XXIV 
SYNOPSIS OF ORDERS. 
VI. Anonace*. Trees or lianes. Sepals and petals in threes; 
petals in 2 rows. Stamens indefinite, very short. Pistils 
several. Carpels usually stalked, drupes on a torus (in one 
genus follicular). Seed ruminate. 
VII. Menispermace*. Climbers. Flowers very small unisexual. 
Sepals 6. Petals 6 or fewer. Stamens 6. Carpels 3 to 6, 
one-ovuled. Drupe, seed ruminate, often reniform. 
VIII. Nymph*ace*. Aquatic herbs. Sepals, petals and stamens 
indefinite. Carpels few or many in an obconic torus. Leaves 
peltate (Water lilies), 
IX. Crucifer,*. Herbs. Sepals 4. Petals 4, Stamens 6 or 4. 
Ovary dimerous. Fruit a 2-valved pod. 
X. Capparide*. Herbs, shrubs, trees. Sepals 4. Petals 4. 
Stamens many. Ovary 2- to 6-celled on a stalk (Gyno- 
phore). Leaves usually digitate. Fruit a berry or capsule. 
XI. Violace*. Herbs or shrubs. Sepals 5. Petals 5. Stamens 
5; anthers connivent round ovary and appendaged. Ovary 
i-celled. Fruit a capsule. Flowers usually irregular. 
XII. Pittospore*. Trees (or shrubs). Sepals 5. Petals 5. Stamens 
5, not connivent. Flowers regular. Fruit capsule. 
XIII. Polygalace*. Shrubs, herbs or trees. Flowers irregular. 
Sepals 5. Petals 5 or 3. Stamens 8 or fewer. Ovary 2-celled. 
Fruit drupe, berry, capsule or samara. 
XIV. Caryophyllace*. Herbs. Leaves opposite. Sepals free or 
connate. Petals as many or absent. Stamens as many 
or twice as many. Placenta central. Fruit capsule. 
XV. Portulacace*. Succulent herbs. Sepals 2 to 5. Petals 
4 or 5. Stamens 8 or many. Ovary half inferior; style 3- 
to 8-fid; capsule many-seeded. 
XVI. Hypericine*. Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite. 
Sepals 5. Petals 5. Stamens many in bundles. Ovary of 
3 to 4 carpels; styles 2 to 4. Fruit capsular. 
XVII. Flacourtiace*. Trees, shrubs or climbers. Flowers small 
usually unisexual. Petals often suppressed. Stamens 5 
to many. Ovary 1-celled; styles 1 to 6. Fruit baccate or 
capsular. 
XVIII. Guttifer*. Trees exuding gum. Leaves opposite coria¬ 
ceous. Flowers often unisexual. Sepals 4. Petals 4. 
Stamens many, often connate in bundles. Fruit, drupe or berry. 
XIX. Ternstroemiace*. Trees or shrubs not gummy. Leaves 
alternate. Flowers bisexual. Sepals 3 to 5. Petals 5. 
Stamens many, free. Styles 3 to 5. Fruit, berry or capsule. 
XX. Dipterocarpace*. Gigantic resinous trees. Leaves alter¬ 
nate, coriaceous. Flowers panicled. Sepals 5, free or connate. 
Petals 5, contort. Stamens 10 to 36. Ovary 3-celIed; 
ovules 2 in a cell. Fruit, drupe, usually winged by the enlarged 
sepals. 
XXI. Ancistrocladace*. Hooked climbers. Leaves coriaceous. 
Flowers small, panicled. Calyx tubular adnate to fruit, 
accrescent. Petals 5, imbricate. Stamens 5 to iq. Ovary 
1 cell, 1 ovule; style globose or oblong. Fruit winged by 
enlarged sepals. 
