DICOTYLEDONS. 
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Cl. Chenopodiack.e. Herbs or shrubs, often succulent or scaly-toment.ose. Leaves alternate 
or rarely opposite, without stipules. Perianth usually herbaceous. Ovary (of 2 or 3 carpels) 
1-celled, with 2 or 3 styles or style-branches and only 1 ovule. 
C1I. Phytolaccace.k. Herbs shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate without stipules. Ovules 1 
in each carpel. 
CIIJ. Polygonace.e. Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, stipules usually thin or scarious 
forming a sheath or ring round the stem Ovary (of 2 or 3 carpels) 1-celled, with 2 or 3 styles 
or style-branches and only 1 ovule. 
Series II. Multiovueat.e Aquatic-e. — Immersed herbs. Ovary a syncarp, 
■each cell or placenta with numerous ovules. 
CIV. Podostemaceaj. Herbs with thalliform or cauliform base, adhering to inundated rocks. 
Leaves or fronds, bryoid or algiform. Perianth small thin or wanting. Stamens various. 
Ovary superior, cells or placentas 2 to 3. Seeds exalbuminous. 
Series III. Multiovulat.e Terrestres. — Herbs or shrubs. Ovary a syncarp, 
each cell or placenta with numerous ovules. 
CV Nepenthace.e. Flowers dioecious. Ovary superior, 3 or 4-celled, with many ovules in 
each cell. Seeds albuminous. Shrubs often scandent. Leaves terminating in pitchers. 
CVI. Aristolochiaok.e. Flowers hermaphrodite Perianth with an oblique or valvately 
lobed limb. Stamens round the base of the style. Ovary inferior, 3 to fi-celled, with several 
ovules in each cell. Seeds albuminous. Herbs or climbers. 
Series IV. Micrembrye.e.— Ovary a syncarp monocarp or apocarp ; ovules in 
each carpel solitary or rarely 2 or few. Seeds with copious fleshy albumen or 
(in Piperncea) farinaceous ; embryo very small, very rarely (in a few Monimiacrtr ) 
bigger. 
CVII. Pipeuace.e. Perianth none besides small bracts. bract 1 under each flower. 
Flowers in spikes racemes or heads, hermaphrodite or unisexual. Herbs shrubs or trees, with 
articulate branches and flat leaves. 
CVIII. Myristice;e. Trees. Leaves alternate. Flowers dioecious. Perianth-lobes I-seriate, 
valvate. Stamens united in a central column. Carpel 1. Rmbryo very small at the base of 
a ruminate albumen. 
CIX. Monimiaceje. Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite. Perianth-lobes in 2 or more rows. 
Stamens opposite the perianth-lobes or indefinite. Carpels usually several. Embryo very 
■small, in a fleshy albumen. 
Series V. Daphnales. — Ovary a monocarp, very rarely a syncarp ; cells 2 to 
4 ; ovules in ovary or each cell solitary or 2 collateral, very rarely a few super- 
posed. Trees or shrubs very rarely herbs. Flowers often hermaphrodite. 
Perfect perianth often calycine, lobes 1 to 2-seriate. Stamens perigynous, of 
equal number to the lobes or sometimes fewer. 
CX. Laurine.e. Trees or shrubs with alternate or rarely opposite leaves or (in Cassytha) 
leafless parasitical twiners Perianth-segments usually in 2 rows. Stamens opposite the 
perianth-segments; anther-cells opening in deciduous valves. Carpel 1. Fruit succulent. 
Albumen none. Radicle superior. 
CXI. Proteace;e. Trees or shrubs rarely undershrubs. Leaves alternate or rarely opposite. 
Perianth-segments 4, valvate. Stamens opposite the perianth-segments and inserted on them. 
Carpel 1. Albumen none. Radicle inferior. 
CXII. Thymel.eace.e. Shrubs trees or rarely herbs, with a stringy bark. Flowers her- 
maphrodite or rarely dioecious. Ovary free but enclosed within the base of the perianth, 1 
rarely 2-eelled, with 1 ovule in each cell Ovule pendulous. 
CXIII. Ee.eagnacea?. Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing ; the indumentum consisting of 
stellate or peltate scales. Flowers hermaphrodite or dioecious Ovary 1-celled. with 1 erect 
anatropous ovule 
