Preface
The flora of Africa being now comparatively well known, the author of the present work considered the time opportune to present to the public an analytical key for determining in an easy way the generic name of every phanerogamous plant growing wild, whether indigenous or naturalized, or cultivated upon a large scale within the geographical limits of Africa including the islands.
The names and limits of the genera and families adopted in this work are those accepted in ENGLER & PRANTL’S “Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien,” the most recent work containing the description of all genera of flowering plants, and its supplement “Genera Siphonogamarum” by DALLA TORRE & HARMS.
As the present work is intended for the use not only of botanists, but also of colonists and travellers in Africa, who take an interest in botany, I have used, wherever it was possible, as distinctive characters, those which are visible to the naked eye in a plant in flower, being careful, however, not to deviate too much from the natural system.
Besides the diagnostic characters of the genera, I have also indicated the approximative number of the species described to the end of the year 1910, their geographical distribution, their uses, and their more important synonyms.
As to the terms used in indicating the geographical distribution of African plants, “North Africa” (including North-west-and North-east Africa) means all northern extratropical Africa, “South Africa” (including South-west and South-east Africa) southern extratropical Africa, “tropical Africa” Africa within the tropics, including all islands, whereas the continent of Africa within the tropics including only the small islands in the proximity of the coast, is designated by “Central Africa.”
The present work was originally published in German under the title “Die Blütenpflanzen Africas” (Berlin, R. Friedländer & Sohn, 1908). A new edition being desirable, I have preferred the English language, and I am indebted to Dr. A. B. RENDLE, of the British Museum, for revising my translation.
The plates were drawn by the Vienna artist JOSEPH FLEISCHMANN from herbarium specimens kindly lent from the collections of the Hofmuseum at Vienna and the Jardin botanique de l’Etat at Brussels by their respective keepers Dr. A. ZAHLBRUCKNER and Dr. E. DE WILDEMAN. Drawings already published have been used for a few plates only; these are duly indicated.
FRANZ THONNER.
VIENNA (AUSTRIA), September 1913.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
KEY TO THE FAMILIES
PAGE
Gymnospermae 1
Monocotyledoneae 2
Apetalae 6
Choripetalae 18
Sympetalae 49
KEY TO THE GENERA
I. CYCADALES.
1. Cycadaceae 69
II. CONIFERAE.
2. Taxaceae 70
3. Pinaceae 70
III. GNETALES.
4. Gnetaceae 71
IV. MONOCOTYLEDONEAE.
Pandanales.
5. Typhaceae 72
6. Pandanaceae 73
7. Sparganiaceae 73
Helobiae.
8. Potamogetonaceae 73
9. Naiadaceae 75
10. Aponogetonaceae 75
11. Scheuchzeriaceae 75
12. Alismataceae 75
13. Butomaceae 77
14. Hydrocharitaceae 77
Triuridales.
15. Triuridaceae 78
Glumiflorae.
16. Gramineae 79
17. Cyperaceae 106
Principes.
18. Palmae 110
Spathiflorae.
19. Araceae 114
20. Lemnaceae 119
Farinosae.
21. Flagellariaceae 119
22. Restionaceae 119
23. Mayacaceae 120
24. Xyridaceae 121
25. Eriocaulaceae 121
26. Rapateaceae 121
27. Bromeliaceae 122
28. Commelinaceae 122
29. Pontederiaceae 123
30. Cyanastraceae 124
Liliiflorae.
31. Juncaceae 124
32. Liliaceae 125
33. Haemodoraceae 134
34. Amaryllidaceae 135
35. Velloziaceae 139
36. Taccaceae 139
37. Dioscoreaceae 140
38. Iridaceae 140
Scitamineae.
39. Musaceae 145
40. Zingiberaceae 146
41. Cannaceae 147
42. Marantaceae 148
Microspermae.
43. Burmanniaceae 149
44. Orchidaceae 150
V. DICOTYLEDONEAE.
ARCHICHLAMYDEAE.
Verticillatae.
45. Casuarinaceae 160
Piperales.
46. Piperaceae 161
Salicales.
47. Salicaceae 161
Myricales.
48. Myricaceae 162
Juglandales.
49. Juglandaceae 162
Fagales.
50. Betulaceae 162
51. Fagaceae 163
Urticales.
52. Ulmaceae 163
53. Moraceae 164
54. Urticaceae 168
Proteales.
55. Proteaceae 170
Santalales.
56. Santalaceae 172
57. Opiliaceae 173
58. Grubbiaceae 173
59. Olacaceae 173
60. Octoknemataceae 175
61. Loranthaceae 175
62. Balanophoraceae 176
Aristolochiales.
63. Aristolochiaceae 176
64. Rafflesiaceae 177
65. Hydnoraceae 177
Polygonales.
