CLASSIFICATION. 



valvatc, imbricate or contorted in bnd. Disc epigynous. 

 •St. isomerons with the petals and alt. with them on the 

 tnbe or throat of the corolla. Ovary 2-celled. Style 1. 

 Ovules 1 or many in each cell. Fruit various. 



84. Rubiaceae (p. 491). 



Exceptions : — 



L. whorled without stipules in Eubia. 



Fls. 3-7-merous ia Lasianthus (or ovar^ 7-9-merous). 



Ovary 1-celled in Gardenia, 4-celled above in "Anthocephalus, 4-celled 

 in fruit in Morinda and some others, 5 (3-6)-celled in Vangueria and 

 Hamiltonia. 



Order IX.— Asterales. 

 85. The Daisy and Thistle Family. 



Shrubs or herbs, rarely trees. L. alt. rarely opposite, very 

 rarely stipulate. Fls. small sessile in a dense head surrounded 

 by an involucre of bracts, the whole often appearing like a 

 single flower. Fls. regular and tubular, or ligulate, some- 

 times filiform, 1-2 -sexual. Calyx obsolete, or of scales or 

 hairs (pappus). Anthers connate. Ovary 1-celled. Ovule 1 

 basal. Fruit dry indehiscent. 85. Composite (p. 511). 



Class II.— Monocotyledoneae. 



Sub-class I.— (p. 54). 



Order I. — Liliiflorse. 



Shrubs or herbs, often with bulbous bases. Flowers 

 regular with a 2-seriate 6-merous usually homochlamydeous 

 petaloid perianth, tepals free or connate, inferior or superior. 

 St. 6 in two whorls. Ovary 1 or 3-celled of 3 carpels with 

 axile placentation. Ovules anatropous. 

 Exceptions :- — 



The flower is very slightly zygomorphio in a few species, e.g. the 

 cultivated Aloe. The Dioscoreaceae (and some Liliaoeaa) are dioecious 

 and the second staminal whorl is sometimes suppressed. 



