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Ordee xciv. AFOCVMACSa:. (By J. D. Hooker.) 



Erect or twining shrubs, rarely herbs or trees. Leaves opposite or whorled 

 (scattered in Cerbera and Plumerid), quite entire, exstipulate. Flowers in tei'- 

 minal or axillary cymes, hermaphrodite, regular. Calyx inferior ; lohes 5, 

 rarely 4, imbricate, often glandular within at the base. Corolla rotate or salver- 

 shaped ; lobes 6, rarely 4, spreading, contorted and often twisted in bud, very 

 rarely valvate. Stamens 5, rarely 4, on the tube throat or mouth of the corolla, 

 filaments usually short ; anthers oblong linear or sagittate, conniving, conneci- 

 tive sometimes adhering to the stigma ; cells 2, dehiscing lengthwise, sometimes 

 produced downwards into an empty spur ; pollen granular. Disk annular, cup- 

 ular or lobed, or of glands, or 0, sometimes concealing the ovary. Ovary 

 1-celled ' with 2-parietal placentas, or 2-ceUed- with axile placentas, or of 2 

 distinct or partially connate carpels ; style simple or divided at the base only ; 

 top thickened ; stigma 2-fid, acute or obtuse. Ovules in each cell 2, or few or 

 many and 2-oo -seriate, rarely solitary. Fruit a dry or fleshy drupe, berr}', or 

 samara, or of 2 drupes, berries or follicles. Seeds various, often winged, or with 

 a terminal pencil of long silky hairs {Coma) ; albumen hard fleshy, or scanty ot ■ 

 ; embryo straight, cotyledons flat, concave, convolute or contorted, radicle 

 usually superior. — ^Disieib. Species about 900, chiefly tropical. 



Tribe I. Carissese. Anthers included, free from the stigma; cells 

 rounded at the base. Ovary of 3 wholly combined carpels, 1-2-celled. Fruit 

 large, usually fleshy or pulpy within. Seeds without wing or pencil of hairs. 

 Corolla-lobes overlapping to the left in all. 



* Onary 1-eelled, with parietal ovules. 



Fruit indehiscent. Albumen 1. Willoughbeia. 



T?rait 2-valved. Albumen horny 2. Chilocabptjs. 



•* Ovary 2-eelled, with axile ovules. 



Flowers 4-merou3. Erect shrubs. Seeds exalbnminous . 3. Levconotis. 



Climbing shrubs. Corolla-month with lobed scales ... 4. Mblodinus. 



Climbing slender unarmed shrub. Corolla-mouth naked . 5. Winchia. 



Erect or stout chmbing armed shrubs 6. Caeissa. 



Teibe II. PlumerleaB. Anthers included, free from the stigma, cells 

 rounded at the base. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels united by the style. Fruit 

 various. Seeds peltate. Corolla-lobes overlapping to the left except in Ochrosia. 



SiJBiBlBE 1. Rauwolfieae. Calyx eglandular within. Carpels 1-2-, 

 rarelv 4-6-ovuled. Fruit of 2 1-seeded drupes or berries, rarely moniliform 

 (of superposed drupes). 



Leaves usually whorled. Disc present. Albumen even . 7. BAtJWOLriA. 

 Leaves usually whorled. Disc 0. Albumen ruminate . . 8. Alyxia. 

 Leaves opposite. Disc 0. Albumen smooth 9. Hdntebia. 



Stjbteibe 2. Cerbereae. Calyx glandular within. Carpels 2-, rarely 

 4-ovuled ; ovules on opposite sides of a thick placenta. Drupes or berries 

 1-seeded, or 2-seeded, the seeds separated by the enlarged placenta. 



Leaves scattered, alternate. Corolla funnel-shaped ... 10. Cekbera. 

 Leaves opposite. Corolla salver- shaped, lobes overlapping 



to the right 11. Ochkosia. 



Leaves opposite. CoroUa salver-shaped 12. Kopsia, 



