Victorian Plants. 19 



Seeds comparatively large, flat and surrounded by a 

 broadish membrane. 



Usually woody climbers, sometimes trees even of tallness ; 

 leaves generally opposite and frequently divided into 

 leaflets ; lobes of the corolla in two unequal sets ; stamens 

 four, the two lower the longest ; anther-cells disconnected 

 except at the summit ; stigma constantly bilobed ; ovulary 

 two-celled, with two placentaries attached to each side 

 of the deciduous dissepiment, or one-celled with two 

 double placentaries attached to the walls of the fruit- 

 cavity. Bignoniaceae. 424 



87. Seeds erect. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees ; leaves nearly always opposite, 

 hardly ever compound ; lobes of the corolla almost equal 

 or of tener in two unequal sets ; stamens two or four ; 

 anther-cells mostly distinct, almost parallel, hardly con- 

 tinuous at the summit ; stigma usually bilobed ; fruit 

 two- to four-celled ; seeds solitary in each fruit-cell. 



Verbenaceae. 425 



Seeds pendent. 



Shrubs or not often small trees, seldom semiherbaceous 

 plants ; leaves nearly always scattered, often dotted ; 

 lobes of the corolla almost equal or in two unequal sets ; 

 stamens four, rarely five ; anther- cells soon divergent, by 

 terminal continuation of their dehiscence rendering the 

 anther almost one-celled ; stigma undivided ; fruit hard 

 or sometimes outside succulent, two- or four-celled or 

 seldom five- to ten-celled ; seeds one to four in each fruit- 

 cell. Figure 108. Myoporinae. 427 



Apetaleae gymnospermae. 



Ovulary open. 



Shrubs or trees, mostly evergreen, often resinous ; leaves 

 scale-like or acicular- or angular-linear, much less fre- 

 quently dilated and flat ; stamens and pistils never 



x united ; anthers two or more, placed on dilated scale-like 

 rhacheoles, one-celled, simply dehiscent ; filaments ab- 

 sent ; fruit-bearing rhacheoles crowded into strobiles 

 (cones) or forming berry-like masses or scattered ; fruits 

 seed-like ; albument present ; cotyledons two or more ; 

 medullary rays exceedingly faint ; woody tissue almost 

 uniform-prosenchymatous. Figure 111. 



Couiferae. 428 



