308 Plants and their Ways in South Africa 

 KEY TO THE GENERA. 



Fruit i-seeded, mostly indehiscent. 



Ovary i-locular, style i BERZEUA. 



Ovary 2-locular. 



Style i ; flowers axillary .... TITTMANNIA. 

 i ; solitary, terminal . . THAMNEA. 

 ,, 2 ; capitate or panicled . BRUNIA. 

 Fruit a capsule. 



Ovary 2-locular, 2-ovuled ; flowers capitate. 

 Styles 2 ; petals free or slightly cohering . BERARDIA. 



i ; STAAVIA. 



Ovary 2-locular, 4-ovuled; flowers in leafy 



spikes. 



Flowers sympetalous, 5-lobed . . . LONCHOSTOMA. 

 Flowers choripetalous, 5-lobed ; anthers 



apiculate LINCONIA. 



Ovary 3-loculate, 6-ovuled. 



Flowers in spike-like terminal heads, red . AUDOUINIA. 



Order ROSACES. 



Like the Ranunculaceae, the Rosacese have many free 

 stamens and apocarpous ovaries ; but in the Rosacese the 

 receptacle is generally hollowed, and the flowers are perigynous 



FIG. 280. Flower of Peach with stamens around the ovary. (From 

 Henslow's "South African Flowering Plants".) 



or epigynous. The carpels are often borne on a raised portion 

 of the receptacle, as in Ranunculacese. Sometimes the re- 

 ceptacle is free from the carpels, or it becomes joined to them, 

 as in the apple (epigynous), so that hypogyny, perigyny, and 

 epigyny occur. 



