THE 
PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO THE COLONY OP VICTOBIA, 
DESCRIBED BY 
Dr. FERDINAND MUELLER. 
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PHANEROGAMOUS OR FLOWERING PLANTS. 
Plants producing Stamens, Pistils and embryonate Seeds. 
I_EXOGENOUS OR DICOTYLEDONEOUS PLANTS. 
Growth of stem exogenous. Leaves generally articulated with the branches. 
Veins of leaves more or less branched. Division of the flowers prevailingly quinary 
or quaternary. Cotyledons two, opposite or rarely three and more in a whorl, very 
seldom wanting. Radicle in germination directly lengthened into the root.— Lindley, 
Yeget. Kingdom, edit. iii. p. 239; Torrey 8f Gray, Flora of North America, i. 1. 
I—Thalaniifloiue. 
Candolle, Syst. Yeget. i. 125. 
Calyx consisting of free rarely coherent sepals, in few cases monophyllous or 
wanting, never connate with the ovary. Petals and stamens hypogynous, inserted 
on a receptacle; the former free, rarely united, sometimes wanting. 
I.—POLYCARPOUS THALAMIFLORiE. 
JEndlicher , Gener. Plant, p. 824. 
Ovaries generally numerous, quite distinct, in few instances united; each 
provided with a separate stigma. Stamens generally unlimited in number, free, 
rarely united. 
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