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COROLLIFLOR^. Group II. Ovary superior. 
COROLLIFLORAi. Group II. Section i. Corolla regular. 
FAMILY XL. — ERICACEAE. 
Shrubs or shrublets having small linear whorled leaves, regular hermaphrodite flowers and often paniculate inflorescence. As represented here the characters are 
Calyx 4-5 fid ^ or parted Corolla hjpogyncus, gamopetalous, usually tubular, 4 -lobed. Stamens 4-8, opposite the corolla lobes when of the same number. Anthers usually 
opening by pores. Ovary superior, in the larger kinds usually 4-celled. Fruit dry, capsular, dehiscent. 
166. ERICA. Calyx equally 4-partcd or 4-fid; corolla usually longer than the calyx, often viscid. Stamens 8, on a hypogynous disc; anthers opening by pores; ovary 
superior, 4-celled"; cells usually many-ovuled. Capsule 4-celled, loculicidal ; seeds minute, numerous. Leaves linear, usually whorled and less than 1-5 c.m. ong, 
often ciliate. A large genus, mostly South African, represented here by a single species, probably E. arborea, which occurs on the poor wet sandy soil of the pans 
at Manjacaze (Gaza) and near Mutamba (Inhambane) and also in similar situations in Magenja da Costa, where it forms dense pure thickets 1-3 metres high, wit 
stems up to 10 c.m. diameter. Fern, name — 10, Muzabo. 
FAMILY XLI.— MYRSINEiE. 
Trees or shrubs usually glabrous, with alternate, exstipulate, simple leaves, and flowers in axillary fascicles or panicles. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or polygamo- 
dioecious, c-merous; the calyx minute, 5 -toothed ; the corolla monopetalous ; the stamens opposite the corolla-segments and inserted at their base ; ovary usually superior, 
1 -celled, with a free central placenta, and 1 or many ovules. Fruit 1 or many-seeded, small, globose. A large Family, mostly tropical, represented here very sparing y by 1 genus. 
167. MYRSINE. Polygamous or dioecious evergreen trees or shrubs, having alternate, exstipulate simple leaves, and flowers in axillary fascicles or raised m clusters on axillary 
warts. Calyx very small, 5 (or sometimes 4) toothed ; corolla with a short tube and a rotate or erect 5 (or 4) fid limb, each segment bearing a sessile anther on its 
face ; ovary globose with a short style, capitate stigma, and few ovules bedded in a peltate central placenta ; fruit globose, i-seeded. Seed albuminous. A mostly 
tropical genus, poorly represented here. 
M. melanophleos, R. Br. Vem. name— 13, Isiquane-we-hlati. An evergreen timber tree 7-20 metres high, which enjoys exposure to sunshine. Leaves alternate, but 
rather crowded to the point of the young twigs, and often absent from older wood, 715 c.m. long, 2-5-5 c.m. wide, entire, thick, coriaceous glabrous, oblong or 
widely lanceolate, deep green and shining above, opaque green below, and with a stout petiole 10-12 m.m. long. Flowers shortly stalked, crowded m axillary clusters 
or on axillary warts, usually on the old wood, greenish, inconspicuous, 5-merous. Flowers dioecious, though apparently not so, and flowers sexually dimorphic on 
different trees. Petals ciliate and minutely downy along the margin on the inner surface, especially those of the male flower. Female trees seed abundantly ; male 
trees bear no berries. Corolla gamopetalous, 5-lobed, each segment bearing a sessile stamen on its face. Ovules about 4, bedded in a globose central placenta. 
Fruit 1 c.m. diameter, globose, glabrous, i-seeded, the seed hard and horny. For illustration see “Forest Flora of Cape Colony, ’ Plate XCIII. 
Concerning the Abyssinian M. simensis, Hochst, Baker remarks, “differs from M. melanophleos mainly by its longer pedicels and more numerous flowers in 
a cluster,” while his descriptions of M. querimbensis, Klotzsch, and M. melanophleos only indicate the sexual differences of the latter already referred to. 
FAMILY XLII.— SAPOTACE/E. 
Trees and shrubs, often with a milky juice in the bark. Leaves petioled, alternate, simple, entire, coriaceous, exstipulate, often rusty on the under surface. Flowers 
hermaphrodite, axillary or terminal, clustered or single, pedunculate or sessile, the pedicel and calyx often rusty-pubescent. Calyx-segments either 5 or 6-8 ; in the latter case 
they are in 2 rows, the outer long, the inner shorter and less firm. Corolla gamopetalous, deciduous, with as many or 2-3 times as many segments as the calyx, in 1, 2 or 3 rows. 
Fertile stamens the same number as the calyx-segments, with or without intermediate staminodia. Ovary 5-8 celled, with axile placentation, and 1 ovule in each cell. Fruit 
pulpy, 1 or several-seeded, in some cases edible. A tropical and widely distributed Family, poorly represented here. 
