35 XXVII. ZYGOPHYLLE. 
or glandularly-pubescent plant, with 3-foliolate leaves and lilac-purple 
flowers with bright orange stamens, has beem found in Namaqualand by 
Mr. Wyley. 
5. ZYGOPHYLLUM, Linn. 
Calyx 4-5-parted, persistent or deciduous, imbricate. Pe- 
tals 4-5, clawed, twisted, imbricate. Stamens 8-10; filaments 
subulate, with an entire bifid or tripartite scale at base. Disk 
fleshy, 8-10-angled. O'vary 4-5-angled or lobed, 4—5-celled ; 
ovules 2 or more; style furrowed, continuous with the ovary ; 
stigma minute. Capsules 4-5-angled or winged, 4—5-celled, 
few- or several-seeded.—F7. Cap. i. p. 355. 
Small shrubs or half-shrubs. Leaves fleshy or membranous, simple or 
bifoliolate ; stipules membranous or spinous. Flowers solitary, white or 
yellow.—25 Cape species. 
6. SEETZENTA, R. Br. 
Calyx 5-parted, valvate. Petals 0. Stamens 5, opposite the — 
calyx-segments; filaments subulate, naked; anthers introrse, 
2-celled, subglobose-didymous. Ovary oblong, 5-celled ; ovules 
solitary ; styles 5, terete, reflexed; stigmas capitate. Cap- 
sules ovoid, 5-coccous, thé cocci separating from a central 
5-angled axis.—F/. Cap. i. p. 365. 
A woolly or glabrous, Clanwilliam, ete., half-shrub, with jointed branches, 
trifoliolate leaves, intrapetiolar stipules, and axillary, 1-flowered peduncles. 
Orper XXVIIT. GERANIACESA. 
Flowers bisexual, regular or irregular. Sepals 5, rarely 
fewer, mostly separate and imbricate, the upper ones some- 
times spurred. Petals 5 or fewer or 0, imbricate or twisted 
in bud. Torus commonly with 5 glands alternating with the 
petals, usually prolonged through the centre of the ovary. 
Stamens 5-10-15 or fewer by abortion; filaments mostly 
connate at base, rarely free; anthers versatile, 2-celled. 
Ovary 3-5-lobed, 3-5-celled, rarely 2-celled ; carpels united to 
the axis below, above either prolonged into a beak, continued 
into a style, or beakless, with free or partially united styles, or 
crowned with sessile stigmas. Ovules 1, 2 or many, axile. 
Fruit rarely indehiscent. Seeds with or without albumen ; 
embryo straight or curved, often green.—Herbs or shrubs of 
various aspects. 
Tribe 1. OxatLIDEX. Flowers regular. Petals convolute. Stamens 10, 
connate at base. Ovary beakless. Styles 5, separate; stigmas capitate. 
Capsules many-seeded. Leaves compound, without stipules. 
Usually. trifoliolatetherbsi:.- 0% .. “yf «>. 5. “1. Omani: 
