32 XXIIT. STETiCULIACE.E. 



anthers oblong, erect, 2-eelled. Ovary oblique, 1-celled, 2- 

 ovuled ; style lateral. Capsules 1-celled, 2-valved, 1-seeded. 

 ~-Fl. Cap. i. p. 180. 



Herbs or slirubs, chiefly tropical. W. Indica, Liun., a widely-diffused 

 species, occurs at Magalisberg. 



5. HERMANNIA, Linn. 



Calyx 5-cleft, often inflated. Petals 5, with hollow claws, 

 spirally twisted in bud. Stamens 5, opposite the petals ; fila- 

 ments connate at base, broad, flat, oblong or obovate ; anthers 

 erect, taper-pointed. Ovary shortly stipitate, 5-celled ; styles 

 coalescing, separable. Capsules coriaceous, 5-celled, 5-valved, 

 many-seeded, simple or crested at the summit. — Fl. Cap. i. 

 p. 180. 



Small shrubs or imdershrubs, almost all South African. Pubescence 

 stellate, woolly, velvety, glandular or scanty. Leaves entire, toothed 

 or pinnatifid, often plaited. Peduncles axillary or subterminal, pseudo- 

 racemose. Flowers yellow or orange, rarely creamy or white, often sweet- 

 scented. — Upwards of 70 Cape species, dispersed. 



6. MAHERNIA, Linn. 



Filaments of the stamens suddenly dilated and mostly tu- 

 berculated in the middle or cruciform. Other characters as 

 in Ilermannia. — Fl. Cap. i. p. 207. 



Small plants, with the habit of Hermannia. Peduncles mostly 2-flowered, 

 terminal or opposite the leaves; pedicels slender, bracteolate at base. 

 Flower nodding, red orange yellow or violet. — 33 (or more) South African 

 species, dispersed. 



Oeder XXIV. TILIACE^. 



Like Sterculiacece, but the stamens not connate or tubular 

 at base, and usually numerous ; anthers 2-celled, opening in- 

 wards. — Trees shrubs or herbs, with mostly stellate pubes- 

 cence, and stipulate simple leaves. 



Flowers 4-parted ; outer stamens beaded, without 



anthers 1. Spaema>^nia. 



Flowers 5-parted. 



Fruit fleshy, of 1-4 hard-sholled drupes 2. Grewia. 



Fruit a globose or oblong capsule, covered with hooked 



or straight, sharp and rigid bristles 3. Triumfetta. 



Fruit a pod-like capsule, 2-5-valved, splitting, many- 

 seeded 4. CORCHOEUS. 



1. SPARMANNIA, Th. 



Sepals 4, lanceolate, pointless, deciduous. Petals 4, ob- 

 ovate, spreading horizontally. Stamens very many, the outer 



