SYNOPSIS OF ORDERS AND FAMILIES, ETC. XV 



Family 40. Ebenaceae (Page 270) 



Flowers 3-6 merous, mostly unisexual, seldom perfect; calyx 

 persistent, often enlarging in the fruit; corolla lobes twisted, seldom 

 valvate in the bud ; stamens in the perfect and staminate flowers as 

 many as, or double the number of, or more than, the lobes of the 

 corolla and more or less united ; in the pistillate flower staminodal; 

 carpels 2-16; with 1-2 pendulous ovules; style free or united at the 

 base,' fruit mostly berry-like with 1-several seeds. Trees or shrubs. 



Family 41. Styraceae (Page 275) 



Flowers 5-4 merous, perfect; sepals and petals united ; stamens 

 twice as many as the corolla lobes, united at the base or sometimes 

 wholly united to form a tube; carpels 3-5, with 1 or several ovules; 

 ovary superior, rarely half inferior, 3-5 celled; fruit a capsule, a 

 drupe, rarely winged. Trees or shrubs with more or less stellate 

 pubescence. 



ORDER CONTORTAE 



Flowers mostly 5-merous, rarely 2-6-merous, mostly sympetalous, 

 rarely choripetalous or apetalous; the stamens of the same number or 

 rarely fewer; carpels 2; stamens mostly united at the base with the 

 corolla; ovary superior; corolla usually contorted in the bud, rarely 

 valvate; herbs or woody plants with simple leaves, without stipules. 



Family 42. Oleaceae (Page 278) 



Flowers 2-6-merous, mostly of united petals, perfect or uni- 

 sexual ; petals absent or 4, 5 or 6 parted ; stamens mostly 2, united 

 with the corolla or hypogynous, with short filaments and large 

 anther cells; carpels 2 with 2, seldom 1, or 4-8 ovules, fruit a drupe, 

 berry, capsule or samara. Woody plants, rarely herbaceous; leaves 

 mostly opposite, without stipules. 



ORDER TUBIFLORAE 



Flowers pentamerous with 4 whorls or sometimes fewer stamens or 

 pistils; stamens united with the corolla; ovary superior, 2 celled with 2 

 seeds in each cell, sometimes the cells are subdivided by a false partition. 

 Herbs, sometimes trees and shrubs. 



