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Plants and thew Ways in South Africa 



FF. Trees, shrubs, or herbs. 



Stamens 4-many, with ovary borne on 

 prolonged axis ; fruit a capsule or 



berry ■ Capparidace^. 



Stamens 5 ; herbs or shrubs, with 

 insect-catching leaves . . . Droserace^. 

 DD. Placentation free, central. Inflorescence 

 cymose. 

 Fruit a capsule, leaves opposite . . . Caryophyllace^. 

 DDD. Placentation axile, or frequently parietal, 

 sepals free or connate. Cymose inflores- 

 cence prevailing except in Malpighiace^e 

 and Polygalaceae. 

 E. Sepals usually imbricated, and free. 

 F. Disk within stamens, carpels (5-2), 

 ovules usually few, stamens ob- 

 diplostemonous, or outer whorl 

 absent, more or less joined at base. 

 (Cohort Geraniales.) 

 G. Flowers perfect. 



H. Flowers regular, sometimes ir- 

 regular ; stamens opening by 

 slits. 

 I. Leaves not gland-dotted ; herbs 

 or shrubs ; styles usually free. 

 Stamens obdiplostemonous when 



more than two whorls. 

 J. Leaves alternate. 



Fruit a schizocarp ; leaves 

 simple or pinnate, stipulate . 

 Fruit a loculicidal capsule, 

 leaves palmately compound, 

 exstipulate .... 

 Fruit a septicidal capsule, 

 leaves simple, stipulate or ex- 

 stipulate .... LiNACEiE. 

 JJ. Leaves opposite, stipulate. 

 Fruit a capsule, schizocarp or 



berry; seeds few . . . Zygophyllace^. 

 n. Leaves gland-dotted ; shrubs or 

 trees ; styles united. 

 J. Stamens free, leaves exstipu- 

 late. 

 Fruit a capsule or berry ; 

 leaves heath-like, trifoliate, 

 or pinnate .... Rutace^. 

 Fruit drupaceous ; leaves im- 

 paripinnate .... Burserace.^. 



Geraniace^. 



OXALIDACE^. 



