Classification of Plants 363 



orange flowers, and leaves 3-5 inches long. Frequent in forests east of 

 Swellendam. 



Gardenia. Corolla funnel- or salver-shaped. Anthers 

 extending beyond the tube, 8 or 9 ; sessile in the throat of 

 the corolla. 



G. TkunbergiajL.f.CWild Katjepiering : Kafir, Umkangaza.) Trees 

 or shrubs with large, solitary, white flowers, or marked with red. Often 

 sweetly scented. The berry is very hard. 



A A. Fruit a 2 -celled capsule, many seeded. 



Hedyotis. Corolla with a slender tube and spreading 

 4- or 5 -parted limb. Capsule crowned with the calyx, dehiscing 

 at the top. Sma'l herbs with ovate lanceolate or linear leaves 

 and bristle-like stipules. 



A A A. Fruit nearly dry, 0/2-6 nut-like parts 



Hydrophylax. Glabrous, creeping fleshy herbs, growing 

 by the sea, with stipules and leaves united, forming a cup. 



AAAA. Fruit 2 -par ted or 2 -celled, seeds one in each cell. 



Galopina. Flowers often dioecious or imperfect and per- 

 fect on the same plant. Perennial herbs with small flowers. 



Anthospermum is frequently a shrub with long slender, 

 rigid branches having an aspect of the narrow leaved Cliffortias 

 for which it may be mistaken. The stipules are small, 1-3 

 toothed. Flowers small, axillary, sessile, or rarely panicled, 

 dioecious, polygamous or hermaphrodite. The fruit consists 

 of two easily separable mericarps, distinguished from Um- 

 bellifera by the erect seed in each. 



Galium. Corolla 4-parted. Fruit dry, separating into 

 two i -seeded carpels. Branching, erect or spreading herbs, 

 supported by hooks on the stem and leaves. Flowers white 

 or greenish. Leaves 4 or many in a whorl. The enlarged 

 stipules, united in pairs, make a whorl of 4. If each stipule 

 is divided there is a whorl of 10. The ovary resembles that of 

 Umbellifera. 



Order CAMPANULACE^E. 



Flowers regular or zygomorphic. Sepals not meeting in 

 the bud. Corolla valvate. Stamens 5, epigynous, free from 



