CONSPECTUS OF ORDERS AND FAMILIES. 



notation .i-ualh axile or on ventral suture of carpels or ovi 

 endulous. Fruit very various, sometimes of achenes or follicles. 





Sub-order ROSALES proper. 

 Herbaceous to woody. Fls. mostly 2-sexual. 

 j or 0. Embryo large.' 



stemonous or diplostemonous. Albumen copious, embryo sm 

 straight. 



Families : 82. Saxifragacece (sensu stricto) ; 83. Crassulacece. 

 Sub-order CUNONIALES. 



To this Hutchinson assigns the woody EscaUonieas, Hydrangea, el 

 Plaeed by Hooker & Bentham in the Saxifragacece. Only cultival 



Family : 84. Dro 



s placed in the Parietales alliance. 

 Sub-order PODESTEMONINE^I. 

 Family : 85. Podestemonacece (q. v.). 

 81 The Rose Family. 

 Woody or herbaceous with stipulate oft 



s. Fls. sometimes small, usually medii 



