36 XXVI. MALPIGHIACES. 
Ovary 3-lobed, the lobes many-crested dorsally ; style 1 (the 
other 2 reduced to papille), slender, elongate. Samaras 3, 
many-winged ; the wings narrow, elongate, stellately-patent.— 
Fl. Cap. ii. p. 591. 
Climbers, with opposite or quaternate leaves, the petioles often 2-glanded. — 
Racemes terminal and lateral. Flowers yellow.—F. Madagascariensis, 
Poir., was gathered at Delagoa Bay by Commander Owen. 
Orprr XXVIII. ZYGOPHYLLEA. 
Flowers bisexual, regular or irregular. Calyx 4—5-parted. 
Petals 4-5, clawed, twisted, rarely 0. Stamens 8-10; fila- 
ments frequently furnished with a scale at base. Ovar 
sessile or on a short gynophore, furrowed or winged, 5-celled ; 
ovules axile, 2 or several; style single, termimal, rarely 5 
separate styles. Fruit capsular or fleshy.—Herbs or shrubs. 
Leaves opposite, mostly compound, stipulate. Flowers soli- 
tary, axillary or terminal, yellow or white, rarely red. 
Petals 4-5. 
Fruit thorny and tubercled, indehiscent. Leaves 
[MERTEN Cae Mees false oy gale 
Fruit capsular, 4-5-angled, dehiscent. 
Filaments simple at base. 
1. TRIBULUS. 
Anthers linear. Ovary densely silky. . . . 2. SISYNDITE. 
Anthers cordate. Ovary glabrous . . . . 4. Fa@onta. 
Filaments each with an entire or bifid scale at 
base Bs Stutharts seven sqitd inthe apes 5. ZYGOPHYLLUM. 
Petals 0. 
Styles short, filiform. Stamens 10. Leaves simple, 
AOSD c/s) vuthin on” Be las eee ei 8 cas ot oe 
Styles 5. Stamens 5. Leaves 3-foliate . . . . 6. SEETZENIA. 
Trree 1. Trrputex. Seeds without albumen. (Gen. 1-3.) 
1. TRIBULUS, Tourn. 
Calyx 5-parted, deciduous or persistent, .imbricated. Pe- 
tals 5, spreading, longer than the calyx. Stamens 10; fila- 
ments subulate, the 5 opposite the calyx-lobes with a gland 
externally at base; anthers cordate, introrse. Ovary sessile, 
in a short 10-lobed cup, hairy, 5-celled; ovules 3-4 in each 
cell; style short or 0, rarely filiform; stigma large, 5-angled. 
Fruit depressed, 5-angled, of 5 indehiscent, dorsally tubercu- 
lated, thorny or winged, spuriously plurilocular carpels, each 
loculus 1-seeded. Seeds without albumen.—F#1. Cap. i. p. 352. 
Weeds and weed-like, diffuse or prostrate herbs. Leaves opposite, one 
usually much smaller than the other, abruptly pinnate; leaflets in several 
pairs. Flowers yellow or white.—2 species: one a common weed through- 
out the country, the other found at Springbokkell by Zeyher. 
