ARTIFICIAL KEY. 



1. Herbs or undershrubs. 



A. Stamens not connate in a column. 



a. Stamens hypogynous, or fls. 1 -sexual. 



Stout herb with stinging hairs and 

 palmi-nerved leaves 



Stinging hairs absent. 



St. 4-5 free. Staminodes 0. L. with 3 

 primary nerves ...» 



St. 4-5 connate at the base with alterna- 

 ting staminodes .... 



h. Stamens 4-5 perigynous. . Herbs of 

 damp places often with petals 



B. Anthers minute on the top of a minute 

 column. Climbing under shrub with 

 palmi-nerved leaves • • 



2. -Shrubs. 



a. Parasitic. ..... 



b. Scandent, or sub-scandent. 

 Glabrous, without staminodes . . 



Pubescent or woolly, with staminodes 



c. Erect. Anthers reversed in bud. 



Fls. in 2-cliotomouB cymes. L. very 



large, sometimes stinging . 



Fls. in spicate clusters. L. palmi-nerved 



Trees or in (Glochidion) shrubs. 



A. Leaves simple. 



1. Anthers connate in a sessile column; 



2. Anthers distinct 



a. Flowering while leafless, or with very 



young leaves. 

 Fls. fascicled.- Fruit a samara 



Girardinia 



(p. 386) 



Pouzolzia 



(p. 388) 



Aerua (p. 381) 



Ammannia 



(p. 356) 



Cissampelos 



(p. 147) 



Loranthacese 



(p. 373) 

 Deeringia 



(p. 379) 



^Erua (p. 381) 



Laportea 



(p. 386) 

 Bohmeria 



(p. 387) 

 Glochidion 



(p. 217) 



fioloptelea 



(p. 389) 



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