CONSPECTUS OF FAMILIES XVU 



Fam. 7. Ulmaeese. Fls. unisexual, monoecious or polygamous, 

 minute, in small, panicle-like inflorescences, or the fertile solitary ; 

 perianth calycine. Trees or shrubs with a watery sap. Leaves 

 alternate, 3-nerved at base ; stipules caducous. Fruit small, 

 drupaceous, one-seeded. (Page 36.) 



Fam. 8. MoraeesB. Fls. monoecious or dioecious, minute, 

 perianth calycine, or wanting ; fls. massed together in various 

 ways, rarely the female solitary. Trees or shrubs generally with 

 milky Juice. Leaves alternate, entire (palmatilobed in Cecropia). 

 Fruit often composed of the union of one or several ovaries with 

 enlarged fleshy bracts, perianth, or receptacle, one-seeded. 

 (Page 40.) 



Fam. 9. UrtieaeesB. Fls. monoecious or dioecious, minute, 

 clustered or scattered, clusters or flowers paniculate or crowded 

 and sessile ; perianth calycine or wanting. Herbs, shrubs or 

 small trees. Leaves alternate or opposite, with stipules often 

 caducous, sometimes with cystoliths. Fruit an achene, sometimes 

 enclosed in the perianth. (Page 54.) 



Fam. 10. Olacacese. Fls. hermaphrodite, small, axillary, in 

 short inflorescences, or solitary ; calyx persistent, toothed, or cup- 

 shaped and entire; corolla of free or united petals. Shrubs or 

 trees. Leaves alternate, entire, without stipules. Fruit a 

 drupe. (Page 85.) 



Fam. 11. Loranthaeese. Fls. unisexual or hermaphrodite, 

 usually small, in spikes, racemes or panicles ; calyx epigynous, 

 small, sometimes reduced to a ring or altogether wanting, corolla 

 of free or united petals. Small shrubs, parasitic on branches of 

 trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, large, or reduced to scales, or 

 wanting. Fruit baccate. (Page 88.) 



Fam. 12. Balanophopaeese. Fls. unisexual, minute, crowded 

 on unisexual or androgynous spadices ; petianth calycine or 

 wanting. Fungus-like fleshy herbs without chlorophyll, parasitic 

 on roots. Leaves represented by scales. (Page 103.) 



Fam. 13. AristoloehiaeesB. Fls. hermaphrodite, large, 

 generally solitary ; perianth irregular, coloured, tubular^ constricted 

 above the ovary, prolonged above into a limb ichich is sometimes 

 tailed; stamens united icith the pistil; ovary inferior, 6-celled. 

 Herbaceous or shrubby, twining. Leaves alternate, without 

 stipules. Fruit a 6-valved capsule. (Page 104.) 



;"' Fam. 14. PolygonaeesB. Fls. hermaphrodite or unisexual, 

 small, solitary or clustered within a bract, racemose or panicu- 

 late ; perianth inferior, calycine, sometimes coloured. Herbs, 

 shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate, usually entire ; stiimles 

 tubular (pcJirea) sheathing the stem. Fruit a nut enclosed by the 

 perianth. (Page 106.) 



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