GERANIACEA. 293 
Order XXIX. GERANIACEA. 
_ Herbs, sometimes climbing, rarely shrubs, very rarely trees. 
Leaves epee or RAE simple, occasionally peltate, usually 
dentate or lobed, or ompound sometimes sensitive ; ; stipules 
usually 2. Flovwers terae rodite, icy or irregular, usually 
ier: Disk inconspicuous or glandular. Sepale 5, rarely 4 or 
2, free or connate, imbricate or wee rll the upper sometimes 
spurred. Petals 3-5, or 0, h ypogynous or subperigynous, im- 
bricate, occasionally contorted. Stam ens usually 5 1-seriate in 
irregular flowers, 10 or 15 2-3-seriate in regular flowers, fre- 
quently some deformed ; Aasents filiform or dilated, free or con- 
nate below; anthers 2—celled ve atile ; dehiscence longitudinal 
lateral. Carpels united in a 3-5- lobed and 8—5-celled ovary, rarely 
2- pene produced upwards with the axis in a style-bearing beak or 
styles free or only partly conan stigmas capitate or linear ; 
wae 1-2, less often more in each cell, pendulous, ase 
yb 
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y. Seed often solitary, pendulous or horizontal; album 
tarely fleshy, usually scanty or 0; embryo straight or curved. 
Flowers gt or subregular; sepals herbaceous, not spurred, im- 
ica ted ; stam: B Agu 
Glands on ep torus 5, alternating with the subregular petals ; capsules 
beaked, the valves when dehiscing rolled elastically upwards; leaves 
simple ; RE 5. sen'sarnick ccessornsin tases Soc Cee iu eae Geranium. 
Glands on the torus 0; capsules not beaked ; leaves compound :— 
ble of loculicidally dehiscent capsules; stamens all perfect; 
érbs -—— 
Valves cohering with axis; leaves digitately compound ...Oxalis. 
Valves detaching from axis; leaves pinnately comp ound 
B 
iophytum. 
Fruits of indehiscent serie ; often 5 of the stamens reduced to 
Minodes ; leaves pinnate; trees .......sesseesseeeeereeeeeeets Averrhoa. 
pi 
Nlowers irr egular; sepals eran ei the tiquper epurred ; stamens 
*Y Short, 5, with subconnate anthers :—= 
Later: al petals connate in pairs; fruit capsular, elastically sa te 
Impatiens. 
— — free like upper, imbricate; fruit agin fleshy, 
Ndehiscen ggeatas 
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