XX KEIZ" TO TH!3 OEDErs, 



A.iiSTOLOCHiACEiE. — Calyx 3-lobed, dull purple insids. 



Ovary 6-ceUed ISX 



SANTALACBiE. — Low plants with greenlsh-white flowers in 

 terminal clusters. Calyx-tube prolonged, and 

 forming a neck to the 1-oelled nut-like fruit 195 



ELjBAGnaceje. — Shrubs with scurfy leaves. Flowers per- 

 fect or dioecious. Calyx 4-parted, in the fertile 

 flowers apparently adherent to the ovary, and 

 becoming fleshy in fruit 194 



* * * Calyx inferior (plainly free from the ovary). 



•I— Ovaries more than one and separate from each other. 



Ranunchlace^. — Calyx present, coloured and petal-like. 



Achenes containing several seeds, or only one. ... 2 



RuTACB^, — Prickly shrubs, with compound transparent- 

 dotted leaves, and dioecious flowers 43 



•\~ -I- Ovary only one, but with more than one cell (except in 

 Glaux). 



CRASSULACEiE. — Herbs, In wet places. Pod 5-celled and 



5-horned 78 



Phytolaccaoe.^. — Herbs. Ovary 10-oelled and 10-seeded 183 



EUPHORBIAOE^. — Herbs. Ovary 3-celled, 3-lobed, pro- 

 truded on a long pedicel. Juice milky 195 



Sapindace^. — Trees. Ovary 2-celled and 2-lobed. Fruit 

 two 1-seeded samaras joined together. Flowers 

 polygamous , 47 



Rhamnacb^. — Shrubs. Ovary 3-celled and S-seeded ; 



forming a berry 45 



FlCOiDE.a;. — Prostrate herbs with whorled leaves. Ovary 



3-oeUed, many-seeded 86 



Ueticace^. — Trees. Leaves simple. Ovary 2-celled, but 

 fruit a 1-seeded samara winged all round. Stig- 

 mas 2 198 



BMPBTBACEiE. — Low shrubby evergreens with heath-like 



leaves 213 



Glaux, in 



PRiMULACE.a!. — Herbs. Ovary 1-celled, the placenta cen- 

 tral 145 



•f- -1- +- Ovary only one, 1-celled and 1-seeded. 



Polygon ACE.a;. — Herbs. Stipules sheathing the stem at 



the nodes ISS 



