110 KEY TO PLANTS. 
seeded. Albumen sparing. Herbs or 
undershrubs, rarely shrubs. 
Crassulaceae. 
5 (a) Ovary perfectly 1-celled. 6. 
(4) Ovary perfectly, rarely imperfectly several- 
celled. 11. 
6 (a) Ovule 1. & 
(4) Ovules 2 or more. 8. 
7 (a) Styles 3, or style 1 with 3. stigmas.* 
Flowers dicecious; male flowers with 4 
calyx-lobes, 4 corolla-lobes, and 4 connate 
stamens ; female flowers with 1 sepal 
and 1-2 petals. Menispermaceae. 
(2) Styles 5, or style 1 with 5 stigmas. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, with 5 calyx- 
lobes, 5 corolla-lobes, and 5 stamens. 
Plumbagineae. 
8 (a) Ovules attached to the ventral suture of 
the ovary.** Leaves usually compound 
and stipulate. Flowers regular with 
valvate, or irregular with imbricate 
* So also some Polygonaceae with a calyx-like involucre, 
a 6-partite perianth, and usually 9 stamens, and some 
Chenopodiaceae with 2 sepaloid bracteoles, adnate to the 
5-partite perianth. 
** So also some Sterculiaceae, the petals of which are 
adnate to the staminal tube. They have regular flowers 
with imbricate corolla-lobes and isomerous stamens. 
