94 XLTTI. EOSACEiE. 



** Floioers without petals ; bisexual. 



7. AcfPna. Calyx-tiibe armed witli hooked prickles ; limb 4-5-lobed. 



8. Alcliemilla. Calyx-tube unarmed ; limb 8-lobed, in two rows. 



*** Floioers toithout petals^ unisexual or polygamous. 



9. Poterium. Herbaceous. Flowers in dense terminal spikes ; calyx 

 4.fid. 



10. Cliffortia. Small shrubs or half-shrubs. Flowers axillary, sessile, 

 3-fid. 



Tribe 4?. Neueade^. Flowers bisexual. Calyx-tube concrete with the 

 ovary. Petals 5, convolute. Stamens 10. Carpels 5-10, united in a 5-10- 

 celled capsule. 



11. Grielum. Herbs wnth many-cleft, hoary leaves, and large, yellow 

 flowers. 



Teibe 1. Chetsobalaxe^. (G-en. 1.) 



1. PARINARIUM, Juss. 



Flowers bisexual. Calyx-tube long or short, subeqiial or 

 unequal-sided ; limb 5-parted, subequal, imbricate. Petals 5, 

 rarely 4, sessile or clawed, deciduous. Stamens 10 or many, 

 shortly connate at base or united in a lateral parcel, all per- 

 fect or some barren. Ovary adnate to the side of the calyx- 

 tube, exserted, 2-celled (or partly so) ; ovules solitary, erect ; 

 style basal, filiform, hairy. Drupe ovoid or globose, with 

 fibrous or pulpy flesh, and a bony, 1-seeded nut. — Fl. Cap. ii. 

 p. 596. 



P. Capense, our only species, is a very dwarf bush, the young parts 

 clothed with foxy hairs. Leaves 2-4 inches long, oblong, obtuse, glabrous 

 above, white-woolly beneath. Peduncles not much branched. Grows on 

 the Aapjes river. 



Teibe 2. Detadeje. (Gen. 2-4.) 



2. RUBUS, Linn. 



Calyx-tube open, short ; limb 5-parted, imbricate. Petals 5, 

 crumpled, deciduous. Stamens indefinite, perigynous. Car- 

 pels indefinite, on a convex-conical receptacle, 1-ovuled ; styles 

 subterminal, filiform. Pruit of many little drupes, heaped to- 

 gether on. the dry, hardened receptacle. — Fl. Cap. ii. p. 286. 



The Raspberry and Bramble. Leaves pinnate or digitate. Flowers 

 mostly panicled. — 5 Cape species, dispersed. 



3. POTENTILLA, Linn. 



Calyx-tube short, concave, open ; limb 8-10-parted in two 

 rows, the inner segments valvate in bud. Petals 4-5, deci- 

 duous. Stamens indefinite. Carpels indefinite, on a convex 

 receptacle, 1-ovuled ; styles lateral, stigmas simple. Pruit of 

 dry achenes, sessile, on a dry, hairy receptacle, not tailed. — Fl. 

 Cap. ii. p. 228. 



