380 SYNOPSIS. 



4. Violarieae. Sepals and petals 5. Anthers 5, their connectives enlarged or 

 produced upwards, often connate. Placentas usually 3. — Herbs or shrubs, [with 

 alternate stipulate leaves, (p. 40.) 



5. Pittosporeae. Sepals, petals, and stamens 4 or 6. Placentas usually 2. 

 Capsule coriaceous or woody, 2-valved. — Shrubs or trees, with usually opposite ever- 

 green exstipulate leaves, (p. 46.) 



Ovary sometimes 2-5-oelled. 



* Polygaleae. Flowers irregular. Sepals 5. Petals -3-5. Stamens usually 8, 



monadelphous. — Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves usually alternate, simple, exstipu- 

 late. (p. 52.) 



§ 3. Pistil syncarpous, 1-celled. Placenta basal. 



6. Oaryophylleae.. Sepals 4 or 5. Petals 4 or 5 or 0, free. Stamens 4 or 5, 

 8 or 10, hypogynous or perigynous. — Herbs, with opposite entire leaves. Flowers 

 white or green, (p. 53.) 



Petals absent in some Stellariae and Colobanthus. Stamens perigynous in Golobanthus. 



I . Portulaceae. Sepals 2. Petals 5, usually united at the base. Stamens 

 5, usually opposite and adherent to the bases of the petals. — Herbs, with opposite, 

 alternate, or imbricate leaves. Flowers white, (p. 64.) 



§ 4. Pistil more or less syncarpous, 2 or more celled. Placentas axile. Disk 0, or a raised torus. 



8. Elatineae. Sepals and petals 2-5, all free, imbricate. Stamens definite, 

 hypogynous, free. Ovary 2-5-celled ; ovules many. — Small creeping water-herb. 

 Leaves opposite, stipulate, pellucid-dotted. Flowers minute, solitary, axillary, (p. 66.) 



9. Hypericineae. Sepals and petals 5, hypogynous, free, imbricate. Stamens 

 indefinite, hypogynous, free or polyadelphous. Ovary 3-5-oelled; styles 3-5, free 

 or connate ; ovules numerous. — Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with opposite exstipulate 

 pellucid-dotted leaves. Flowers yellow, in 3-chotom.ous cymes, (p. 67.) 



10. Malvaceae. Calyx-lobes 5, valvate. Petals 5, usually connate at the 

 base and adnate to the staminal tube, contorted. Stamens indefinite ; filaments mon- 

 adelphous ; anthers 1-celled. Ovary of 1 or more free or connate carpels. — Herbs, 

 shrubs, and trees, with often stellate down. Leaves alternate, stipulate, (p. 68.) 



II. Tiliaceae. Sepals 4 or 5, valvate. Petals 4 or 5, often lobed or cut, 

 imbricate. Stamens numerous, on a raised torus ; filaments free ; anthers 2-celled, 

 often with terminal pores. Ovary 2-10-celled. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate 

 or opposite, stipulate, (p. 74.) 



12. Lineae. Sepals 5, free, imbricate. Petals 5, free, contorted. Stamens 5, 

 hypogynous ; filaments united at the base into a cup. Ovary 8-5-celled ; styles 3-5, 

 free or connate. — Herbs. Leaves alternate, small, exstipulate. Flowers large, usually 

 corymbose, (p. 77.) 



13. Geraniaceae. Sepals 5, free, imbricate. Petals 5, equal or unequal, free, 

 imbricate. Stamens 10, hypogynous, all fertile or some without anthers ; filaments 

 free or united at the base. Ovary 3-5-lobed; cells usually 1-seeded. — Herbs. Leaves 

 alternate or opposite, stipulate or exstipulate. Flowers usually axillary, solitary, 

 geminate or umbelled. (p. 78.) 



Subclass II. Disciflorae. Flowers with both calyx and corolla. Petals 

 free, and stamens usually inserted upon the surface or at the base of a thickened 

 hypogynous disk. Ovary rarely inferior. 



Exceptions : Petals absent in Dodonaea, in one Pomaderris, Discaria, and Alectryon 

 Stamens hypogynous in Pennantia, Coriaria, and Dodonaea. 

 Ovary inferior in Pomaderris. 



