POLYPETALAE. 71 
many as petals. Ovules 2. Fruits cap- 
sular. Tropics. Connaraceae. 
(4) Leaves simple, entire dentate or lobed. 
Herbs or undershrubs, rarely shrubs 
with opposite leaves. Receptacle only 
slightly concave. Stamens as many, or 
twice as many as petals. Fruits capsu- 
lar. Seeds albuminous. Crassulaceae. 
59 (a2) Stamens as many to twice as many as 
_ sepals. 60. 
(5) Stamens more than twice as many as 
sepals, 66. 
60 (a) Ovule in each carpel 1.* 61. 
(4) Ovules in each carpel 2 or more. 62. 
61 (a) Leaves opposite or verticillate. Flowers 
hermaphrodite or polygamous. Petals 
5. Stamens10. Carpels 5-10. Shrubs. 
Leaves exstipulate. Coriarieae. 
(4) Leaves alternate. Flowers dicecious. Pet- 
als 6, rarely 3. Stamens 6, opposite to 
the petals, rarely 9 or 12. Carpels 3. 
Climbing plants. Leaves exstipulate. 
Menispermaceae. 
* Compare Platanaceae with indistinct, scale-, or hair- 
like sepals and petals, stipulate leaves, and capitate 
flowers, and some <Anwuacardiaceae with several carpels, of 
which only 1 is fertile, with alternate exstipulate leaves, 
and 10 stamens. 
