TREES AND SHRUBS 



Class I Dicotyledons 



Division III. . . . GamopetalcB 

 Natural Ordek . . Solanacece 



Herbs, erect or climbing shrubs, or rarely trees, with alternate, exstipulate 

 leaves, sometimes with a smaller leaf below ; Flotvers regular or slightly 

 irregular, hermaphrodite, solitary or in cymes, either axillary or extra-axillary ; 

 Calyx usually 5-partite, inferior, persistent ; Corolla usually 5-lobed, regular or 

 slightly irregular, hypogynous ; Stamens 5, epipetalous, alternating with corolla 

 lobes ; Ovary superior, 2-celled, placentation axile ; Frmt a berry or capsule. 



Distinguished by the regular flowers with epipetalous stamens equal in 

 number to the corolla lobes, and the superior many-seeded ovary Avith axil 

 placenta?. The epipetalous stamens mark them off from the Ericaceae, the 

 axile placentation and leaves without ribs froin the Gentianacea;, the regular 

 symmetrical flowers from the Scrophularinea;, and the axile placentation and 

 stamens alternating with petals from the Primulaceee. 



TEA TREE, Lycium halimifolium. 



Walls, trellis-work. May — August. " Though not a very showy flowering 

 shrub, it is not without value, as there are few others that are so rapid in growth, 

 so graceful, and so indifferent to the nature of the soil ; it will, in fact, grow 

 anywhere, and there is not a better shrub for clothing an ugly steep bank, where 

 little else in the way of shrubs would thrive. It is also a capital shrub for 

 covering porches, pergolas, arbours, verandahs, and such like, and in late summer 

 and autumn, when every long, drooping branch is thickly hung with small 

 orange-scarlet berries, it has an extremely pretty appearance." — JVie Garden. 



Flowers purple or lilac, changing to greenish-yellow at base inside, twin, 

 extra-axillary, pedicels long, slender ; Calyx 5-lobed, 2-lipped ; Corolla infundi- 

 buliform, tube as long as limb, \ in. diam., lobes ovate-oblong, hairy at margin, 

 honey guides ; Stamens 5, exserted, spreading, filaments long and slender ; 

 Ovary superior, '2-celled, style filiform, stigma dilated ; Fruit a berry, orange- 

 scarlet, ovoid-oblong, persistent cup-like calyx below, seeds numerous. 



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