4 DICOTYLEDONS. 



XXXVII. Staokhodsie^e. Herbs or undershrubs, with simple leaves. Calyx-lobes imbricate. 

 Petals erect, usaally connate. Stamens alternating with the petals. Ovary lobed. 



XXXVIII. BHAMNEffi. Trees or shrubs, with simple leaves. Stipules usuaUy present. Calyx- 

 lobes valvate. Petals small, concave (or none). Stamens opposite the petals. Ovary entire, 

 often inferior. 



XXXIX. AMPELIDE.E. Climbers, with simple or compound leaves, the petiole usually expanded 

 into a stipule. Calyx-lobes Imbricate. Petalsl valvate. Stamens opposite the petals. Ovary 

 entire. Albumen cartilaginous. Embryo small. 



Alliance X'. ' Ssipinda,le&.— Disk fleshy or adnate to the calyx, within or under or out- 

 side the stamens. Gynoecium entire, lobed or apocarpous. Ovules 1 or 2 in each cell, ascending 

 with a ventral raphe, or reversed, or suspended from an erect funiculus, or pendulous with an 

 inferior micropyle. 



XL. SAPiNDAOE.iE. Trees, shrubs, or climbers, with compound or simple leaves. Stamens 

 anisomerous with the petals, or twice as many as petals, or of the same number. Often (but not 

 always} within the disk. Style 1. Ovules ascending, 



XLI. Anacaediaoes. Trees or shrubs, with compound or simple leaves. Stamens as many 

 or twice as many as petals, never within the disk. Ovules suspended from an erect funiole or 

 from the top or side of the cell with an inferior micropyle. 



Order I. RANUNCULACEiE. 



Sepals 3 or more, most frequently 5, usually petal-like and deciduous. Petals 

 of the same number or more, or sometimes none, or very small and deformed. 

 Stamens indefinite, hypogynous, free. Anthers innate. Gynoecium of several 

 carpels, usually free ; ovules anatropous, either solitary and ascending, with a 

 ventral raphe, or pendulous with a dorsal raphe, or several. Fruit of one or more 

 indehiscent achenes or berries, or follicular capsules, the distinct styles usually 

 persistent as short points, or lengthened into long, often bearded tails. Seeds 

 without any arillus. Embryo very small, near the base of a copious albumen. — 

 Herbs either annual, or with a perennial rootstock, or creeping stolons, with 

 radical or alternate leaves, or climbers with opposite leaves. Leaves entire, or 

 palmately or pinnately lobed or divided, the petiole often dilated and sheathing at 

 the base, or rarely accompanied by stipular appendages. Hairs, when present, 

 simple. Flowers regular (or in a few genera, not Australian, irregular), terminal 

 or leaf-opposed, rarely axillary, solitary paniculate or racemose. 



The Order is chiefly numerous in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, rare 

 within the tiopies, and not represented by many species in the southern hemisphere. The 

 Australian ones are nearly all extra tropical, and belong to genera more numerously represented 

 in the north. — Benth. 



Tbibb I. Clematldeee. — Sepals valvate. Carpels indehiscent, with 1 pendulous ovuU or 

 seed in each. Stems often climbing. Leaves opposite. 



Petals none 1. Clematis. 



Tribe II. Anemoneae. — Sepals imbricate. Carpels indehiscent, with 1 pendulous ovule or 

 seed in each. Herbs. Leaves radical or alternate or forming an involucre below the flower. 

 Petals minute, narrow. No involucre. Achenes very numerous, in a long, 



close, slender spike 2. MYOsuHua. 



Tbibe III. Ranunculeee. — Sepals imbricate. Carpels indehiscent, ivith 1 ascending ovule 

 or seed in each. Herbs. Leaves radical or'altemate. 



Stepals deciduous. Petals 3, 5, or more 3, Ranunodlus. 



1. CLEMATIS, Linn. 



(From the Greek, alluding to the twisting branches.) 

 Sepals 4, or rarely 5 to 8, petal-like, valvate in the bud. Petals none, or 

 smaller than the sepals, and passing gradually into the stamens. Carpels many, 

 with one pendulous ovule in each. Achenes capitate, sessile, or scarcely stipitate, 

 terminating in a plumose or simple tail, formed by the persistent and enlarged 

 style. — Stem woody and climbing, or rarely dwarf or prostrate. Leaves opposite. 



