xii DICOTS. BATIDALESSANTALALES 



B; a; b 



9. BATIDALES. Coast shrub with opp. fleshy 1. and panicles of 



spikes; fls. $ ? , 3 with cup-like P and A 4, naked, originally 

 2-loc. with i ov. in each, divided by false septum, all ? fls. in 

 spike concrescent; aggregate fr. ; no endosp. 



10. JULIANIALES. Woody with alt. usu. pinnate exstip. 1. and 



dioec. fls.; 3 oo in dense panicle, P, A, 6 8, ? in fours at end of 

 downward directed spike, naked, G i-loc. with i ov. on broad 

 hollowed funicle; no endosp. 



i r. FAGALES. Woody with alt. stip. 1. and fls. in simple or cymose 

 spikes, cyclic, homochlam., rarely naked, usu. monoec. ; A opp. 

 P, G (2 6) each with i 2 ov.; fr. nut-like, seed i; no endosp. 



12. URTICALES. Herbs, shrubs, trees with alt. or opp. stip. 1. and 

 cymose infls. of cyclic homochlam. rarely haplochlam. or naked 

 usu. reg. 5 ore? ? fls., usu. 2 + 2 rarely 2+3-merous; sta. before 

 P> G (2 i) with i ov. ; drupe or nut. 



b. Usti. with, sepaloid or petaloid P, rarely heterochlam. (Orders 

 13-16). 



13. PROTEALES. Woody with alt. exstip. 1. and spikes or racemes 



of cyclic homo- (apparently haplo-)chlam. 2 + 2-merous5 or 

 3 ? reg. or -|- fls. ; P petaloid ; sta. anteposed and usu. adherent 

 to P, G i ; fr. various, no endosp. 



14. SANTALALES. Herbs, shrubs, trees, often paras., with cyclic, 



usu. homochlam. fls.; A anteposed, in i or 2 whorls, G, rarely 

 G (2 3), rarely i, each with i pend. ov. (or ov. not differentiated). 

 i. 'Santalineae: ov. differentiated from plac., often without 

 integ. (fams. I 6). 



