Classification of Plants 



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may be raised on the stalk. Herbs, shrubs, or trees with simple 

 or compound leaves, often with sticky hairs. Fruit a capsule 

 or berry. 



A. Fruit a capsule — 



Gynandropsis. — Stamens 6. Capsule pod-like, i-celled, 

 many-seeded. The stem axis is lengthened between the petals 

 and stamens, and also between the stamens and ovary. 

 Herbs with compound leaves, 

 the upper sessile, the lower on 

 long stalks. 



B. Fruit a berry — 

 Calyx persistent — 

 Niebuhria. — Berry roundish. 



Calyx funnel - shaped. Petals 

 small or none. Trees or shrubs 

 with simple or compound leaves. 



Maerua. — Berry long, many- 

 seeded. Trees with simple leaves. 

 Natal. 



Calyx deciduous — 



Cadaba. — Stamens 4-8, 

 raised with the ovary on a gyno- 

 phore. Cadaba juncea is shown 

 in Fig. 215. It is a much- 

 branched, twiggy, pale, leafless 

 shrub about 2 feet high. 

 Flowers yellow or purplish. Fruit 

 a long berry with sticky hairs. 



Fig. 216. — Flowering branch of Cappa- 

 ris. (From Henslow's "South African 

 Flowering Plants.") 



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 disc. Ovary on a long gynophore. Trees or shrubs 

 with simple leaves, often climbing by means of thorny hooked 

 stipules. 



