MONOCHLAMYDEAE. 25 
Perianth wanting, but male flowers with 
1 bract, females with several bracts. 
Stamens 2-12. Styles 2, with 4 lon 
stigmas. Australasia. Balanopse 
(b) Ovules numerous. Flowers dicecious, spi- 
cate (in both sexes), rarely hermaphro- 
dite. Fruit capsular. Seeds exalbu- 
minous. 14. 
14 (a) Aquatic herbs, usually of a moss-like 
appearance. Flowers hermaphrodite or 
rarely dicecious, in the latter case disc 
absent and stamen 1. Perianth want- 
ing, but usually replaced by small 
scales. Stamens 1-3. Styles 2, undi- 
vided. Podostemaceae. 
(b) Shrubs or trees. Flowers dicecious. 
Dise cupular or reduced to 1 or 2 scales. 
Stamens 2 or more. Leaves stipulate, 
entire toothed or lobed. Perianth want- 
ing. Style 1, short, or 0. Stigmas 2-4 
Seeds covered by a tuft of hairs. 
Salicineae. 
15 (a) Ovary 2-celled.* 16. 
@) (6) Ovary 3-4-celled. 17. 
* Compare some Podostemaceae herbs with hermaphro- 
dite flowers, a perianth reduced to small scales, and more 
than 2 ovules in each cell. 
