viii CONSPECTUS OF THE ORDERS. 
opposite, without stipules. Perianth bem more or less scarious or coloured. Ovary 
(of 2 or 3 carpels) 1-celled, with 2 or 3 styles or 7 saps ep es and only 1 ovule or 
rarely a gg of ovules, Il no relation i in num o that of the carpels. 
X . PARONYCHIACE erbs with the soris ag of Amarantacee, except that 
the leaves (usually Poet, are accompanied bys small scarious "spulék or connected 
by = ne ne or narrow me 
(one emgage Herbs rubs. Leaves alternate ; "Y ie usually thin 
s, formin or rin bes round the stem ma (of 2 or 3 carpels 
celled ‘with 2 or 3 fle or style- viser and only 1 ovu 
. Nx h trees. Leaves usally opposite, gog stipules. 
Lie wer portion of the perianth meade ah and enclosing the ovary an , the upper 
e n deciduous or withering. Ovary 1-celled with 1 ovule and an ger vide dj i 
c e. 
T are ‘pous or eth vo reduced to a single more or less oblique 
carpe p h a single one or a pair of ovules and a single Sapien or oblique 
Embryo sponge or amygdaloid; albumen fleshy or 
a Mis RISTICER. ` Trees. Leaves altern Flowers diecious. Prai 
1-seriate vto Stamens qitedi in a aiy column. Carpel 1. Embryo very small 
at the base of a ruminate album : 
C i: Meng rees ae visi Leaves opposite.  Perianth-lobes in 2 o 
more rows. Stamens opposite the nein lobes or indefinite. ^ Carpels maval 
aei: Em ion nei pesi - à ual album 
AU Tre rubs with stile or rarely i e. bait or (in 
Cassytha) leatlosd p s parasitioal fwh ud Perian ay i ts usually in 2 r tamens 
oe the perianth-segmen Sek anther vnd kote n deciduous Salons. Carpel 1. 
it succ oe — ne. . Radicle 
TEAC Trees or shrubs, ra arely u anders rubs. Leaves alternate or rarely 
opposite. Tohani n valvate. Stamens s pósito = appa -segments and 
inserted ¢ on “om Carpel 1. ‘Albumen none. ; Badio cle inferio | 
