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SYNOPSIS OP THE CLASSES, 



27. PORTTTLACEJJ. Sepals usually 2. Pe- 

 tals 4-5, rarely oo. Stamens various. Pla- 

 centa central. Herbs; leaves alternate or 

 opposite, simple, stipulate or not ..... 269 



28. TAMARISCINEJE. Sepals 5, rarely 4. 

 Petals as many, free or connate. Stamens 

 5-QO . Placentas 3-5, central or parietal. 

 Shrubs or herbs; leaves minute, alternate, 

 simple, exstipulate ..... 262 



Cohort V. Outtiferales. Flowers regular. Sepals and petals each usually 4-5, 

 imbricate in bud. Stamens usually oo. Ovary 3-oo -celled, rarely 2-celled, or of one 

 carpel ; placentas on the inner angles of the cells. 



29. ELATINE^;. Flowers . Stamens 

 definite. Herbs or shrubs; leaves small, 

 opposite or fascicled, simple, stipulate . . 264 



30. HYPERICINEJ-:. Flowers Stamens 

 usually oo. Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees; 

 leaves opposite or whorled, simple, exstipu- 

 late, usually gland-dotted .... 266 



81. GUTTIFEK^:. Flowers rarely . Se- 

 pals 4-6. Stamens usually oc. Trees or 

 shrubs; leaves opposite or whorled, usually 

 coriaceous, simple, exstipulate ; flowers usu- 

 ally in 3-chotomous cymes or panicles . . 268 



32. CAMELLIACEJE. Flowers usually $. 

 Sepals 5. Petals free or connate. Stamens 

 QO . Trees or shrubs ; leaves usually alter- 

 nate, simple, exstipulate; flowers usually 

 axillary or panicled 271 



33. MARCGRAVIACE^;. Flowers $ . Sepals 

 2-6. Petals 2-6, free or connate, or forming 

 a circumsciss cap. Stamens usually oo. 

 Trees or shrubs, erect or climbing ; leaves 

 alternate, simple, exstipulate ; flowers usu- 

 ally umbelled or spiked, and furnished with 

 hooded bracts ...... 275 



34. DIPTEROCARPE.E, Flowers $ . Calyx 

 usually enlarging greatly in fruit. Stamens 

 oo or definite. Trees or shrubs ; leaves 

 coriaceous, alternate, simple, often stipulate ; 

 flowers panicled ...... 277 



85. CHL.ENACE.E. Flowers . Sepals 3. 

 Petals 0-6. Stamens lO-oo , inserted within 

 a toothed cup. Trees or shrubs ; leaves 

 alternate, simple ; stipules caducous; flowers 

 in dichotomous cymes or panicles . . . 278 



Cohort VI. Malvales. Flowers rarely irregular. Sepals 5, rarely 2-4, free or con- 

 nate, valvate or imbricate. Petals as many or 0. Stamens usually oo and monadelphous. 

 Ovary 3-oo -celled (rarely of 1 carpel) ; ovules in the inner angles of the cells. Shrubs, 

 rarely trees ; leaves alternate, usually stipulate, simple or compound. 



36. MAIA \cr,.i;. Stamens monadelphous; 

 anthers 1 -celled. Ovules usually ascending 

 or horizontal. Leaves alternate j stipules 

 various, rarely obsolete .... 



37. Si ruiTu.uT.K. Stamens mon- or 

 poly-adelphous ; anthers 2-celled. Ovules 

 ascending or horizontal. Herbs shrubo or 



279 



trees; leaves simple or compound, usually 



alternate and stipulate 283 



38. TILLAGES. Stamens free or connate 

 at the base only ; anthers 2-celled. Ovules 

 pendulous. Shrubs or trees, rarely herbs; 

 leaves alternate, rarely opposite; stipules 

 various or . . 288 



SERIES II. DISCIFLORAL. 



Sepals distinct or connate, free or adnate to the ovary. Disk usually conspicuous, as 

 a ring or cushion, or spread over the base of the calyx-tube, or confluent with the base of 

 the ovary, or broken up into glands. Stamens usually definite, inserted upon or at the 

 outer or inner base of the disk. Ovary superior. 



Exceptions Disk inconspicuous or flat in MaJpighiacea ; often reduced to minute glands or absent in 

 Lineir, Oxalidea, Geraniacete, Simarubeee, Celastrinea, Coriarie<e, Olacinetp, Iltcineee, and a few other Orders. 

 Stamens sometimes perigynous in Chailletiaceie, Rhamnete, Anacardiaeea, Celastrinets, Stackhousiea, Burferaceee; 

 indefinite in a few genera of various Orders. Ovary more or less inferior in some Olacr/iae, Rhamnete, and 

 Anttcardwcea. 



