Classification of Plants 



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EE. Fruit few seeded. 



As in Saxifragacecs but seeds soli- 

 tary ; leaves simple, alternate, ex- 

 stipulate, expanded . . . Hamamelidace^. 

 Capsule 2-, or nut i-seeded, heath- 

 like shrubs BRUNIACEiE. 



DD. Placentation parietal or basal. (Co- 

 hort Parietales including Guttiferae 

 and Elatinacese, Loasaceae, Be- 

 goniaceae, Bixaceas.) 

 E. Leaves exstipulate ; fruit a many- 

 seeded capsule, salt-loving or 

 desert plants with reduced leaves. 

 Style I, seeds smooth, calyx per- 



\ sistent Frankeniace.^. 



Styles 3, seeds hairy . . . Tamaricace^. 

 EE. Leaves stipulate. 



F. Fruit a berry or pulpy capsule, 

 trees or shrubs. 

 Flowers usually imperfect, sta- 

 mens many or 10 . . . Bixace^e. 

 Flowers perfect ; stamens 3-5 

 within a fringed corona ; climb- 

 ing Passiflorace^. 



Flowers perfect ; stamens 5 ; co- 

 rona wanting, petals convolute Turnerace^. 

 FF. Fruit a dry capsule ; herbs or 

 shrubs. 

 Flowers regular; orzygomorphic ; 



anterior petal often spurred . Violace^. 

 BBB. Perianth perigynous, occasionally epigyn- 

 ous, ovary mostly syncarpous, free from 

 or rarely united with the tubular axis, 

 mostly woody plants. 

 C. Calyx coloured ; petals absent by abor- 

 tion or represented by glands ; leaves 

 exstipulate, ovary free from tubular 

 axis (Thymelaeales). 

 D. Fruit a capsule, four parted ; sepals 

 4 ; leaves opposite. 

 Endosperm present, sepals imbricate, 



stamens 8, internal phloem absent . Geissolomace^. 

 Endosperm absent, sepals valvate, 



stamens 4, internal phloem present Pen^ace^^. 

 DD. Fruit an achene ; leaves alternate or 

 opposite. 

 Sepals 4-5 ; corona often present ; 



stamens haplo- or diplo-stemonous Thymel^ace.«. 



