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Plants and their Ways in South Africa 



FF. Trees, shrubs, or herbs. 



Stamens 4-many, with ovary borne on 

 prolonged axis ; fruit a capsule or 



berry CAPPARIDACE^. 



Stamens 5 ; herbs or shrubs, with 



insect-catching leaves . . . DROSERACE^. 

 DD. Placentation free, central. Inflorescence 



cymose. 



Fruit a capsule, leaves opposite . . . CARYOPHYLLACE^E. 

 ODD. Placentation axile, or frequently parietal, 

 sepals free or connate. Cymose inflores- 

 cence prevailing except in Malpighiaceae 

 and Polygalaceae. 



E. Sepals usually imbricated, and free. 

 F. Disk within stamens, carpels (5-2), 

 ovules usually few, stamens ob- 

 diplostemonous, or outer whorl 

 absent, more or less joined at base. 

 (Cohort Geraniales.) 

 G. Flowers perfect. 



H. Flowers regular, sometimes ir- 

 regular ; stamens opening by 

 slits. 



I. Leaves not gland-dotted ; herbs 



or shrubs ; styles usually free. 



Stamens obdiplostemonous when 



more than two whorls. 

 J. Leaves alternate. 



Fruit a schizocarp; leaves 



simple or pinnate, stipulate . GERANIACE^E. 

 Fruit a loculicidal capsule, 

 leaves palmately compound, 

 exstipulate .... OXALIDACE^E. 

 Fruit a septicidal capsule, 

 leaves simple, stipulate or ex- 

 stipulate .... LINAGES. 

 JJ. Leaves opposite, stipulate. 

 Fruit a capsule, schizocarp or 



berry ; seeds few . . . ZYGOPHYLLACF^E. 

 II. Leaves gland-dotted ; shrubs or 



trees ; styles united. 

 J. Stamens free, leaves exstipu- 

 late. 



Fruit a capsule or berry ; 

 leaves heath-like, trifoliate, 

 or pinnate .... RUTACE^E. 

 Fruit drupaceous; leaves im- 



paripinnate .... BURSERACE^E. 



