ANALYTICAL KEY. 



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Stipules between the opposite and compound 



leaves (but they are caducous). Staphylea, 82 SAPINDACEJE. 



Stipules none when the leaves are opposite. 



Stamens 5, monadelphous in a 10 -toothed tube 



or cup : leaves simple, all radical. . . 262 GALACINEJE. 

 Stamens 10, monadelphous at the base. Leaf- 

 lets 3, obcordate. * OXALIDACE^E. 



Stamens distinct, free from the calyx. 



Style 1, undivided. 245 (61) ERICAOE-SS. 



Styles 2 - 5, separate. . . . 52 (35) CARTOPHTLLACE^S. 

 Stamens distinct, inserted on the calyx. 



Styles 2 (rarely 3), or splitting into 2 in fruit. 141 (54)SAXIFRAGACE^!. 

 Style 1 : pod enclosed in the calyx, becoming 



1 -celled at maturity. . . . 127 (50) LYTHRAVE^B. 



2. Calyx-tube adherent to the ovary, at least to its lower half. 



Tendril-bearing and often succulent herbs. . . 138 ^32) CUCURBITACEJB. 

 Not tendril-bearing. 



Ovules and seeds more than one in each cell. 



Ovary 1-celled, many-ovuled from the base. . 63 (36) PORTULACACEJE. 

 Ovary 1-celled, with 2 or 3 parietal few - many-seeded placentae. 



Herbs : fruit a capsule 141 SAXIFRAGACE.S. 



Shrubs : fruit a berry. . . . . 136 (53) GROSSULACEJB, 



Ovary 2 -several-celled. 



Anthers opening by pores at the apex : style 1. 127 MELASTOMACE.E. 

 Anthers not opening by pores. 



Stamens on a flat disk which covers the ovary. 81 CELASTRACEJE. 

 Stamens on the calyx. 



Style 1 : petals 4, rarely 5. ... 129 (50) ONAGRACEJS. 

 Styles 2 or 3, or only one and 3 - 5-cleft. 141 (54) SAXIFRAGACE^E. 

 Ovules and seeds only one in each cell. 



Stamens 10 (instead of many) accidentally and rarely in some 111 

 Stamens 2, 4, or 8. 



Herbs : flowers not in an involucrate head. 

 Herb : flowers in a head, surrounded by a colored 



involucre : stamens 4 



Shrubs or trees : petals narrow. 

 Stamens 4 : style and stigma 1. 



Stamens 8 : styles 2 



Stamens 5 : flowers in umbels, or rarely in heads. 

 Fruit dry, splitting in two at maturity : styles 2 : 



flowers mostly in compound umbels. 148 (54) UMBELLIFER.SB. 



Fruit fleshy or berry-like : styles 2-5, separate, or 



united into one 159 (55) ARALIACEJR 



129 ONAGRACE^B. 

 161 CORKAGE JE. 



161 CORK ACE JB 



147 HAMAMELACE^E 



