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++ Seeds albuminous. 
68. Rhinanthacex. Herbs or shrubs with alternate or opposite leaves. 
Corolla imbricate in the bud. Capsule 2-celled, with central pla- 
centz, few—many*seeded. ; 
69. Orobanchacer. Parasitic herbs, without green herbage: scales al- 
ternate; capsule 1-celled, 2-valved, many-seeded, with 2-4 parietal 
placente. 
++ ++ Seeds without albumen. 
70. Pinguiculacew. Herbs with capillary dissected or entire leaves. 
Stamens 2; anthers 1-celled. Capsule 1-celled, many-seeded, with 
central placente. 
+ + Fruit of 2 or 4 distinct or united 1-seeded nutlets. 
71. Labiate. Mostly aromatic herbs or shrubs with square stems 
and opposite, simple leaves. Stamens4 or 2. Ovary 4-lobed around 
the 2-cleft style, forming as many distinct nutlets. 
72. Verbenacex. Herbs or shrubs with opposite or whorled leaves. ~ 
Stamens 4. Ovary not lobed, 2-4-celled at maturity, splitting into 4 
1-seeded nutlets. 
+ + + Fruit a 2-celled, circumscissile capsule. 
73. Plantaginacee. Acaulescent herbs Flowers 4-merous: corolla 
scarious. Stamens 2 or 4. Style 1. Fruita 2-celled, 2-few-seeded 
capsule. 
OrpER XLVII. VIBURNACEA, Dumort. Coum. Bot. 56. 
CAPRIFOLJACE, Vent. Tabl. ii, 593. 
Shrubs or herbs with opposite leaves normally without sti- 
pules and regular or irregular hermaphrodite flowers. Calyx- 
tube adnate to the 2-5-celled ovary. Stamens as many as lobes 
of the corolla (in Linnzea one fewer) and alternate with them, 
inserted on its tube or base. Embryo small, in the axis of 
fleshy albumen. Corolla-lobes generally imbricated in the 
bud. Ovules anatropous, when solitary, suspended and resup- 
inate; the rhaphe dorsal; seed-coat adherent to the albumen. 
Tripet. Corolla rotate or open’ campanulate, regular style 
short and 2-5-parted, or as many sessile stigmas. 
1. Viburnum. Shrubs with simple or merely lobed leaves: nutlet of 
the berry-like drupe only 1, flattened. 
2. Sambucus. Shrubs orshrubby trees with pinnate leaves: nutlets of 
the berry-like fruit, 2-5. 
 Tripe i. Corolla from campanulate to tubular; often irreg- 
ular; styles elongated; stigma capitate. — 
8. Linnea. Creeping undershrubs’ with simple. leaves: corolla cam- 
panulate, 5-lobed, obseurely irregular: stamens 4, unequal; ovary 3- 
