Victorian Plants. 29 



DROSERACEAE. 



132. Styles two to five ; fruit one-celled. 



Herbs, beset with gland-bearing hairlets ; stamens four to 

 eight, often five. "Sundew." Figure 11. Drosera. 646 



VIO&ACEAE. 



133. Fruit valveless, succulent. 



Shrubs, often somewhat spinescent ; flowers small ; sepals 

 fixed at their base ; petals equal, none protruding into a 

 hollow base. Hymenanthera. 655 



Fruit three-valved 134 



134. Lowest petal much longer than the others. 



Herbs, less frequently shrubs ; leaves scattered ; sepals fixed 

 at or near their base; lowest petal protruding into a hollow 

 base. Figure 9. Hybantlms. 656 



Lowest petal slightly longer than the others. 



Nearly always herbs ; leaves often basal ; flowers solitary on 

 an elongated stalk ; sepals fixed above their base ; lowest 

 petal protruding into a hollow base. Viola. 658 



POLYGAX.EAE. 



135. Fruit rounded at the base. 



Herbs or shrubs ; lower petal usually crested at the summit ; 



seeds devoid of descending long hairlets. Polygala. 660 



Fruit usually contracted into a long narrow base. 



Herbs or shrubs, rarely twiners ; lower petal never crested 

 at the summit ; seeds invested with descending long 

 hairlets. Figure 13. Comesperma. 661 



HYFERICINAE. 



136. Fruit splitting along the dissepiments. 



Herbs or shrubs; leaves usually opposite, transparently 

 dotted ; styles often three ; petals from yellow to orange- 

 colored. Hypericum. 667 



ELATINEAE, 



137. Sepals blunt. 



Aquatic plants, never large ; outer portion of fruit mem- 

 branous. Elatine. 668 



