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Orper XXV. LINEA. 
Flowers bisexual, regular. Sepals 5, rarely 4, free or united 
at base, imbricate. Petals as many, mostly twisted. Stamens 
as many (or twice or thrice as many) as petals, connate in a ring 
at base; anthers 2-celled. Glands 5, entire or 2-fid, adnate 
to the staminal tube, sometimes obsolete. Ovary free, 3-5- 
celled ; ovules 1-2 in each cell, pendulous ; styles 3-5, distinet 
or more or less united; stigma terminal. Fruit capsular or 
fleshy. Seeds with or without albumen.—Herbs shrubs or 
trees, mostly glabrous. Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, 
simple, entire or crenato-serrulate. Stipules present or ab- 
sent. Flowers racemose or cymose, or clustered or solitary, 
axillary. Petals blue yellow or white, rarely red, mostly very 
fugitive. 
Tribe 1. Linen. Petals twisted, fugitive. Stamens as many as petals. 
Capsule opening through the septa. No stipules. 
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Tribe 2. ERYTHROXYLE®. Petals imbricate, each with a plaited scale 
at base inside. Stamens twice as many as the petals. Drupe fleshy, in- 
dehiscent. 
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1. LINUM, Linn. 
Sepals 5, entire. Petals 5, twisted, fugitive. Stamens 5, 
perfect, alternating with as many tooth-like abortive filaments. 
Styles 5, rarely 3, separate or connate below; stigmas capitel- 
late or linear. Capsules spuriously 10-celled, 10-seeded ; 
seeds without albumen.— FV. Cap. 1. p. 808. 
Small undershrubs or herbs, found throughout the temperate zone. Leaves 
alternate, quite entire, sessile, without stipules. Flowers yellow.—4 Cape 
species, dispersed. 
2. ERYTHROXYLON, Linn. 
Sepals 5-6, connate at base or free. Petals as many, im- 
bricate, deciduous, furnished at base on the inside with a 
plaited, mostly 2-lobed scale? Stamens 10-12, united at base 
into a short glandless or 10-glanded tube, often a little pro- 
longed beyond the insertion of the filaments. Ovary 3-, rarely 
4-celled; ovules 1-2; styles 3-4, distinct or more or less 
united at the apex, capitate or clavate. Drupe 1-celled, 1- 
seeded ; seed albuminous.— 7. Cap. i. p. 233. 
Shrubs or small trees, mostly glabrous. Leaves alternate, entire, pe- 
tioled. Stipules within the petiole. Flowers small, whitish, axillary. 
—83 species, found near Natal. 
