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SYNOPSIS OF ORDERS. 
LXXIX. 
LXXX. 
LXXXI. 
LXXXII. 
LXXXIII. 
LXXXIV. 
LXXXV. 
LXXX VI. 
LXXXVII. 
LXXXVIII. 
LXXXIX. 
XC. 
XCI. 
XCII. 
XCIII. 
XCIV. 
xcv. 
XCVI. 
Campanulacee. Herbs. Flowers regular. Stamens 5. Seeds 
numerous. 
Vacciniacee. Shrubs. Leaves often serrate. Anthers opening 
by pores or tubular. Resemble Ericacece except inferior ovary. 
Fruit berry. 
Ovary superior . Corolla regular. 
Ericacee. Shrubs or trees. Flowers showy. Anthers opening 
by pores. Fruit capsular (rarely baccate), 
Monotropee. Leafless parasites. Sepals 3 to 4. Petals 3, 
free. Stamens 6. 
Epacridee. Heath-like shrubs. Flowers small. Anther split¬ 
ting longitudinally. Fruit in our species a small drupe. 
Plumbaginee. Herbs. Calyx sticky. Ovary 1 -celled, 1- 
ovuled. Placenta central. 
Plantaginee. Herbs. Leaves basal. Flowers small, scarious 
in a spike or head. Stamens long, slender. Ovary 2-celled, 
many ovuled. Capsule circumsciss. Seeds several. 
Myrsinee. Trees and shrubs. Leaves simple. Flowers 
rather small, pink or white, glandular. Fruit a drupe. 
Ovary with central placenta. 
Sapotacee. Big trees, laticiferous. Corolla-tube short. 
Stamens as many as lobes or double, attached to corolla. 
Fruit a berry or drupe. 
Ebenacee. Trees. Flowers unisexual, sexes different in shape. 
Stamens free from corolla. Berry. 
Sxyracee. Trees and shrubs. Corolla-tube usually short. 
Stamens twice as many, or more. Ovary 1, few-seeded. Drupe. 
Oleacee. Shrubs, erect or climbing, or trees. Stamens 2. 
Fruit, drupe. 
Apocynacee. Trees or climbers, rarely herbs, laticiferous. 
Corolla-tube usually long, lobes contort. Stamens and lobes 
5. Fruit, drupe or capsule with seeds plumed. 
Asclepiadee. Climbing or epiphytic herbs, laticiferous. 
Flowers small, tube short. Stamens connate into a column 
with style. Fruit capsular. Seeds plumed. 
Loganiacee. Herbs, climbers, or trees. Stamens and corolla- 
lobes 4 to 5. Ovary bilocular. Resemble Rubiacea, except 
that the ovary is superior or half superior. 
Gentianacee. Herbs (some floating aquatic). Leaves in 
terrestrials opposite. Stipules o. Corolla-lobes contort. 
Capsule bivalved or irregularly dehiscing. 
Hydrophyllacee. Herb. Leaves alternate. Corolla-lobes 
imbricate (or contort). Stamens 5. Ovary 2-celled; styles 
2. Capsule 2-valved or irregularly dehiscing. 
Boraginee. Shrubs, trees, or herbs. Flowers panicled or in 
scorpioid cymes. Stamens as many as petals. Styles 2 or 
1, two cleft. Ovary 2-celled. Fruit of 2 pyrenes, 1- to 
2-seeded or 4-seeded. 
