CLASSIFICATION. 



16. The Tea Family. 



Trees or shrubs with usually evergreen exstipulate leaves 

 and small or showy, sometimes dioecious flowers. Outer 

 stamens in bundles and connate with the bases of the petals 

 (and petals sometimes cohering). Ovary 3-5 locular. Stylet 

 free. Fruit capsular, often 1 -locular by abortion of the 



other loculi. 16. TernstrcBmiaceaB (p. 177). 



17. The Gamboge Family. 



Trees with a yellow milky juice, evergreen rarely stipu- 

 late, opposite entire leaves, with the secoDdary venation often 

 of very numerous fine parallel sec. n, at nearly right angles 

 to the mid-rib. Fls. small or ( medium, often 1-sexual. 

 Stamens often closely connate in bundles, or in a dense 

 central mass. Ovary 4 12-celled. Style connate or stigma 

 peltate. Fruit usually baccate. 



17. Guttiferaceae (p. 177). 



18. The Sal Family. 



Trees abounding in resin, with entire leaves and caducous 

 stipules. Small or medium flowers panicled. Sepals 5 

 connate below. St. usually a multiple of 5. Ovary 3-celled 

 with 2 ovules in each cell, usually only 1 developing. Styles 

 connate. Stigma a point. Fruit a nut, enclosed in the 

 calyx, of which 3 or more sepals develop into linear wings. 



18. Dipterocarpaceae (p. 178). 



Order IV. — ftfalvales. (Allied to orders Parietales 

 Guttiferales, and Geraniales.) 



Trees or shrubs, more rarely herbs, with alternate simple 

 or palmately compound usually stipulate leaves with stellate 

 hairs and palmate venation. Fls. regular, or zygomorphous 

 in some Sterculiaceae, usually 5-merous. Bracteoles often 

 present below the calyx as an epicalyx. Calyx gamosopalous 

 valvate. Petals 5 sometimes adnate below to the staminal 



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