Introduction. xxvii 



Flowers not tetramerous. 



Shrubs with persistent coriaceous leaves arid 



red or white flowers . Escallonia, page 186 

 \ Ovary wholly superior, 

 f Leaves stipulate. 



* Carpels distinct or solitary. 



Anthers with recurved valves. Evergreen or deciduous 



shrubs with yellow flowers .. . < . Berber idea, p. 28 

 Anthers opening longitudinally. 



Fruit leguminous (a pod). Herbs, shrubs, or trees with 

 usually alternate compound leaves, irregular (pea- 

 shaped) flowers, and more or less united stamens, 



Leguminosa, p. 113 

 Fruit drupaceous or capsular. Herbs or shrubs 



Eosaceas, p. 142-171 



** Carpels consolidated together with more placentas than one. 

 Placentas parietal. 



Flowers with a whorl of appendages termed a corona. 



Climbing plants with alternate lobed leaves and 



tendrils . . . Passiflorea, p. 205 



Flowers small and inconspicuous. Tufted scapigerous 



herbs with glandular leaves circinate in vernation 



DroseracccB, p. 191 



Flowers irregular, showy, usually fragrant ; petals sac- 

 cate or spurred. Herbs with entire or divided 

 leaves, solitary axillary flowers, and a dry capsular 



fruit ViolariecB, p. 57 



Placentas axile. 



Styles distinct to the base. 



Calyx imbricated. Stamens perigynous. Scapigerous 

 tufted herbs with alternate leaves, 



Tribe Saxifrages, p. ITS 



Calyx valvate. Trees with simple alternate cordate 

 leaves and greenish-yellow cymose flowers re- 

 markable for the broad bract adnate to the 

 peduncle . . 4 ' . . Tiliacea, p. 84 

 Styles more or less combined, proceeding from the base 



of the carpels (gynobasic). 



Gynobase dry. Fruit beaked. Herbs having usually 

 alternate leaves and umbellate solitary or geminate 

 flowers . . Geranium and Pelargonium, p. 88 



Gynobase dry. Fruits not beaked. Herbs with 3- or 



4-foliolate leaves and umbellate flowers . Oxalis, p. 93 

 Styles more or less combined, not gynobasic. 



Calyx more or less imbricated. Shrubs or trees 

 having deciduous alternate or opposite leaves and 

 unsymmetrical flowers . . Sapindacea, p. 104 

 Calyx slightly imbricated ; sepals only two. Herbs 



with simple leaves .... Portulacea, p. 74 

 Calyx valvate or open. 



Stamens opposite to petals and equal to them in 

 number. 



