Introduction. XXVil 
Flowers not tetramerous. 
Shrubs with persistent coriaceous leaves and 
red or white flowers . Escallonia, page 186 
§§ Ovary wholly superior. 
t Leaves stipulate. 
* Carpels distinct or solitary. 
Anthers with recurved valves, Evergreen or deciduous 
shrubs with yellow flowers . fs . Berberidee, p. 28 
Anthers opening longitudinally. 
Fruit leguminous (a pod). Herbs, shrubs, or trees with 
usually alternate compound leaves, irregular (pea- 
shaped) flowers, and more or less united stamens, 
Leguminose, p. 113 
Fruit drupaceous or capsular. Herbs or shrubs 
Rosace@, p. 142-171 
** Carpels consolidated together with more placentas than one. 
Placentas parietal. 
Flowers with a whorl of appendages termed a corona. 
Climbing plants with alternate lobed leaves and 
tendrils . - ? . - Passifloree, p. 205 
Flowers small and Acme ghenpne. Tufted scapigerous 
herbs with glandular leaves circinate in vernation 
Droseracee, p. 19% 
Flowers irregular, showy, usually fragrant; petals sac- 
cate or spurred. Herbs with entire or divided 
leaves, solitary uxillary flowers, and a dry capsular 
fruit . ‘ F . 7 i .  Violariee, p. 57 
Placentas axile. 
Styles distinct to the base. 
Calyx imbricated. Stamens perigynous. Scapigerous 
tufted herbs with alternate leaycs, 
Tribe Saxifragee, p. 178 
Calyx valvate. Trees with simple alternate cordate 
leaves and greenish-yellow cymose flowers re- 
markable for the bread bract adnate to the 
peduncle : : : . Tilacee, p. 84 
Styles more or less combined, process from the base 
of the carpels (gynobasic). 
Gynobase dry. Fruit beaked. Herbs having usually 
alternate leaves and umbellate solitary or geminate 
flowers. Geranium and Pelargonium, p. 88 
Gynobase dry. Frnite not beaked. Herbs with 3- or 
4-foliolate leaves and umbellate flowers . Ozalis, p. 93 
Styles more or less combined, not gynobasic. 
Calyx more or less imbricated. Shrubs or trees 
: having deciduous alternate or opposite leaves and 
unsymmetrical flowers : : Sapindacee, p. 104 
Calyx slightly imbricated; sepals only two. Herbs 
with simple leaves. . 3 . Portulacee, p. 74 
Calyx valvate or open. 
Stamens opposite to petals and equal to them in 
number. 
