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CLASSIFICATIONS OF ORDERS AND GENERA. 
18. Rhamnese. Calyx superior or inferior, 4- or 5-lobed. Petals 4 or 
5, minute or 0. Stamens inserted on the edges of a disk, as many as the petals 
and opposite them, small, incurved. Ovary 3-celled ; style 1 ; ovule in each 
cell 1, erect. Fruit of 3 cocci. — Shrubs or trees, with often stellate down. 
Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, stipulate, or 0. Flowers small (p. 42). 
19. Sapindace*. Calyx 2-5-sepalled. Petals 0 in the New Zealand 
species. Stamens 5-8, hypogynous or inserted within a disk. Ovary 2- or 
3-celled ; style 1 ; ovules 1 or 2 in each cell, pendulous. — Trees. Leaves 
exstipulate, simple or compound. Flowers racemose (p. 44). 
20. Anacar diace *. Calyx 3-7-lobed. Petals 5, imbricate. Stamens 
5, inserted at the base of a lobed disk. Ovary 1-celled; style 1; ovule 1, 
erect or pendulous.. — Shrubs or trees. Leaves usually alternate, exstipulate. 
Flowers usually small and panicled (p. 45). 
21. Coriariese. Sepals 5. Petals 5, free, becoming fleshy after flower- 
ing. Stamens 10, hypogynous, all free, or 5 with the filaments adnate to the 
petals. Carpels 5-10, 1-celled, 1-ovuled, whorled round a fleshy disk; styles 
5-10. Fruit of dry achenes enclosed in the fleshy petals. — Shrubs or herbs. 
Leaves opposite, exstipulate. Flowers racemose (p. 46). 
This Order is a very anomalous one, whose affinities have never yet been discovered. 
Subclass III. CalyciflortB. Flowers with both calyx and corolla. 
Petals usually free, and stamens inserted on the tube of the calyx or top of 
the ovary, which is often inferior. 
Exceptions : perianth apparently absent in some Haloragea. 
Petals absent in Meryta , Fuchsia, Tetragonia and some Haloragece. Petals united at 
the base in Acana, obscurely in Tillaa, United into a tubular corolla in some Loranthi. 
Stamens hypogynous in some Broserce and Tillcea. 
§ 1. Corolla very irregular or regular. Pistil apocarpous. Albumen 0. 
22. Leguminosse. Calyx tubular or campanulate. Petals papiliona- 
ceous in the New Zealand species. Stamens 10, sheathing the ovary. Ovary 
of one 1-celled carpel. Fruit a legume (p. 47). 
Carmichalia has a very exceptional pod. 
23. Rosace*. Calyx tubular or expanded. Petals regular. Stamens 
numerous (free in Accena). Carpels 2 or more. Fruit various (p. 53). 
§ 2. Corolla regular. Stamens definite. Pistil syncarpous or apocarpous, inferior 
or superior. Albumen fleshy. 
24. Saxifrage*. Calyx inferior or superior, 5 -cleft. Stamens 5 or 10. 
Pistil syncarpous; placentas axile; ovules numerous. — Herbs shrubs or 
trees. Leaves opposite or alternate, simple or compound (p. 57). 
Stamens 2 or 3 in Bonatia. 
25. Crassulace*. Calyx 3- or 5-sepalled, inferior, free. Petals and 
stamens subhypogvnous. Pistil apocarpous. Follicles 1-oo-seeded. — Small 
herbs. Leaves opposite, quite entire (p. 61). 
26. Droserace*. Calyx 5-cleft, inferior, free. Petals and stamens 4 
