THE PINK FAMILY (ORDER auXARTOPHTLLAC/E.) 
CALYA of 5 ot 4 SEPALS, free or united at the base into a tube, 
remaining with the fruit, inserted below the seedcase. 
COROLLA of 5 or 4 PETALS, the same number as the sepals, sometimes 
minute or absent,free, twisted in bud, inserted below the seedcase. 
STAMENS 5 or 4 ,ioor 8, the same number or twice as many as the 
petals, inserted below the seedcase (hypogynous). 
PISTIL of 2-5CARPELS,united into a rcelled or an 
imperfectly 2- to s-cellecl seedcase covary) 
and dividing into 2-5 styles with the 
stigmatic surface running along their 
entire length. 
FRUIT a rcelled or imperfectly 2-to 5-celled cup- 
sule,many-seeded,opening,to free the seeds when 
ripe, at the top, by as many or twice as many 
teeth as there are styles. 
FLOWERS usually in loose forked clusters the central flower 
opening firshdichotomous cymes), or solitary, generally 
red or white. 
STEMS thickened at the joints modes). 
LEAVES opposite, undivided (Simple), and entire. 
DISTINGUISHED BY the flowers having the same number, 
5 or 4 ,of sepals and petals and the same or double the 
number of stamens, by the usually hcclled, many-seeded 
capsules, by the entire opposite leaves and by the stems, 
with swollen joints modes). 
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stamens pistil 
