PHANEROGAMIA 



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Ovary bi- or tri-locular. Stamens epipetalous. Calyx very incon- 

 spicuous. 



Family 1. Rubiaeeae. Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with simple, 

 decussate leaves and stipules. Flowers actinomorphic. Ovary 

 bilocular. 



I 'K;. 701. Cinchona suceirulru (n.it. size). OFFICIAL. (After SCHUMANN and ARTHUR MEYEK.) 



SUB-FAMILIES AND IMPORTANT GENEKA. (a) Cinchoneae, woody plants with 

 scaly stipules and numerous seeds in each cavity of the ovary. Cinchona is a 

 genus from the S. American Andes, now cultivated in the mountains of nearly all 

 tropical colonies (Figs. 751, 752). Stipules deciduous. Flowers in terminal 

 panicles ; corolla tubular, with an expanded terminal portion fringed at the 

 margin. Fruit, a septicidal capsule, the valves of which, after dehiscence has 

 taken place, are still held together above by the small calyx. Seeds with a broad, 



