CLASSIFICATION. 



63. The Elm Family. 



Trees or shrubs without milky juice, alt. 3-nerved or 

 penni-nerved leaves with caducous stipules and flowers 

 in fascicles or cymes, often polygamous. Perianth 4-9- 

 partite, polyphyllous or gamophyllous, with isomerou 

 stamens. Oar pels 2. Ovule pendulous anatropous or amphi 

 tropous. Fruit a drupe or samara. 



63. UlmaceaB (p. 388). 



64. The Mulberry and Fig Family. 



Trees or shrubs, often with milky juice, alt. rarely opp. 

 leaves, which may be lobed especially when young. Fls* 

 densely aggregated in spikes, heads or outside or inside fleshy 

 receptacles (Figs, Jack-fruits, etc.) Carpels 2. Ovule pendu- 

 lous, more or less anatropous. Fruit of nuts, sometimes 

 enclosed in the fleshy perianth {e.g Mulberry) . 



64. Moraceae (p. 391). 



Order XX.—Salicales (perhaps allied to Tamariscacesa 

 and Euphorbiaceae). 



Trees or shrubs with alt. simple stipulate leaves and 

 dioecious flowers in catkins. Perianth reduced to 1 or 2 

 glands. St. 2 or more. Ovary often stipitate, 2-3-carpellary, 

 1-celled with parietal placentation and many anatropous 

 ovules. Seeds with a pencil of hairs from the f unicle. 



65. The Willow Family. 



65. Salicaceae (p. 402). 

 Order Casuarinales. 



The Beef Wood Family. 



Trees with drooping branches, very slender snlcate branchlets with 

 whorls of 6-8 scale-like leaves united into a sheath below. Fls. monoecious 

 or sometimes dioecious. M. fl. in slender catkin-like spikes terminating 

 the twigs. jP. capitate. M. with 2 lateral bract eoles and 2 median bract- 

 like sepals, connate below Stamen 1. F. with 3 lateral bracteoles 

 which become woody and valvate in fruit. Perianth 0. Pistil of 2 median 

 carpels, the posterior barren. Stigmas 2 filiform. Ovules 2 erect. Fruit 

 a 1-seeded nut, the whole spike having in fruit a general superficial 

 resemblance to a cone. Testa adnate to the wall. Embryo straight. 



Casuarinaceae 



C. equisetifolia, Forst. is some times planted. 



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