SYNOPSIS OF ORDERS 
(, 4 s in May, 1922.) 
Division: Angiosperree. 
Flowering plants with the ovules enclosed in an ovary with 
a stigma. 
Group: DICOTYLEDONES. 
Plants with reticulate-nerved leaves. Petals, sepals, stamens and 
carpels in twos, fives, or multiples of these (except Anonace,e Vt, 
perianth segments usually in threes.) Seeds with 2 cotyledons. 
Section (A.) Polypetaue. 
Perianth of 2 whorls, sepals and petals (petals occasionally 
absent by abortion). Petals free not connate in a tube. 
Sub-section (i). Thalamiflorje 
Calyx free from the ovary. Petals in one or more series, inferior. Stamens 
usually indefinite on a torus [receptacle). Ovary free, superior. (Orders 
I—XXVI.) 
I. Ranunculaceje. Sepals 5. Petals in one series. Stamens 
many. Achenes (or follicles) apocarpous. Only climbers in 
this region. 
II. Dilleniaceje. Trees or climbers, one herb. Sepals persistent. 
Stamens numerous. Flowers showy, white or yellow. Follicles 
apocarpous. 
III. Magnoliace^:. Trees or shrubs. Stipules large covering buds. 
Flowers large, white or yellow. Stamens numerous; anthers 
narrow. Carpels numerous, separate spirally on an elongate 
axis. 
IV. Winterace,e. Trees or shrubs, aromatic. Stipules none. 
Flowers small, axillary. Sepals 1 or 2 series. Petals many 
series. Stamens many to 15 ; anthers sub-globose. Carpels 
in one whorl. 
V. SchizandracEjE. Lianes. Stipules none. Flowers unisexual. 
Sepals and petals 9 to 15. Stamens numerous, connate. 
Fruit a fleshy mass of carpels. 
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