Classification of Plants 



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Flowers yellow or purplish. Fruit a long berry with sticky 



hairs. 



A Karroo plant formerly called Schepperia " in honour of some obscure 

 botanist whose memory has otherwise passed away ". 



Capparis (the Caper). — Stamens 8-many, on a slightly 

 raised disk. Ovary on a long gynophore. Trees or shrubs 



Fig. 274.— Flowering branch of 6a;>- FiG. 275.— Floral diagram of 



paris, (From Henslow's " South Drosera. 



African Flowering Plants ".) 



with simple leaves, often climbing by means of thorny hooked 

 stipules. 



Order Droserace^ (the Sundew Family). 



Flowers regular, perfect. Sepals 5, 

 delicate. Stamens 5. Carpels 2, 3, 5. 

 Styles long ; stigmas simple or branched 

 Flowers in cymes. Herbaceous plants 

 rhizome. Of the six genera of this order, two are found in 

 South Africa. 



Petals 5, very 

 Ovary 1-5 -celled. 



Fruit a capsule, 

 with a perennial 



