GENERAL KEY TO THE GAMOPETALOUS ORDERS. 5 



94. CONVOLVULACE.E. Leaves alternate and petioled. Stems usually twining or 

 trailing, but some erect, many with milky juice. Flowers borne by axillary pedun- 

 cles or cyniose-glomerate. Calyx of imbricated sepals. Corolla with four-five-lobed 

 or commonly entire margin, plicate and the pkits convolute in the bud, sometimes 

 induplicate-valvate or imbricated. Ovary two-celled or sometimes three-celled, with 

 a pair of erect anatropous ovules in each cell, becoming comparatively large seeds 

 (these sometimes separated by spurious septa of the capsular fruit), with smooth or 

 haiiy testa. Embryo incurved, with ample foliaceous plaited and crumpled cotyle- 

 dons (in Cascuta embryo long and spiral without cotyledons) surrounded by little 

 or no albumen : radicle inferior. Dichoiidra has two distinct ovaries. 



95. SOLANACExE. Leaves alternate, sometimes unequally geminate. Inflorescence 

 various, but no truly axillary flowers. Corolla in some a little irregular, its lobes or 

 border induplicate-plicate or rarely imbricate in the bud. Ovary normally two-celled 

 (occasionally three-five-celled) and undivided,, with many-o\T.iled placentse in the 

 axis : style undivided : stigma entire or bilamellar. Seeds numerous, with incurved 

 or coiled or rarely ahnost straight embryo in copious fleshy albumen : cotyledons sel- 

 dom much broader than the radicle. 



■H- ++ -H- Corolla irregular, more or less bilabiately so (|) ; its lobes variously 

 imbricate or convolute, or sometimes almost regular: stamens fewer than 

 corolla-lobes, four and didynamous, or only two : style undivided : stigma 

 entire or two-lobed or bilamellar ; the lobes anterior and posterior : ovary 

 in all dicarpellary ; the cells or carpels anterior and posterior. 

 = Pluriovulate or multiovulate. 



96. SCROPHULARIACE^E. Ovary and capsule completely two-celled : placentae occu- 

 pying the middle of the partition. Seeds comparatively small or minute, mostly in- 

 definitely numerous, sometimes few. Embryo small, straight or slightly curved, in 

 copious fleshy albumen : cotyledons hardly broader than the radicle. 



97. OROBANCHACEiE. Ovary one-celled with two or four (doubled) parietal many- 

 ovuled placentae. Seeds very many in fleshy albumen, with minute embryo, having 

 no obvious distinction of parts. Root-parasites, destitute of green herbage. 



98. LENTIBULARIACE.E. Ovary one-celled, with a free central multiovulate pla- 

 centa : globular capsule mostly bursting irregularly. Seeds destitute of albumen, 

 filled by a solid oblong embryo. Bilabiate corolla i:)ersonate and calcarate. Stamens 

 two : anthers confluently one-celled. Aciuatic or paludose plants, with scapes or 

 scapiform peduncles, sometimes almost leafless. 



99. BIGNONIACEzE. Ovary and capsule two-celled by the extension of a partition 

 beyond the two parietal placentte, or in some genera simply one-celled. Seeds 

 numerous, large, commonly winged, transverse, filled by the horizontal embryo : 

 cotyledons broad and foliaceous, plane, emarginate at base and sunnuit, the basal 

 notch including the short radicle : no albumen. Trees or shrubs, many climbing, 

 large-flowered : leaves commonly opposite. 



100. PEDALTACEiE. Ovary one-celled, with two parietal intruded placentae, which 

 are broadly bilamellar or united in centre, or two-four-celled by spurious septa from 

 the walls. Fruit capsular or drupaceous, few-many-seeded. Seeds wingless, with 

 tliick and close testa, filled by the large straight endiryo : cotyledons thickish. Herbs, 

 with mainly opposite simple leaves : juice mucilaginous. 



