1292 KEY TO PLANTS. 
out leaves), and 5-merous regular 
flowers. AT. 
(0) Style stigmatose at (or up to) the apex or 
between its lobes. Ovary 1, entire or 
slightly lobed. 48. 
47 (a) Styles separate up to the common thick- 
ened top. Stigma furnished with 5 
glands, alternate with the anthers, to 
which the pollen adheres. Pollen usually 
wax-like and cohering into masses. 
Anthers usually adhering to the thick- 
ened top of the style. Ovaries 2, dis- 
tinct. Asclepiadeae. 
(0) Styles separate at the base only, or wholly 
united. Stigma without glands, but 
sometimes furnished with appendages, 
opposite to the anthers, to which, how- 
ever, the pollen does not adhere. Pollen 
granular. Anthers usually free. Thick- 
ened top of the style usually apiculate 
above the stigma, or contracted in the 
middle. A pocynaceae. 
48 (a) Stamens free from the corolla. Leaves 
alternate. Flowers regular, or nearly 
so. Corolla-lobes 5, imbricate in bud. 
Style undivided. Asia, Africa, Austral- 
asia. Pittosporeae. 
