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Plants and their Ways in Sonfli Africa 



FF. Trees, shrubs, or herbs. 



Stamens 4-many, with ovary borne on 

 prolonged axis; fruit a capsule or 

 berry ...... 



Stamens 5 ; herbs or shrubs, with 

 insect-catching leaves 

 DD. Placentation free, central. Inflorescence 

 cymose. 

 Fruit a capsule, leaves opposite . 

 DDD. Placentation axile, or frequently parietal, 

 sepals free or connate. Cymose inflores- 

 cence prevailing except in Malpighiacea? 

 and Polygalacea;. 

 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 ; lea\'es 



simple or pinnate, stipulate . 



Fruit a loculicidal capsule, 



leaves palmately compound, 



exstipulate . . . . 



Fruit a septicidal capsule, 

 leaves simple, stipulate or ex- 

 stipulate . . . . 



JJ. Leaves opposite, stipulate. 

 Fruit a capsule, schizocarp or 

 berry ; seeds few . 

 II. Leaves gland-dotted; shrubs or 

 trees; styles united. 

 J. Stamens free, leaves exstipu- 

 late. 

 Fruit a capsule or berrN' 

 leaves heath-like, trifoliate 

 or pinnate 

 Fruit drupaceous; leaves im 

 paripinnate . 



Capparidace.e. 



r^ROSEKACE.^. 



Carvophvllace.^. 



Geraniace.e. 



OXALIDACE.E. 



Linace.t:. 



ZVGOPIlVLLAC!'".*'R. 



Rl'TACF.E. 



Lukskrace.t;. 



