Classification of Plants 



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Order Rutace^. 



Flowers perfect, regular. Sepals 4 or 5. Petals 4 or 5, twisted 

 or imbricate. Stamens as many, or twice as many, as the 

 petals. Those opposite the petals may be without anthers. 

 Honey is made in a ring or cup-shaped disc around the ovary. 



Handsome heath-like 

 shrubs often known 

 by their gland-dotted 

 leaves. The dots 

 are cavities contain- 

 ing a strongly scented 

 oil. Leaves opposite 

 or alternate, without 

 stipules. 



Fig. 233. — Melianthus minor. 



Fig. 234. — Woody capsule of 

 Melianthus dregcaita. 



Some of the more familiar genera : — 



Fruit a 5-celled capsule. 

 Without staminodia. 



Diosma. — Petals neither clawed nor bearded. 

 Staminodia 5. 



Ovary raised on a stalk. 



Calodendron. — A handsome tree. 

 Ovary not raised. 

 Style short. 

 Adenandra. — Petals not clawed, or but slightly clawed. 

 Acmadenia. — Petals clawed, the claw bearded. 



