20 XIV. PITTOSPORE®. 
celled; style single, terminal; ovules many, axile. Fruit 
capsular, or fleshy and pulpy.—Trees or shrubs, commonly 
glabrous. Leaves alternate, entire or toothed. Flowers 
white blue yellow greenish or red, conspicuous. 
1. PITTOSPORUM, Banks. 
Sepals separate or connate at base. Petals 5, their claws 
erect, connivent ; limbs spreading. Filaments subulate. Ovary 
sessile, imperfectly 2—5-celled ; style short; stigma capitate. 
Capsules subglobose or obovate, with leathery, thick, septife- 
rous valves. Seeds lying in viscid resin, smooth.—F7J. Cap. 1. 
p. 449. 
A considerable genus, widely dispersed, chiefly in the southern hemi- 
sphere. P. viridiflorum, Sims, the only Cape species, is a glabrous shrub, 
common in the Eastern district, Caffraria, and extending to Natal. Leaves 
obovate, tapery at base, very entire, leathery, shining ; panicle subumbel- 
late, terminal. Petals yellow-green. 
Orper XV. FRANKENIACES. 
Flowers bisexual, regular. Calyx tubular, 4-5-toothed, 
ribbed, persistent, hardening after flowering. Petals 4-5, 
with long claws, deciduous. Stamens mostly 6. Ovary 1- 
celled, with 8-5 parietal placentas; ovules many. Capsule 
enclosed in the calyx, many-seeded ; seeds albuminous, with 
an axile embryo.—Small, perennial, or half-shrubby plants, 
with crowded, small, narrow leaves. Flowers purple or white. 
1. FRANKENIA, Linn. 
The only genus of the Order.— Fl. Cap. i. p. 114. 
3 species found in South Africa, natives of salt-marshes or seashores. 
Orpen XVI. CARYOPHYLLEZ.* 
Flowers bisexual, regular. Calyx 4-5-cleft or parted, 
persistent, imbricate. Petals 4-5, entire or 2-fid, or minute 
or 0. Stamens 4-10, inserted with the petals on a hypogy- 
nous or slightly perigynous ring; filaments filiform; an- 
thers 2-celled. Torus often minute (in some Silenee elon- 
gate, stipe-like). Ovary free, 1-celled, or rarely at base 2—-5- 
* The following genera, included in this Order in ‘ Flora Capensis,’ 
(following the views of Bentham and Hooker) are removed as follows :— 
Corrigiola, Herniaria, Pollichia, to PARONYCHIER; Orygia,Glinus, Mollugo, 
Pharnaceum, Hypertelis, Caelanthum, Psammatropha, Adenogramme, and 
Polpoda, to FIcoIDER. 
