26 Key to the System of 



MENISPJSHB1EAE. 



116. Petals longer than the calyx, very turgid. 



Flowers small, in racemes ; stamens two or three ; anthers 

 divergent; fruitlets three to six. Figure 6. 



Sarcopetaltim. 613 



Petals shorter than the calyx, slightly turgid. 



Leaves fixed above the base; flowers minute, in umbels; 

 anthers circularly adnate; fruitlets solitary. 



Stephania. 614 



LAT7RACEATB. 



117. Twining plants without any conspicuous leaves. 



Fruitlet enclosed in the enlarged often succulent tube of the 

 calyx ; lobes of the calyx six, minute. Figure 5. 



Cassytha. 615 



PAPAVSRACEAE. 



118. Fruit opening by small apertures under the stigmatic 



summit. 



Herbs, usually annual and hardly or not much branched; 

 leaves usually indented; sepals two; petals four; stigmas 

 radiatingly adnate to the summit of the ovulary. 

 "Poppies." Papaver. 618 



CRTTCIFERAE. 



119. Fruit separated by transverse articulation into an 



upper and a lower portion. 



Maritime succulent herbs; petals white or purplish; fruit 

 abbreviated, each of its two divisions one-seeded. " Sea- 

 Rocket." CaJdle. 619 



Fruit bivalved 120 



120. Petals extended into a terminal long and acute 



attenuation. 



Slender herbs; petals white, yellowish or orange -colored; 

 fruit from narrow-ellipsoid to globular, abbreviated ; 

 dissepiment present ; seeds few or several. 



Stenopetalum. 619 



Petals obtuse ... ... ... ... ... ... 121 



121. Dissepiment absent. 



Small, annual herbs; petals white or purplish; fruit abbre- 

 viated, from elliptical-ovate to globular ; seeds numerous, 

 very minute, on long funicles. Meiikea. 621 



Dissepiment present ... ... ' ... ... ... 122 



