33'5 Plants and tlicir Ways in South Afiica 



aiitlicrs versatile, seeds eiidospermous. Capsule loculicidal, 

 seed solitary. Clanwilliam, Swellendam. 



A shrub with opposite, ovate-cordate leaves and axillary 

 solitary flowers. Perianth membranous. The photograph, 

 Fig. 314, shows the oldest flowers at the top, the younger below. 



Order Thvmel.kace.'E. 



Flowers perfect, with a long coloured tube and a 4-parted 

 calyx (sometimes 5). The petals are wanting, or possibly re- 

 presented by 2 or 8 scales at the throat of the long " calyx 

 tube " or hollow receptacle. The fruit is an achene, or a berry 



I'"le,. y^.—Sli-Klhiola. (I'l-om Edinonds anil Marlolli's " lih-m.-ntniy Pot.Tiiy 

 for South Africa ",) 



which fits so closely within the hollow receptacle that it looks 

 like an inferior ovary. The tube olten breaks off just above 

 the ovary. Stamens as many or twice as many as se[)als, home 

 on the tube. 



