PHANEROGAMIA 



585 



Fifi. 605. Cinnamomum Camphni'n (., nat. si/c). OFFICIAL. 



Order 8. Rhoeadinae 



Herbs, or more rarely shrubs, with alternate, exstipulate leaves. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite, cyclic ; whorls 

 usually bimerous. Ovary superior, uni- 

 locular. Placentas on the united margins 

 of the carpels, projecting more or less 

 into the cavity. Stigmas commisural, i.e. 

 situated immediately over the sutures. 

 Dehiscence of the fruit by separation of 

 the middle portions of the carpels from 

 the persistent placentas. Fl - .-Fi"'- -lia^am . r; to - 



*L ., cim. (After EICHLER.) 



lamily 1. Papaveraceae. Herbs 

 with milky juice. Leaves usually pinnately lobed. Flowers actino- 



