Classification of Plants 



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Flowers yellow or purplish. Fruit a long berr)' with sticky 

 hairs. 



A Karroo plant formerly cMeiSchepperia " in honour of some obscure 

 botanist whose memory has otherwise passed away ". 



Capparis (the Caper). — Stamens S-many, on a slightly 

 raised disk. Ovary on a long gynophore. Trees or shrubs 



F1G.274.— Flowering branch of ta/r- Fig. 275.— Floral diagram of 



pans. (From Henslow's " South Drosera. 



African Flowering Plants ".) 



with simple leaves, often climbing by means of thorny hooked 

 stipules. 



Order Droserace.« (the Sundew Family). 



Flowers regular, perfect. Sepals 5. Petals 5, very 



delicate. Stamens 5. Carpels 2, 3, 5. Ovary 1-5-celled. 



Styles long ; stigmas simple or branched. Fruit a capsule. 



Flowers in cymes. Herbaceous plants with a perennial 

 rhizome. Of the si.x genera of this order, two are found in 

 South Africa. 



