578 MORINGACEAE 
Faminy 5. MORINGACEAE-—HonzsERADISH-TREE FAMILY 
Trees. Leaves alternate: blades 2-3-pinnate. Flowers perfect, 
slightly irregular, panicled. Calyx of 5 unequal sepals borne on the edge 
of the cup-shaped hypanthium. Corolla of 5 petals resembling the sepals, 
the lower petal reflexed, the upper one erect-spreading. of 
5 stamens, borne on the hypanthium, and 5 staminodia. Gynoecium 3- 
earpellary. Ovary stipitate, with 3 parietal placentae, Fruit an elongate 
capsule. Seeds 3-winged or wingless.—One gen 
MORINGA Juss. Trees, with spreading branches. Panicles axillary, 
Turn Pods drooping.—Three known species. 
1. M. SETA CL) Millsp. Tree becom- 
ing 11 m ed leaves 3-6 cm. long; leaflets 
-2 em. 
tong; ; adde er owered: sepals linear 
elliptic-linear, 9-10 mm. long: petals usu- 
all 
sule 2.5-3.5 dm. long: seed 3-winged, the 
body fu ully 1 em. long.— ( HORSERADISH- 
i nd 
The roots have the odor s wes bpm 
The seeds produce a fixed o 
ORDER SARRA SARRACENIAL ORDER 
Insectivorous, usually seapose herbs, with viseid-fluid secreting tissues. 
b 3 
aves alternate, various, rm, or with dilated, sometimes sensitive 
1 (0) 
blades, or hollow. Flowers usually perfect and regular. of distinct 
sepals. Corolla of distinct petals. Androecium of few or E stamens. 
Gynoecium of 2-5 united earpels. Ovary 1-celled, with 3-5 parietal or 
basal placentae, or 3-5-eelled. Fruit capsular. Endosperm fleshy. 
Ovary 1-celled, with a basal placenta or parietal pracenta©) not surmounted by a 
peltate disk : leaves with filiform or dilated bla B 
Styles distinct: stigmas 2-lobed: placentae parietal 
‘stamens 4-8, usually Fam. 1. DROSERACEAE. 
en et Ero pinnatifid : placentae basal: 
Fam. 2. DIONAEACEAE. 
Ovary Pa celled with central placentae, surmounted by 
a peltate disk: leaves with hollow blades. Fam. 3. SARRACENIACEAE. 
Famity d. DROSERACEAE—SvuNpEw FAMILY 
Annual, biennial, or perennial, glandular-pubescent herbs. Leaves 
eireinate in the bud, merely filiform or with broad blades. Flowers spicate 
or racemose. Calyx of 4-8 persistent sepals. Corolla of 4—8 petals, or 
rarely of 1-3 petals. Androecium of 4-8, usually 5, distinct stamens. 
Capsule loculicidally 3—5-valved——About 5 genera and 90 species, widely 
distributed. | 