66. Polygonaceae 177
Centrospermae.
67. Chenopodiaceae 179
68. Amarantaceae 182
69. Nyctaginaceae 186
70. Cynocrambaceae 187
71. Phytolaccaceae 187
72. Aizoaceae 188
73. Portulacaceae 190
74. Basellaceae 191
75. Caryophyllaceae 191
Ranales.
76. Nymphaeaceae 197
77. Ceratophyllaceae 197
78. Ranunculaceae 197
79. Berberidaceae 199
80. Memspermaceae 199
81. Anonaceae 203
82. Myristicaceae 206
83. Monimiaceae 208
84. Lauraceae 209
85. Hernandiaceae 211
Rhoeadales.
86. Papaveraceae 211
87. Capparidaceae 213
88. Cruciferae 216
89. Resedaceae 228
90. Moringaceae 229
Sarraceniales.
91. Nepenthaceae 229
92. Droseraceae 230
Rosales.
93. Podostemonaceae 230
94. Hydrostachyaceae 231
95. Crassulaceae 232
96. Saxifragaceae 233
97. Pittosporaceae 235
98. Cunoniaceae 235
99. Myrothamnaceae 236
100. Bruniaceae 236
101. Hamamelidaceae 238
102. Platanaceae 238
103. Rosaceae 239
104. Connaraceae 243
105. Leguminosae 245
Pandales.
106. Pandaceae 289
Geraniales.
107. Geraniaceae 289
108. Oxalidaceae 290
109. Tropaeolaceae 291
110. Linaceae 291
111. Humiriaceae 292
112. Erythroxylaceae 292
113. Zygophyllaceae 293
114. Cneoraceae 295
115. Rutaceae 295
116. Simarubaceae 299
117. Burseraceae 301
118. Meliaceae 302
119. Malpighiaceae 306
120. Polygalaceae 308
121. Dichapetalaceae 309
122. Euphorbiaceae 309
123. Callitrichaceae 324
Sapindales.
124. Buxaceae 324
125. Empetraceae 325
126. Coriariaceae 325
127. Anacardiaceae 325
128. Aquifoliaceae 329
129. Celastraceae 329
130. Hippocrateaceae 332
131. Salvadoraceae 332
132. Icacinaceae 333
133. Aceraceae 335
134. Sapindaceae 335
135. Melianthaceae 342
136. Balsaminaceae 343
Rhamnales.
137. Rhamnaceae 343
138. Vitaceae 345
Malvales.
139. Elaeocarpaceae 347
140. Chlaenaceae 347
141. Tiliaceae 348
142. Malvaceae 350
143. Bombacaceae 353
144. Sterculiaceae 354
145. Scytopetalaceae 357
Parietales.
146. Dilleniaceae 358
147. Ochnaceae 359
148. Theaceae 360
149. Guttiferae 360
150. Dipterocarpaceae 363
151. Elatinaceae 363
152. Frankeniaceae 363
153. Tamaricaceae 364
154. Cistaceae 365
155. Bixaceae 365
156. Cochlospermaceae 366
157. Winteranaceae 366
158. Violaceae 366
159. Flacourtiaceae 367
160. Turneraceae 373
161. Passifloraceae 374
162. Achariaceae 376
163. Caricaceae 377
164. Loasaceae 377
165. Begoniaceae 377
166. Ancistrocladaceae 378
Opuntiales.
167. Cactaceae 378
Myrtiflorae.
168. Geissolomataceae 379
169. Penaeaceae 379
170. Oliniaceae 380
171. Thymelaeaceae 380
172. Elaeagnaceae 383
173. Lythraceae 383
174. Sonneratiaceae 385
175. Punicaceae 386
176. Lecythidaceae 386
177. Rhizophoraceae 387
178. Alangiaceae 389
179. Combretaceae 389
180. Myrtaceae 391
181. Melastomataceae 392
182. Oenotheraceae 397
183. Halorrhagaceae 399
184. Cynomoriaceae 400
Umbelliflorae.
185. Araliaceae 400
186. Umbelliferae 401
187. Cornaceae 414
METACHLAMYDEAE.
Ericales.
188. Clethraceae 414
189. Ericaceae 415
Primulales.
190. Myrsinaceae 417
191. Primulaceae 419
192. Plumbaginaceae 420
Ebenales.
193. Sapotaceae 421
194. Hoplestigmataceae 424
195. Ebenaceae 424
196. Styracaceae 425
Contortae.
197. Oleaceae 425
198. Loganiaceae 427
199. Gentianaceae 429
200. Apocynaceae 432
201. Asclepiadaceae 441
Tubiflorae.
