118 LV. ONAGRARIER. 
_ 3. GNOTHERA, Linn. 
Calyx-tube much produced beyond the ovary, deciduous ; 
limb 4-parted. Petals 4, obcordate. Stamens 8. Stigma 4- 
lobed or capitate. Capsule various in form and texture, 4- 
celled, 4-valved, many-seeded.— FI. Cap. ii. p. 505. 
Alarge genus, of American origin.—2 species (“Evening Primroses”’) 
are naturalized near Capetown. 
4. EPILOBIUM, Linn. 
Calyx-tube not produced beyond the ovary ; limb deeply 
4-lobed or 4-parted, deciduous. Petals 4, obovate or obcor- 
cordate. Stamens 8. Stigma clavate or 4-lobed. Capsule 
linear, 4-sided, 4-celled, 4-valved, loculicidal. Seeds with a 
tuft of silky hairs at one end.—J/'l. Cap. ii. p. 506. 
Herbs of the temperate zones. Leaves alternate or opposite, entire or 
serrulate ; flowers axillary or in terminal bracteate spikes, purple or rosy, 
rarely yellowish.—3 species, of which one is said to be endemic. 
TrrBe 2. MontTinre®. (Gen. 5.) 
5. MONTINIA, Linn. 
Flowers diwcious. Calyx-tube wholly adnate to the ovary ; 
limb short, persistent, 4-toothed, with open estivation. Pe- 
tals 4, ovate, epigynous, imbricate, deciduous. Disk (in the 
male) fleshy, 4-angled. Stamens 4; filaments short; anthers 
adnate, slitting lengthwise; pollen trigonous. Ovary inferior, 
imperfectly 2-celled, with very prominent, fleshy, multiovulate 
placentas, fillmg up the greater part of the cavity ; style 
single, short ; stigma large, deeply 2-lobed. Capsule ligneous, 
crowned by the style (now become 2-parted) and the calyx- 
limb, 2-celled, splitting through the centre. Seeds 4-6 in each 
cell, compressed, with a broad, membranous, marginal wing.— 
Fl. Cap. ii. p. 307. 
M. acris, Linn., the only species, is a glabrous, somewhat glaucous shrub, 
common all over the colony. Leaves varying from oblong to lanceolate or 
linear, entire, margined, 1-nerved, veinless. Flowers small, white, the males 
in terminal corymbs, the females mostly solitary. 
TrrBk 3. Trarem. (Gen. 6.) 
6. TRAPA, Linn. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the lower part of the ovary ; the limb 
half-superior, 4-parted, valvate in bud, then spreading, persis- 
tent, with spinous lobes. Petals 4, inserted under a fleshy, 
epigynous disk, imbricate in bud, the margins plaited and 
wavy, spreading, deciduous. Stamens 4, inserted with the 
