ARTIFICIAL KEY. 



%. palmi-nerved, usually deeply 2 -lobe d. 

 Fls. irregular .... 



L. pinnate. 



Fls. small regular in large panicles 



Fls. irregular in scarlet corymbs. Petals 

 absent. St. 3-8 . . 



Fls. irregular in lax racemes. Petals 3 . 



2. Herbs, rarely shrubs, climbing bv 

 means of tendrils. St, often conniving 

 with curved anther cells. Petals 

 white or yellow , 



Monocotyledons. 



I. Herbs. 



Perianth 0. 



F!s. concealed by overlapping bracts. 

 Grasses ..... 



Flowers with conspiouous corolla. 



L. narrow often eqnitant. Ovary 

 inferior . . . s . 



L. not eqnitant. Ovary free. 

 Staminodes present.^ • 



II. Climbers from a tuberous root. Fls, 

 1-sexual in slender spikes. 



III. Trees or stout shrubs. Palms 



Stamens or Anthers 4. 



Bauhinia 



(p. 295) 



Ailanthus 



(p. 238) 



Saraca (p. 303) 

 Tamarindas 



(p. 303) 



Cucurbitace® 

 (P. 164) 



Gramineee 



(p. 555) 



Iridaceaa 



Commelinace© 

 (p. 534) 

 Dioscoreaceae 



(p. 528) 

 Palmse (p. 545) 



Fwtealso Cansjera and Zizyphus under at . 5. 



Dicotyledons. 



I. Perianth or single or not distinctly differentiated into 

 calyx and corolla. (Petals present or absent in Ammannia. 

 Minute cupular corolla in Cissampelos), 



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