202. Convolvulaceae 457
203. Hydrophyllaceae 462
204. Borraginaceae 463
205. Verbenaceae 467
206. Labiatae 470
207. Solanaceae 481
208. Scrophulariaceae 483
209. Bignoniaceae 495
210. Pedaliaceae 498
211. Martyniaceae 500
212. Orobanchaceae 500
213. Gesneraceae 500
214. Lentibulariaceae 501
215. Globulariaceae 502
216. Acanthaceae 502
217. Myoporaceae 515
Plantaginales.
218. Plantaginaceae 515
Rubiales.
219. Rubiaceae 516
220. Caprifoliaceae 533
221. Valerianaceae 534
222. Dipsacaceae 534
Campanulatae.
223. Cucurbitaceae 535
224. Campanulaceae 541
225. Goodeniaceae 544
226. Compositae 544
STATISTICAL TABLE 585
GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS 591
ABBREVIATIONS OF AUTHORS’ NAMES 600
LIST OF POPULAR NAMES 602
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS 607
INDEX 613
LIST OF PLATES
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1. Cycadaceae. Encephalartos Lemarinelianus De Wild. et Dur. 70
2. Pinaceae. Callitris cupressoides (L.) Schrad. 71
3. Pandanaceae. Pandanus candelabrum Beauv. 72
4. Potamogetonaceae. Potamogeton javanicus Hassk. 73
5. Aponogetonaceae. Aponogeton leptostachyus E. Mey. 74
6. Alismataceae. Limnophyton obtusifolium (L.) Miq. 75
7. Hydrocharitaceae. Ottelia alismoides (L.) Pers. 78
8. Gramineae. Chloris Gayana Kunth 79
9. Cyperaceae. Kyllinga alba Nees 110
10. Palmae. Raphia Laurentii De Wild. 111
11. “ “ “ “ 114
12. Araceae. Amorphophallus gratus (Schott) N. E. Brown 115
13. Restionaceae. Restio compressus Rottb. 120
14. Xyridaceae. Xyris augustifolia De Wild. et Dur. 121
15. Eriocaulaceae. Mesanthemum radicans (Benth.) Koern. 122
16. Commelinaceae. Aneilema beninense Kunth 123
17. Juncaceae. Prionium serratum Drege 124
18. Liliaceae. Dracaena Perrotetii Bak. 125
19. Amaryllidaceae. Crinum abyssinicum Hochst. 138
20. Velloziaceae. Barbacenia aequatorialis Rendle 139
21. Dioscoreaceae. Dioscorea dumetorum (Kunth) Pax. 140
22. Iridaceae. Lapeyrousia Fabricii Ker. 141
23. Musaceae. Strelitzia Reginae Banks ex Ait. 146
24. Zingiberaceae. Aframomum Laurentii (De Wild. et Dur.) K. Schum. 147
25. Marantaceae. Clinogyne arillata K. Schum. 148
26. Orchidaceae. Listrostachys vesicata Reichb. f. 149
27. Piperaceae. Piper guineense Schum. 160
28. Salicaceae. Salix Safsaf Forsk. 161
29. Myricaceae. Myrica conifera Burm. f. 162
30. Ulmaceae. Trema guineensis Schum. 163
31. Moraceae. Dorstenia elliptica Bureau 164
32. Urticaceae. Fleurya aestuans Gaud. 165
33. Proteaceae. Leucospermum conocarpum R. Br. 170
34. Loranthaceae. Loranthus capitatus (Spreng.) Engl. 171
35. Santalaceae. Osyris tenuifolia Engl. 172
36. Opiliaceae. Opilia amentacea Roxb. 173
37. Olacaceae. Olax Durandii Eng. 174
38. Aristolochiaceae. Aristolochia bracteata Retz. 175
39. Polygonaceae. Oxygonum sinuatum (Hochst. et Steud.) Benth. et Hook. 178
40. Chenopodiaceae. Traganum nudatum Del. 179
41. Amarantaceae. Achyranthes angustifolia Benth. 184
42. Nyctaginaceae. Pisonia aculeata L. 185
43. Aizoaceae. Trianthema pentandrum L. 190
44. Portulacaceae. Talinum cuneifolium Willd. 191
45. Caryophyllaceae. Polycarpaea linearifolia DC. 196
46. Ranunculaceae. Anemone vesicatoria (L. f.) Prantl 197
47. Menispermaceae. Cocculus Leaeba DC. 202
48. Anonaceae. Anona senegalensis Pers. 203
49. Myristicaceae. Pycnanthus Kombo (Baill.) Warb. 208
50. Monimiaceae. Glossocalyx longicuspis Benth. 209
51. Lauraceae. Ocotea bullata (Burch.) Benth. 210
52. Papaveraceae. Trigonocapnos curvipes Schlecht. 211
53. Cruciferae. Heliophila amplexicaulis L. f. 214
54. Capparidaceae. Polanisia hirta (Klotzsch) Sond. 215
55. Resedaceae. Oligomeris glaucescens Cambess. 228
56. Droseraceae. Drosera Burkeana Planch. 229
57. Podostemonaceae. Tristicha alternifolia Tul. 230
58. Hydrostachyaceae. Hydrostachys multifida A. Juss. 231
59. Crassulaceae. Kalanchoe laciniata DC. 232
