10 SYNOPSIS OF TSE ISATUBAL ORDERS. 



\. Flowers xeg. ov ixveg. Cal. -usually sViper. Stam. as many as the 

 cor.-lobes, rarely fewer, epipet, or epig. "^ 



LX. EuBiACE^. Flowers usually reg. and ^-sexual. Cal. super., limb 

 usually 4- 5-cleft. CoroJZa tubular to rotate, usually 4- 5-lobed. Stam. 

 as many as cor.-lobes, inserted on the tube altern. to lobes. Ovary 2-or 

 more-celled, rarely 1-celled ; ovules 1 or more in each cell ; style simple, 

 Disi; epig. Fruit a berry drupe or capsule, or of distinct cocci, 2-many- 

 seeded. Endosp. horny.- Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves opp,, with 

 interpetiolar stip., or (in Tribe Galie^) whorled and exstip. 



LXI. Composite. Flowers veg. or irreg-., 1 -or 2-sexual, arranged in a 

 head on a common receptacle and surrounded by an involucre of bracts, all 

 tubular (head discoid), or the outer or all ligulate (flowers rayed). Cal. 

 super.; limb of hairs ipappus), or scales, or 0. Cor. of ray-flowers with the 

 lobes connate in a strap, of disk flowers with 4 or 5 valvate spreading 

 lobes, stam. on the cor.-tube, fil. free, anth. connate (in Xanthium the 

 fil. are connate and anth. free). Ovary 1-celled ; ovule 1, erect. JJiah 

 epig. jPruit an achene with or without pappus.— Herbs or shrubs, rarely 

 trees. Leaves mostly altern.; stip. 0. 



LXIL Campanulace^, J'loioers reg, or not, 2-sexual. Cal. super, or 

 i super. (Sphencclea), limb 5-part. Cor. 5-lobed, or 2-lipped and dorsally 

 cleft to base, lobes valvate. Stam-. 5, epig. or (in Sphenociea) on base of 

 cor.-tube; anth. distinct or connate. iJvary 2— 3-celled, many-ovuled ; 

 stigmas 2— 3-lobed. Capsule many-seeded. — Herbs with altern. exstip» 

 leaves. 



2. Flowers reg., rarely 1-sexual. Cal. infer., rarely ^ infer, Stam- 

 hypog., perig., epig. or epipet., as many as or twice the number of cor.- 

 lobes, or indef. Ovary 1-or moreceiJed. 



LXIII. Plumbagine^. Cal. infer., tubular, 5-part., persist. Cor. 

 persist., tube long ; lobes 5, only slightly connate at base, twisted in bud. 

 c^iam. 5, opp. pet., hypog. Ovary 1-celled, ovule pendulous from a basal 

 funicle, style simple, stigmas 5. Ca-psule circumsciss. at base.— Herbs or 

 small shrubs with altern. stip. leaves. 



LXIV. Primulace^. Cal. infer, (^ infer, in Samolus), 5-cleft, persist. 

 Cor. hypog. (perig. in Samolus); lobes 5, imbr. Stain. 5, on cor.. tube and 

 opp. the lobes. Ovary 1-celled ; ovules many, on a free central placenta. 

 Capsule 5-valved or circumsciss.— Herbs with opp. or altern. leaves, 

 stip. 0. 



LXV. Mtbsine^. Flowers often 1 -sexual. Cal. infer, or | infer-, 

 persist. Cor. 4 - -^-part. Stam. epipet., as many as cor.-lobes and opp. to 

 them. Ovary 1-celled ; ovules few or many, on a free central placenta, 

 style simple. Fruit a berry, 1-or more-seeded, endospermous. — Trees or 

 shrubs, with altern. simple exstip. leaves. 



LXVL Sapotaoe^. Cal. infer., persist., 6— 8- part. Cor.-lobes 5— H, 

 or 15 — 21 in 2 series. Stam. 5 S, altern. with staminodes, or many and 

 without staminodes. Ovary about 6 -8-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell, 

 iierr-i/,!— 6-seeded. Seeds lajge, shining.— Trees with altern. entire exstip 

 leaves. 



LXVn. EBENACEiE. (Diospyros). Flowers 1-sexual. ^ Cal. infer., 

 4— 5-lobed, accrescent. Cor. tubular or urceolate, lobes twisted. IMai.e 



