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Anthers connate into a tube, enclosing the style. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels. 

 Seeds numerous, with a tuft of hairs. 



56. Boraginem, p. 335. Leaves alternate, without stipules. Inflorescence 

 cymose usually unilateral. Flowers regular, 4-6-nierous, 4-6-androus. Calyx 

 persistent ; lobes 4-6, valvate in bud. Ovary 2- or 4-ceUed, often 2-4-lobed. 

 Seeds soUtaiy in each cell or lobe. 



57. Gonvolvulacem, p. 341. Climbers. Leaves alternate, without stipules. 

 Flowers large, regular, bisexual, pentamerous, pentandrous. Calyx of 5 dis- 

 tinct sepals, persistent, often enlarged in fruit. Ovary 2- or 4-ceUed. Seeds 

 few. 



58. Solaneoe, p. 345. Leaves alternate, without stipules. Flowers regular, 

 bisejnial, usually pentamerous and pentandrous. Calyx usually gamosepalotis. 



59. Bignoniacew, p. 346. Leaves opposite, usually compound, without sti- 

 pules. Flowers bisexual, pentamerous, often irregular. Calyx gamosepalous. 

 Stamens 2 or 4, rarely 5. Ovary 2-ceUed. Fruit often elongated. Seeds nu- 

 merous, often winged, without albumen. 



60. Verbenacece, p. 353. Leaves opposite, without stipules. Flowers irreg- 

 ular, 4-5-merous. Calyx gamosepalous, persistent, often enlarged in fruit. 

 Stamens usually 4. Ovary 2- or 4-ceUed. Seeds few, solitary in each cell. 



in. Apetalse or Incompletse. Flowers with a single perianth, con- 

 sisting of distinct or connate leaves or scales, or without perianth (calyx, 

 and coroUa only in Loranthacece and in a few Euphorbiaceous genera). 



[Nyctaginece. Nodes tumid. Leaves usually opposite, unequal ; no stipules. 

 Flowers bisexual or (Pisonia) dioicous. Perianth tubular, campanulate or in- 

 fundibuliform, coloured, base persistent, often hardened, enveloping the 1- 

 seeded achene. — Pisonia aculeata, Linn. ; Wight Ic. t. 1763-64 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. Man. p. 175. Bougainvillea spectahilis, Willd.] 



[PhytolaccecB. Leaves alternate, entire. Flowers usually bisexual, regular. 

 Perianth 4-5-partite, often coloured, imbricate in bud. Ovary a whorl of 1- 

 ceUed more or less distinct carpels ; fleshy in fruit in Phytolacca. — P. acinosa, 

 Eoxb. ; P. dioica, L., p. 371.] 



61. Polygonegs, p. 371 (Galligonum, Atraphaods). Leaves alternate, simple, 

 with sheatting stipules. Flowers small. Perianth regular, 3-6-lobed or of 3-6 

 leaves. Ovary free. Fruit dry, 1-seeded, compressed, trigonous or tetragon- 

 oiTS. Seed with farinaceous albumen. 



62. Laurinem, p. 373. Aromatic. Leaves alternate, usually entire and ever- 

 green, without stipules. Perianth regular, deeply 6-oleft. Stamens normally 

 12, biseriate, but a portion of the stamens generally wanting. Fruit a 1-seeded 

 berry or drupe. Albumen none ; cotyledons fleshy, oily. 



[MyristicacecB. Leaves coriaceous, alternate, often distichous, entire, penni- 

 nerved, without stipules. Flowers inconspicuous, dioicous. Perianth 2-4- 

 generally 3-lolbed, coriaceous, tubular or campanulate ; lobes valvate in bud. 

 Stamens 3-18, monadelphous ; anthers oxtrorse. Capsule fleshy, 2-valved. 

 Seed 1, enveloped in a fleshy laciniate, often aromatic, aril. Embryo minute, 

 in a copious aromatic ruminated albumen.— If j/m^ica moschata, L. (Nutmeg) ; 

 M. laurifolia, H. f. & Th. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 267 ; M. cwticosa, H. f. & Th. ; 

 ib. t. 271 ; and other species in the dense evergreen forests of Burma and the 

 Western Ghats.] 



63. Thymelacece, p. 384. Bark tenacious. Leaves alternate or opposite, en- 

 tire without stipules. Flowers regular, 4-5-merous, bisexual. Perianth gamo- 

 phyllous. Stamens as many as, or twice the number of, perianth-lobes. Ovvtle 

 pendulous^ solitary. Fruit 1-seeded. 



