CLASSIFICATION. 



51. The fry Family. 



Trees or shrubs with pinnate, or usually palmate leaves 

 and flowers small in crowded umbels, umbels often panicled. 

 Sepals small or abortive. Ovary cells 5 or 2-jnany. Fruit a 

 <prupe or berry. 51. Araliaceae (p. 368). 



52 The Dogwood Family. 



S&p&Il tree with simple entire leaves and medium-sized 

 flowers in axillary fascicles. Sepals minute connate below. 



Petals valvate 5-10 linear oblong. St. 2-3-times as many as 

 the petals. Ovary 1-celled. Fruit a drupe crowned by the 



calyx tube. 52. Cornace® (Alangium) (p. 369). 



Order XIV. — Olacaies (allied to Cornacese ?). 

 Shrubs or undershrubs often root parasites with alt. 

 simple exstipulate leaves. Fls. regular. Calyx {or calyculus 

 cp. Loranthaceas) minute or 0, or a mere rim which may be 

 accrescent in fruit. Tepals 4-6 free or connate, valvate. 

 Stamens opp. to or near the edges of the tepals, or 2-3-times 

 as many, fertile or reduced to staminodes. Ovary free 

 or enclosed in the accrescent calyx (or hypanthium), 1-celled, 

 or 2-5-celled below. Ovules pendulous from the apex of the 

 incomplete axis or 1 erect. Style 1. Fruit drupaceous, some- 

 times enclosed in the hypanthium or calyx rim (see above), 

 1-seeded with the placenta sometimes embedded in the seed 

 (cp. some Cornaceae). Embryo small in albumen. 



53. Olacaceae (p. 370) 



Order XV. — Santalales (allied to OlacalesJ 



Parasitib shrubs or undershrubs (Santalum'is a root parasite) 

 with opp. rarely alternate simple °xstipulate leaves, sometimes 

 with 3-5 primary nerves, rarely leaves absent. Fls. small or 

 medium greec or coloured, regular or somewhat zygomorphoua. 

 Calyx 0, or reduced to small teeth {calyculus, sometimes 

 however the perianth is taken to be homologous with the 

 calyx). Tepals 2-6 in one or two whorls, free or connate. St. 

 perigynous or epigynous isostemonous and opp. the tepals, free 

 or adnate to them. Ovary 1-celled. Ovules 1-3, pendulous 

 from a. free central placenta, or placenta fused with the ovary 

 walls. Frait drupaceous or baccate. 



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