BOTANIC MATERIA MEDICA, 25 
Pistil, 1 compound; either its styles, 
stigmas or ovary cells more than r. 
Style 1, entire, or barely cleft at top. 
Stamens united into a tube with anthers 
in its orifice. Trees with odd-pinnate or 
bi-pinnate leaves. Meliacez. 
Anthers opening by holes or chinks at 
top. Anthers opening across the top. 
Ericacee. 
Anthers opening lengthwise. Herbs. 
Stamens 6, 2 of them shorter. 
Crucifere. 
Woody plants. ‘Fruit few-seeded. Sta- 
mens fewer than the 4 long petals. 
Oleacee. 
Stamens as many as the broad petals. 
Celastracee. 
Styles or sessile stigmas 2-6, or style 2-5 
cleft. Ovary and fruit 1-celled. One- 
seeded. Shrubs. Anacardiacee. 
Several or many seeded. Seeds in. the 
centre of the pod. Caryophyllacee. 
Seeds on the walls or bottom of the pod. 
Saxifragacez. 
Ovary with 2-5 or more cells. Sessile 
stigmas and stamens 4-6. Aquifoliacez. 
Styles or long stigmas 2: fruit 2-winged. 
Aceracee. 
Styles or divisions of the style 5. Sta- 
mens 5; pod partly or completely 1o- 
celled. Linacee. 
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