Flora of Dominica, Part 2 - Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Flora of Dominica, Part 2 - Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Flora of Dominica, Part 2 - Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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12 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY<br />
7. Fruit woody; stamens and petals over 4 cm long ............<br />
........................... LECYTHIDACEAE<br />
7. Fruit fleshy; stamens and petals less than 2 cm long. .........<br />
............................ SYMPLOCACEAE<br />
1. Stamens few, twice as many as petals or fewer.<br />
8. Submersed aquatics; leaves whorled, pectinate ........ HALORAGACEAE<br />
8. 'Ikrrestrial plants; leaves opposite or alternate.<br />
9. Inflorescence a simple or compound umbel (head in Eryngium).<br />
10. Herbs; fruit dry, breaking into 2 mericaxps ........... APIACEAE<br />
10. Small trees; fruit drupaceous ................. ARALIACEAE<br />
9. Inflorescence not umbellate<br />
11. Leaves opposite and palmately veined ....... MELASTOMATACEAE<br />
11. Leaves alternate.<br />
12. Herbs; flowers solitary .................. ONAGRACEAE<br />
12. Woody; flowers multiple.<br />
13. Trees or shrubs; venation palmate ......... HERNANDIACEAE<br />
13. Vines with tendrils; venation pinnate ... RHAMNACEAE (Gouania)<br />
GROUP 7. POLYPETALOUS DICOTS; OVARY SUPERIOR; STAMENS MANY (>2X PETALS)<br />
1. Carpels several and free.<br />
2. Sepals free, hypogynous.<br />
3. Perianth 3-merous, valvate ................... ANNONACEAE<br />
3. Perianth 2- or multimerous, imbricate.<br />
4. Fruit fleshy, pendulous ................... DILLENIACEAE<br />
4. Fruit dry, erect. ..................... MAGNOLIACEAE<br />
2. Sepals united, at least at base.<br />
5. Leaves simple; stamens united by filaments (monadelphous). ........<br />
................................. MALVACEAE<br />
5. Leaves compound; stamens free. ................. ROSACEAE<br />
1. Carpels united or solitary.<br />
6. Leaves opposite ........................... CLUSIACEAE<br />
6. Leaves alternate.<br />
7. Stamens with filaments united (monadelphous).<br />
8. Carpel solitary .......... CHRYSOBALANACEAE (Chrysobulanus)<br />
8. Carpels united.<br />
9. Calyx truncate or shallowly and irregularly lobed, never subtended by an<br />
BOMBACACEAE<br />
epicalyx ........................<br />
9. Calyx deeply and regularly 5-lobed or -toothed, <strong>of</strong>ten subtended by an<br />
epicalyx (deciduous when calyx truncate) ........ MALVACEAE<br />
7. Stamens free.<br />
10. Ovary stipitate ........................ CAPPARACEAE<br />
10. Ovary sessile.<br />
11. Plants epiphytic climbers .............. MARCGRAVIACEAE<br />
11. Plants not climbing.<br />
12. Venation palmate.<br />
13. Inflorescences (flowers) axillary; placentation axile . . TILIACEAE<br />
13. Inflorescences terminal; placentation parietal.<br />
14. Leaf margins entire; fruits s<strong>of</strong>tly spinose ....... BIXACEAE<br />
14. Leaf margins serrate; fruits smooth.<br />
15. Leaves deeply lobed; flowers and fruits large .........<br />
..................... COCHLOSPERMACEAE<br />
15. Leaves unlobed; flowers and fruits small ............<br />
.................<br />
FLACOURTIACEAE (Prockh)
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