Z I. RANUNCULACEiE. 



loured, imbricate, soon itilling. Petals none. Carpels very 

 many in a tuft, dry, 1-seeded, with hairy tails. — Fl. Cap. i. jo. 3 ; 

 This. Cap. t.l. 



Herbs. Leaves from the rootstock, stalked, lobed or cut, sometimes very 

 much divided. Peduucles simple or branched, 1- or few-flowered. Flowers 

 white or rosy, conspicuous. — 3 South African species : A. Capensis, from 

 Table Mountain to Swellendam ; A. Caffra^ in the Eastern districts and 

 Caii'raria ; A. Fatininii, n. sp., at the Dargle Farm, Natal. 



4. KNOWLTONIA, Salisb. 



Involucre none. Sepals 5, green, imbricate, falling. Petals 

 5-15, whitish yellowish or greenish, flat, with naked claws. 

 Carpels many in a tuft, 1-seeded, \vhen ripe fleshy; style 

 faUing of^.—Fl. Cap. i. p. 4. 



Herbs, with very acrid juice. Leaves from the rootstock, stalked, 3- 

 parted or twice 3-parted ; leaflet stalked, toothed or cut. Flowers in 

 branchmg cymes or umbels, dull-coloured. — An endemic genus, consisting 

 of 5, perhaps 6 (A", bracteata, mss., n. sp.) species, dispersed through the 

 colony. 



5. RANUNCULUS, Hall. 



Sepals 3-5, green or yellowish, imbricate, falling. Petals 

 5-10, flat, yellow or white, with a minute fleshy scale or pit 

 near the base on the inside. Carpels many, tufted, 1-seeded, 

 dry in fruit, pointed or beaked. — Fl. Cap. i. p>. 5. 



Herbs. Stems weak, leafy. Leaves stalked, deeply cut, lobed or mul- 

 tifid in our species. — 6 South African species, dispersed: 5 with yellow 

 flowers are terrestrial ; 1 (iZ. agi(atilis),yrith. white flowers, grows in ponds 

 and rivers. 



Order XL ANONACE^. 



Flowers bisexual. Sepals 3, valvate. Petals 6, in two 

 row^s. Stamens many, hypogynous ; filaments thickened up- 

 w^ards ; anthers fixed. Carpels several, separate or cohering. 

 — Trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, entire, alternate, without 

 stipules. Plowers leathery, lateral, on short stalks. 



Carpels separate, on short pedicels. 



Petals imbricate. Ovules many 1. L"rYARiA. 



Petals valvate. Ovules 1-2, erect 2. Popowia. 



Carpels confluent into a many-seeded fruit 3. Anona. 



1. UVARIA, Linn. 



Petals 6, imbricate in two rows, plano-convex. Stamens 

 very many, compressed, with a prolonged connective. Torus 

 little-raised, hairy. Carpels oblong, furrowed on the inner 

 face ; style continuous ; ovules many, in two rows. Berries 

 many- or l-seeded. — Fl. Cap. i. p. S.^ 



