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confluent. Disk cup-like, crenulate, fleshy, within the sta- 
mens. Ovary sessile, 4-lobed, 4-celled ; ovules in pairs; style 
filiform, exserted. Capsules inflated, membranous, deeply 4- 
lobed, sharply 4-angled, 4-celled— Fl. Cap. i. p. 243. 
A. Capensis, Linn. f., the only species, is a shrub with narrow linear 
evergreen leaves, purple flowers and bladdery capsules, found in the Uiten- 
hage, Albany, etc., districts. 
Tribe 8. MerrantuEm. (Gen. 9-10.) 
9, MELIANTHUS, Linn. 
Flowers perfect. Calyx compressed, oblique at base, sub- 
saccate, 5-parted, segments very unequal, imbricate. Petals 5, 
excentric, the fifth very minute or 0, declinate, subperigy- 
nous, narrow, long-clawed, tomentose in the middle. Disk 
thickened, unilateral, covering the gibbous base of the calyx, 
secreting honey. Stamens 4, hypogynous, inserted within the 
disk, didynamous, and curved. Ovary oblong, 4-lobed, 4- 
celled; style central, incurved, filiform, 4-toothed at apex ; 
ovules 2-4 in each cell. Capsules membranous, deeply 4- 
lobed, 4-celled; cells 1-seeded. Seeds albuminous.— #7. Cap. 1. 
p. 367, 
Glabrous or hoary, often glaucous, often strong-scented. Leaves alter- 
nate, stipuled, pinnate ; leaflets sharply-toothed or entire. Racemes axil- 
lary and terminal.—d species, two of which are dispersed, three North- 
Western. 
10. BERSAMA, Fresen. 
Flowers perfect or polygamo-diccious. Sepals 5, subequal, 
free, or two more or less connate, imbricate. Petals 5, un- 
equal, clawed, the front one larger, the claws nude or glandu- 
lar at apex, imbricate. Disk unilateral, semi-annular or sub- 
complete, raised. Stamens 4, central, inserted with the disk, 
either all connate or 2 free. Ovary oblong, terete, 4—5-celled ; 
style elongate, curved ; ovules solitary, erect. Capsules glo- 
bose or oblong, coriaceous or ligneous, 4-5-celled, loculicidally 
4—5-valved, valves septiferous. Seed arillate, albuminous.— 
Natalia, Hochst. ; Fl. Cap. i. p. 369. 
Trees and shrubs. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate ; leaflets entire or 
serrulate. Racemes terminal, lateral, simple; flowers small, white.—2 
South African species, both found near Natal. 
GENUS OF UNCERTAIN AFFINITY. 
GREYIA, Hook. and Harv. 
Calyx 5-parted, persistent, its segments obtuse, subequal, 
imbricate. Petals 5, oblong, sessile, deciduous, coriaceous, 
imbricate. Stamens hypogynous, in two rows, those of the 
outer row (staminodia) 10, without anthers, their very short 
