4) 9A XLIII. ROSACEM. 
** Blowers without petals ; bisexual. 
7. Acena, Calyx-tube armed with hooked prickles ; limb 4-5-lobed. 
8. Alchemilla. Calyx-tube unarmed ; limb 8-lobed, in two rows. 
*** Flowers without petals, unisexual or polygamous. 
9. Poteriwm. Herbaceous. Flowers in dense terminal spikes; calyx 
4-fid. 
10. Cliffortia. Small shrubs or half-shrubs. Flowers axillary, sessile, 
3-fid. 
Tribe 4?. NevraDE®. Flowers bisexual. Calyx-tube concrete with the 
ovary. Petals 5, convolute. Stamens 10. Carpels 5-10, united in a 5-10- 
celled capsule. 
11. Grielum. Herbs with many-cleft, hoary leaves, and large, yellow 
flowers. 
TrrBE 1. CoRyYSoBALANE®. (Gen. 1.) 
1. PARINARIUM, Juss. 
Flowers bisexual. Calyx-tube long or short, subequal or 
unequal-sided ; limb 5-parted, subequal, imbricate. Petals 5, 
rarely 4, sessile or clawed, deciduous. Stamens 10 or many, 
shortly connate at base or united in a lateral parcel, all per- 
fect or some barren. Ovary adnate to the side of the calyx- 
tube, exserted, 2-celled (or partly so) ; ovules solitary, erect ; 
style basal, filiform, hairy. Drupe ovoid or globose, with 
fibrous or pulpy flesh, and a bony, 1-seeded nut.— Vl. Cap. ii. 
p. 596. 
P. Capense, our only species, is a very dwarf bush, the young parts 
clothed with foxy hairs. Leaves 2-4 inches long, oblong, obtuse, glabrous 
above, white-woolly beneath. Peduncles not much branched. Grows on 
the Aapjes river. 
Trine 2. DryapEx. (Gen. 2-4.) 
2. RUBUS, Linn. 
Calyx-tube open, short ; limb 5-parted,imbricate. Petals 5, 
crumpled, deciduous. Stamens indefinite, perigynous. Car- 
pels indefinite, on a convex-conical receptacle, 1-ovuled ; styles 
subterminal, filiform. Fruit of many little drupes, heaped to- 
gether on the dry, hardened receptacle.— Fl. Cap. ii. p. 286. - 
The Raspberry and Bramble. Leaves pinnate or digitate. Flowers 
mostly panicled.—5 Cape species, dispersed. 
3. POTENTILLA, Linn. 
Calyx-tube short, concave, open; limb 8-10-parted in two 
rows, the inner segments valvate in bud. Petals 4-5, deci- 
duous. Stamens indefinite. Carpels indefinite, on a convex 
receptacle, 1-ovuled; styles lateral, stigmas simple. Fruit of 
dry achenes, sessile, ona dry, hairy receptacle, not tailed.— #7. 
Cap. ii. p. 228. 
