KEY. 149 



thick, with the linear leaves crowded toward the summit. 

 Peduncle long and naked, bearing a dichotomous cyme of 

 purple flowers. Perennial. Talinum teretifolimn, L. 



Sepals 3 or 6 217 



217. Sepals and petals 6. Stamens 12-18. Fruit a 



pulpy berry. Seeds enclosed in a pulpy aril. Leaves round, 



1 7- to 9-lobed, peltate. (142) Podophyllum peltatum, L. 



Sepals 3, united at the base only, with 2 bracklets 



outside 22 



SI 8. (81.) Corolla spurred or saccate at the base. Leaves 



alternate. Flowers usually drooping 219 



Corolla not spurred nor saccate 226 



219. Stamens usually numerous. Delj^hinium 42 



Filaments 2 (compound) or 5 , 220 



220. Membranaceous filaments 2, each consisting of 3 

 united ones, and bearing 3 anthers. Petals 5. Leaves com- 

 pound. Ovary 1 -celled. Fruit either a many-seeded capsule, 

 or a fleshy, 1 -seeded, indehiscent nut. Flowers white, rose- 

 color, purple, or yellowish 221 



Filaments 5, each with an anther. Leaves simple, 

 sometimes pedately divided. Ovary either 1 -celled and 

 3-carpelled, or 5-celled. Flowers white, blue, violet or yel- 

 low 224 



221. Corolla 2-spuiTed, or 2-saccate at the base. Flow- 

 ers either in axillary cymes, or in simple or panicled racemes, 

 white, rose-color, or purple 222 



Corolla 1 -spurred at the base. Capsule either inde- 

 fiiscent, nut-like, fleshy, 1 -seeded, or slender, 2-valved-, many- 

 seeded. Flowers in racemes, whitish, rose-color, or yellow. 



223 



222. Petals united into an ovate corolla, becoming dry 

 and persistent. A climbing vine. Flowers pale rose-color, in 

 axillary cymose clusters. Young petioles tendril-like. 



Adlumia cirrhosa, Raf. 



Petals slightly united into a heart-shaped corolla, 



the inner ones crested, deciduous or withering. Flowers in 



simple or paniculate racemes, on scapes, white or purple. 



Seeds crested. Diceutra. 



