Iviii FLORA OF MADRAS. 



Ovary 2-more-celled, rarely 1 -celled, with 2 ovules 

 in each cell; or if ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled, then 

 stamens many more than the perianth-lobes and 

 those of the outer or only series opposite the lobes ; 

 seeds usually with copious albumen ; or if albumen 

 scanty or 0, then fruit a capsule or drupe or berry- 

 like with fleshy or leathery pericarp : 



Stipules ; perianth single, lobes free, imbricate ; 

 stamens as many as and opposite the perianth 

 lobes ; evergreen shrubs with watery sap 



CXXXIV. BUXACEAE. 



Stipules almost always present, though often 

 minute or falling early ; perianth usually single, 

 sometimes double or lacking in either or both 

 sexes, outer series valvate or imbricate, inner, 

 when present, free ; stamens various, often very 

 many, filaments frequently connate ; herbs, 

 shrubs and trees, very often with milky sap 



CXXXV. EtJPHORBIACEAE. 



Ovary syncarpous, 1-celled, placentas 2-4, not intruded; 

 ovules 4 or more, 2-seriately superposed on each placenta ; 

 flowers in catkins, 1 -sexual ; seeds small with a pencil 

 of long silky hairs ; leaves simple, stipulate ; trees 



CXLI. SALICACEAE. 



Submerged, dichotomously branched herbs ; leaves 

 whorled, dichotomously cleft into filiform segments ; 



flowers monoecious CXLII. CERATOPHYLLACEAE. 



Leafless herbs or trees : 



Fleshy root-parasitic herbs devoid of chlorophyll ; flowers 

 dioecious, in crowded heads 



CXXXIII. BALANOPHORACEAE. 



Trees with slender, jointed, green branchlets with whorls 

 of small scales at the nodes ; flowers minute, monoecious 

 or dioecious, in spikes or globose heads ; perianth in $, 



of 1-2 scarious scales in $ CXL. CASUARINACEAE. 



Stem without central pith, the woody substance in isolated bundles 

 embedded in cellular tissue encased in a firmly adhering outer rind ; 

 leaves usually sheathing at the base and not articulated on the stem ; 

 their veins usually parallel and unbranched, running from base to 

 apex and connected by straight cross-veinlets ; embryo with only 

 1 cotyledon, the young stem arising from a lateral cavity (Mono- 

 cotyledones] : 



