4 DICOTYLEDONS. 



XLIV. Sapindace^. Trees or shrubs, rarely frutesceat herbs, with alternate compoimd 

 leaves. Style 1. Ovules ascending or horizontal. 



XLV. Anacardiace^. Trees or shrubs, usually abounding in a resinous juice. Leaves 

 rarely simple, alternate, often tufted at the ends of the branches. Styles 1-4, or stigmas 

 subsessile. Ovules solitary, suspended or laterally affixed. 



Cohort XI. Rosales. Flowers regular or irregular^ usually hermaphrodite. Sta- 

 mens more or less distinctly perigynous. Styles distinct. 



XLVI. CoNNARACE^. Trees or shrubs, with 1-3-foliolate or pinnate leaves. Flowers 

 regular. Stamens definite. Carpels free, 1-5. Ovules 2, ascending, orthotropous. 



XliVII. Leguminos^. Trees shrubs or herbs. Leaves usually compound. Flowers 

 irregular or regular. Stamens definite or indefinite, free or connate. Carpel solitary. 

 Ovules 1-2-00, anatropous or amphitropous, attached to the ventral suture. 



Order I. RANUNCULACEiE (by Prof. Oliver). 



Flowers regular or irregular {Delphmium) . Sepals 3 or more, usually 5, 

 often petaloid, deciduous. Petals 5, or more, or fewer, or 0. Stamens inde- 

 finite (sometimes few), hypogynous, free. Pistil usually apocai-pous. Carpels 

 1 or more. Ovules anatropous, ascending or pendulous, solitary or several. 

 Pruit of 1 or more achenes or follicles (in tropical African species). Seeds 

 with a fleshy albumen and very minute embryo, without an arillus. — Herbs, 

 with radical or alternate cauline leaves, or more or less woody, and then often 

 climbing with opposite leaves {Clematis). Leaves entire or divided, rarely 

 stipulate. 



An Order, widely dispersed through temperate and cold climates, especially of the northern 

 hemisphere, but rare and generally confined to mountain ranges between the tropics. The 

 species are usually more or less acrid and caustic, many of them dangerously so. Two 

 genera. Anemone and Knowltonia, which are absent from the tropics, occur in the ' Cape 

 Flora.' 



Stem woody, climbing or erect. Leaves opposite. Sepals valvate (rarely 



imbricate). Petals . . . 1. Clematis. 



Herbaceous. 



Flowers regular. Petals 0. Carpels 1-ovulate 2. Thalictruit. 



Flowers regular. Petals 3-oo. Carpels 1-ovulate 3. Ranunculus. 



Flowers irregular. Post, sepal spm-red. Ovules oo 4. Delphinium. 



1. CLEMATIS, Linn. ; Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 3. 



Sepals usually 4, rarely more, petaloid, valvate in aestivation, deciduous. 

 Petals 0, or smaller than the sepals. Stamens indefinite ; anthers linear. 

 Carpels indefinite, each with a solitary pendulous ovule. Achenes capitate. 

 Style persistent, in the African species growing out, after flowering, into a 

 long plumose tail. — Usually climbing, rarely erect shrubs, with opposite, pin- 

 nately or teniately divided, rarely simple leaves, and terminal or axillary, 

 panicled or solitary, white, cream-coloured, greenish or purple flowers. 



A large genus, widely dispersed through temperate countries, occurring between the 

 tropics chiefly in mountainous regions. The tropical African species appear to be endemic 

 with one exception. Two of the most peculiar, C. chrysocarpa and C. Kirkii, are closely 

 allied to species native in Madagascar. 



Stem erect, or nearly so. Flowers terminal, solitaiy or peduncles 1 - 

 flowered, in loose corymbose cymes. 



