ARTIFICIAL KEY. 



St. 4-5 alternating with staminodes 

 St. 4-5. A sub-scandent shrub with 

 stipular thorns . • • . 



B. Fls. 1-2-sexual. Ovary superior. 

 Herbs (or Deeringia, a rambling shrub) 



with dry or scarions or coloured and 

 shining perianth. St. connate below. 

 Stipules ..... 



C. Fls. 1-eexual. Perianth sepaloid, or sub- 



membranous. 

 1. St. connate in a column in the centre 

 of the flower, or if free, then alter- 

 nating with disc glands, or anthers 

 didymous, or anther cells divaricate 

 on a broad connective 

 2. St. free, usually spreading from tbe 

 centre, one always opposite each tepal. 

 Anthers more or less oblong, versatile 

 or dorsi-fixed. 

 Trees. Anthers erect in bud 



Cansjera (p,373) 

 Zizvphus (p.269) 



Amarantace© 



(p. 378) 



Euphorbiacese 

 (p. 209) 



Shrubs or Herbs. Anthers reversed in 

 bud 



D. Fls. 2-sexual. 

 Ovary inferior. 



3. Leaves 3-foKolate, 

 panicled. Tree 



y. Leaves pinnate. 



corymbs. St. 3-8 perfect. Tree . 



II. Perianth double, calyx and corolla both 

 present (Sepals very minute in some 

 Araliacese and Umbelliferae. Petals 

 very minute in some RhamnacesB). 



Perianth petaloid. 

 Parasitic shrubs 



Fls. small green 

 Fls, in scarlet 



Ulmace89 



(p. 388) 

 Urticacese 



(p. 385} 

 Loranthaceae 



(p. 373) 

 Bischofia 



(p. 227) 



(p. 303) 



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