CLASSIFICATION. 



minutely bracteolate. St. diplostemonous. Inner disc lol>ed. 

 Ovary 3-5-celled, septa soon disappearing so that the fruit 

 is 1-celhd and -seeded. Ovary cells 2-ovuled. 



48. Rhizophoraceae (p. 358). 



49. The Myrabokn Family. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent, -with leaves some- 

 times sub.-opp. and alternate, occasionally ternate. Fls, 

 usually small greenish (showy in the garden Quisqualis) 

 capitate, spicate or racemed, with the hypanthium enclosing 

 and constricted above, or produced into a beak beyond, the ovary. 

 Sepals and petals 4-5, or pet. 0, rarely 6-7. St. diplostemon- 

 ous. Ovary 1-celled inferior. Ovules 2-7 pendulous from 



the apex. 49. Combretaceae (p- 359), 



Order XIII.— Umbellales. 

 Trees, shrubs or herbs with alt simple or very compound 

 leaves, the latter usually with a sheathing base. If simple 

 then often with 3 or more primary nerves. Fls. small regular 

 polypetalous with valvate petals, frequently in umbels, 4-5- 

 merous with isostemonous stamens alternating with the petals 

 (but see Alangium). Disc epigynous. Ovary completely 

 inferior of 2-5 carpels and as many cells (or gyncecium 

 polymerous in Araliacese) adherent to the hypanthium which 

 is not or scarcely produced beyond the ovary, Styles usually 

 free. Ovule 1 in each cell pendulous. Embryo in albumen. 



Exceptions :— 



Marginal flowers of umbels sometimes irregular. 



Alangium is not at all typical of Comacea and is porhaps allied to 

 Olacales. The flower is MO-merous and with many stamens, the ovary is 

 i.-celled and with 1 style. 



50. The Carrot Family. 



Herbs with usnally very, compound leaves s,nd flowers in 

 simple or compound umbels. Sep. 5 small or abortive. Ovary 

 cells always 2 only, and fruit a schizocarp. 



50. Umbelliftr® (p- 366), 



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