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obsolete ; stipules 0. Floivers in cymes, rarely solitary, regular, 

 hermaphrodite ; bracts at cyme-bases or under solitary flowers oppo- 

 site ; bracteoles at base of pedicels small, scale-like. Sepals 5, 

 imbricate, occasionally slightly connate below, often persistent, some- 

 times accrescent. Corolla campanulate or infundibuliform, rarely 

 sub-rotate ; limb with 5 short or long lobes often plicate in bud, after 

 flowering either involute or reverting to the original aestivation. 

 Stamens 5, adnate to corolla-tube ; anthers oblong, opening by longitu- 

 dinal introrse or lateral slits. Carpels visually 2, very rarely 3 or more ; 

 connate throughout in a superior ovary with its base often encircled 

 by an annular or lobed disk, and its cells as many or, by development 

 of accessory partitions, twice as many as the component carpels, rarely, 

 from absorption of dissepiments, fewer than carpels ; ovules 2 in each 

 carpel, sessile erect anatropous ; style solitary or rarely styles 2 ; 

 stigma capitate or 2-lobed or 2-fid. Fruit an indehiscent often dry 

 berry, or a 2-4-valved or circumscissile or irregularly opening capsule. 

 Seeds 4 to 2, rarely solitary, erect ; albumen scanty or ; cotyledons 

 generally plicate, rarely flat. — Disteib. Species about 1,000, in all 

 regions, but more abundant in sub-tropical and tropical countries. 



Corolla-tube usually uniformly enlarged from base to apex, the 

 5 bands or lobes rarely, except in Erycibe, clearly defined from 

 the intervening spaces ; pollen not spinulose : — 



Yellow parasitic twining leafless herbs . . . . . . 1. Cuscuta. 



Green non-parasitic leafy herbs, shrubs or trees : — 



Fruit indehiscent, woody or fleshy, rather large ; style short 



or ; stigma 5-10-rayed ; corolla-lobes 2-fid, the lobules 



induplicate, contorted ; woody, climbing shrubs or erect trees 2. Erycibe. 



Fruit dehiscent, or if indehiscent small, with thin fragile 



walls : — 



Flowers in racemes or panicles — 



Bracts not enlarged in fruit ; outer 3 or all of the sepals 

 enlarged in fruit ; style entire or shortly 2-lobed ; capsule 

 indehicent or rarely 2-valved . . . . . . 3. Poeana. 



Bracts in fruit much enlarged, scarious, adnate to calyx ; 

 sepals not enlarged ; capsule 4-valved, 1-seeded . . 4. Neueopeltis. 



Flowers in cymes or solitary ; capsule valvate or opercular, 

 rarely dehiscing irregularly : — 



Styles 2, free or partially united below ; sepals not or 

 slightly enlarging in fruit : — 



Capsule 4-valved, 2-1-locular, 4-2-seeded ; styles quite 



free, each 2-branched ; cymes few-flowered . . 5. Evolvdlus. 



Capsule irregularly dehiscent, splitting into numerous 



vertical segments ; styles usually partially united below, 



stigmas capitate ; cymes sub-capitate . . . . 6. Bonamia. 



Style entire, stigmas usually 2 : — 



Ovary 1-locular ; capsule 4-valved, 4-seeded ; stigmas 

 shortly oblong ; calyx-lobes not enlarged in fruit :— 



