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 Capsule woody, 5-celled, 5-seeded. Flowers 5-merous. Seeds winged. A leafless spinose shrub. 



CANOTIA in Rosacece. 

 Ovary 3-cclled : fruit a large leathery 3-valved 1-seeded pod. Trees, with opposite digitate serrate 



leaves, no stipules, and showy panicled irregular flowers. JiscuLus in Sapindacece. 



(b.) Stamens clustered in fascicles or united into a tube. 



19. Hypericaceae, p. 80. Stamens numerous in 3 sets. Capsule 3-celled, many-seeded. Sepals 



and petals 5 : styles 3. Perennial herbs, with opposite entire punctate leaves, no stipules, 

 and yellow cymose flowers. 



20. Malvaceae, p. 82. Stamens numerous, united into a tube : anthers 1-celled. Carpels either 



in a ring, 1 - few-seeded and at length separating, or forming a 5 -10-celled many-seeded 

 capsule. Calyx valvate : petals 5, united at base. Herbs or shrubs, with alternate 

 stipulate leaves. 



21. Sterculiaceae, p. 88. Stamens 5, united into a tube : anthers 2-celled. Capsule 4 - 5-celled, 



few-seeded. Flowers 5-merous : calyx imbricate : petals none. Shrub, with alternate 

 leaves, and showy flowers. 



++ ++ Fruit lobed or winged. Seeds 1 or 2 in the cells, pendulous : albumen little or none. 



23. Zygophyllaceee, p. 91. Capsule 5-10-lobed, -celled, and -seeded. Flowers 5-merous: 



stamens 10 : style 1, short : sepals mostly deciduous. Herbs or shrubs, with opposite 

 stipulate compound leaves (leaflets entire), and solitary flowers. 



24. Geraniaceae, p. 92. Capsule 5-parted, -celled, and -seeded. Flowers 5-merous : stamens 



mostly 10 : styles coherent to an axis, at length separating from it. Herbs, with lobed 

 or compound toothed leaves, opposite and stipulate, the carpels long-beaked, or alter- 

 nate and without stipules, the carpels not beaked. 



25. Rutaceae, p. 96. Fruit 2-celled, an orbicular samara or didymous capsule. Flowers 4-me- 



rous : style 1. Shrubs, with aromatic dotted alternate leaves, and no stipules. 



29. Sapindaceae, 105. Fruit a double samara. Flowers dioecious or polygamous, often apeta- 



lous. Trees, with palmately lobed or pinnate opposite serrate leaves, and no stipules. 

 Fruit a simple samara, usually 1-celled and 1-seeded. Flowers 4-merous, perfect or direcious : 

 petals often none : stamens often 2 : style 1. Trees, with opposite pinnate leaves, and 

 no stipules. FRAXIKUS in Oleaccce. 



* * * * Ovary compound, with central placentae. Stamens upon a more or less perigynous disk. 

 Flowers mostly polygamous or dioecious. Calyx persistent or the limb deciduous. 

 Cells 1 -few-seeded. Seeds mostly erect or ascending and albuminous. 



26. Celastraceae, p. 98. Capsule 2 - 5-celled and -lobed. Flowers perfect, 4 -5-merous : style 



very short. Seeds arillate. Shrubs, with simple opposite pinnately veined leaves, and 

 no stipules. 



27. Rhamnaceee, p. 99. Fruit berry- or drupe-like, or diy, 1 - 4-celled. Calyx valvate, the 4 



or 5 lobes alternate with as many stamens, deciduous : petals often none : style 2-4- 

 cleft or lobed. Shrubs, with simple alternate or opposite leaves, and small stipules. 



28. Vitaceae, p. 105. Fruit a 2-celled 2-4-seeded berry. Flowers 4 - 5-merous : calyx mi- 



nute : petals valvate : the stamens opposite them. Woody vines, climbing by ten- 

 drils : leaves alternate, lobed. 



30. Anacardiaceae, p. 109. Drupes 1-celled, 1-seeded. Flowers mostly 5-merous : stigmas 3. 



Shrubs, with milky resinous juice, alternate simple or compound leaves, and no stipules. 

 Albumen little or none. 



Fruit a bLaddery 3-lobed several-seeded capsule. Flowers perfect, 5-merous. Shrubs with oppo- 

 site compound stipulate leaves. STAPHYLEA in Sapindacece. 



B. Stamens perigynous (upon the calyx), or epigynous. 



* Ovary superior or nearly so. (See last group.) 

 +- Carpels solitary or distinct. Seed veiy rarely albuminous. 



31. Leguminosae, p. 111. Carpel solitary becoming a legume. Flowers mostly irregular (papili- 



onaceous) : stamens 10 (rarely fewer), mostly monadelphous or diadelphous. Herbs, 

 shrubs, or trees, with alternate stipulate simple or compound leaves. 



32. Rosaceas, p. 164. Carpels one to many, becoming akenes or sometimes 1 - 2-seeded drupes 



(or coherent with the calyx into a 2 - several-celled pome). Flowers regular, mostly 

 5-merous, or the stamens usually numerous. Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with alternate 

 mostly stipulate simple or compound leaves. 



33. Calycanthaceae, p. 190. Carpels numerous, becoming akenes within a hollow receptacle. 



Sepals, petals, and stamens indefinite. Aromatic shrubs, with opposite entire leaves, 

 and no stipules. 



