APTALER. 267 
. ARISTOLOCHILE. 40. EuvpHorBIACcEs. 
. SANTALACER. 41. Urnricez. 
. CUPULIFERZ. 42, MyrisTice2. 
. JUGLANDEE. _ 43, LauRInEz. 
. ConrIFERz. 44, CHENOPODES. 
. CYCADER. 45, Potyconn®. 
. SALICINER. 46, THyMELES. 
. BETuULINEE. 47, AMARANTHACES. s 
. Myrices. 48. NycTacInez. 
ORDER XXXI._ 
ARISTOLOCHIE. 
- Caaracrers.—Herbs or shrubs with alternate simple 
leaves, with petioles and sometimes stipules, and herma- 
phrodite axillary flowers; calyx with a valvate estivation, 
Monosepalous, with 3 lobes; stamens epigynous, 6 to 12, 
distinct and free, or united to the style and stigma; ovary 
3- or 6-celled, many seeded ; style simple when free ; stigma 
3-or 6-lobed; pericarp a capsule, 3- or 6-celled and many 
Seeded ; seeds attached to the internal angle of each cell. 
: Exampres.—Snake-root or Birthwort, (Aristolochia Ser- 
