42 XXIX. IIUTACE^. 



Leaves simple. 



Flowers bisexual, 5-parted. 



Ovary stipitate. Fruit a rougli, 5-celled capsule 1. Calodendron. 

 Ovary sessile. Fruit of 3-5 separate cocci. 

 Staminodia 0. 



Petals clawed, bearded on the limb. 



Style short ; stigma capitate .... 2. EUCH^TIS. 



Style long, much protruded 3. Maceosttlis. 



Petals sessile, not bearded 4. Diosma. 



Staminodia 5, one between each stamen. 

 Style short ; stigma capitate. 



Petals channelled, the staminodia infolded 



in the channel 5. Coleonema. 



Petals flat ; staminodia free. 



Petals clawed, the claw bearded ... 6. Acmadenia. 

 Petals subsessile, broad, nude ... 7. Adenandra. 

 Style as long as petals ; stigma simple. 



Petals sessile. Flowers axillary ... 8. Barosma. 

 Petals clawed. Flowers terminal . . 9. Agathosma. 

 Flowers unisexual, 4-parted ; carpels solitary. 



Petals 0. Leaves lanceolate, dotted . . . .10. Empleurum. 

 Petals 4. Leaves acicular, not pellucid, dotted . 11. Empleueidium. 



Leaves trifoliolate 13. Toddalia. 



Leaves abruptly pinnate ; ovary lobed 12. Zanthoxylon. 



Leaves unequally pinnate ; ovary solid 14. Clausena. 



TeIBE 1. DlOSME^. 



1. CALODETiTDIlON, Th. 



Calyx short, 5-parted, deciduous. Petals 5, oblongo-lanceo- 

 late, mucli longer than the calyx. Stamens 10, inserted 

 under a short, tubular disk, 5 fertile, 5 alternate (staminodia) 

 sterile and petaloid. Ovary stipitate, shortly 5-lobed ; style 

 filiform, elongate. Capsules stipitate, ligneous, roughly tu- 

 bercledj 5-angled, 5-celled, septicidally 5-valved ; seeds 2 in 

 each cell, angular. — Fl. Cap . i. p. 371. 



C. Capense, Th., is a noble tree, a native of the Eastern district and 

 Natal. Leaves decussate, petioled, ovate or ovato-lanceolate, acute or ob- 

 tuse, pellucid-dotted, evergreen, 4-5 inches long. Flowers in terminal 

 panicles ; petals white, with purple, glandular spots. The " Wilde Kasta- 

 nien " of colonists. 



2. EUCH^TIS, Bartl. and Wendl. 



Calyx 5-parted. Petals broadly clawed, oblongo-lanceolate, 

 with a transverse beard. Stamens 5, fertile, shorter than the 

 calyx ; anthers rounded, -v^ith an apical gland ; staminodia 0. 

 Ovary deeply sunk in the cup-shaped, 5-lobed disk, 5-lobed ; 

 style short ; stigma capitate. Fruit of 5 cocci, shortly horned 

 at the summit. — FL Cap. i. p. 371. 



Small, slender shrubs, with scattered, rarely opposite, lanceolate, keeled 