60. Saxifragaceae. Brexia madagascariensis Thouars 233
61. Pittosporaceae. Pittosporum viridiflorum Sims 234
62. Cunoniaceae. Weinmannia Hildebrandtii Baill. 235
63. Bruniaceae. Raspalia microphylla (Thunb.) Brongn. 236
64. Hamamelidaceae. Trichocladus ellipticus Eckl. et Zeyh. 237
65. Rosaceae. Parinarium congoense Engl. 242
66. Connaraceae. Connarus Smeathmannii DC. 243
67. Leguminosae. Bauhinia macrantha Oliv. 288
68. Geraniaceae. Monsonia biflora DC. 289
69. Oxalidaceae. Biophytum sensitivum (L.) DC. 290
70. Linaceae. Hugonia acuminata Engl. 291
71. Erythroxylaceae. Erythroxylon pictum E. Mey. 292
72. Zygophyllaceae. Balanites aegyptiaca Del. 293
73. Rutaceae. Agathosma ciliata Link 298
74. Simarubaceae. Irvingia Barter Hook. f. 299
75. Burseraceae. Pachylobus edulis G. Don 302
76. Meliaceae. Trichilia retusa Oliv. 303
77. Malpighiaceae. Acridocarpus macrocalyx Engl. 306
78. Polygalaceae. Securidaca longepedunculata Fresen. 307
79. Dichapetalaceae. Dichapetalum leucosepalum Ruhl. 308
80. Euphorbiaceae. Phyllanthus floribundus Muell. Arg. 309
81. Anacardiaceae. Lannea Schimperi (Hochst.) Engl. 328
82. Celastraceae. Elaeodendron croceum (Thunb.) DC. 329
83. Hippocrateaceae. Salacia Dusenii Loesen 332
84. Icacinaceae. Apodytes dimidiata E. Mey. 333
85. Sapindaceae. Deinbollia pycnophylla Gilg 340
86. Melianthaceae. Bersama abyssinica Fresen. 341
87. Balsaminaceae. Impatiens capensis Thunb. 342
88. Rhamnaceae. Ventilago leiocarpa Benth. 343
89. Vitaceae. Cissus cirrhosa (Thunb.) Planch. 346
90. Chlaenaceae. Leptochlaena multiflora Thouars 347
91. Tiliaceae. Grewia occidentalis L. 350
92. Malvaceae. Pavonia praemorsa Willd. 351
93. Bombacaceae. Bombax lukayensis De Wild. et Dur. 354
94. Sterculiaceae. Dombeya Bruceana A. Rich. 355
95. Scytopetalaceae. Rhaptopetalum sessilifolium Engl. 358
96. Dilleniaceae. Tetracera alnifolia Willd. 359
97. Ochnaceae. Ochna Hoepfneri Engl. et Gilg 360
98. Theaceae. Visnea Mocanera L. f. 361
99. Guttiferae. Allanblackia floribunda Oliv. 362
100. Elatinaceae. Bergia suffruticosa (Del.) Fenzl 363
101. Tamaricaceae. Tamarix senegalensis DC. 364
102. Cistaceae. Cistus heterophyllus Desf. 365
103. Violaceae. Rinorea gracilipes Engl. 366
104. Flacourtiaceae. Flacourtia Ramontchi L’Her. 367
105. Turneraceae. Wormskioldia lobate Urb. 374
106. Passifloraceae. Adenia lobata (Jacq.) Engl. 375
107. Begoniaceae. Begonia Favargeri Rechinger 378
108. Penaeaceae. Sarcocolla squamosa (L.) Kunth 379
109. Thymelaeaceae. Lachnaea filamentosa (L. f.) Gilg 382
110. Lythraceae. Nesaea floribunda Sond. 383
111. Lecythidaceae. Barringtonia racemosa (L.) Blume 386
112. Rhizophoraceae. Weihea africana Benth. 387
113. Combretaceae. Combretum racemosum Beauv. 390
114. Myrtaceae. Eugenia natalitia Sond. 391
115. Melastomataceae. Dissotis capitata (Vahl) Hook. f. 396
116. Oenotheraceae. Jussieua linifolia Vahl 397
117. Halorrhagaceae. Laurembergia repens Berg 400
118. Araliaceae. Cussonia spicata Thunb. 401
119. Umbelliferae. Annesorrhiza capensis Cham. et Schlechtd. 414
120. Ericaceae. Philippia Chamissonis Klotzsch 415
121. Myrsinaceae. Maesa lanceolata Forsk. 418
122. Primulaceae. Ardisiandra sibthorpioides Hook. 419
123. Plumbaginaceae. Dyerophyton africanum (Lam.) O. Ktze. 420
124. Sapotaceae. Mimusops Kummel Bruce 421
125. Ebenaceae. Maba buxifolia (Rottb.) Pers. 424
126. Oleaceae. Schrebera alata Welw. 425
127. Loganiaceae. Nuxia Autunesii Gilg 428
128. Gentianaceae. Chironia transvaalensis Gilg 429
129. Apocynaceae. Clitandra Arnoldiana De Wild. 440
130. Asclepiadaceae. Tacazzea venosa (Hochst.) Decne 441
131. Convolvulaceae. Jacquemontia capitata Don 462
132. Borraginaceae. Cordia senegalensis Juss. 463
133. Verbenaceae. Clerodendron formicarum Guerke 470
134. Labiatae. Plectranthus madagascariensis Benth. 471
