SYNOPSIS OF ORDERS. 
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XCVII. Convolvulace®. Climbers. Corolla plicate. Stamens 5, on 
corolla-tube. Fruit capsular, globose or baccate. Seeds few, 
large. 
XCVIII. Cardiopterid® . Herbaceous climber or tree. Flowers small. 
Sepals and petals imbricate. Fruit a winged samara. 
XCIX. Solanace®, Herbs or shrubs. Corolla plicate. Carpels 
many-seeded. Fruit berry or capsule. Seed small. 
Corolla irregular. Upper stamens smaller or reduced to a staminode. 
C. Scrophularine® . Herbs, rarely shrubs, leafy. Ovary 2- 
locular. Capsule many-seeded. 
Cl. Orobanchace®. Leafless parasites. Ovary i-celled, pla¬ 
centas parietal. 
CII. Lentibularie®, Aquatic or marsh herbs with minute 
bladders on branches at base. Ovary i-celled; placenta 
basal, central. 
CIII. GesnBRACED. Herbs, terrestrial or epiphyte. Leaves alter¬ 
nate or rosulate. Flowers showy. Qapsule usually slender. 
Seed small, numerous, sometimes plumed. Fruit a dry berry 
in Cyrtandra. 
CIV. Bignoniace®. Trees or climbers. Leaves compound. Seeds 
winged. Fruit a long bivalved capsule. 
CV. Pedaline®. Herbs. Leaves entire. Capsule many-seeded, 
oblong. Seeds small. 
CVI. Acanthace®. Herbs or shrubs or climbers. Ovary 2-celled; 
ovules 2 to 4. Capsule bivalved. Seeds discoid on elastic 
retinacula. 
CVII. Verbenace®. Shrubs, trees, or herbs. Ovary entire. Fruit 
of 2 to 4 pyrenes in pulp. 
CVIII. Labiat®, Herbs often aromatic; stems 4-angled. Ovary 
4-lobed. Fruit of 4 nutlets. 
Section (C.) Apetal^e. 
Perianth simple of one whorl of leaves or absent. 
Flowers bisexual. 
CIX. Nyctagine®. Shrubs or herbs, rarely trees. Perianth 
tubular; base persistent in fruit. Carpel 1. Style 1. 
CX. Amarantace®. Herbs. Perianth scarious. Ovary i-celled; 
style often 3-fid. Fruit a utricle. 
CXI. Polygonace®. Herbs. Leaves sheathing at base. Perianth 
pink or white. Ovary 1-celled, 1 -seeded; style 2- to 3-fid. 
CXII. Aristolochiace®. Shrublets or climbers. Perianth tubular. 
Ovary inferior. Fruit capsular. 
CXIII. Cytinace®. Leafless parasites. Ovary inferior or half 
inferior. 
