. SEQUENCE OF ORDERS. XXXV 
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ef XII. DROSERACEZ (page 75). Sepals 5, persistent. Petals 5, equal. Stamens 
, jae . §, on slender filaments. Ovary unilocular, with 3-5 parietal placentee. Cap- 
dite sule splitting. (Herbs or suffrutices, covered with viscidly glandular hairs. Sun- 
e dew. Catch-fly.) 
Sve XIII. POLYGALEA (page 79). Flowers irregular. Sepals 5, unequal, the two 
os, 4.4. ~ lateral often coloured like petals. Petals 3; the two upper small, the lower 
ee YP (keel or carina) large, enclosing the stamens and ovary, and often crested in 
(Small shrubs, suffrutices, or herbs. Leaves simple, entire, 
racemose or spiked, mostly purple or pink. Milkwort.) 
XIV. Era deere ete (page 113). Fl. regular. Calyx tubular, 4~5-toothed, 
Sone mony 6 after flowering. Petals 4-5, with long claws, deciduous, 
eae te Ovary 1-celled, with 3-4 parietal placenta and numerous 
XV.  ELATINACES ( 
ee >. Petals 5; stamens 10. e pla- 
— sti ‘Capsule 5-valved, bP ar hey oneatey Diike Leaves 
7 ‘ opposite, entire, with membranous stipules. Bergia.) 
Ge XVI. HYPERICINE (page 117). Fl. regular, yellow. Sepals 5,  aieg pare 
age imbricate. Petals 5, unequal sided, spirally twisted in the bud, and o black- 
dotted at margin. Stamens numerous, united in 3-5 parcels ( polyadelphous ). 
Ovary imperfectly 3-5 celled, with numerous ovules. (Shrubs or herbs, with 
opposite, very entire, pellucid-dotted, exstipulate leaves. Fl.in cymes. St. John’ Wort.) 
XVII. TAMARICINE (page 119). Flowers minute, regular, 4~5~merous, 
spiked or racemose. Stamens 4—10, united at base into a ring. Ovary 1-celled, 
with parietal placente, and cinpeanaiies: weed, cote 3 (Shrubs, with minute, 
seale-like, crowded or imbricate leaves. Tamarisk. 
> XVIII. CARYOPHYLLEZ (page 120). Fl. tin eymose, often without 
7 Shite 07 petals. Calya 4-5 cleft or parted, persistent. Petals clawed. Stamens 4-10, 
7 a sometimes perigynous. Ovary unilocular, or more or less 3-5 celled, with 3-5 
Be Cope styles; ovules one or many, on axile placentae. Fruit a capsule or an achene. 
Seeds reniform, with a marginal embryo and floury albumen. Herbs or small 
suffrutices, with opposite or scattered, entire leaves. Stipules none or membranous: 
Pink or Carnation. Chickweed.) 
‘| wees > ® PHYTOLACCEZ (page 151). Fl. as in Caryophyllee. Ovary of two or 
ie. or pee f breaking up into one-seeded cocci. Seed as in Caryophyllee. 
spiked, racemose, or cymose flowers, Limeum. Virginian Poke.) 
_ XX. MALVACE! I 77 penne Ming ogee Calyx 3-4, 
hs with elas atvaton onl a rate Petals strongly twisted in 
orn ris ‘Mallow. Hibiscus.) 
Cape species, Sterculia Alexandi unisexual, without petals, — 
campanulate, coloured, <hekled " valvate, Stamens united 4 in a ber : 
- silk-cotton tree also belong to this 
. &| XXII. BYTTNERIACE2 Oe ache 
Petals 4-5 twisted. Stamens 
united at base into a ring or | 
a | front. Stamens 8, monadelphous. Ovary 2-celled; ovules solitary, pendulous.° 
exstipulate. Flowers 
} Pal, several, separate or connate, 1—-ovuled carpels, with separate styles, geo 4 
with alternate, entire, mostly exstipulate leaves, and sevall, grees wr wie . 
XXL STERCULIACE (page 1 tia A tree, with digitate leaves. Pe : 
» thers 2-celled. in felis many Sree: The street core 
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