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Trrse 1. Evaentiranens. (Gen. 1-7.) 
1. CHIRONTA, Linn. 
Calyx 5-parted or 5-fid. Corolla rotate, marcescent ; limb 
5-parted. Stamens 5, in the throat, exserted, declinate ; an- 
thers not twisted, valves rigid, involute, cells confluent above. 
Ovary 1-celled, half-2- or half-4-celled ; ovules many ; style 
incurved, deciduous; stigma undivided, capitate or clavate, 
rarely 2-lobed. Capsules 2-valved, septicidal or rarely fleshy. 
—DC. Prod. ix. p. 39. 
Perennial herbs or half-shrubs, all natives of South Africa. Flowers 
handsome, red; anthers very large, yellow.—11 species, dispersed. 
2. ORPHIUM, E. Mey. 
Character of Chironia, except: Disk ample, fleshy, annular, 
between the calyx and corolla. Anthers spirally twisted.— 
DC. Prod. ix. p. 48. 
O. frutescens (Chironia frutescens) is a villous, much-branched bush, 
common on the Cape flats, with oblong-lanceolate or narrow leaves, and 
handsome, rosy flowers. 
3. PLOCANDRA, E. Mey. 
Character of Orphium, except: no intra-calycine disk. 
Ovary 1-celled; style straight—DC. Prod. ix. p. 43. 
Herbs, growing in marshy spots, with numerous radical or subradical 
long leaves, and tall, sparsely leafy stems, cymose-paniculate at summit. 
Flowers red or white.—3 species, natives of Eastern frontier and Natal. 
4. SEBAA, R. Br. 
Calyx 4-5-parted or 4-5-fid, the segments dorsally keeled 
or winged, or 4-leaved, the sepals not keeled. Corolla funnel- 
shaped or salver-shaped, marcescent, the tube cylindrical, at 
length inflated ; limb 4-5-parted. Stamens inserted in the 
throat; anthers erect, exserted, at length recurved. Ovary 
by the inflexed edges of the valves 2-celled; style deciduous ; 
stigma clavate or capitate, mostly 2-lobed. Capsules 2-valved, 
2-celled, septicidal—DC. Prod. ix. p. 52. 
Annuals, natives of the Southern hemisphere. Cymes terminal; flowers 
yellow or whitish.— About 10 South African species. 
5. LAGENTIAS, E. Mey. 
Character of Sebea, except: Anthers included, just within 
the throat of corolla-tube, at length recurved, at the apex 1- 
glanded and at base 2-glanded.—D0C. Prod. ix. p. 54. 
A small annual, with narrow leaves and yellow flowers, found near Cape- 
town. 
