CONSPECTUS OF THE ORDERS CONTAINED IN 
THE SECOND VOLUME. 
Cuass. I. DICOTYLEDONES. 
Suscitass I. POLYPETALA. 
Conorr XI. Rosaues (continued from Vol. I. p. 4). Flowers regular or irregular, 
usually hermaphrodite. Stamens more or less distinctly perigynous. Styles distinct 
(except Bremwia). : 
XLVI. Leaustnos#. Trees, shrubs or herbs. Leaves compound or simple. 
Flowers irregular or regular. Stamens definite or indefinite, free or connate. Carpel 
solitary ; ovules 1-2-c0, attached to the ventral suture. . 
XLVIII. Rosacex. Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves usually alternate and stipu- 
late, simple or compound. Flowers regular (polygamous or dicecious in Pygeum, Bra- 
yera, Cliffortia). Stamens usually indefinite. Carpels 1 or more, free or consolidated 
with the receptacle ; ovules 1 or 2. Seeds exalbuminous. é 
XLIX. Saxtrracacex. Herbs or a shrub (Brexia). Leaves alternate or opposite, 
exstipulate. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Stamens iso- or diplostemonous ; fila- 
ments free. Pisti] syncarpous, digynous (or monogynous in Brexia) ; ovules 0. 
L. Crassutacex. Herbs, usually succulent. Leaves opposite or alternate. Flowers 
regular, hermaphrodite. Stamens iso- or diplostemonous ; filaments free or epipetalous. 
olan .apo- or syncarpous; carpels as many as petals, usually «-ovulate. Seeds 
albuminous. : 
LI. Drosrracex. Glandular-pilose herbs. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Ovary 
i-celled with 2-5 simple or bipartite styles. : 
LIL. Hamametme. (Myrothamnus only.) Glabrous shrub. Leaves opposite. 
Flowers spicate, diccious, achlamydeous. Stamens 4-8. Pistil 3-4-carpellary, multi- 
ovulate. : 3 
LITI. Haroracex,. Herbs, often aquatic. Flowers small, hermaphrodite or uni- 
sexual, Petals 4, fewer or 0. Stamens definite. Ovary inferior, 1—-4-celled ; ovules 
solitary, or few definite, : 
Conorr XII. Myrrazes. Flowers regular or subregular, usually hermaphrodite. 
til syncarpous, inferior (or free in some Rhizophoracee) ; style 1 (4 in Anisophyllea). 
/y2ves simple. : ae 
LIV. Ruizornoracem. Usually littoral trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, stipulate 
alternate, exstipulate in Anisophyllea). Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx-lobes 
yalvate. Ovary 2-5-celled, inferior or superior. : 
LV. Compreracex. Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate. Stamens 
lefiuite. Ovary inferior, 1-celled. : 
LVI. Myrracesx. Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate, entire. Flowers 
‘regular or subregular, hermaphrodite or polygamous. Stamens , perigynous. Ovary 
inferior, 2—5-celled; ovules 2-0. : q 
j LVIL. Mutasromacex. Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, usually Shea . 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Stamens usually twice as many as petals; anthers 
