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tropical, monoecious or dioecious; disk o; petals o; pistil i-celled, 

 inferior;, ovule i, erect; endosperm present. Balanophora. (Pf. 

 HI, I, 243.) 



Order Sapindales. Flowers mostly actinomorphic; disk tumid, 

 adnate to the calyx, lining its tube or rudimentary, or entirely 

 wanting; pistil i- to several-celled; ovules i to 2, erect, ascending, 

 or pendulous ; endosperm mostly o. 



Family 260. Sapindaceae. Soapberries. Trees and shrubs, 

 mostly tropical, with alternate (or opposite), mostly compound 

 leaves; disk present or o; petals 3 to 5 or o; pistil i- to 4-celled; 

 ovules I or 2, ascending; endosperm usually o. PaulUnia, Sapin- 

 dus, Talisia, Litchi, Koelrciitcria, Dodonaea. (Pf. Ill, 5, 277.) 



Family 261. Hippocastanaceae. Horsechestnuts. Trees and 

 shrubs, with opposite, palmately compound leaves ; flowers irreg- 

 ular ; sepals 5 ; petals 5 ; stamens 8-5 ; pistil superior, tricarpellary. 

 Aesculus. (Pf. Ill, 5, 273.) 



Family 262. Aceraceae. Maples. Trees and shrubs, with op- 

 posite, simple or compound leaves ; sepals mostly 5 ; petals 5 or 

 none; pistil superior, bicarpellary, winged. in fruit. Acer. (Pf. 

 111,5,258.) 



Family 263. Sabiaceae. Trees and shrubs of the tropics, with 

 alternate, simple or compound leaves ; disk small ; petals present ; 

 pistil 2- to 3-celled ; ovules i or 2, horizontal or pendulous ; endo- 

 sperm o. Sabia, McUosnia. (Pf. Ill, 5, 367.) 



Family 264. Icacinaceae. Tropical trees and shrubs, with al- 

 ternate or opposite leaves ; sepals 5-4 ; petals 5-4 ; stamens 5-4 ; 

 pistil superior, of 5 or 3 carpels. Icacina. (Pf. Ill, 5, 233.) 



Family 265. Melianthaceae. Tropical trees and shrubs, with 

 alternate leaves, and pentamerous, zygomorphic flowers. Meli- 

 anthiis. (Pf. Ill, 5, 374.) 



Family 266. Empetraceae. Heath-like shrubs, with small 

 leaves; flowers small, mostly dioecious, solitary or in heads; 

 petals present ; stamens 2-3, 2- to 3-celled ; pistil 2- to many-celled ; 

 seeds solitary, endospermous. Corema, Empetrum. (Pf. Ill, 5, 

 I23-) 



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