ARTIFICIAL KEY, 



A. Ovary apocarpous with 3-12 free 



carpels each with a stigma. 



Climbing shrubs with .palmi-nerved 

 leaves • 



B. Ovary syncarpous, or of one carpel only. 



I. Style or 1. Stigma 1 {vide also 

 Laurace* under III, in which stig- 

 mas sometimes scarcely lobed' . 



a. Perianth 0. 



Ovaries with disciform stigma crowded 

 on a spadix. Spathe present . • 



6. Perianth present simple green. 



Sepals 4, or perianth 2-3-toothed, Stigma 

 slender papillose or penicillate. Ovule 

 1. ...... 



Sepals 3. Stigma subulate lateral. Ovary 

 and capsule waxy. Ovule 1 . . 



Sepals 4-5. Stigma capitate. Ovules lew 

 on parietal placentas . . . 



c. Perianth of calyx and corolla. Ovules 

 few central , 



■Stigma large 3-lobed vide stigmas 3. 



II. Styles, style arms or stigmas 2, some- 

 times bifid. 



o. Perianth 0, or reduced to a gland. 

 Flowers in spikes or catkins. 



Trees with slender branches and leaves 

 reduced to scales connate in sheaths. 

 Fls. in ovoid heads, bracteate and 

 bracteolate . 



Trees or shrubs. Fls. in long spikes with 

 small hairy bracts, each with a lunate 



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Menispermacese 

 (p. 147) 



Aris8ema(p.553) 



Urtioacese 



(p. 385) 

 Macaranga 



(p. 232) 



Xylosma(p.l59) 



Embelia (p.404; 

 CucurbitacesB. 

 (p. 164) 



Casuarina (p.81) 



