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SYNOPSIS OF FAMILIES OF VOLUME I (1—35). 



Series I. Monochlamydeae. 



[Fam. 1 — 23.] 



Order I. Piperales. 



(page 128) 1. Piperaceae 



Order II. Salicales. 



(page 130) 2. Salicaceae 



Order III. Myricales. 



(page 132) 3. Myricaceae 



Order IV. Urticales (S. A.) 



A. Trees. Flowers solitary or cymose. Fruit a drupe. 



(page 134) 4. Ulmaceae 



Subfam. Celtideae 



B. Trees. Flowers enclosed in a fleshy receptacle. 

 Fruit a pseudo-syncarp. 



(page 137) 5. Moraceae 



Tribe Ficeae 



C. Herbs, with or without stinging hairs. Fruit a nutlet. 



(page 140) 6. Urticaceae 



Order V. Proteales. 



(page 141) 7. Proteaceae 



Order VI. Santalales. 



A. Ovules free (not embedded in the tissue of the placenta). 



a. Ovary inferior, 1 -celled. Placenta central, with mostly 3 pendulous 



ovules. Ovule without integument. Fruit nut-like or drupa- 

 ceous. 



(page 159) 8. Santalaceae 



b. Ovary inferior, 1 -celled. Placenta central, with 2 pendulous 



ovules. Ovule without integument. Fruit a pseudo-syncarp. 

 (page 163) 9. Grubbiaceae 



c. Ovary free, divided into 2 stories ; the lower compartment 4-celled, 



with a central placenta and 4 pendulous ovules. Fruit a drupe, 

 (page 165) 10. Olacaceae 



B. Ovules indistinct, embedded in the tissue of the ovary. 



Green, parasitic half shrubs. 



(page 166) n. Loranthaceae 



C. Fleshy root-parasites, devoid of chlorophyll. Ovules free in one 



genus (My strop eta Ion) and embedded in the tissue of the placentae 

 in the other (Sarcophyte). 



(page 170) 12. Balanophoraceae 



