Natural Orders. | IV.—INCOMPLET#. 181 
on the opposite sides of each placenta; seeds with a distinct testa; 
— nth 3-lobed, often irregular ; stamens 6; scandent herbs or 
rubs . CVI. Aristolochiacee. 
beans 1-locular ; ovules 1-3; seeds with? no proper testa; stamens 
as many as and opposite the inner or only perianth- -lobes : _ 
calycine or corolline; terrestrial herbs, shrubs or trees frequently 
semiparasitic on roo OXIV. neaied 
Ovule solitary, erect from the base of the ovary but at first not 
clearly distinguishable from the tissues of the inner carpellary 
all; perianth corolline simple or sometimes double, the inner 
— large, the outer minute; epiphytic rarely terrestrial 
miparasitic undershrubs or shrubs ..CXIII. Loranthacee. 
foraey superior ni — — ng perianth’ or (N war ae ELzxac- 
h-base ; 1-locular 
4 
NACE) with its b 
and 1-ovuled or occasionally (most Puyrotaccace®) of several free or 
some TuyMEL#aAce®) of 2 synearpous 1-ovuled carpels, rarely 1-locu 
with (some AmMARANTACER) 2-many ovules on a free-central, or with 
(some Prorgace#) 2 collateral or more than 2 biseriately superposed 
— st & tateral £ caagen ht 1 
the porvers straight; trees or shrubs, very rarely herbs —[P. 129)” 
i beorolli 
as many as the perianth-lobes, anthers normal; ovary 
ovule solitary erect; trees or shrubs ene wm or stellate 
tomentum II. Elzagnacee. 
Perianth tuih “ ee th } her long: esis: 
Stamens as many as and cman or twice aaa thrice as many 
as the perianth-lobes :— 
Perianth-lobes 4, valvate, tube long or short; stamens always 
ers normal; ovary 1-locular, ovules 
several 2-seriately su ; 
th calycine or corolline; trees or shrul 
Perianth-lobes asap sine stamens often in 2, rarely in 3 
series ; ovules pendulou : 
Perianth-tube rather pe lobes 4-5, 1-seriate; stamens 
twice as 
as many as the lobes, sometimes fewer 
many, very rarely thrice as many, anthers norm ovary 
