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DICOTYLEDONS. 
XC. Cjksn kracs.a . Herbs or, when shrubby, often epiphytical or climbing, rarely erect shrubs. 
Leaves opposite. Flowers usually irregular. Perfect stamens 4 in pairs, or rarely 2 only. 
Ovary i-eelled, with 2 parietal placentas and numerous ovules. Fruit a berry or capsule. Seeds 
with or without albumen. 
XCI. Bignoniack.k. Woody climbers, trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, often compound. 
Flowers irregular. Perfect stamens 4 in pairs, or 2 only. Ovary 2-celled, with 2 distinct and 
sometimes distant placentas on the dissepiment in each cell ; ovules usually numerous. Fruit 
a capsule, usually long and narrow. Seeds winged, without albumen 
XCII Pkdaijnejk. Herbs. Leaves opposite. Flowers irregular. Perfect stamens 4. in 
pairs, or rarely 2 only. Ovary composed of 2 rarely 3 or 4 carpels, but divided (at least after 
flowering) into twice as many cells by spurious dissepiments. Ovules 2 or more, or rarely 1 
only in each spurious cell (half-cell). Fruit hard and indehiscent or capsular. Seeds without 
albumen. 
XCIII. A< ANTiiAi E.i:. Herbs or shrubs, rarely twiners. Leaves opposite. Flowers more or 
less irregular. Perfect stamens 4 in pairs, or 2 only. Ovary 2-celled, with 2 or more super- 
posed ovules in each cell. Fruit a capsule opening elastically in 2 valves. Seeds without 
albumen, usually subtended by hooked or rarely cup-shaped or minute retinacula. 
Alliance X. Lamiales. — Corolla frequently irregular or oblique. The fifth stamen 
less than the rest, or often abortive or wholly wanting. Ovary of 1 ovulate carpels, or ovules 2. 
collateral. 
XCIV. Mvopohine.e. Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate. Stamens usually 4, in pairs : 
anthers when open reniform and 1-celled by continence. Ovary not lobed, the style terminal. 
Micropyle and radicle superior. 
XCV. Vkrbenace.e. Herbs shrubs or'trees. Leaves opposite or rarely alternate. Stamens 
2 or 4, in pairs, or ra : ely equal and isomerous with the corolla-lobes; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 
not at all or scarcely lobed, the style terminal. Micropyle and radicle inferior. 
XCVI. Labiate. Herbs or shrubs. Leaves opposite. Stamens 2 or 4, in pairs; antheis 
2-celled or 1-celled by abortion or by confluence. Ovary deeply lobed, fhe style nearly basal 
between the lobes. Micropyle and radicle inferior. 
[Anomalous Order.] 
xevn. Pi.antagin k.e. Herbs. Leaves radical or tufted, rarely scattered. Flowers regular, 
the corolla with 4 spreading scarious lobes. Stamens 4 or fewer, equal; anthers 2 celled. 
Ovary not lobed. with a terminal style. Seeds peltate. 
SUBCLASS III. MONOCHLAMYDE.E. 
Perianth really or apparently simple, the lobes or segments all calyeine or 
herbaceous, or all petal-like or scarious, or entirely wanting (rarely petals or 
petal-like staminodia in a few Enphorbiacea or Phytolaccaecte). 
Series 1. Curvembrye.e. — Seeds with often a farinaceous albumen ; embryo 
curved excentric lateral or peripheric, rarely somewhat straight subcentric and 
narrow. Ovule 1 in the ovary or in each carpel or, in a few Arnarantacei b, more 
erect in the centre of the cell. Flowers hermaphrodite or, in a few genera, 
unisexual or polygamous. Petals very rare. Stamens the same number as lobes 
of perianth or less, rarely more. 
XCVIII. Nyctagink.k. Herbs shrubs or trees. Leaves usually opposite, without stipules. 
Lower portion of the perianth persistent and enclosing the ovary and fruit, the upper portion 
deciduous or withering. Ovary 1-celled, with 1 ovule and an undivided style. 
XCIX. Lllkckrrack.e. Perianth herbaceous or margins scarious, persistent. Stamens 
perigynous. Ovary 1-celled. Style-branches or styles 2 to 3. Herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves 
generally opposite. Stipules scarious. 
C. Amarantace.e. Perianth never herbaceous, bracts and bracteoles 2-stipitate. Stamens 
hypogy nous or perigynous ; filaments connate at the base. Ovary 1-celled; style simple or 2 
to 3-fid. Utricle indehiscent or irregularly ruptured or circumscissile. Herbs or undershrubs. 
Leaves opposite or alternate, without stipules. 
