134 ^^y TO NATURAL ORDERS. [chap. 



of small flowers. Petals free or connate, usually valvate. 

 Ovary one — or imperfectly three — or more-celled. 



Amfelide/E (p. i88). — Usually shrubs with jointed stems, 

 climbing by tendrils, or in Leea erect. Leaves alternate, 

 simple, or tri- to quinque-foliolate (or compound-pinnate in 

 Leea). Flowers minute, cymose, greenish. Petals valvate, ca- 

 ducous. Stamens as many as petals, and opposite to them. 



Sapindace^ (p. 190). — Usually trees (in Cardiospermuvi^ 

 a scandent herb,) with alternate pinnate leaves, and small, 

 often panicled, polygamous flowers. Stamens free, fre- 

 quently anisomerous. Ovary three-, four-, or two-celled. 



Anacardiace^ (p. 192). — Trees, often resinous, v/ith 

 alternate or opposite, simple or compound leaves. Flowers 

 small. Ovary one-celled (in Spondias and allies, two to 

 five-celled) ; ovules solitary. 



Connarace/e (p. 193). — Trees or shrubs with alternate 

 compound leaves. Flowers small, regular, in racemes or 

 panicles. Stamens definite. Pistil apocarpous. 



CALYCIFLOR^. — Stamens usually perigynous or 

 epigynous. 



Leguminos^ (p. 194). — Trees or shrubs usually with 

 alternate compound (pinnate, tri- or uni-foliolate) leaves. 

 Flowers irregular (except in Tribe Mimosece). Carpel 

 solitary. 



Rosacea (p. 200). — Trees, shrubs, or herbs with alternate, 

 entire or divided leaves. Flowers regular. Ovary free or 

 adherent to the calyx-tube (when, if there be two or more 

 carpels, it becomes apparently syncarpous). 



Combretace/e (p. 203). — Trees or shrubs with opposite 

 or alternate simple leaves. Flowers with or without petals. 

 Ovary wholly inferior, one-celled, with pendulous ovules. 



