132 Sir E. F. Bromheacrs Attempt to ascertain 



more or less deciduous in the female flower, more or less val- 

 vate in aestivation or accumbent or formed to admit valvation. 

 Corolla 0. Stamens definite, more or less adherent to the calyx 

 or issuing from the torus developed. Carpel 1. Stigma pel- 

 tate or sublobed or obtuse. Fruit not capsular. Ovule 1, 

 pendulous or basilar. Embryo with large albumen or with 

 large or oily cotyledons. Albumen (if any) ruminate, enclosing 

 the embryo ; radicle to the hilum. 

 Inclining to a tropical habitat. 



26. Magnoliales. — Arboreous or frutescent (exc. some 

 Dilleniacese), more or less exogenous ; leaves simple ; stipules 

 or deciduous (Illiciea^-Magnoliaceae). Flowers not sessile. 

 Outer Perigonium a calyx or spatha or calycoid involucrum, 

 perigonium divided or spathaceous. Petals (when present), 

 alternating. Stamens many (7 or upwards) ; anthers adnate, 

 bilocular. Carpels forming independent cells, more or less dis- 

 tinct, more or less free from the perigonium. Fi'uit (if succu- 

 lent) inclining to be coadunate at maturity. Embryo small and 

 included in the base of large albumen, or highly developed and 

 exalbuminous (Calycanthaceae) ; radicle towards the hilum or 

 inferior. 



Inclining to a tropical habitat. 



27. Menispekmales. — Not lactescent ; leaves not opposite, 

 not dotted, not sessile ; Stipules (exc. pinnate Berberaceae). 

 Flowers racemose or panicled or fascicled or solitary. Sepals 

 and Petals (when present) each in one or more rows, the same 

 number in each row. Petals hypogynous. Stamens not fewer 

 than the petals, following the germen in being free from the 

 calyx or adherent (Eupomatia) ; anthers adnate, bilocular. 

 Carpels forming independent cells ; carpels distinct or connate 

 in parcels and forming ovaries distinct in the bud ; germen 

 wholly or nearly free from the calyx. Styles as many as the 

 carpels. Ovaries indehiscent, inclining (if succulent) to be 

 coadunate at maturity. Albumen enclosing the embryo ; em- 

 hryo straight with the radicle inferior, or curved with the radi- 

 cle superior. 



Inclining to a warm habitat. 



28. Asparagales. — Not epiphytic nor parasitic, not lactes- 

 cent ; roots not calyptrate ; leaves not lepidote nor equitant. 



