Leaves oppo- site, ribbed, entire. Sepals 4—6, united, persistent, forming an urceolate tube, which coheres only with the angles of the ovary. Petals as many as the calyx-segments, twisted in prefloralion. Stamens tv^ice as many as the petals, rarely as many, the fila- ments inflexed in prefloration. Anthers 1-eelled, before flowering contained in the cavities between the calyx and ovary. Fruit a capsule, and nearly free from the investing calyx; or else baccate. A large tropical order, of which the different species of Ehexia (Meadow Seauti/, Deev Grass), are our only representatives. Order XLVIII.—Lythracess. Herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves opposite, or vertioillate, rarely alternate, entire. Caly* tubular, 4—7-lobed, the lobes some- times with intermediate teeth. Petals inserted between the calyx-segments, very deciduous, or none. Stamens as many as the petals, or 2—1 times as many, inserted on the calyx-tube. Ovary inclosed in the calyx-tube, but not adherent, 2—i-celled. Style 1. Capsule membranous, usually 1-celled by abortion. Seeds small, attached to a central placenta, destitute of albumen. An unimportant, mostly tropical order, represented among us chiefly by the Lythrum and Decodon. Order Fig. 10. -Onagraceae. Herbs, or shrubs. Flowers axillary, in spikes, or racemes. Se- pals united in a tubular 2—6 lobed calyx Pe- tals usually as many as the calyx-lobes, and alter- nate with them,sometimes none.
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