FLORA OF MADRAS. 



Trees or shrubs with sessile ovary and 

 fruit ; sepals usually 5, sometimes 3-8 



XIV. BlXACEAE. 



Sepals persistent : 

 Leaves alternate : 



Stamens quite free from the petals : 

 Carpels 1-many, distinct or cohering 

 in the axis of the flower ; disk ; 

 styles quite free . ..II. DILLENIACEAE. 

 Carpels united into a superior deeply 

 3-10-lobed and -celled ovary embedded 

 in a lobed disk ; styles connate 



XXXVI. OCHNACEAE. 



Stamens attached to the bases of and 

 deciduous with the petals 



XXIII. TERNSTROEMIACEAE. 

 Leaves opposite, sometimes whorled : 

 Herbs or shrubs without resinous juice ; 

 leaves herbaceous, gland-dotted ; flowers 

 bisexual, 5-merous 



XXI. HYPERICACEAE. 

 Trees with resinous juice ; leaves 

 coriaceous, not gland-dotted ; flowers 

 usually 1 -sexual or polygamous, usually 



4-merous XXII. GUTTIFEBAE. 



Anterior petals palmately lobed, posterior 

 narrow entire ; ovary 1 -celled, 2-6-lobed at 

 the apex ; small herbs . . . .XII. RESEDACEAE. 

 Stamens 10 or fewer : 



Flowers usually 3-merous ; if 2-merous, then 

 1 -sexual ; carpels solitary or free ; stamens 6, free, 

 equal, opposite the petals ; leaves alternate : 

 Dioecious, scandent herbs or shrubs ; flowers 

 very small ; anthers dehiscing by slits ; carpels 

 3 ; seeds usually reniform or horseshoe-shaped 



V. MENISPERMACEAE. 



Bisexual, erect shrubs ; flowers patent, carpel 1 ; 

 anthers sensitive, dehiscing by valves 



VI. BERBERIDACEAE. 

 Flowers 4-5-merous (sepals 2 in Fumariaceae) : 



Petals 4 ; stamens 6 : 



Sepals 2 ; petals 4 in 2 dissimilar pairs ; stamens 



