230 VITACEAE. 



Parthenocissus tricuspidata (Sieb. & Zucc.) Plancli., Japanese or Bos- 

 ton Ivy, of eastern Asia, climbs tigli on walls by short disc-bearing tendrils; 

 its shining, cordate, glabrous leaves are 2'-5' broad, variously 3-lobed and 

 toothed, the lobes acute or acuminate; its small green flowers are in short clus- 

 ters. [Ampelopsis tricuspidata Sieb. & Zucc; Ampelopsis Veitchii MacNab.] 



Vitis vinifera L,, European Grape, European, is commonly planted, and 

 grapes of good quality are produced. Its leaves are nearly or quite glabrous 

 on both sides. The vine was brought to Bermuda as early as 1616. 



Vitis Labrusca L., in the derivative races Concord and others, North 

 American, is also commonly planted and fruits abundantly. Its leaves are 

 whitish-wooly beneath. 



Order 21. MALVALES. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees, with simple, mostly alternate leaves. Flowers 

 regular, usually perfect. Sepals separate, or more or less united, valvate. 

 Petals separate, very rarely wanting. Stamens usually numerous. Ovary 

 superior, compound, the placentae united in its axis. Disk inconspicuous 

 or none. 



Stamens twice as many as the sepals, or more. 



Stamens in several sets ; anthers 2-celled ; embryo straight. 



Fam. 1. TiLiACEAE. 

 Stamens monadelphous ; anthers 1-celled ; embryo 

 curved. 

 Style branches as many or twice as many as the 



carpels or ovary-cavities. Fam. 2. Malvaceae. 



Style entire, or merely lobed. Fam. 3. Bombacaceae. 



Stamens as many as the sepals. Fam. 4. Sterculiaceae. 



Family 1. TILIACEAE Juss. 



Linden Family. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs, with alternate (rarely opposite) simple leaves, 

 mostly small and deciduous stipules, and generally eymose or paniculate 

 flowers. Sepals 5, rarely 3 or 4, valvate, deciduous. Petals of the same 

 number, or fewer, or none, mostly imbricated in the bud. Stamens °c, 

 mostly 5-10-adelphous. Ovary 1, sessile, 2-10-celled; ovules anatropous. 

 Fruit 1-10-celled, drupaceous, dry, or baccate. Cotyledons ovate or orbic- 

 ular; endosperm fleshy, rarely wanting. About 35 genera and 275 species, 

 widely distributed. 



1. TRIUMTETTA [Plumier] L. 

 Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, toothed or 3-5-lobed. Flowers 

 perfect, in panicled cymules, axillary or opposite the leaves. Sepals 5, nar- 

 row, often mucronate. Petals yellow, 5, convolute, with a pit at the base, or 

 wanting. Stamens numerous or rarely only twice as many as the sepals, in- 

 serted on an elongated receptacle above 5 glands; filaments filiform, unequal; 

 anthers introrse. Ovary 2-5-celled, in the cup-shaped top of the receptacle; 

 stigma 2-5-lobed. Ovules 2 in each cavity. Capsule subglobose, echinate, 

 commonly separable into 2-5 carpels. Seeds solitary or 2 in each cavity. 

 Embryo with flat, entire cotyledons. [In honor of G. B. Triumfetti an Italian 

 botanist.] About 70 species, natives of tropical and warm regions. Type 

 species: Triumfetta Lappula L. 



