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1040 APPENDIX. 
Order Ranales. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, of very various appearance. Flowers hypo- 
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gynous or perigynous, usually hermaphrodite. Calyx of separate sepals. 
Corolla usually present, composed of separate petals. Stamens generally 
hypogynous and more numerous than the sepals. Ovary or ovaries superior ; 
carpels l1-many, usually distinct. 
40. Ranuneulaceae. Herbs with radical or alternate leaves, or climbers 
with opposite leaves. Sepals 3-15, frequently caducous and often petaloid. 
Petals usually the same number, but wanting in 3 of the New Zealand 
genera. Stamens indefinite, hypogynous. Carpels many or rarely solitary, 
I-celled; ovules I-many. Fruit of few or many achenes or follicles. 
(p. 429.) 
4i. Magnoliaceae. ‘T'rees or shrubs, often aromatic ; leaves alternate, 
exstipulate in the New Zealand species. Flowers terminal or axillary. 
Sepals and petals together forming 3 or 4 series. Stamens indefinite, 
hypogynous. Carpels numerous on an elongated receptacle or few on a 
flat one, as in the New Zealand species. (p. 455.) 
42. Monimiaceae. ‘Trees or shrubs; leaves opposite, exstipulate. 
Perianth 4-10-lobed, imbricate. Stamens indefinite. Ovary of numerous 
I-celled and l-ovuled carpels. Embryo small; albumen fleshy. (p. 457.) 
43. Lauraceae. Trees or shrubs with alternate leaves, or leafless 
twiners. Perianth 4-8-partite, imbricate. Stamens opposite the perianth- 
segments ; anthers opening by deciduous valves. Ovary 1-celled; ovule 
solitary, pendulous, Fruit a berry. (p. 459.) 
Order Rhoedales. 
Herbs with alternate simple leaves and no stipules. Flowers regular 
and hermaphrodite. Sepals usually free. Petals free, rarely absent. 
Stamens hypogynous. Ovary superior, dimerous, l-celled; placentas 
parietal. 
44. Cruciferae. Herbs, very rarely slightly woody. Flowers usually 
small, in racemes or corymbs. Sepals 4, deciduous or rarely persistent. 
Petals 4, hypogynous, cruciate, generally clawed. Stamens 6, 4 of them 
longer than the others. Ovary compound, consisting of 2 united carpels, 
the parietal placentas united by a false dissepiment. Fruit a capsule. 
Seeds few or many; albumen wanting. (p. 462.) 
Order Sarraceniales. 
Herbs ; leaves variously adapted for the capture of insects. Flowers 
hermaphrodite or unisexual, regular, sometimes monochlamydeous. Calyx 
4-8-partite or the sepals distinct. Petals 4-5, usually hypogynous. Stamens 
3-20, hypogynous or perigynous. Ovary syncarpous, superior or its base 
adnate to the calyx, usually 1—5-celled ; ovules numerous. Fruit capsular ; 
seeds numerous, 
45. Droseraceae. Herbs; leaves radical or alternate, covered with 
glandular irritable hairs. Sepals and petals 4-5, imbricate in bud. Stamens 
the same number, hypogynous or perigynous. Ovary usually 1-celled ; 
Bitar gas on parietal placentas. Fruit capsular: seeds albuminous. 
p. 475. 
