
532  Subclass VIII. LAMIIDAE
papillate stigma; ovary 2-locular, inferior, 
with the septum oblique in relation to the 
median plane of the fl ower. Ovules 2–3, 
apotropous, pendulous from the upper 
part of the locules. Fruits dry, indehiscent, 
2-locular, usually 2-seeded, with thin 
membranous pericarp, usually concres-
cent with the stem. Seeds with endosperm 
and straight or more or less curved 
embryo, n = 12. 3. sclerophylacaceae.
5  Seeds without endosperm. Shrubs or small 
trees with many branches. Young parts and 
fl owers often densely ferrugineo-veluti-
nous. Fibers with bordered pits. Rays 1–3 
cells wide, composed primarily of procum-
bent cells with upright cells only at the tips 
of multiseriate rays and in uniseriate rays. 
Axial parenchyma diffuse plus diffuse-in-
aggregate plus narrow bands. Leaves alter-
nate, leathery, simple, entire, coriaceous, 
closely parallel-ascending, striate-veined, 
 midrib sometimes fusiform-thickened. 
Stomata anomocytic. Flowers solitary and 
extra-axillary or in few-fl owered,  axillary 
racemes or fascicles, bisexual, actinomor-
phic or zygomorphic, 4–6-merous. Sepals 
connate or rarely almost free, valvate, per-
sistent. Corolla infundibulate or campanu-
late, 4–6-lobed, lobes mostly short, equal or 
unequal, valvate. Stamens 4–6, epipetalous; 
fi laments long-exserted, equal or unequal; 
anthers exserted, versatile, sagittate, dorsi-
fi xed near base. Pollen grains 3-colporate, 
with thick perforate tectum and prominent 
columellae, echinate. Nectary disc usually 
large, fl eshy, lobed. Gynoecium of 1–2 car-
pels; style terminal, long, with 2-lobed or 
capitate stigma; ovary 1–2-locular, with 
two ovules per locule. Fruits baccate 
(drupoid?), fl eshy, or chartaceous, 
1–2-seeded. Seeds with plicate testa; 
embryo straight, well differentiated and 
large, cotyledons two or sometimes four. 
The berry of Espadaea edible, with the fl a-
vour of apricot. . . . . . . . . 5. goetzeaceae.
4  Articulated latex canals or latex cells usually 
present, either scattered or in vertical rows, are 
fairly widespread in both leaf and stem. 
Autotrophic plants: herbs, shrubs, or lianas, 
rarely small trees, usually with twining stems, 
occasionally prostrate or creeping or erect, 
sometimes succulent; some thorny xerophytes, 
some with tuberous roots or stems, others rhi-
zomatous. Convolvulus, Ipomoea, Rivea twin-
ing anticlockwise. Hairs both glandular and 
eglandular. Stem with intra xylary phloem. 
Leaves alternate, usually petiolate, simple, cor-
date, hastate, or sagittate, entire to variously 
divided, sometimes with extrafl oral  nectaries. 
Stomata usually paracytic. Flowers in terminale 
cymes or solitary, bracteate, often bracteolate, 
bisexual (except Hildebrandtia – plants dioe-
cious), actinomorphic, 5-merous. Hypogynous 
disc present. Sepals imbricate, persistent; 
Corolla valvate and plicate, or contorted and 
plicate, tubular or campanulate, or urceolate, 
without scale staminodia. Stamens fi ve, inserted 
near the base of the corolla tube, or midway 
down the corolla tube. Pollen grains 2-, or 
3-celled, 3-colpate to  pantoporate. Intrastaminal 
nectary disc usually  present, annular or copular. 
Gynoecium of 2–5 carpels. Sty1es one or two, 
without an indusium, often fi liform, simple or 
forked, rarely very short or absent, stigma entire 
or 2-lobed, rarely 3-lobed or stigmas 2–4, of 
various shapes, globular or ellipsoid to fi liform, 
sometimes aplanate, rarely peltate, reniform, 
conical, or funnel-shaped. Ovules anatropous, 
with the micropyle directed downward and out-
ward, unitegmic, with a massive integument, 
tenuninucellate or sometimes crassinu cellate. 
Placentation basal. Fruits usually loculicidal 
capsules, sometimes circumscissile or irregu-
larly dehiscing, rarely baccate or nutlike. Seeds 
conspicuously hairy, or not; embryo large, 
green, straight or curved, with folded emargin-
ate or bifi d cotyledons, embedded in a hard, 
often cartilaginous endosperm. Often produc-
ing alkaloids of the indole and other groups, 
sometimes fl avonols (kaempferol and 
 quercetin), n = 7, 14, 15. 7. convolvulaceae.
3  Stems without internal phloem. Herbaceous root-
less (the normal root system is short-lived) para-
sites with slender, often fi liform, twining, yellow, 
or reddish stem, attaching on aerial parts of the 
host by haustoria. Hairs when present mostly uni-
cellular or bicellular, not glandular. Intraxylary 
phloem absent. Leaves alternate, reduced to