Classification of Plants 



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with masses of yellow, or stud it with white and red in many shades during 

 July and August. 



Order Sapindace^. 



Flowers regular, or often quite irregular, with the ovary 

 at one end of a boat-shaped flower, with a disc at one 

 side of the ovary, between the stamens and petals. The 



I. II. 



Fig. 230. — The Oxalis. I. Awake. II. Asleep. 



flowers are perfect or dioecious. The staminodes in the 

 pistillate flowers are often so well developed as to be taken 

 for perfect stamens. Stamens 4 to to, more or less united 

 at the base. Ovary usually a few-seeded capsule. Trees, 

 shrubs, or half shrubs. 



Aitonia.^ — Dear to the children's hearts is the " Christ- 

 mas Tree " of the Oudtshoorn, Uitenhage, and Albany 

 districts. Flowers more or less regular, with 8 monadelphous 



