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DICOTYLEDONS. 



ORDER I. RANUNCULACEtE. 



Most of the members of this Order possess acrid properties, and 

 some are poisonous, but these properties are driven off by heat ; some 

 of the Knowltonias are vesicant, as are also some of the Anemones. 

 Number of species about 1200. 



(Ex. Clematis, Buttercup.) 



Climbing slender shrubs with opposite leaves. Clematis. 



Herbaceous plants. Leaves alternate or radical. 



1 Sepals coloured, no true petals. 



1 Sepals green. Petals present. 

 2 Sepals 4-5. Carpels few, without tails. Thalictrum. 



2 Sepals many. Carpels many, tailed. Anemone. 



3 Petals with simple claws. Carpels fleshy. Knovvltonu. 



3 Petals with scale or pit on the claw. Carpels dry. Ranunculus. 



1 Olematis, Linn. 



brachiata, Thh. 

 glaucescens, Fresen. 

 incisodentata, A. Rich. 

 Oweniae, Harv. 



2 Thalictrum, Linn, 

 rhynchocarpum, I>. ^ B. 



3 Anemone, Linn. 



caffra, E. Sf Z. 

 Fanniniae, Harv. 



List of Species. 



4 Knowltonia, Salisb. 

 brevistylis, Syzsz. 



B-C. 



C. 



C. 

 B-Z. 



C-D. 



B. 

 B-E. 



vesicatoria, Sims. 



5 Bannnculas, Linn. 



Baurii, MacOwan. 

 Cooperi, Oliv. 

 Meyeri, Harv. 

 pinnatus, Poir. 



E. 



D-E. 



E. 



A-F. 



ORDER V. ANONACE^. 



Tropical shrubs, sometimes climbing, the bark and leaves of some 

 of the foreign species have been used medicinally, but the Order is 

 best known from its including the Custard apple, v'^weet and Sour 

 Sops and Cherimoyer. One of our species, ^wowa senegalensis, known 

 to the natives as "i-Rabuja" bears an eatable fruit. Number of 

 species about 400. 



Carpels confluent in a many seeded fruit. 

 Carpels separate, on short pedicels. 



1 Petals imbricate. Ovides many. 



1 Petals valvate. Ovules 1-2, erect. 



1 



recurved. 



Peduncles 



Anona. 



UVARIA. 

 POPOWIA. 



Artabotryb. 



1. 



