SYNOPSIS OF NATURAL ORDERS. 9 
Borraginee.—Flowers in cymes or pose sided — or spikes. Ovary 2- 
or 4-celled with a solitary ovule in each cell; or 2-celled with 2 sane 
ovules in each cell. Style single, enn, or rarely forked. Fruit a drupe, 
or dry, and separating into 2 or 4 n pase or scanty. Trees 
or shrubs, or hispid herbs, with aay sitanane lea 
Convolvulacee.—Corolla-limb okies in the bud. Oni of 2 to 4 cells or 
carpels, with 1 or 2 erect ovules in each. Style simple or Somer gar or 
2 distinct styles. Fruit caps ala? or succulent and indehisce Seeds 
with eng or no albumen. Cotyledons much folded (or inooliapasile in 
Cuscuta). Herbs 0 r shrubs, often peg a trees or leafless parasi- 
tic twiners; juice tii milky. es altern 
23. SoLanaLEs.—Corolla monopetalous, hypogynous, is pcg ls age ss 
m ny as corolla- sees epipetalous, caver or unequa 
syncarpous, 2-celled, with numerous eure eoh.c ell. 
Solanee Pes ate bes foll ties rarely in bud. Ovary 2-celled 
or c Boarted een (rarely 3. or sella), rath eaweal ovules in each m0 
ta — Fruit a berry or a caps albuminous. Em 
or cae Herbs or shenke: rarely small trees, with 
sieeniicia acres: 
* % Flowers irregular. Of the stamens usually 1 or 3 wholly or partially 
aborted. 
94. PERSONAT 77, of hypogynous. tien 2, lipped. Sta 
Sewer alk ioc tdic debe, mare as unequal, us ually 4 = didy- 
mous, or 2. Ova: 2- very 7 ee 4-celled, ees usually 
ary 1 
numerous ovules in each ceil Style simple, stigmas 1-2. Fruit usually 
capsular. 
Bignoniacee.—Perfect _ stamens 4 in pairs, or ay Ovary 2-celled with 
oes Sai : oral posse ve Vaud sak 
oO ly numerous. it m very é. 
winged. “Albumen mone. ee a diett slivabe, 
with opposite often compound lea 
Acanthacee.—Perfect stamens 4 in pairs, or 2 only, with or without a pair 
of aes entary ones. Ovary 2-celled with 2 or more supe ovules 
in e cell. Fruit a capsule opening elastically in 2 valves. ee 
disnilly supported by hooked or rarely cup-shaped or minute s 
_ Albumen none. Herbs o tection a iprere g with opposite leaves : 
Pedalinee.—Perfect stamens 4 in pairs, 0 y 2only. Ovary composed 
of 2, rarely 3 or 4 carpels, oat divided (at yee after flowering) into twice 
as many delle by spurious dissepiments Ovules 2 or more, or rarely 
inde! 
1 only in each eae cell (half-carpel).. Fruit hard aa hiscent or 
capsular. Albumen none. Herbs with opposite leaves. ie 
25. LaMrates. et peice usually 2-lipped, igh almost regular or quite 
regular, fewer 
| icropyle and radi inferior. 
sometimes scandent. Leaves opposite or rarely al 
