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Cohort X. RUBIALES. Flowers regular or irregular ; stamens as” 
many as corolla-lobes, epipetalous ; ovary 2- or multi-locular ; ovules 
solitary or numerous ; seeds with or very rarely without endosperm. ~ 
Shrubs or trees rarely herbs, with opposite or verticillate often stipulate 7 
leaves ; calyx never pappose. ? 
Order 1, RUBIACEA. (Figs. 504, 505.) ‘Trees or shrubs, rarely 
herbs, with simple, entire, oppcsite leaves.] The stipules are in many 
Fic. 504.—Galium Aparine; I. part of plant (natural size); II. fower and fruit — | 
(magnified) ; III. longitudinal section through fruit (greatly magnified), oe 
genera so similar to the true leaves as to give the appearance ofa spu- 
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alternate with them ; the ovary bilocular, the seeds solitary or rarely i. 
two in each loculus, or multilocular and the seeds several in each division. 
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