XXV111 CLASS V. 



PA,L. 



Cklastbt s.— Calyx minute. Petals sessile. Stamens on the margin of a cup- 

 shaped disk Pistil on the disk. Seeds 1 or 2 in each cell, erect, en- 

 closed by a pulpy scarlet aril.— Climb in g or twining shrubs, wilk alternate 

 leaves. 7 z 



EtfOKTMUB. — Sepals 4 or 5, united at the base. Petals 4 or 5, rounded, spread- 

 ing. Stamens very short. Style short or none. — Shrubs, with i-sided 

 branches, and green, or dark purple flowers. 73 



Cwnothus. — Calyx 5-lobecl. Petals hood-form, on slender claws. Filaments 

 elongated. Fruit 3-lobed, dry and splitting into its 3 carpels when ripe. 

 Shrubby plants, with white flowers in little umbel-like clusters. 434 



Ite •,. — Calyx bell-shaped, 5-cleft, free from the ovary. Petals lanceolate, much 

 longer than the calyx and stamens. Styles 2, united. — A shrub, with 

 white flowers in simple spicate racemes. 129 



** ** Flowers 4 cr b-pctallecl y regular. Fruit a drupe or 

 brrry. 



Vitis. — Calyx 4 or 5-toothed. Petals 4 or 5, cohering at the apex, deciduous. 

 Stigma simple, sessile. Berry 2-cellcd, 1 to 4-seeded. — Shrubs, climbing 

 by tendrils, with fragrant greenish flowers. 74 



Ampelopsis. — Calyx nearly entire. Petals 5, concave, spreading. SILrmas 

 capitate.— Shrubby creepers, with digittate or cordate leaves, and cymose 

 clusters of floiuers. 



RHAMKU8. — Calyx urn-shaped, 4 or 5-cleft. Petals 4 or 5, shorter than the 

 sepals, sometimes very minute or wanting. Stamens 4 or 5. Style 2 to 

 4-cleft. — Small trees or shrubs, with minute flowers. 73 



Eibes. — Calyx bell-shaped or tubular, 4 or 5-parted. Petals 4 cr 5, small, in- 

 serted into the throat of the calyx. Stamens 5, very short. Styles •_>. 

 distinct or united.— Shrubs, often with prickly branches. Fruit mostly 



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Hedeka. — Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5, dilated at the base. Berry 5*seeded. sur- 

 rounded by the permanent calyx. — Exotic shrubby, climbing or erect 

 plants, with simple evergreen leaves, and greenish flowers. 143 



* * * * * Flowers 2, 4 or 5-petaUed, irregular. Seeds in a 



■apsule. 



Viola. — Sepals 5, auricled at their base. Petals 5, unequal, the larger one 

 spurred at the base, the 2 lateral equal. Stamens approximate, fila- 

 ments distinct. .Anthers connate. Capsule 1-eelled, 3-valved.— Low 

 herbs, toith pretty flowers on angular, solitary peduncles. 37 ' 



SOLEA. — Sepals not auricled. Petals unequal, the lowest one 2-lobed and some- 

 what gibbous at the base. Capsule somewhat 3-seeded. — Flowers green- 

 ish, in the axils of the leaves. 40 ■ 



IMPATIENS. — Sepals 5, the lower one spurred, the 2 upper united so as to appear 

 like one. Petals 2, unequabsided and 2-lobed. Stamens short, Stig- 

 mas 5, united. Capsule bursting elastically. — Herbs, with smooth succu- 

 lent stems, w ith t um id je in ts. G4 



****** Flowers with a single corolla-like perianth. 



Comaxdra. — Perianth bell-shaped or urn-shaped, the limb 5-clcffc, persistent. 

 Anthers adhering to the lobes of the perianth by a tuft of thread. — 

 Herbs, with aUernate oblong and sessile leaves, and greenish-white flowers, 

 in terminal or axillary cymes. 31G 



CiOMPRRExa. — Bracts 5, colored, the 3 outer ones keeled. Sepals 5, villous. 



Disk cylindric, 5-toothed.' Utricle 1-seeded.— Flowers in globose bracts. 302 '. 



Celosia.— Sepals 3 to 5, colored. Stamens united at base by a plaited disk. 



Style 2 or 3-cleft.— Ornamental exotics, 302 ; 



