VASCULAR PLANTS. 87 



Stamens 8, sometimes 4 or less, usually moua- 

 delplious. Ovary 2-locular; style 1. Stipules 0. 



l. Polygala, L. 



Calyx persistent. Stamens 8, ascending; 

 filaments united at the base into an anteriorly 

 cleft tube. Ovary 2-locular; loculi 1-ovulate. 

 Capsule loculicidal. 0. U- l> • 



Family LIV. Sapindaceae. 



Sepals 5, often irregular and more or less 

 connate. Disk fleshy. Petals alternate with 

 sepals and appendiculate at their claws, some- 

 times one or all of them wanting. Stamens 

 twice as many as sepals, 1-seriate, sometimes 

 reduced in number. Ovary 3 locular; loculi 

 1 — 2 -ovulate. 



1. ^sculus, L- 



Polygamous. Calyx irregular, gamosepalous. 

 Petals unguiculate, 5, or by abortion of the an- 

 terior one, 4. Stamens 6 — 8; filaments ascend- 

 ing. Loculi of ovary 2-ovulate. Fruit a locu- 

 licidous capsule, generally by abortion, 1-loc- 

 ular, 1-seeded. 



*? . leaves palmate, deciduous. 



2. Acer, Moencli. 



Polygamous. Petals as many as sepals, in- 

 serted into the margin of the lobate, hypogy- 

 nous disk. Stamens 8, inserted with the petals. 



