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GG. Fruit i- or few seeded. 



Fruit winged or ribbed ; trees or 



shrubs ...... COMBRETACE.^. 



Fruit not winged ; flowers uni- rarely 



bisexual, herbs, in wet places . Halokagidace^'e. 

 CC. Inflorescence usually an umbel, either 

 racemose or cymose ; ovules solitary, 

 pendulous ; seeds endospermous. (Co- 

 hort Cmbelliflor^.) 

 D. Fruit a drupe or berry, 2-4 celled; 

 trees or shrubs. 

 Leaves alternate, palmate with small 



stipules ...... Araliace.t;. 



Leaves opposite, penninerved, exsti- 



pulate ...... CuRNACE.^:. 



DD. Fruit a schizocarp, 2-celled. 



Herbs or shrubs with simple or com- 

 pound leaves, petioles sheathing . Umbellii"ER.e. 



Series IF — Sympetalae. 



Calyx and corolla present, the petals united, rareh" free or nearly so. 

 Ovules wilh a single integument. 



A. Flowers as a rule pentacyclic and isocarpic, 

 i.e. with live floral cycles and number of 

 carpels equal to parts in the other cycles. 

 Floral formula K5, C5, S5 + 5 (in which 

 either whorl ma\' be wanting in some 

 forms), G (5). 

 B. Stamens diplostemonous (twice as many 

 as petals) the outer whorl alternating with 

 the petals or by the suppression of the 

 outer whorl equal to and of-positc to the 

 petals, rarely, by branching of the fila- 

 ments, stamens many; epipetalous. 

 C. Outer whorl of stamens fertile or repre- 

 sented by petaloid staminodia; placen- 

 tation axile, woody plants with simple 

 leaves. (Cohort Ebenales.) 

 Plants milky, fruit a drupe or berrv, seeds 



erect ....... Sapotace.-^, 



Plants not milky, seeds hanging, fruit 



a berry ...... Ebenace.e. 



CC. Outer stamens absent, inner opposite 

 to petals ; placentation basal or free 

 central. (Cohort Primulales.) 



