ANTHOPHYTA 373 
Super-Order CALycirLoRAE-GAMOPETALAE. Petals united. 
Carpels few, united, inferior. 
Order Ruprates. Flowers regular or irregular; ovary 2 
to 8-celled; ovules 2 to many. 
Family 278. Rubiaceae. Coffees. Trees, shrubs and 
herbs with opposite or whorled leaves 
and mostly regular flowers.—Galium, 
Houstonia, Cinchona, Coffea, Mitch- 
ella. 
Family 279. Caprifoliaceae. Honeysuckles. Mostly 
woody plants, with opposite leaves 
and mostly irregular flowers.—Sam- 
_ bucus, Viburnum, Linnaea, Lonicera. 
Family 280. Adoxaceae; 281, Valerianaceae; 282, Dip- 
sacaceae. 
Order CAMPANULALES. Flowers regular to irregular, 
stamens mostly free from the corolla; 
ovary 1 to several-celled; ovules 1 
to 8. | 
Family 283. Campanulaceae. Bellworts. Mostly 
: herbs; stamens, usually 5, free from 
the style—Campanula, Lobelia. 
Family 284. Goodeniaceae; 285, Stylidiaceae; 286, 
Calyceraceae. 
Order AsTERALES. Composites. Flowers regular to irregu- 
lar, collected into involucrate heads; 
calyx small and often forming a 
“‘pappus” or wanting; stamens 5, 
epipetalous, mostly with their an- 
thers connate; carpels 2, united, 
inferior, with one style which is 
2-branched above; ovule one, erect, ~ 
anatropous. An immense _ order 
(commonly regarded as a family) 
of more than 14,300 species, which are 
usually distributed among fourteen 
tribes, all of which are here raised 
to families. In the following arrange- 
ment the Helianthaceae are regarded 
as the lowest, from which the two 
principal phyletic lines have arisen, 
