Note 4 — ANGIOSPERMÆ (continued 5)

The flowers of this family (which consist of 5 usually free sepals, a 5-lobed corolla, 5 stamens and a pistil of 2 carpels) are peculiar (i) by the coronal lobes, either free or connate, simple or double at or inside the mouth of the tube of the corolla; (ii) by the stamens which, although exceptionally free at the base, are usually connate by the filaments; these, with the anthers and their appendages forming the staminal column, but the anthers being free or united to the dilated part of the style; the anthers are 2, dehiscing by terminal or lateral slits and are continued on the margins or below the pollen cells by wing-like processes (anther-wings); the connectives of the anthers are often produced into membranous (rarely fleshy or inflated) terminal, sometimes connate appendages, or apiculate, or unappendaged; (iii) by the pollen which is either granular or more commonly united into 1 or 2 clavate, waxy masses or pollinia; (iv) by the pistil which, although consisting of 2 carpels, is united above into a dilated pentagonal disk; (v) by the fruit consisting of 2 follicles or by abortion one only, the seeds being usually numerous, imbricate, somewhat like fish scales, generally crowned with a tuft of long silky hairs.