CLASSIFICA TION. 



5. Barberry Family. 



Shrubs often spiny. Fls. small or medium sized, yellow, 

 in racemes. Perianth of four 3-merous whorls. Carpel 1 

 with a large sessile scutiform stigma. Ovules several basal. 



5. Berberidaceae (p. 149), 



6. Laurel Family. 



Trees or shrubs (Cassytha is a filiform parasite) witb 

 aromatic often dotted, leaves. Fls. small greenish or 

 yellowish. Perianth perigynous normally of two 3 merons 

 whorls (sometimes apparently 5 cleft). Stamens in three or 

 fonr 3-merous whorls (one usually reduced to staminodes). 

 Ovule 1. Fruit baccate or drupaceous often surrounded oi 

 girt at the base by the enlarged hypanthium. 



6. Lauraceae (p. 150). 



Order II. — Parietales. 



Herbs, more rarely trees and shrubs, sometimes scar? dent 

 L simple alternate. Fls. regular, 2-1-sexual, cyclic, with the 

 whorls often 2-merous or 4-merous. Sepals and petals free. 

 Stamens usually many (due to branching), or isostemonons or 

 diplostemonous (3-5 in Cncurbitacero, tetradynamous in 

 Crucifera3), free. Disc present or not. Ovary syncarpous, 

 sometimes on a gycophore, of 2-3 or several carpels, l-celled 

 with parietal placentation. 



Exceptions : — 



L. compound in MoringacesB, palmately divided in Borne Passifloracoaa 

 and CucuTbitaceae. 



Fls. irregular in Muringaceaa, and homochlamydeous (sepals petaloid). 



Petals are absent in some Bixacaae and Simydaceae. 



Stamens sometimes connate in Cueurbitaceae, sometimes united into a 

 tuba bfclow in Samydaceas. 



Ovary apparently 2-celled in Crnciferss by formation of a replum 

 Ovary sometimes 2-4-celled by intrusion of the placenta in Cppparis, 2-8- 

 celled in Flacourtia among Biir.ceae, sometimes apparently 3«cclled in 

 Cucmbi taceae. 



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