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(4) Stamens 5 or more. Flowers in leafless 
or leafy racemes. Fruit a capsule or a 
berry. Embryo curved, peripherical. 
Ovary usually many-celled. 
Phytolaccaceae. 
66 (a) Ovules in each cell of the ovary 2. 67. 
(0) Ovules in each cell of the ovary 3 or 
more. 75. 
67 (a) Flowers hermaphrodite. 68. 
(0) Flowers polygamous or unisexual. 70. 
68 (a) Perianth-leaves 5. Fertile stamens 5. 
Seeds albuminous. Shrubs or under- 
shrubs. Flowers racemose or cymose. 
Perianth valvate. Stamens hypogynous 
or nearly so. Ovary 3-5-celled. Australia. 
Sterculrvaceae. 
(2) Perianth-leaves 4. Fertile stamens 2, 4, 
6, or 8. Seeds exalbuminous. 69. 
69 (a) Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate. 
Flowers racemose. Perianth-leaves free, 
imbricate in bud. Stamens hypogynous, 
6, rarely 2or 4. Ovary 2-celled. Stigma 
1, entire or bilobed. Cruciferae. 
(6) Shrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers soli- 
tary in the axils of the leaves, forming 
leafy racemes or spikes. Perianth-leaves 
united below, valvate in bud, Stamens 
