ARTIFICIAL KEY. 



Trees or shrubs. 



A. L. simple. Fls. regular. 



L. alternate. St. opposite the 5-7 Homalium 



petals (p. 162) 



L. opposite or fascicled. Ovary inferior Rubiacese ' 



(p. 494) 



(Petals and stamens occasionally 6-10 in Gardenia, Eandia, Morinda, 

 etc.) 



B. L. pinnate. Fls. irregular. St. 3-9 Csalpiniac €«e 

 perfect, often with staminodes . (p. 294) 



Stamens or Anthers 8. 



Tide also St. 7-11. The following have normally 8 stamens. 



Petals present in all except Schleichera and Dodomea 

 (Sapindacese). 

 I. Stamens free. Fls. regular. Petals free. 



1. St. hypogynous. Leaves simple or 

 pinnate (biternate in Cardiospermum). 



Leaves simple or pinnate, copiously 

 gland-dotted Rntaceas (p. 241) 



Trees or shrubs for Cardiospermum 



herbaceous) flowering with the leaves. Sapindace© 

 St. 8-10 ..... (p. 260) 



Trees flowering before the leaves appear Anacardiacese 



(Odina and 

 Spondias). 



(p. 255) 

 Undershrubs or shrubs with clustered Triumfetta 

 yellow flowers. St. fc-15 . . . (p. 202) 



2. Stamens perigyDous. Leaves simple. 



Ovary free. Petals 4-6 . Lythrace© 



(p. 354) 