135. Solanaceae. Discopodium penninervium Hochst. 482
136. Scrophulariaceae. Chaenostoma Burkeanum (Benth.) Wettst. 483
137. Bignoniaceae. Kigelia aethiopica Decne 496
138. Pedaliaceae. Sesamum angolense Welw. 497
139. Orobanchaceae. Cistanche lutea Link et Hoffmsg. 500
140. Gesneraceae. Streptocarpus Cooperi Clarke 501
141. Lentibulariaceae. Utricularia livida E. Mey. 502
142. Acanthaceae. Justicia matammensis (Schweinf.) Lindau 503
143. Plantaginaceae. Plantago palmata Hook. f. 516
144. Rubiaceae. Pavetta lasiorrhachis K. Schum. 517
145. Caprifoliaceae. Viburnum rugosum Pers. 532
146. Valerianaceae. Valeriana capensis Vahl 533
147. Dipsacaceae. Cephalaria rigida (Spreng.) Schrad. 534
148. Cucurbitaceae. Momordica Charantia L. 535
149. Campanulaceae. Lightfootia subulata L’Her. 544
150. Compositae. Vernonia Baumii O. Hoffm. 545
MAP
MAP OF AFRICA, 1:49,000,000, with list of floral regions and provinces.
KEY TO THE FAMILIES
EMBRYOPHYTA SIPHONOGAMA
(PHANEROGAMAE)
1. Ovules naked, borne on a floral axis without carpels, or on open carpels without a stigma. Perianth simple or none. Flowers unisexual. Stem woody. [Subdivision =GYMNOSPERMAE=.] 2
Ovules encased in the ovary formed by stigma-bearing carpels and nearly always closed to the top, rarely (Resedaceae) open above. [Subdivision =ANGIOSPERMAE=.] 5
2. Leaves pinnately compound or dissected, forming a crown at the top of the stem. Stem simple or scantily branched towards the top. Juice mucilaginous. Perianth none. Stamens with numerous pollen-sacs. Embryo with 2 more or less connate cotyledons. [Class CYCADALES.] =1. Cycadaceae.=
Leaves undivided, scattered along the branches of the stem, rarely (Gnetaceae) leaves 2, arising from the top of an undivided turnip-shaped stem and sometimes splitting lengthwise. Stamens with 1-9 pollen-sacs. Embryo with 2-15 free cotyledons 3
3. Perianth present. Juice not resinous. Leaves not needle-shaped. Shrubs. [Class GNETALES.] =4. Gnetaceae.=
Perianth absent. Juice resinous, rarely scarcely so, but then leaves needle-shaped. Leaves needle-or scale-shaped. [Class CONIFERAE.] 4
4. Seeds overtopping the fleshy or rudimentary carpels and surrounded by a fleshy aril. Carpels with 1 ovule =2. Taxaceae.=
Seeds concealed between the carpels, without an aril. Carpels usually with 2 or more ovules =3. Pinaceae.=
5. (1.) Embryo with a single cotyledon, rarely undivided. Vascular bundles scattered in the stem. Leaves usually parallel-veined (net-veined in many Araceae Dioscoreaceae and Taccaceae and a few Hydrocharitaceae Liliaceae and Orchidaceae), generally narrow entire and sessile with a dilated base. Flowers usually 3-merous. [Class MONOCOTYLEDONEAE.] 6
Embryo with 2 cotyledons, rarely with only one well-developed cotyledon or undivided. Vascular bundles of the stem nearly always disposed in a cylinder. Leaves usually net-veined, rarely sessile with a dilated base and a narrow entire blade. Flowers usually 4-or 5-merous. [Class DICOTYLEDONEAE.] 52
6. Perianth wanting or rudimentary, that is, reduced to small, hypogynous, free or partially-united scales, rarely (Potamogetonaceae) replaced by sepaloid appendages of the connective. 7
Perianth well developed, calyx-or corolla-like or consisting of calyx and corolla, rarely (Eriocaulaceae and Restionaceae) wanting in the female flowers. 15
7. Flowers in the axils of membranous or more or less dry bracts (glumes) in spikelets consisting of one or several flowers and one or several empty glumes and nearly always arranged in spikes, racemes, panicles, or heads. Land-, marsh-, or freshwater-plants. Carpel solitary, with a single basal or laterally attached ovule 8
Flowers in spadices with a fleshy rachis and surrounded by one or several spathes, more rarely solitary or in glomerules, heads, or spikes; in the latter case (Potamogetonaceae) saltwater 9
