36 XXTT. M.VLPUillTACE.^. 



Ovary 3-lobcd, the lobes many-crested dorsally ; style 1 (the 

 other 2 reduced to papilla*), slender, elonf^ate. Samaras 3, 

 many-winded ; the wings narrow, elongate, stellately-patent. — 

 Fl. Cap. ii.p. 591. 



Climbers, with opposite or qiiateniate leaves, the petioles often 2-glanded. 

 Kaeemes terminal and lateral. Flowers yellow. — F. MadagascariensiSy 

 Poir., was gathered at Delagoa Bay by Commander Owen. 



Order XXVII. ZYGOPHYLLE^. 



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

 Petals 4-5, clawed, twisted, rarely 0, Stamens 8-10 ; fila- 

 ments frequently furnished with a scale at base. Ovary 

 sessile or on a short gynophore, furrowed or w^inged, 5 -celled ; 

 ovules axile, 2 or several ; style single, terminal, rarely 5 

 separate styles. Fruit capsular or fleshy. — Herbs or shrubs. 

 Leaves opposite, mostly compound, stipulate. Flow^ers soli- 

 tary, axillary or terminal, yellow or w^hite, rarely red. 



Petals 4-5. 



Fruit thorny and tubercled, indehiscent. Leaves 



pinnate 1. Tkibultjs. 



Fruit capsular, 4-5-angled, dehiscent. 

 Filaments simple at base. 



Anthers linear. Ovary densely silky .... 2. Stsyndite. 

 Anthers cordate. Ovary glabrous .... 4. Fagonia. 

 Filaments each with an entire or bifid scale at 



base 5. Zygophtllum. 



Petals 0. 



Styles short, filiform. Stamens 10. Leaves simple, 



fleshy 3. Augea. 



Styles 5. Stamens 5. Leaves 3-fohate .... 6. Seetzenia. 



Teibe 1. Tribule^. Seeds without albumen. (G-en. 1-3.) 



1. TRIBULUS, Tourn. 



Calyx 5-parted, deciduous or persistent, imbricated. Pe- 

 tals 5, spreading, longer than the calyx. Stamens 10 ; fila- 

 ments subulate, the 5 opposite the calyx-lobes wdth a gland 

 externally at base ; anthers cordate, introrse. Ovary sessile, 

 in a short 10-lobed cup, hairy, 5-celled ; ovules 3-4 in each 

 cell ; style short or 0, rarely filiform ; stigma large, 5-angled. 

 Fruit depressed, 5-angled, of 5 indehiscent, dorsally tubercu- 

 lated, thorny or winged, spuriously plurilocular carpels, each 

 loculus 1-seeded. Seeds without albumen. — Fl. Cap. i. p. 352. 



Weeds and weed-like, diffuse or prostrate herbs. Leaves opposite, one 

 usually much smaller than the other, abruptly pinnate; leaflets in several 

 pairs. Flowers yellow or white. — 2 species : one a common weed through- 

 out the country, the other found at Springbokkell by Zeyher. 



