POLY PETALAE. 
1 (a) Ovary superior or nearly so. 2. 
(0) Ovary inferior to half-inferior. 165. 
2 (a) Ovary 1, 1-celled or incompletely several- 
celled.* 3. 
(b) Ovary 1, completely or almost completely 
several-celled,** or ovaries several, dis- 
tinct. 54, 
3 (a) Sepals 2, distinct, rarely connate in form 
of a cap. 4., 
(0) Sepals 3 or more, distinct or connate, in 
the latter case sometimes forming a 2- 
lipped or 2-lobed calyx ; in—this~case~ 
ovules attached to the ventral suture of 
the ovary. 5. 
* Rarely several rudimentary ovaries are present in the 
male flowers or besides the fertile one. Compare also 
some Menispermaceae with 1 sepal and 1 petal in the 
female flowers, and 4 sepals and a gamopetalous corolla in 
the male flowers. 
** The latter, when the dissepiments are complete at the 
base and in the middle of the ovary, but do not cohere 
towards the top. 
