158 RESEDACEAE. 



Family 6. MORINGACEAE Dumort. 

 Horseradish-tree Family. 



Trees, with a gummy bark. Leaves alternate, deciduous, 2-3-pinnate, 

 the divisions and leaflets opposite, the latter entire: stipules wanting or 

 mere glands. Flowers perfect, slightly irregular, in axillary panicles. 

 Calyx of 5 unequal reflexed-spreading sepals on the edge of the short cup- 

 like hypanthium. Corolla of 5 petals resembling the sepals, the lower 

 petal reflexed, the upper one more or less erect. Androecium of 5 stamens 

 inserted on the margin of the hypanthium, and 5 staminodia. Filaments 

 distinct. Anthers 1-celled, opening lengthwise. Gynoecium 3-carpellary, 

 stalked. Ovai-y 1-celled, with 3 parietal placentae; stjdes united; stigma 

 minute. Ovules numerous, anatropous, pendulous, in two series on each 

 placenta. Capsule elongated, 3-6-angled, somewhat torulose, beaked, 3- 

 valved. Seeds relatively large, 3-winged or wingless; endosperm wanting. 

 Only the genus Moringa, with 3 species, natives of the Old World tropics. 



Moringa Moringa (L.) J. K. Small [M. pterygosperma Gaertn.], Horse- 

 radish-tree, a small tree with large deeomponnd leaves and panicled white 

 flowers, the 3-angled linear pods about 1° long, has been introduced and planted 

 for ornament and interest. It yields the Ben oil, used by watchmakers. 



Order 16. S ARE ACENI ALES. 



Insectivorous plants secreting a viscid liquid, with basal leaves and 

 perfect scapose flowers. Corolla choripetalous. Sepals mostly distinct. 

 Stamens usually hypogynous. Ovary compound, superior. 



The order is known only as ha\nng been represented in Bermuda by the 

 Pitcher-plant, Sarracenia purpurea L., North American, with a tuft of 

 hollow leaves and a large nodding purple flower, introduced at Mount Langton 

 and died after blooming as recorded by Lefroy. 



Order 17. ROSALES. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees, the flowers usually petaliferous and the petals 

 distinct. Stamens mostly perigjmous or epigynous. Sepals mainly united 

 or confluent with the concave receptacle. Carpels one or more, distinct or 

 sometimes united into a compound ovar5\ 



f Endosperm present, vsuaUij eopious and fleshy; leaves mostly without stipules. 

 Herbs, with fleshy or succulent tissue. 



Carpels as many as the calyx-segments ; stamens as many or twice as many. 



F'am. 1. CEASSrLACEAE. 



Carpels fewer than the calyx-segments. Fam. 2. Saxifr^vgaceae. 



Shrubs or trees. 



Leaves opposite. Fam. 3. Hydrangeaceae. 



Leaves alternate. 



Fruit a 1-celled berry. Fam. 4. Grossulariaceae. 



Fruit capsular, or indehiscent. Fam. 5. Pittosporaceae. 



■ft Endosperm none, or very little; leaves mostly nith stipules. 

 t Trees with broad leaves and small monoecious densely capitate flowers, 



Fam. 6. Pi.ataxaceae. 

 tt Flowers perfect, or if dioecious or monoecious not densely capitate, 

 a. Flowers regular. 

 Pistils several or numerous. 



Carpels distinct, rarely adnate to the calyx, ripen- 

 ing into follicles or achenes. Fam. 7. Rosaceae. 

 Carpels united, enclosed by the calyx-tube and ad- 

 nate to it, the fruit a pome. Fam. 8. Malaceae. 

 Pistil only 1. 



Ovary 2-ovuled ; fruit a drupe ; leaves simple. Fam. 9'. Amygdalaceae. 



Ovary several-ovuled ; fruit a legume ; leaves 2-3- 

 pinnate. 