8. Embryo enclosed in the lower part of the albumen. Seed and ovule attached at the base, free from the pericarp and the wall of the ovary. Style 1, with 1-3 stigmas. Anthers usually affixed at the base. Sheaths of the cauline and inner radical leaves closed all round, usually without a ligule. Stem usually triangular solid and without nodes. =17. Cyperaceae.=
Embryo outside the albumen, at its base. Seed and ovule attached laterally, but often near the base, usually adnate to the pericarp or the wall of the ovary. Style 1, with 1-6 stigmas, or styles 2. Anthers usually affixed at the back. Sheaths of the leaves nearly always split on one side and ending in a ligule. Stem usually cylindrical and hollow between the nodes. =16. Gramineae.=
9. Plants without differentiation into stem and leaves, consisting of small floating leaf-or granule-like shoots. Flowers 2-3 together in cavities of the shoots =20. Lemnaceae.=
Plants differentiated into stem and leaves 10
10. Flowers solitary or in glomerules in the axils of the leaves. Carpel solitary. Naias, =9. Naiadaceae=.
Flowers in spikes, spadices, or heads, rarely (Potamogetonaceae) solitary or in glomerules, but then several separate carpels 11
11. Male flowers in panicles, female in heads or spadices. Flowers dioecious. Leaves narrow, usually serrate or prickly. Stem usually woody. Pandanus, =6. Pandanaceae=.
Male or all flowers solitary or in spikes, heads, or cymes 12
12. Flowers in globose heads Sparganium, =7. Sparganiaceae=.
Flowers solitary or in spikes, spadices, or cymes 13
13. Ovaries several, separate, rarely ovary solitary, and then marine plants, very rarely freshwater-plants with hermaphrodite flowers. If flowers in spadices or spikes, then hermaphrodite or polygamous with 1 or several one-ovuled ovaries =8. Potamogetonaceae.=
Ovary solitary. Land-, marsh-, or freshwater-plants; the latter with unisexual flowers. Flowers in spadices, unisexual, rarely hermaphrodite, but then with a several-ovuled ovary. 14
14. Flowers monoecious; male inflorescence, at least when young, separated from the female by a deciduous spathe. Flowers usually surrounded by hairs. Ovule 1, pendulous. Seed-coat not fleshy. Typha, =5. Typhaceae=.
Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual; if monoecious, then male inflorescence in uninterrupted connexion with the female, or separated from it by an empty interval or by barren flowers, but not by a spathe. Seed-coat fleshy. =19. Araceae.=
15. (6.) Ovary superior. 16
Ovary inferior or half-inferior. 37
16. Carpel solitary or carpels connate and forming a single entire or slightly lobed ovary. 17
Carpels several, separate or cohering only at the base. 33
17. Perianth calyx-like, sometimes slightly coloured, but firmly membranous or leathery, or differentiated by size or coalescence into an inner and an outer whorl of segments, all of which are sepaloid. 18
Perianth corolla-like or consisting of outer sepaloid and inner petaloid segments. 25
18. Leaves folded in the bud, subsequently splitting into pinnately or palmately disposed segments, rarely only 2-cleft. Stem woody, but sometimes very short. Flowers in spadices or panicles with spathes. =18. Palmae.=
Leaves undivided, rarely divided, but then not folded and springing from a herbaceous stem. 19
19. Flowers in spadices with a spathe forming sometimes a continuation of the stem. =19. Araceae.=
Flowers not in spadices. 20
20. Stamen 1. Ovule 1, erect. Stigmas several. Flowers solitary or in glomerules in the axils of the leaves. Naias, =9. Naiadaceae=.
Stamens 2-6. 21
21. Anthers turned outwards. Ovary with 1 ascending ovule in each cell and with several sessile stigmas. Flowers hermaphrodite. Seeds exalbuminous. Triglochin, =11. Scheuchzeriaceae=.
