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4. Anthers sagittate. Petals sessile or with a ^landless claw. Ovary 2- 



cclled witli 2 ovules in each cell. Fruit consisting of 2 dehiscing parts. 



Flowers in spikes 5 



Anthers cordate. Petals clawed, the claw with 2 glands 6 



5. Petals with the claws united into a tube. Sepals, anthers, and ovary 



hairy. Ovary almost superior. Bracteoles 2. — - Species 3. Cape 



Colony Lonchostoma Wickstr. 



Petals sessile, free. Flowers glabrous. Sepals very short. Ovary almo.st 

 inferior. Styles free. Bracteoles 4 — 8. — Species 3. Cape Colony. 



Linconia L. 



6. Ovary i-celled. Ovule i. Style and stigma simple. Glands at the base 



of the petals crest-like. Flowers hairy. Fruit indehiscent. ... 7 



Ovary 2-celled. Stylet" 2, or a single style with 2 stigmas. Glands at the 



base of the petals tubercle- or pouch-like S 



7. Sepals short and broad, triangular. Stamens curved inwards, shorter than 



the petals ; anthers shortly cleft. Flowers solitary, axillary, spicately 

 arranged. Bracteoles thread-shaped. — Species i. Cape Colony. 



(Under Berzelia Brongn.) Mniothamnea Oliv. 



Sepals awl-shaped. Stamens curved outwards, longer than the petals ; 

 anthers deeply cleft. Flowers in heads. Bracteoles club- or spoon- 

 shaped. — Species 9. South Africa Berzelia Brongn. 



8. Fruit one-seeded, usually indehiscent 9 



Fruit consisting of two dehiscent, usually one-seeded parts. Flowers in 



heads. 10 



9. Receptacle obconical. Sepals united beyond the ovary. Petals short, 



with a very short, 2-tubercled claw. Stamens shorter than the petals, 

 equal. Anthers adnate, shortly cleft. Style short and thick, kneed. 

 — Species 8. South Africa. (Under Brunia L.) Pseudobaeckea Nied. 

 Receptacle cylindrical. Sepals free above the ovary. Petals long, with 

 a long claw bearing a 2-lobed pouch. Stamens longer than the petals, 

 unequal, the anterior longer. Anthers versatile, deeply cleft. Style 

 long or rather long, almost straight. Ovule? 2 in each cell. Flowers 

 in heads. — Species 4. South Africa Brunia L. 



10. Style I, short and thick ; stigmas 2, obhquely terminal, slightly thickened. 

 Anthers pointed at the apex. Receptacle rather long. Sepals united 

 beyond the ovary. Petals oblong, shortly clawed, 2-tubercled at the 

 base. Bracteoles thread-shaped. — Species 9. South Africa. 



Staavia Thrmb. 



Styles 2, free or more or less cohering, but then long and thread-shaped : 



stigmas simple, terminal. Anthers rounded at the apex. . . .11 



II Sepals united beyond the ovary, triangular. Petals oblong, with a short 

 claw bearing two tubercles at the base. Styles free, kneed above. 

 Bracts broad, shorter than the flowers Bracteoles linear. — Species 8. 

 South Africa. (Under Berardia Sond.) (Plate 63.) Raspalia Brongn. 



