Victorian Plants. 15 



Synpetaleae hypogynae. 



68. Corolla equally lobed ... ... 69 



Corolla unequally lobed. (Exceptions: Avicennia, Verbena, 



Myoporum) ... ... ... ... ... ... 81 



69. Fruit almost or quite lobeless. (Exception: Jasmhmm) ... 70 



Fruit conspicuously four-lobed or consisting of four 

 almost distinct fruitlets ... ... ... ... 79 



70. Placentaries usually two, fixed to the walls of the 



fruit-cavity. 



Herbs, seldom woody plants ; sap very bitter ; leaves 

 opposite or less often basal, quite entire or with a basal 

 sinus, or very seldom divided into segments ; stipules 

 absent ; stamens usually four or five ; fruit often one- 

 celled, bursting marginally along its suturules and often 

 near the placentaries. Figure 96. Gentiaueae. 372 



Placentaries fixed either to the dissepiment or to the 

 inner angle of the fruit-cells or to the base of the 

 fruit-cavity ... ... ... ... ... 71 



71. Placentaries two, fixed to the dissepiment ... ... 72 



Placentary one, fixed to the base of the fruit-cavity, or 

 placentaries fixed to the inner angle of the fruit-cells 75 



72. Stamens almost constantly two. 



Trees or erect or climbing shrubs ; leaves nearly always 

 opposite, simple or compound ; corolla with four or more 

 lobes, sometimes partially seceding into petals, very 

 seldom absent ; fruit two-celled and of some species 

 bilobed, bursting contrary to the dissepiment or inde- 

 hiscent ; seeds few or two or one ; embryo straight. 

 Figure 100. Jasmineae. 375 



Stamens usually four or five ... ... ... ... 73 



73. Leaves almost constantly opposite. 



Herbs or shrubs or small trees ; stipules rudimentary or 

 absent ; leaves rarely whorled, never lobed and never 

 compound ; fruit often two-celled, bursting along the 

 dissepiment or indehiscent ; embryo straight. Figure 97. 



Loganiaceae. 376 



Leaves usually basal or scattered ... ... ... 74 



