CONSPECTUS OF FAMILIES XVll 



Fam. 7. Ulmaeese. Fls. unisexual, monoecious or polygamous, 

 minute, in small, panicle-like inflorescences, or the fertile solitary ; 

 perianth calycine. Trees or shrubs with a watery sap. Leaves 

 alternate, 3-nerved at base ; stipules caducous. Fruit small, 

 drupaceous, one-seeded. (Page 36.) 



Fam. 8. Moracese. Fls. monoecious or dicecious, minute, 

 perianth calycine, or wanting ; fls. massed together in various 

 ways, rarely the female solitary. Trees or shrubs generally with 

 mill'i) juice. Leaves alternate, entire (palmatilobed in Cecropia). 

 Fruit often composed of the union of one or several ovaries with 

 enlarged fleshy bracts, perianth, or receptacle, one-seeded. 

 (Page 40.) 



Fam. 9. Urticaeese. Fls. monoecious or dioecious, minute, 

 clustered or scattered, clusters or flowers paniculate or crowded 

 and sessile ; perianth calycine or wanting. Herbs, shrubs or 

 small trees. Leaves alternate or opposite, with stipules often 

 caducous, sometimes idth cystoliths. Fruit an achene, sometimes 

 enclosed in tlie periantli. (Page 54.) 



Fam. 10. Olacaeese. Fls. liermaplirodite, small, axillary, in 

 short inflorescences, or solitary ; calyx persistent, toothed, or cup- 

 shaped and entire; corolla of free or united 'petals. Shrubs or 

 trees. Leaves alternate, entire, without stipules. Fruit a 

 drupe. (Page 85.) 



Fam. 11. Loranthaeese. Fls. unisexual or hermaphrodite, 

 usually small, in spikes, racemes or panicles ; calyx epigynous, 

 small, sometimes reduced to a ring or altogether wanting, corolla 

 of free or united petals. Small shrubs, parasitic on branches of 

 trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, large, or reduced to scales, or 

 wanting. Fruit baccate. (Page 88.) 



Ij^ Fam. 12. Balanophoracese. Fls. unisexual, minute, crowded 

 on unisexual or androgynous spadices ; perianth calycine or 

 wanting. Fungus-lihe fleshy herbs icithout chlorophyll, parasitic 

 on roots. Leaves represented by scales. (Page 103.) 



Fam. 13. Aristolochiaeese. Fls. hermaphrodite, large, 

 generally solitary ; perianth irregular, coloured, tubular, constricted 

 above the ovary, jjrolonged above into a limb ichich is sometimes 

 tailed; stamens united ivith the pnstil ; ovary inferior, G-celled. 

 Herbaceous or shrubby, twining. Leaves alternate, without 

 stipules. Fruit a 6-valved capsule, (Page 104.) 



Fam. 14. Polygonacese. Fls. hermaphrodite or unisexual, 

 small, solitary or clustered within a bract, racemose or panicu- 

 late ; perianth inferior, calycine, sometimes coloured. Herbs, 

 shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate, usually entire ; stipules 

 tubular (ochrea) sheathing the stem. Fruit a nut enclosed by the 

 perianth. (Page 106.) 



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