CLASSIFICATION. 



the ovary. St. 5 or apparently only 3, often connate or with 

 bent or conduplicate connate anthers. Ovary inferior with 3 

 (rarely 4-5) placentae which may meet in the axis. (Miiller in 

 " Nat. Pflanzenfamilien " considers the placentation axile.) 

 Fruit a berry, or a Pepo. ] 3. CucurbitaceSB (p. 163). 



III. Flowers irregular. Leaves compound. 



14. The Horseradish Tree Family. 



A small cultivated tree with 2-3-pinnate leaves and 5- 

 merous flowers with both perianth whorls pet-iloid. Fruit 

 an elongate 3-valved capsule. 14. Morillgaceae (p. 174;. 



Ofder III.— Guttiferales (Allied to Orders 1, II 

 and VI). 



Trees or shrubs with alternate simple and dually entire 

 penniveined leaves. Fls. regular, 2-1-sexuai. cyclic, usually 

 pentamerous (sep. and pet. sometimes 4-7). Disc 0. St. 

 many, often more or less connate (in bundles or a central 

 mass) Ovary syncarpous with 3-5, or several carpels, and as 

 many cells as carpels. Ovules axile. Fruit indehiscent or 

 capsular, never coccous. Stellate hairs very rare. 



Exceptions \ — 



Leaves of Garcinia are opposite. Dilleniacese has the carpels connate in 

 the axis but with free styles, it is closely allied to Ranales. 



Flowers of Ternstrcemiaceaa are sometimes acyclic as in Ranales. 



Flowers of Guttiferae often have sepals in deenssate pairs as in many 

 Parietales. 



N.B. - The order is with difficulty separated from ParietaleB whon 

 considering genera outside Chota Nagpur, both parietal and axile place d- 

 tation may occur in Hypericaeese and other families, due to different 

 degrees of the marginal infolding of the carpels. 



15. The Dilleuia Family, 



Trees with large strongly nerved leaves, and sheathing 

 petioles (as in many Ranales). Flowers large. Anthers 

 opening by small slits or pores. Carpels 5-20 cohering in 

 the axis. Fruit indehiscent, enclosed in the large fleshy 

 accrescent calyx. 15. Dilleniaeese (p. 175). 



