432 ROSACER. 3 [ Parinarium. 
torus. Albumen none, rarely present.—Trees, shrubs, or under- 
shrubs, with simple or compound leaves. Stipules usually present. 
Flowers in axillary or terminal cymes or solitary, rarely in simple 
racemes. 
An order of about 24 Burmese species, several of them trees. 
Apple, pear, sorb, medlar, quince, peaches, nectarines, plums, 
cherries, almonds, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and many 
other fruits reckon amongst this order. Astringent properties 
prevail. Some of them excel for the beauty of their flowers, like 
the roses, ete. 
* Ovary and frui 
x Calyx or its oe ually ae oe greannied 
= el solitary ; fruit ovules 
crcl. with en imple le lea 
O Flowers i rrogula sists teal: ovules ascending ; 
inferi . Parinarium. 
OO Flowers pot ; style nearly terminal ; ovules 
: suspended 
Calyx 5-lobed ; petals 5; drupe straight, ‘with abony putamen . Prunus. 
Calyx 5-15-toothed often 
; petals | 510 te or none; drupe 
transversely oblong, coriace . Pygeum. 
pe 4 ne are ‘aaaiie Sailnick with or without bract- 
Ca usually many. Fruit v: 
arpe 
oO caries without bractlets ; ovules 2; geen 
undershrubs . Rubus. 
sedge = 
Oo oO per eet "with p brace Ovule solitary. 
Receptacle in fruit ed ; herbs with 's "Pliolate leaves . Fragaria. 
Receptacle in fruit dry ; herbs or undershrubs with compound 
leaves . . Potentilla. 
*x* O enclosed i in the calya-tube or inferior. Ripe car- 
vary enc 
 derete omg in the roe calyx-tube. 
© Achens many, 1-seeded, dry, enclosed in the fleshy ~ 
calyx-tbe 3 anibe with unpaired-pinnate leaves . Rosa. 
OO Ovary-cells or carpels 1-5, 2-ovuled. sigee ir gis tutta 
nt a 2-5-celled putamen, or a 1-5 pyr 
us drupe 
Apple 2-5-celled, “he cathe. ‘separate, the — — cartila- 
ginous ; — trees or shrubs . Pirn 
Berry 1-5-celled, the endocarp and septa thin; evergreen trees ag ete 
PARINARIUM, Juss. 
Flowers often polygamous or hermaphrodite, the females with 
long filiform staminodes, the males with a small abortive ei 
aval or none. Stamens 10 or ‘more, all fertile or some of them 
without anthers, perce, the filaments short and persistent. 
Ovary of a single carpel sessile on the bottom of the calyx, 1-celled 
rect. ovules; style lateral from the base ; stigma large 
pelt succulent, rarely almost dry, surrounded. at the 
ase ys “gt “eye calyx, the gene bony, usually 2-s 
w —Trees or + shrubs, wit h alternate simple leaves. 