Anthers turned inwards. Seeds albuminous. 22
22. Anthers 1-celled. Flowers unisexual, in spikelets usually arranged in spikes or panicles. Perianth dry. Stamens 2-3. Ovary with 1 pendulous ovule in each cell. =22. Restionaceae.=
Anthers 2-celled. If flowers unisexual and in spikelets, then perianth not dry. 23
23. Flowers monoecious, in heads surrounded by an involucre. Ovary with 1 pendulous ovule in each cell. =25. Eriocaulaceae.=
Flowers hermaphrodite, polygamous, or dioecious. 24
24. Style 1 with 3 long and thin stigmas. Perianth dry. Leaves linear. =31. Juncaceae.=
Style 1 with 3 thick or short stigmas or with a single stigma, or styles 3. Perianth usually herbaceous. =32. Liliaceae.=
25. (17.) Perianth corolla-like. Usually ovules inverted and embryo or its radicle placed next to the hilum, more rarely ovules straight and embryo or its radicle remote from the hilum, and then albumen fleshy or cartilaginous. 26
Perianth differentiated into calyx and corolla. Ovules straight. Embryo small, remote from the hilum. Albumen more or less mealy. 31
26. Seeds with mealy albumen. 27
Seeds with fleshy or cartilaginous albumen. 29
27. Ovules 2 or more in each ovary-cell. Seeds with a large embryo enclosed in the albumen. =29. Pontederiaceae.=
Ovule 1 in each ovary-cell. Seeds with a small embryo appressed to the albumen. Perianth white or yellow. 28
28. Perianth-segments free or nearly so. Anthers opening lengthwise. Stigmas 3. Fruit a berry. Stem climbing. Leaves scattered, ending in tendrils. Flowers in panicles. Flagellaria, =21. Flagellariaceae.=
Perianth-segments united below into a tube. Anthers opening by apical pores. Stigma 1. Fruit a capsule. Stem erect. Leaves all radical. Flowers in heads. Maschalocephalus, =26. Rapateaceae.=
29. Stamens 3. Ovule 1 in each ovary-cell. Perianth yellow. =33. Haemodoraceae.=
Stamens 6 or more, rarely 3, but then ovules 2 or more in each ovary-cell. 30
30. Anthers opening at the apex. Stamens affixed to the perianth. Ovary adnate to the perianth at the base. Ovules numerous in each cell. Perianth blue. Leaves linear or lanceolate. Walleria, =34. Amaryllidaceae.=
Anthers opening lengthwise, rarely at the apex, but then stamens (at least some of them) and ovary free from the perianth. =32. Liliaceae.=
31. (25.) Ovary 2-3-celled. Fertile stamens 2-6. =28. Commelinaceae.=
Ovary 1-celled, sometimes with incomplete partitions. Ovules numerous. Fertile stamens 3. Flowers in heads, short spikes, or umbels. 32
32. Sepals 3, subequal. Anthers opening by a terminal lid. Staminodes none. Stigma 1. Leaves scattered. Flowers in umbels. Mayaca, =23. Mayacaceae.=
Sepals 3, very unequal, or 2. Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. Staminodes 3. Stigmas 3. Leaves all radical. Flowers in heads or spikes. Xyris, =24. Xyridaceae.=
33. (16.) Leaves divided. Woody plants. Seeds albuminous. =18. Palmae.=
Leaves undivided. Herbaceous plants. 34
34. Plants without green colour, growing upon mould. Leaves reduced to scales. Perianth of 6 petaloid segments. Seeds albuminous. Sciaphila, =15. Triuridaceae.=
Plants of green colour, growing in the water. Leaves well developed. Perianth of 6 segments differentiated into sepals and petals, or of 1-3 segments. Seeds exalbuminous. 35
35. Perianth consisting of 1-3 coloured segments. Aponogeton, =10. Aponogetonaceae=.
Perianth consisting of 6 segments more or less distinctly differentiated into sepals and petals, rarely in the female flowers only of 3 greenish segments. 36
36. Ovules numerous, covering the whole inner surface of the carpels. =13. Butomaceae.=
Ovules 1-2, rarely more, and then all inserted at the upper suture of the carpels. =12. Alismataceae.=
37. (15.) Stamen 1. Flowers irregular. 38
Stamens 2-18. Flowers usually regular. 41
38. Staminodes small or wanting. Ovary 1-celled with numerous ovules. Style adnate to the filament. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves usually with longitudinal nervation. =44. Orchidaceae.=
Staminodes, at least some of them, petal-like. Ovary 1-celled with a single ovule or more frequently 3-celled. Seeds albuminous. Leaves with pinnate nervation. 39
39. Anthers 2-celled. Sepals united below. Flowers symmetrical. =40. Zingiberaceae.=
Anthers 1-celled. Sepals free. Flowers asymmetrical. 40
40. Ovules several or many in each ovary-cell. Seeds with straight embryo. Leaf-stalk not thickened. Canna, =41. Cannaceae=.
