CLASSIFICATION. 



11. The Casearia Family. 



Trees or shrubs with leaves sometimes punctulate and 

 small deciduous stipules. Fls. small 3-7-merous, sometimes 

 apetalous, stamens isostemonous or diplostemonous. alternating 

 with glands or staminodes, and sometimes united at the 

 base. Ovary 1 -celled. Fr. capsular, usually 3 (2-5-) 

 valved. Seeds usually arillate. 11. Samydace33 (p. 160). 



12. The Tamarisk Family. 



Small trees or shrubs with scale-like leaves and small 

 white or pink flowers. Sep. and pet. each 5. St. iso- or 

 diplo-stemonous on the margin of a crenulate disc. Placentas 

 at the base of the ovary. Seeds comose. (Perhaps allied to 



Salicaceas.) 12. Tamaricaceae (p. 162). 



II. Families with either perigynoas or epigynous flowers 

 (vide also Capparidacese and Samydaceae above) or gamopeta- 

 lous corolla or both. Sub-order P assiflorineaz. 



The Passion Flower Family. 



Climbers with palmate leaves. Fls. perigynous 5-merous 

 with 3 bracteoles and furnished with a corona. Ovary on a 

 gynophore. Seed arillate. Passiflorace83. 



Passiflora f cetida, L. with greenish flowers has run wild in 

 Singbhum in a few places. The Family is not further dealt 

 with. 



The Papaya Family. 



Carica Papaya, L. a small cultivated tree (native of 

 Mexico) with milky juice and palmate leaves. The flowers are 

 large and diozcious (but sometimes bi-sexual) with a 5-merous 

 corolla which is gamopetalous in the male. PapayaceSB- 



13. The Gourd Family. 



Herbs, rarely shrubs, climbing by means of tendrils, and 

 usually with palminerved or palmately- lobed leaves. Fls. 

 small to very large white or yellow 5-merous. Sep. ana 

 petals superior and hypanthium sometimes produced beyond 



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