L. ERICACEAE. 
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cor., and as many. Style 1 — 2. Placentas parietal. Seeds very 
numerous. 
58. Convolvulaceas. Cor. regular. Stam. alternate with the lobes of 
the cor., and as many. Style 1. Placentas basilar. Seeds very 
few. 
**** Cor. coloured. Stam. distinct. Style terminal. Ovary entire or 
slightly t-lobed, with two or more cells. 
| Ovules solitary in each cell, or in pairs and collateral. 
58. CosvoLVULACEiE. Cor. regular, 4 — 5-lobed. Stam. 4 — 5. Style or 
styles evident. Leaves alternate or none. 
53. A<ju'ifoliacE/E. Cor. regular, 4 — G-partite. Stam. 4 — -6. Stigmas 
sessile. 
54. Oleace.e. Cor. regular, valvate in a?stivation. Stam. 2. Leaves 
opposite. 
64. Verbknace.e. Cor. slightly irregular, with a cylindrical tube and 
5-cleft limb, imbricated in aestivation. Stam. 4. Leaves opposite. 
Ovules in pairs in each cell and superposed, or more than 2. 
57. Polemoniace.e. Cor. regular. Stigmas 3. Ovary and capsule 
3-celled. 
55. Apocynace.e. Cor. regular, twisted in aestivation. Stam. as many 
as the lobes of the cor. Stigma 1, constricted in the middle. 
Fruit of 2 follicles. 
56. Gentianacefe. Cor. regular, twisted in aestivation. Stam. as many 
as the lobes of the cor. Stigmas 1 — 2, without a constriction. 
Fruit imperfectly 2-celled, not follicular. Leaves opposite. 
60. Solanace.e. Cor. with 5 lobes and stamens. Fruit 2- (or spu- 
riously 4-) celled. Seeds more or less peritropal. Embryo hetero- 
tropal. Leaves alternate. Flowers usually extra-axillary. 
62. Scrophulahhce.e. Stamens usually fewer than the lobes of the 
cor. Fruit 2-celled. Seeds ascending. Embryo homotropal. 
[C. Stamens inserted upon the corolla, 8, diadelphous. 
11. Polygalace.e. Cor. irregular, coloured. Style 1, terminal. Ovules 
solitary in each cell.] 
A. Stamens free from the Corolla. (Ord. L. — LII ) 
Ord. L. ERICACEAE Juss. 
Calyx of 4 or 5 divisions, persistent. Corolla of 4 or o 
divisions regular or irregular almost bypogynous, mareescent 
or deciduous. Stam. 8 — 10. Anthers 2-celled, the cells sepa- 
rating at the apex or the base, opening by pores or rarely by a 
longitudinal fissure, often appendagecL Ovary seated upon a 
hypogynous disk, with 4 or more cells. Style 1. Stigma 1, 
often lobed. Fruit a capsule, severul-celled, with an axile pla- 
centa, 5- or many-seeded. Seeds with the outer coat of the same 
form as and close-pressed to the nucleus. Albumen fleshy. — 
Shrubs with opposite or whorled, mostly evergreen and rigid 
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