COHORTS AND ORDERS. (BY THE EDITOR.) 



Cohort VII. Geraniales. Flowers often irregular. Disk usually annular, adnate 

 to the stamens, or reduced to glands, rarely 0. Ovary of several carpels, syncarpous 

 ovules 1-2, rarely oc, ascending or pendulous ; raphe usually 



or subapocarpous ; 

 ventral. 



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39. LINEJS. Flowers regular. Sepals im- 

 bricate, eglandular. Disk of 5 glands out- 

 side the staminal tube. Ovary 3-5-celled; 

 calls 2-ovuled. Albumen fleshy. Herbs or 

 shrubs ; leaves simple, rarely opposite, usu- 

 ally stipulate 293 



40. ERYTHROXYLE^E. Flowers regular. 

 Sepals imbricate, eglandular. Petals 5, with 

 a basal appendage. Ovary 2-3-celled. Drupe 

 1-seeded ; albumen scanty. Shrubs ; leaves 

 simple, entire, alternate, stipulate, folded 

 longitudinally in bud 294 



41. OXALIDE^:. Flowers regular. Sepals 

 5, imbricate. Petals 5. Ovary 5-celled. 

 Herbs, rarely trees ; leaves alternate, com- 

 pound, stipulate ...... 296 



42. HUMIRIACE^;. Sepals small. Disk 

 usually toothed or lobed. Stamens 10- X) ; 

 connective conical, fleshy. Ovary 5-7-celled ; 

 cells 1-ovuled. Trees ; leaves alternate, 

 simple, exstipulate 298 



43. MALPIGH1ACEJ3. Flowers regular or 

 irregular. Sepals 5, 2 or all usually 2-glan- 

 dular outside. Stamens often monadelphous, 

 several often antherless. Ovary usually lobed, 

 of 2-3 1-ovuled carpels ; styles 3. Seed ex- 

 albuminous. Trees or shrubs, often climb- 

 ing ; leaves usually opposite, simple or lobed, 

 stipulate or not 299 



44. CORTARIE.E. Flowers regular. Petals 

 5, small, fleshy. Stamens 10. Ovary 5- 

 lobed, of 5 1-ovuled carpels ; styles 5. Fruit 

 apocarpous. Albumen scanty or 0. Shrubs ; 

 leaves opposite, simple, exstipulate . . 301 



45. ZYGOPHYLLE.E. Flowers regular or 

 irregular. Sepals 5, or 4, usually free, eglan- 

 dular. Stamens with a scale at the base of 

 the filaments. Disk usually fleshy. Ovary 

 angled or lobed; cells 2-oo -ovuled. Herbs 

 or shrubs ; leaves usually opposite and com- 

 pound, not gland-dotted, stipulate . . 303 



? 46. BATIDEJE. Flowers in the bracts of 

 unisexual spikes or cones. free. Calyx 

 campanulate, 2-lipped. Petals 4, clawed. 

 Stamens 4. $ Perianth 0. Ovaries 8-12, 

 connate and adnate to the base of the bract, 

 4-celled; cells 1-ovuled. A seaside shrub; 

 leaves opposite, fleshy, simple, exstipulate. 



305, 738 



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47. GERANIACE^E. Flowers often irregu- 

 lar. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, con- 

 torted. Carpels 5, adnate to ft central column, 

 forming a 5-celled ovary, produced above 

 into a beak; cells 2-ovuled. Capsule of 5 

 follicles, rolling back elastically from the 

 axis. Herbs, rarely shrubs; leaves opposite 

 or alternate, simple or compound, usually 

 stipulate 306 



48. BALSAMINEJ?. Flowers very irregu- 

 lar. Sepals 3-5, caducous, posterior spurred. 

 Petals 3-5, very unequal, imbricate, caducous. 

 Stamens 5; anthers connate, forming a cap 

 to the ovary. Ovary 5-celled. Fruit a cap- 

 sule or indehiscent drupe. Herbs; leaves 

 opposite alternate or whorled, simple, exsti- 

 pulate 308, 309 



49. TROPJEOLE^:. Flowers irregular. Se- 

 pals unequal, posterior spurred. Petals peri- 

 gynous. Stamens 8, hypogynous. Ovary 

 3-celled ; cells 1-ovuled. Herbs ; leaves 

 alternate, simple, exstipulate . . 308, 311 



50. LIMNANTHEJ-:. Flowers regular. Se- 

 pals 3-5, valvate or sub-imbricate. Petals 

 perigynous. Stamens twice as many, sub- 

 perigynous. Ovary5-lobed; cells 5, 1-ovuled ; 

 style gynobasic. Ripe carpels free, indehi- 

 scent. Herbs ; leaves alternate, much cut, 

 exstipulate ..... 308, 313 



51. RTJTACEJE. Flowers usually regular. 

 Petals 4-5, hypogyuous. Stamens 8-10, free. 

 Disk thick. Ovary 3-5-lobed ; cells 2-4-co - 

 ovuled ; styles lateral or gynobasic. Frnit 

 capsular. Seeds albuminous. Leaves alter- 

 nate, simple or compound, strong-scented, 

 exstipulate 315 



52. AURANTIACEJE. Flowers regular. Pe- 

 tals hypogynous, free or connate. Stamens 

 definite or oo. Disk large. Ovary not lobed; 

 cells 1-ao -ovuled ; style terminal. Fruit a 

 berry. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves alter- 

 nate, compound, gland-dotted, exstipulate. 



315, 318 



53. DIOSME.E. Flowers regular or irregu- 

 lar. Petals 4-5, free, imbricate or valvate. 

 Stamens 4-5 or 8-10. Disk free or perigy- 

 nous. Ovary apocarpous; style ventral or 

 basal. Fruit of cocci. Seeds albuminous or 

 not. Shrubs ; leaves opposite or alternate, 



