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The Pentacyclidce. 
also to miscellaneous cohesion, as in Symplocacese. A glance at 
the table on p. 146 will suffice to shew that this tendency to economy 
is parallelled in the Ebenales, the Sapotaceae seeming to represent 
its highest expression, analogous to e.g., the Violaceac and Passi- 
floraceae of Parietales. 
5AP0TACEAE 
The carpel numbers are similar for the two cohorts; but in the 
Parietales a unilocular ovary is a characteristic feature. The 
multilocular condition is, however, represented in the extensive 
cohort Guttiferales of Bentham and Hooker, included in Bugler’s 
