Plumbaginaceae, Oleaceae 85 



Fam. Plumbaginaceae. Often maritime herbs, 

 rarely shrubs. Leaves entire, spiral, often radical. 

 Inflorescefice mostly compound. Flowers with bracts 

 and bracteoles. Calyx often scarious and coloured. 

 Petals free or united. Fruit enclosed in calyx. 



Tribe Staticeae. Inflorescence compounded of cin- 

 cinni. Stamens united to the corolla. Styles united 

 only at base. 



Cymes very dense. Styles hairy. Armeria. 



Cymes lax. Styles glabrous. Statice. 



B. Sympetaly dominant. Stamens always 

 in one whorl. Union of Carpels sometimes 

 imperfect. Hypogyny usual. (For A see p. 80, 

 for C see p. 87.) 



Order 4. Contortae. Shrubs and herbs, rarely 

 trees. Leaves usually opposite, entire and exstipulate. 

 Flozvers mostly 5-merous, more rarely 2-6-merous, mostly 

 sympetalous. Corolla usually twisted in bud. Stamens 

 usually isomerous (two in Oleaceae) and inserted on 

 the corolla^ rarely hypogynous. Carpels 2, sometimes 

 free below. 



Suborder i. Oleineae. Stamens 2. Ovules with 

 one integument. 



Fam. I. Oleaceae. Woody plants, sometimes 

 climbing, rarely herbs. Leaves opposite or whorled, 

 simple or pinnate. Flowers racemose or cymose, 2-6- 

 merous, mostly sympetalous, more rarely with free petals 

 or apopetalous, hermaphrodite or diclinous. Corolla 4, 

 5, or 6, free or united. Stamens 2, filaments short. 

 Carpels (2), each carpel with usually two anatropous 

 ovules. Fruit a capsule, berry or drupe. 



