Classification of Plants 



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EE. Fruit few seeded. 



As in Saxlfragacece but seeds soli- 

 tary ; leaves simple, alternate, ex- 

 stipulate, expanded 

 Capsule 2-, or nut i -seeded, heath- 

 like shrubs 



DD. Placentation parietal or basal. (Co- 

 hort Parietales including Guttiferae 

 and Elatinaceae, Loasaceae, Be- 

 goniaceae, Bixaceae.) 

 E. Leaves exstipulate; fruit a many- 

 seeded capsule, salt-loving or 

 desert plants with reduced leaves. 

 Style i, seeds smooth, calyx per- 

 sistent 



Styles 3, seeds hairy 

 EE. Leaves stipulate. 



F. Fruit a berry or pulpy capsule, 



trees or shrubs. 



Flowers usually imperfect, sta- 

 mens many or 10 . 

 Flowers perfect ; stamens 3-5 

 within a fringed corona ; climb- 



HAMAMELIDACEJE. 

 BRUNIACE^E. 



FRANKENIACE^E. 

 TAMARICACE^E. 



PASSIFLORACE^;. 

 TURNERACE^E. 



Flowers perfect ; stamens 5 ; co- 

 rona wanting, petals convolute 

 FF. Fruit a dry capsule; herbs or 



shrubs. 

 Flowers regular; orzygomorphic; 



anterior petal often spurred . VIOLACE^;. 

 BBB. Perianth perigynous, occasionally epigyn- 

 ous, ovary mostly syncarpous, free from 

 or rarely united with the tubular axis, 

 mostly woody plants. 



C. Calyx coloured ; petals absent by abor- 

 tion or represented by glands ; leaves 

 exstipulate, ovary free from tubular 

 axis (Thymelasales). 

 D. Fruit a capsule, four parted ; sepals 



4 ; leaves opposite. 

 Endosperm present, sepals imbricate, 



stamens 8, internal phloem absent . GEISSOLOMACE;E. 

 Endosperm absent, sepals valvate, 



stamens 4, internal phloem present PEN^ACE^. 

 DD. Fruit an achene ; leaves alternate or 



opposite. 

 Sepals 4-5 ; corona often present ; 



stamens haplo- or diplo-stemonous THYMEL^ACE^;. 



