20 XTV. PTTTOsrOlJE.'E. 



colled ; style single, terminal ; ovules many, axile. Fruit 

 capsular, or fleshy and pulpy. — Trees or shrubs, commonly 

 glabrous. Leaves alternate, entire or toothed. Flowers 

 white blue yellow greenish or red, cons])icuous. 



1. PITTOSPORUM, Banks. 



Sepals separate or connate at base. Petals 5, tlieir claws 

 erect, conniveut ; limbs spreading. Filaments subulate. Ovary 

 sessile, imperfectly 2-5-celled ; style short ; stigma capitate. 

 Capsules subglobose or obovate, with leathery, thick, septife- 

 rous valves. Seeds lying in viscid resin, smooth. — Fl. Cap. i. 

 p. 443. 



A considerable g^enus, widely dispersed, chiefly in the southern hemi- 

 sphere. P. viridiJio7-um, Sims, the only Cape species, is a glabrous shrub, 

 common in the Eastern district, Cafl'raria, and extending to ]S^atal. Leaves 

 obovate, tapery at base, very entire, leathery, shining ; panicle subumbel- 

 late, terminal. Petals yellow-green. 



Order XV. FRANKENIACEiE. 



Flowers bisexual, regular. Calyx tubular, 4-5-toothed, 

 ribbed, persistent, hardening after flow^eriug. Petals 4-5, 

 with long claws, deciduous. Stamens mostly 6. Ovary 1- 

 celled, with 3-.5 parietal placentas ; ovules many. Capsule 

 enclosed in the calyx, many-seeded ; seeds albuminous, wath 

 an axile embryo. — Small, perennial, or half-shrubby plants, 

 Avith crowded, small, narrow leaves. Flowers purple or white. 



1. FBANKENIA, Linn. 

 The only genus of the Order. — Fl. Cap. i. p. 114. 



3 sjiecies found in South Africa, natives of salt-marshes or seashores. 



Order XYI. CARYOPHYLLEJE.* 



Flowers bisexual, regular. Calyx 4-5-cleft or parted, 

 persistent, imbricate. Petals 4-5, entire or 2-fid, or minute 

 or 0. Stamens 4-10, inserted with the petals on a hypogy- 

 nous or slightly perigynous ring ; filaments filiform ; an- 

 thers 2-celled. Torus often minute (in some Silenea elon- 

 gate, stipe-like). Ovary free, 1-celled, or rarely at base 2-5- 



* The following genera, included in this Order in ' Flora Capensis,' 

 (following the views of Bentham and Hooker) are removed as follows : — 

 ( orrigiola, I/eruiarla, Pollichia, to PAliONyCHlE^ ; Orygia, Glinus, Mollugo, 

 Phariiaceum, Hgpertelis, Coela?ithuni, Psammatrojtha, Adenogramme, and 

 Polpoda, to FicoiDF,.E. 



