XXXV1 SEQUENCE OF ORDERS. 
XXIV. HIPPOCRATEACE.E (page 229). Flowers regular, small, greenish, 5 
parted. Stamens 3, inside a fleshy, i 
Pperigynous disc. Ovary 3-celled, with a 
t short, trifid style. (Shrubs or trees resembling OCelastrus ; differing by the three 
. hypogynous stamens). 
XXV. MALPIGHIACE® (page 231). Flowers perfect, regular. Calyc 5—parted, 
al 2 fat UZ. ~ -imbricate, with external fleshy glands. Petals 5, clawed, spreading. Stamens 
ay eee 10 (5 sometimes abortive), connate at base, Ovary 3-2 celled ; ovules solitary. 
t : (Shrubs, erect or climbing, with 
opposite, simple, mostly entire leaves, and corymbose 
on racemose red or yellow flowers,  Pubesee silky. Natal Country. ) 
XXVI. ERYTHROXYLEA (page 233). F2. as in Malpighiacee ; but, calyx 
bof y not glanded ; petals with a bifid scale in front 3 stigmas capitate. (Two Natal 
os shrubs ). 
(page 234). Fi. regular. Calyz small, truncate or toothed 
Petals 4-6, with valvate zstivation, Stamens as many or twice as many as the 
petals, free (or connate). Ovary unilocular ; ovules 2-4, pendulous from a free 
central placenta, or the side of the ovary. Albumen copious. ( Trees or shrubs, 
ire leaves. 2 S, African species )e 
SAPINDACE 
er imbricate. Petals 4-5, or none, imbricate. Dise fleshy, outside the 
Often excentrical or unsymmetrical stamens. Ovary 2-4 celled, with axile pla- 
rs tz ; ovules 13, rarely more. Fruj 
rarely] with pinnate or trifoliolate, rarely with simple leaves. Stipules none. 
calyx, sessile, with val 
4-10 united into a tube, ary pl 
1-2, axile ; style simple. Fruit a berry, 
Leaves punate or simple, alternate, exstipulate, 
* panicles. ) 
— ae (page 248). FI. regular, minute. Calyze d. 
MENS Opposii concave, valvate petals, Ovary free, 2 celled ; ovules in 
pairs. Fruit a berry. (Shrubs inibivagy by ie 
swollen at the 
