Classification of Plants 



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shelled drupes or a capsule with hooked bristles. Trees or 

 herbs, mostly with star-like hairs and stipulate leaves. Flowers 

 in cymose umbels. Anthers with two pollen sacs distinguish 

 this order from Malvaceae as well as the absence of a staminal 

 tube. 



Flowers 4-parted : 



Sparmannia is a handsome tree growing from George to 

 Natal. The flowers are showy, with white or purple sepals 

 and petals. The stamens 

 are sensitive, and spring 

 outward on being touched. 

 The outer filaments are sta- 

 minodia. In South Africa 

 the stamens are yellow, the 

 staminodia purple - tipped. 

 Leaves on long petioles. 



Flowers five-parted : 



Grewia. Trees or 

 shrubs with purple or yel- 

 low flowers and a 4-lobed 

 drupe, containing 2-4 hard- 

 shelled nuts. 



Triumfetta. Shrubs 

 or herbs with small yellow 

 or orange flowers. Capsule 

 covered with long hooked 

 or straight bristles. 



Corchorus. Herbs 

 or shrubs. Leaves alter- 

 nate, often bordered with FIG. 308. GrmnaoccidentaKs.'L. (After 

 long sharp points. Flowers 



yellow, on simple or branched stalks. The plants are culti- 

 vated in India for their fibres, which are woven into coarse 

 cloth for gunny sacks. 



Order MALVACEAE. 



Flowers perfect, regular. Sepals valvate, often surrounded 

 by a circle of bracts (epicalyx). Petals 5, twisted in the bud. 



