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150 ANNALS OP THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



overgrown by the fleshy cup (ovary inferior) ; seeds few, endo- 

 sperm copious. Ribes. (Pf. 3 2a : 41.) 



Family 203. Crassulaceae. Stonecrops. Mostly fleshy 



herbs, with opposite or alternate leaves and perfect flowers; 

 stamens definite (4-10 or many) ; pistils several, free or little 

 united; ovules many; placentae central or axile; endosperm 

 fleshy. Sedum, Cotyledon, Crassula, Penthorum. (Pf. 3 2a : 23.) 



Family 204. Droseraceae. Sundews. Gland-bearing marsh 

 herbs with perfect flowers; stamens mostly definite (4-20); 

 pistil syncarpous, 1-3-celled, superior; ovules many, on basal, 

 axile, or parietal placentae; endosperm fleshy. Drosera, 

 Dionaea. (Pf. 3 2 :261.) 



Family 205. Cephalotaceae. Pitcher-plants. Perennial 

 Australian herbs with a rosette of elliptic, and pipe-shaped 

 radical leaves, and a central, erect, spicate flowering stem; 

 flowers regular, perfect, apetalous; sepals 6; ovules solitary; 

 endosperm copious. Cephalotus. (Pf. 3 2 ": 39.) 



Family 206. Pittosporaceae. Trees and shrubs of the 

 southern hemisphere, with alternate leaves ; sepals, petals, and 

 stamens 5 each ; ovary 2-carpellate ; endosperm copious. Pitto- 

 sporum, Marianthus. (Pf. 3 2a :106.) 



Family 207. Brunelliaceae. South American trees, with 



opposite or whorled leaves and diclinous flowers; sepals and 

 petals 4-5 or 7 each; stamens twice as many; carpels usually 

 4-5, free; endosperm fleshy. Brunellia. (Pf. Nachtrage zu 

 Teiln-iv, 182.) 



Family 208. Cunoniaceae. Shrubs and trees, mostly of the 

 southern hemisphere, with opposite or whorled leaves and 

 small, perfect flowers; sepals and petals 4-6 each; stamens 

 twice as many; carpels 2-5, united; endosperm fleshy. 

 Belangera, Cunonia. (Pf. 3 2a : 94.) 



Family 209. Myrothamnaceae. Small, rigid, balsamic 

 South African and Madagascar shrubs, with opposite leaves, 

 and dioecious, achlamydeous flowers; ovary tricarpellary ; 

 seeds many, with fleshy endosperm. Myrothamnus. (Pf. 

 3 2a :103.) 



