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-'4. Stamens 4 or 5, style and stij^nia 1: Icavci '->pposite or 

 alternate. Cornacfak. 

 a. ( )\ular\ i-looular. flow er> hispc^rangiate. b. 



a. r)vulary 1-locnlar. llowers (liecious or im])erfeclly 



(liecious. Nyssa. (SI). 

 I). l'"lo\vers cynio.se. not involucrate. Cornus. (79). 



b. I'lowers capitate, with an involucre of 4-6 large 



white bracts. Cynoxylon. (80). 

 24. Stamens 4 or .") on a tlat disc which covers the 3-5- 

 locnlar ovulary; shrubs or trees with opposite leaves 

 and minute fugaceous stipules. Celastraceae. 

 See 23 above. 



24. Stamens "i. styles usually 2-5; leaves hii>innatc. 



Arai.iaceae. 



a. Aralia. (78). 



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25. Leaves opposite. 26. 

 25. Leaves alternate. 27. 



2(i. Stamens 5-8; leaves palmately veined and simple or 

 if pinnately compound then the base of the petiole 

 covering the axillary buds. Aceraceae. 



a. Acer. (41). 

 2ti. Stamens 2-4; leaves pinnately veined when >imi)le. 

 or pinnately compound then the axillary buds 

 exposed. Oleaceak. 

 a. h'lowers fasciculate or racemose-fasciculate, not 

 from prominent scaly buds; leaves compound. 



Fraxinus. (74). 

 a. h'lowers fasciculate, from scaly buds; leaves sim- 

 ple. Forestiera. (75). 

 27. \t least the staminate llowers in catkins or catkin- 

 like spikes or spherical beads. 31. 



27. i-'lowers not in catkins or catkin-like spikes or heads. 28. 



28. With prominent stipular spines; leaves punctuate with 



glands. RrxACKAE. 



a. Zanthoxylum. (17). 

 28. Without .stii)ular s])ines. 2!'. 



