CLASSIFICATION. 



Trait various, usually a copiously glandular berry. Seeds 

 never winged. 29. Rutace© (p. 241). 



30. The Toon Family. 



Trees or shrubs with alt. exstipulate usually pinnate 

 leaves, not gland-dotted (except Chloroxylon). Fls. small 

 or usually medium. Sepals 3-6 usually connate. Filaments 

 connate into a tube (except in tribe Cedreleae). Ovary 2-5- 

 celled. Ovules 2 (rarely 1), or 8-12. Styles always united 

 into one. Seeds often winged. 30. MeliaceaB (p. 248). 



Order VII. — Sapindales (closely allied to preceding through 

 Anacardiaceee and Malpighiace©.) 



Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs, sometimes scandent. L. 

 simple or compound, usually exstipulate. Fls. usually small, 

 usually polygamous, irregular or corolla 0, or if calyx and 

 corolla regular then stamens diclinous, or fewer than diplo- 

 stemonous by reduction. Disc usually present, and outside 

 the stamens. Ovary usually 3-celled with 1-2 ovules in each 

 cell, axile or pendulous from the top or wall or from a basal 

 f unicle. Endosperm usually absent. 



Exceptions : — 



Fls. regular and diplostemonouB in aome Anacardiaces and the 

 stamens inserted on or outside the diso ; reduction in such cases takes 

 place in the gynsaceum which usually consists of 1 carpel (Spondias is 

 2-5-oarpellary and -celled) or if of more, the ovary is 1-celied or the other 

 carpels early suppressed. 



Disc or inconspicuous in the M. fl. of Dodonaea, and at. outside 

 the disc in the herm. fl. (but st. only 8). 



Disc is obscure in Malpighiaceje, in Polygalaceae, St. monadel- 

 phous in Poly gala. 



31. The Mango Family. 



Trees or shrubs, often resinous, with simple or compound 

 alt. leaves. Fls. polygamous small or very email, usually 

 4-5-merous. St. often less than 10 (only 1-5 in Mango) 

 inserted at the base of, rarely on the disc. Ovary 1-celled 

 rarely of 2-6 free carpels (Buchanania), or 2-5-celled 



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