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Leaves conduplicate, appearing after the flowers. Fruit a tomeutose drupe. 

 Stone furrowed and flattened. 



Almond, Prunus. 



Leaves ovate, serrate, acute, crenate, woolly underneath, glabrou.s above. 

 Flowers in corymbs, roseate, appearing with the leaves. Fruit a fleshy pome. 

 Carpels 5 or 2, inclosed in the fleshy calyx-tube. 



Apple, Pear, Pyrus. 



Leaves oblong or broad, ovate, blunt at base and sharp at apex. Seeds 5 or 

 more. 



Quince, Pyrus. 



Order XXIII. SAXIFRAGACEiE. 



Shrubs and herb.s. Flowers perfect, regular. Sepals, petals, and 

 stamens 4-5. Stamens alternating with petals. Leaves alternate or 

 opposite. Fruit capsular or berry-shaped. 



Leaves 3-5-lobed, smooth above, pubescent below, unequally toothed. 

 Flowers in pendent racemes. Calyx tube adherent to the ovary, 5-toothed. 

 Petals 5. Stamens 5, alternating with petals. Fruit a many-seeded berry. 



Currant, Ribes. 

 Leaves as above, villose. Flowers solitary or in twos. Fruit a globular or 

 ellipsoidal many-seeded berry. 



Gooseberry, Ribes. 



Order XXIV. COMBRETACE^. 



Shrubs and trees. Flowers perfect, or imperfect by arrest, in 

 axillary or terminal spikes, or racemes. A bract to each flower, also 

 two lateral opposite bractlets. Leaves alternate or opposite. 



Leaves simple. Calyx tube cylindric, adhering to ovary limb, l)ell-shaped, 

 4-5-toothed. Corolla 0. Stamens 10, on the calyx. Ovary inferior. Fruit 

 a drupe, size of a prune. 



Myrobalans, Terminalia. 



Order XXV. MYRTACE^. 



Trees. Flowers perfect, superior, regular, axillary or in spikes, 

 cymes, corymbs, or panicles. Stamens numerous. Leaves opposite 

 or whorled, entire, exstipulate. Fruit a berry or capsule, 2- or more- 

 celled, 1-many-seeded. The Periwinkle (Vinca) of Apocynacefe is 

 often incorrectly called myrtle. 



Leaves opposite, with punctured spots, ovate, lanceolate, evergreen. Calyx 

 4-6-parted, tube attached to ovary. Petals 4-6, together with the many sta- 

 mens inserted in the neck of the calyx. Filaments free. Style solitary. Seeds 

 on a central column. 



Myrtle, Myrtus. 



Leaves opposite, entire, dotted with pellucid spots. Calyx 4-r)-partod. Petals 

 4-5, free or united. Stamens numerous, on tlie throat of the calyx. Flowers 

 in cymes, or cyme-like ])anicles, 2-bracted, white or purple. Fruit olive- 

 shaped, but smaller. Seed solitary. 



Cloves, Eugenia. 



