DICOTVLEDONS. „ 



b. EpigynaB. 



Order 5. Aggregatse. 

 Families: i. Rubiacese, 



2. Caprifoliaceae, 



3. Valerianacea?, 



4. Dipsacacese. 



Order 6. Synandrse. 



Families: i. Cucurbitacecc, 



2. Campanulacea:, 



3. Lobeliacesp, 



4. Goodeniaces, 

 5- Stylidieae, 



6. Calycereae, 



7. Gompositae. 



B. Isocarpa^. Carpels equal in number to the sepals and petals, usually five 

 rarely four, and coherent into a generally superior ovary (except Orde ,, Family" 

 where there are only two median carpels); diminution of the number o( sUmen; 

 does not occur (except in Order ,, Family ,); in Orders . and 3, on the o"he 

 hand, a perfect stan.inal whorl is usually interposed; in Order i the stamens are 

 superposed on the petals, and a number of seeds spring from an elevated axial 

 placenta m the unilocular ovary ; in Orders 2 and 3 the ovary is multilocular and 

 many-seeded. 



Order 1. PrimulinesB. 



Families: i. LentibulariacecP, 



2. Plumbagineac, 



3. Primulaceae, 



4. Myrsinacea', 



Order 2. DiosporinesB. 

 Families: i. Sapotaces, 



2. Ebenaceae (including Styracaces). 



Order 3. Bicornes. 



Families: i. Epacrideas, 



2. Pyrolaceae, 



3. IMonotropeae, 



4. RhodoraceiE, 



5. Ericaceae, 



6. Vaccinieae. 



II. Eleutheropetalae or Dialypetalse. 



Petals free, sometimes wanting. 



G. Eucyclcp.. Gorolla very rarely wanting; stamens very commonly twice or 

 three times as many as petals by the interposition of a perfect or even double 

 (Orders 6, 7) whorl, or by the interposition of an imperfect whorl differing in number 

 from the corolla (Order 5); the isostemonous stamens sometimes superposed on 

 the petals (Order 4), or the original stamens branch (especially in Orders 2, 3, and 

 8) ; the number of carpels often the same as that of the sepals and petals (Orders 

 7, 8), but commonly less — two, three, or four ; ovary unilocular with parietal placentse 

 in Order i, in the others multilocular; seed generally without endosperm. 



