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DICOTYLEDONS. 



XXIX. SiMAKUBE^. Characters of Tiutaee<^^ except that the leaves are not dotted and 

 the ovules are usually solitary in each cell. Taste generally bitter. [ 



XXX. BuRSERACE.E. Trecs or shrubs, not dotted, but with a balsamic juice. Leaves 

 pinuutely or ternatcly compound. No stipules. Disk free or aduate to the calyx-tube. 

 Ovary entire. Ovules usually 2 in each cell. Albumen none. Cotyledons much folded or 

 rarely thick and fleshy. 



XXXI. Meliace^. Trees or shrubs, with compound or rarely simple leaves. No sti- 

 pules. Stamens monadelphons. Anthers sessile or rarely stipitatc within or on the top of 

 tlie staminal tube. Ovary entire. Ovules 2 in each cell. Albumen none or fleshy. 



Alliance VIII- Clacales. — Disk various or none. Ovary entire. Ovules 1/^3 in 



a solitary cell^ or 1 in each cell^ pendulous with a dorsal raphe^ the integuments not dis- 

 tinct from the nitcleus. Seeds solitary in the fruit or i/i the cells. Albumen copious. 



XXXII. OLACiNEiE. Trees or shrubs, rarely undershrubs or climbers. No stipules. 

 Petals or corolla-lobes valvate (except Villaresia)^ Ovary 1-cellcd or incompletely 3- to 5- 

 celled. Pruit 1-seeded. 



XXXIIT. lLiciNE.fi. Trees or shrubs. No stipules. Petals or corolla-lobes imbricate. 



Ovary 3- or more celled. 



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Alliance IX. Celastrales. — Disk thick and fleshy or adnate to the calyx, the 

 xtamens outside or npon it. Ovary entire {except Stackhousia). Ovules 1 or Z in each 

 cell, erect with a ventral rajphe, 



XXXIV. Celastrine.e. Trees or sbrubs, with simple leaves. Stipules none, or, minute 

 and deciduous. Calyx-lobes imbricate. Petals spreading. Stamens alternating with the 

 petals or fewer. Ovary entire. 



XXXV. Stackiiousie^, Herbs or undersLiubs, with sim]>le leaves. Calyx-lobes im- 

 bricate. Petals erect, usually connate. Stamens alternating with the petals. Ovary lobed. 



XXXVI. raiAMNE.E. Trees or shrubs, with simple leaves. Stipules usually present. 

 Calyx-lobes valvate. Petals small, concave (or none). Stamens opposite the petals. Ovary 

 entire, often inferior. 



XXXVII. AMrELiDEJS. Climbers, w^ith simple or compound leaves, the petiole usually 

 expanded into a stipule. Calyx-lobes imbricate. Petals valvate. Stamens opposite the 

 petals. Ovary entire. Alb uinea cartilaginous. Embryo small, 



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Alliance X. Sapindales. — JDisk fleshy or adnate to the calyx, within or under or 

 outside the stamens, Gyneecium entire, lobed or apoca^yous. Ovules \ or 2 in each celU 

 ascending tvlth a ventral raphe^ or reversed, or suspended from an erect funiculus, or peU' 

 dulous with an inferior microjpyle, 



XXXVIH. Safindace.*:. Trees, shrubs, or climbers, with compound or simple leaves. 

 Stamens anisomerous with the petals, or twice as m^ny as petals or of the same number, 

 often (but not always) within the disk. Style 1. Ovules ascending. 



XXXIX. Anacahdiace^. Trees or shrubs, with compound or simple leaves. Stamens 

 as many or twice as many as petals, never within the di:;k. Ovules suspended from an erect 

 fuuicle or from the top or side of the cell with an inferior micropyle. 



Order I. EANUNCULACEJE. 



Sepals 3 or more, most frequently 5, usually petal-like and deciduous. 

 Petals of the same nnmber or more, or sometimes none, or very small and 

 .i.f...,,..i «+o,««,»;^.i.i^,.;.. 1. ^.... Anthers iimate. Gyncecium 



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of several carpels, usually free; ovtiles anatropous, either solitary and a^i 

 cending, with a ventral raphe, or pendulous with a dorsal raphe, or several. 

 Fruit of one or more indehiscent achenes or benies, or follicular capsules, the 

 distmct styles usually persistent as short points, or Icn^^thened into long, 



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