2 I. RANUNCULACESR. 
loured, imbricate, soon falling. Petals none. Carpels” very 
many in a tuft, dry, 1-seeded, with hairy tails— #7. Cap. i. p.3 ; 
Thes. Cap. t. 7. 
Herbs. Leaves from the rootstock, stalked, lobed or cut, sometimes very 
much divided. Peduncles simple or branched, 1- or few-flowered. Flowers 
white or rosy, conspicuous.—3 South African species: 4A. Capensis, from 
Table Mountain to Swellendam; 4. Caffra, in the Eastern districts and 
Caffraria ; A. Fanninii, n. sp., at the Dargle Farm, Natal. 
4. KNOWLTONTIA, Salisb. 
Involucre none. Sepals 5, green, imbricate, falling. Petals 
5-15, whitish yellowish or greenish, flat, with naked claws. 
Carpels many in a tuft, 1-seeded, when ripe fleshy; style 
falling off.—#T. Cap. 1. p. 4. 
Herbs, with very acrid juice. Leaves from the rootstock, stalked, 3- 
parted or twice 3-parted; leaflet stalked, toothed or cut. Flowers in 
branching cymes or umbels, dull-coloured.—An endemic genus, consisting 
of 5, perhaps 6 (K. bracteata, mss., n. sp.) species, dispersed through the 
colony. 
5. RANUNCULUS, Hall. 
Sepals 3-5, green or yellowish, imbricate, falling. Petals 
5-10, flat, yellow or white, with a minute fleshy scale or pit 
near the base on the inside. Carpels many, tufted, 1-seeded, 
dry in fruit, pointed or beaked.—#¥. Cap. i. p. 5. 
Herbs. Stems weak, leafy. Leaves stalked, deeply cut, lobed or mul- 
tifid in our species.—6 South African species, dispersed: 5 with yellow 
flowers are terrestrial ; 1 (2. aquatilis), with white flowers, grows in ponds 
and rivers. 
Orver Il. ANONACEA. 
Flowers bisexual. Sepals 3, valvate. Petals 6, in two 
rows. Stamens many, hypogynous; filaments thickened up- 
wards; anthers fixed. Carpels several, separate or cohering. 
—Trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, entire, alternate, without 
stipules. Flowers leathery, lateral, on short stalks. 
Carpels separate, on short pedicels. 
Petals imbricate. Ovulegmany ... . . « « »» « Js A VABEAS 
Petals valvate. Ovules 1-2, erect. . . . . . . . 2. Popowria. 
Carpels confluent into a many-seeded fruit. . . . . . 3. ANONA. 
1. UVARIA, Linn. 
Petals 6, imbricate in two rows, plano-convex. Stamens 
very many, compressed, with a prolonged connective. Torus 
little-raised, hairy. Carpels oblong, furrowed on the inner 
face ; style continuous ; ovules many, in two rows. Berries 
many- or 1-seeded.—FV. Cap. i. p. 8. 
