X CONSPECTUS OF THE ORDERS. 



CI. Vebbenaok-*;. Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves usually opposite, simple or 

 digitate. Ovary entire or slightly lobed, 2-4 celled or rarely 8-celled {Duranta) ; 

 style terminal. Fruit drupaceous, containing 2-4 (rarely 1) bony pyrenes, or dry 

 and separating into nucules, or very rarely dehiscing. Radicle inferior. 



CII. Labiatje. Herbs, more rarely shrubs. Leaves almost always opposite and 

 simple. Ovary deeply 4-lobed ; style produced from between the lobes. Fruit of 

 4 nucules. Radicle inferior. 



Anomalous Order. 



cm. PLANTAGiNEiE. Scapigerous herbs. Leaves usually radical. Flowers 

 spicate, small, usually hermaphrodite. Corolla 4-lobed. Stamens 4. Capsule cir- 

 cumscissile or indehiscent; 1- or more-seeded. 



