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Rh bus stevilibus fertilia subaequantibus in setas validas apice glanduliferas desinentibus.— Wall. Cat. n. 3755. Wight el Am. Prod. Fl. Pen. Ind. Or. p. 35. Wight, Cat. n. 116.

Mountains in the South of the Peninsula of India. Wight.

Scapus subpedalis. Folia l^ poll, longa, li fere lata.

2. P. ornata (Wall.) ; foliis late corchto-ovatis sinu angusto, braetea consimili ampleetente, petulis obovatis basi in unguem conspieue uninervem late lineaiem angustatis basin versus ungueque copiose ciliato-laceris, laciniis elongatis capillace<i-pinnaiiscctis, staminibus sterilibus in setas validas apice glan- duliferas desinentibus.— Wall. Cat. n. 1247.

Himalayah. Blinkucrth.

Scapus pedalis. Folia 1| poll, longa atque lata. Flores magni.

§ 3. Stamina sterilia apice breviter sub-b-Jida, eglandulosa ; pelala margine cilia/o/acera.

P. fimbria la. Bunks.— Hook. Bet. Misc. I. t. 43.

§ 4. Stamina steri/ia apice brevi trifida eglandulosa ; pelala margine subintegerrima. 3. P. nubtcola (Wall.) ; foliis elliptico-oblongis 7— 9-nerviis basi retusis et subiter in petiolum con- tractis, nervis subtus prominulis, braclea late ovaia vel oblonga basi retusa sessili, petalis oblongis sepala subtriplo superantibus ungue brevi margine leviter dentato, staminibus sterilibus dimidio brevioribus apice trilobis, lobis crassis oblongis obtusis. — Wall. Cat. n. 1246. Hab. Gossain-Than. Wallich. Kamaon. Blink- worth. Scapus plusquam pedalis. Folia 2*— 4 poll, longa, l{ lata. In hac atque in speciebus duabus sequentibus tria tantuni stigmata vidi. Flores majusculi. 4. P. Mysorensis (Heyne) ; foliis covdatis subreni- formibus lobis incumbentibus, braetea cordata amplee- tente, sepalis late ovalibus pedunculi apice incrassato dimidio longioribus, petalis obovali-oblongis unguicu- latis margine integerrimis subdenticulatisve sepala 2|-plo superantibus, staminibus sterilibus fertilibus dimidio brevioribus apice trifidis segmentis oblongis obtusis crassiusculis. — Heyne in Wall. Cat. n. 3754. Wight et Am. Prod. Fl. Pen. Ind. Or. p. 35. Hab. Mysore. Heyne. Scapus 3— 3| pollicaris. Folia 4— 5i lin. longa, 31 lata. A P. Kotzebuei, cui habitu quodammodo similis, differt petalis calyce longioribus, staminum stenlium forma, braetea sessili, foliorumque forma. 5. P. pusilla (Wall.) ; foliis cordato-ovatis lobis divergentibus, braetea ovata subpetiolata, sepalis late ovalibus pedunculi apicem incrassatam eequantibus, petalis obovatis basi sensim in unguem sepala eequan- tem attenuatis integerrimis sepala 3— 4-plo superanti- bus, staminibus sterilibus apice breviter trifidis fertilia ac sepala subaequantibus. — Wall. Cat. n. 1255. Hab. Gossain-Than. Wallich. Scapus 24— 3-pollicaris. Folia 3 lin. tantum longa, 21-2i lata.

A. 1. Drosea Burmanni, natural sue— 2. A flower opened, showing the calyx, corolla, stamens and ovary — 3. A stamen — 4. A portion of the branched stigma, highly magnified; the globular bodies, adherent grains of pollen— 5. A grain of pollen more highly magnified, show ing its lobed or compound structure — 6. The 5- valved capsule, after dehiscence — all more or less magnified.

B. 1. Drosera intermedia — natural size.

C. 1. Drosera India, natural size— 2. Flower opened as above — 3. Stamens back and front views — 4. A stigma much magnified, the globular grains seen on the branched portion adherent grains of pollen— 5. Capsule 3 salved— 6. A seed showing the reticulated testa— 7. Portion of a leaf magnified— all more or less magnified.

D. 1. Drosera peltala, nalurul size— 2. Flower— 3. Stamens anther burst — 4. Ovary cut transversely, showing parietal placentation and ramous, style and stigma— 5. Under side of a leaf magnified — all more or less magnified.

A. I. Parnassia Mysorensis : a medium sized specimen, natural size— 2. Flower opened to show all its parts— 3. The same sepals and petals removed, showing the stamens, abortive stamens, and ovary — 4. Carpel cut vertically, showing the seeds on one placentae—5. Young fruit, natural size— 6. The same magnified —7. Ovary cut transversely, showing the parietal placentation.

B. 1. P. Wightiana, natural size—2. Flower magnified.

C. P. Nubicola, flower and braetea, natural size—From a Himalayan specimen.

  This order which is very generally distributed over the globe, being found in every quarter of it, and in almost every kind of soil and climate, abounds in species, but is very limited in the number of genera, the latter, standing in the proportion of only about 1 to 19 or 20 of the former, on whole order. Among its species every form of vegetation is found, from the very minute annual scarcely 3 inches high, up to large sized trees. Many of these are milky plants, with round stems, and ex-stipulate, scattered, simple, entire, sessile, leaves, or having the limb attenuated into a short petiol. The flowers, which are sometimes solitary, often racemose, with the pedicels furnished with bractiee, are hermaphrodite and irregular in their form, often small, and inconspicuous, but showy in some of the Polygalas. 