Classification of Plants 



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a similar service. The leaves are often bordered with hairs, which are 

 always a severe trial to ants. Shrubs, from a few inches to lo feet high. 



Eremia. — Seeds one in a cell. Cells 2-4. Flowers small, 

 bell-shaped, in terminal umbels. Chiefly Western. 



Fig. 2,'22.— Erica Massoni, L. 



Fig. 323. — Erica cerinfhoides, 

 L. One-half of flower. 



Stamens 3-4 — sometimes 5-6, 



Blaeria. — Flowers 3-4 parted, bracts none Corolla small. 

 Small shrubs resembling Erica. Western. 



Grisebachia. — Small shrubs differing from Eremia in the 

 number of stamens, and ovary 2-celled. 



Order Plumbaginace^. 



Calyx remaining on. Corolla regular sympetalous. Sta- 

 mens 5, opposite and adnate to the petals. Ovary i-celled, 

 superior, with one pendulous ovule. Herbs or half shrubs, 

 often growing near the sea. 



Plumbago (Kafir, Um Ti wamadoda). — Calyx with sticky 

 hairs along the ribs, which help to scatter the seed. Corolla 



