ISO Sir E. F. Brombead's Attempt to ascertain 



or double, stamens (when of the same number) alternating, not 

 adelphous ; anthers hard and dry, opening by pores or unilo- 

 cular or otherwise abnormal. Carpels 4 or more, forming in- 

 dependent cells, connate with each other. Style 1. Placenta 

 adnate to a central column. Albumen fleshy, embryo straight j 

 axile ; radicle to the hilum, centripetal. — Inclining to a mild 

 habitat. 



20. Campanulales. — Not arboreous, internodes imperfect, 

 not regularly angled ; leaves simple ; stipules 0. Flowers axil- 

 lary ; sexes united. Calyx of 2-8 divisions, herbaceous, limb 

 persistent. Corolla inserted in the throat of the calyx, mono- 

 petalous or very irregular. Stamens not more than the lobes 

 of the corolla, alternating. Anthers bilocular, dehiscing lon- 

 gitudinally. Carpels 1 or more, connate with each other, con- 

 nate with the calyx (exc. some Goodeniacese, Brunoniaceae). 

 Style 1, pubescent or fringed or indusiate or systaminous (Sty- 

 lidiaceae) or very short (Pongatiacese). Seeds exarillate. Al- 

 bumen present (exc. Pongatiaceas, Brunoniaceae) . Embryo 

 straight, axile ; radicle centripetal. 



21. Dips AC ALES.— -Not truly arboreous ; leaves on the her- 

 baceous stems usually marcescent ; stipules 0. Flowers (if se- 

 veral) more or less crowded in inflorescence. Calyx (if any) of 

 not more than 5 divisions, monophyllous, not petaloid, not pli- 

 cate, persistent. Corolla of not more than 5 divisions, alter- 

 nating with those of the calyx, monopetalous, not twisted. 

 Stamens not more than 5, alternating with the corolline divi- 

 sions ; anthers more or less induplicate in aestivation or cohering. 

 Carpels 1 or 3, only 1 perfecting seed, connate with each 

 other, more or less connate with the calyx (exc. Globulariacea^, 

 Plantaginaceae). Fruit not dehiscing or not regularly so ; 

 seed solitary if not attached to a placenta becoming finally 

 free (some Plantaginaceae). Albumen (if any) inclosing the 

 embryo ; embryo straight, axile ; radicle superior where the 

 seed is suspended from the apex or from a basilar podosperm, 

 inferior in other cases. 



Inclining to a temperate habitat. 



22. Myrsinales. — Leaves simple, not sessile, in the woody 

 plants usually coriaceous and persistent ; stipules very rarely 

 present, and then small and deciduous (Brexia). Calyx of 3-8 



