SYNOPSIS OF ORDEBS AND FAMILIES, ETC. XIII 



Family 32. Tiliaceae (Page 243) 



Flowers perfect, regular; sepals and petals 3-5, the latter rarely 

 wanting; stamens numerous; stamens free or connate attached to 

 the disk ; ovary superior, 2-10 celled ; ovules l-severai in each cell. 

 Fruit a capsule or a drupe, or nut-like, or separating into druplets 

 or rarely a berry. 



Family 33. Sterculiaeeae (Page 248) 



Flowers perfect or unisexual ; sepals 3-6, united ; petals wanting 

 or reduced; stamens in 2 whorls, those opposite the sepals reduced 

 to staminodes, those opposite the petals more or less united into a 

 tube; ovary superior, 4-5 celled; fruit dry, rarely fleshy. Trees, 

 shrubs or herbs with alternate simple or digitate leaves. 



ORDER PARIETALES 



Flowers spiral to cyclic, usually with indefinite stamens and carpels, 

 both calyx and corolla present, hypogynous to epigynous ; carpels more 

 or less united, usually with parietal placentae which also may come 

 together in the center, very rarely ovules basal. 



Family 34. Theaceae (Page 250) 



Flowers usually perfect, regular, showy; sepals and petals 

 usually 5 (4-9); stamens usually numerous; ovary superior 3-5 

 (-10) celled; ovules usually 2 in each cell; fruit a capsule, dru- 

 paceous, or dry and indehiscent. Trees or shrubs with alternate, 

 entire leaves. 



Family 35. Flacourtiaceae (Page 251) 



Flowers regular, perfect or unisexual ; stamens numerous ; sepals 

 2-15; petals 10-0; carpels 2-10 with indefinite ovules on parietal 

 placentae; fruit a berry or a capsule. Trees, shrubs or climbers 

 with alternate, simple leaves with small stipules. 



B. Ovary inferior. 



ORDER MYRTIFLORAE 



Flowers cyclic, both calyx and corolla present, perfect, 4 or 5-merouB; 

 carpels seldom free, usually septate. Rarely herbs, mostly shrubs or trees 

 with opposite, simple leaves, without stipules. 



