58 KEY TO PLANTS. 
8 (a) Leaves stipulate.* 9. 
(0) Leaves exstipulate. 10. 
9 (a) Style basal. Sepals 5, the odd one pes- 
terior (next to the axis), rarely 4. 
Stamens perigynous. Rosaceae. 
(4) Style terminal or nearly so. Odd sepal, 
if present, anterior. Flowers usually 
irregular. Stamens usually perigynous 
and more than petals. Leguminosae. 
10 (a) Leaves simple (entire, dentate, or lobed, 
rarely divided) or wanting. 1b 
(0) Leaves compound. 16. 
11 (a) Flowers regular. 12. 
(0) Flowers distinctly irregular. 15. 
12 (a) Sepals 3. Petals 3. Anthers dehiscing 
by recurved valves. Stamens perigyn- 
ous, usually 9. Seeds exalbuminous. 
Laurvneae. 
(0) Sepals 4-6. Petals 4-6. Anthers dehis- . 
cing by longitudinal slits. 13. 
13 (a) Herbs or undershrubs. Flowers racemose. 
Sepals 4, imbricate. Petals 4, imbricate. 
Stamens 6, hypogynous, four of them 
* So also in some Sterculiaceae with regular flowers, 5 
petals adhering to the staminal tube, and 5 hypogynous 
stamens opposite the petals. 