Ovules solitary in each cell. Seeds with curved embryo. Leaf-stalk thickened towards the apex or throughout its whole length. =42. Marantaceae.=
41. Stamens 2-4, usually 3. 42
Stamens 5-18, usually 6. 45
42. Perianth-segments sepal-like or the outer sepal-, the inner petal-like. Ovary 1-celled, sometimes incompletely 6-celled. Seeds exalbuminous. Water plants. =14. Hydrocharitaceae.=
Perianth-segments petal-like. Ovary usually 3-celled. Seeds albuminous. Land-or marsh-plants. 43
43. Stamens opposite the outer perianth-segments. Anthers opening outwards or laterally. =38. Iridaceae.=
Stamens alternating with the outer or with all perianth-segments. Anthers opening inwards or laterally. 44
44. Leaves well developed, green. Inner perianth-segments about equalling the outer. Anthers opening lengthwise. Stigmas 3, linear, or stigma single. =33. Haemodoraceae.=
Leaves scale-like, not green, rarely well-developed and green, but then inner perianth-segments much smaller than the outer or wanting, anthers provided with an enlarged connective and opening transversely, and stigmas 3, short and thick. =43. Burmanniaceae.=
45. Ovary incompletely 6-15-celled with 6-15 stigmas, more rarely completely 1-celled with 3 stigmas. Perianth consisting of calyx and corolla, more rarely only of 3 petal-like segments. Water-plants with submerged or floating leaves. =14. Hydrocharitaceae.=
Ovary 3-celled, rarely 1-celled, but then stigmas 6. Perianth usually of 6 petaloid segments. Land-plants. 46
46. Ovary 1-celled. Style umbrella-shaped, 6-lobed. Tacca, =36. Taccaceae=. Ovary 3-celled. 47
47. Ovules in each ovary-cell 2, one above the other. Flowers unisexual, regular. Stem climbing. =37. Dioscoreaceae.=
Ovules in each ovary-cell 1, 2 side by side, or more. Flowers hermaphrodite, rarely unisexual but irregular. 48
48. Perianth distinctly differentiated into calyx and corolla. Leaves toothed. Inflorescence spadix-like. Ananas, =27. Bromeliaceae=.
Perianth more or less corolla-like. 49
49. Flowers distinctly irregular, in fascicles usually arranged in spikes or racemes. Stamens 5, rarely 6. Seeds with more or less mealy albumen. Leaves with pinnate nervation. Tall plants. =39. Musaceae.=
Flowers regular or nearly so. Stamens 6 or more. Seeds with fleshy or cartilaginous albumen. Leaves nearly always with longitudinal nervation. 50
50. Flowers solitary, terminal. No bulb or tuber; usually a short woody trunk. Placentas much projecting, thickened, shield-shaped. Barbacenia, =35. Velloziaceae=.
Flowers in umbels, spikes, racemes, or panicles, more rarely solitary, but then underground stem a bulb or a tuber. Placentas not much projecting and thickened. 51
51. Ovary half-inferior, with 2 basal ovules in each cell. Anthers opening at the apex. Seeds with a large embryo adjoining the albumen. Flowers in racemes or panicles. Cyanastrum, =30. Cyanastraceae=.
Ovary inferior, rarely half-inferior, but then with more than two ovules in each cell. Seeds with a small embryo enclosed in the albumen. =34. Amaryllidaceae.=
52. (5.) Perianth wanting or simple or consisting of a calyx and a choripetalous corolla; petals, if present, free, more rarely cohering at the apex or in the middle, but free at the base. [Subclass ARCHICHLAMYDEAE.] 53
Perianth consisting of a calyx and a sympetalous corolla; petals more or less united, at least at the base. [Subclass METACHLAMYDEAE or SYMPETALAE.] 551
53. Perianth wanting or simple, that is, consisting of similar segments, more rarely of 2-7 somewhat dissimilar ones without a distinct differentiation into sepals and petals. [APETALAE.] 54
Perianth differentiated into calyx and corolla, more rarely consisting of 8 or more slightly dissimilar segments not distinctly separated into sepals and petals. [CHORIPETALAE.] 188
54. Perianth absent in the hermaphrodite and female flowers, but sometimes replaced by bracteoles. Ovary naked. 55
Perianth present in the hermaphrodite and female flowers. 69
55. Ovary completely 1-celled. 56
Ovary 2-4-celled, at least in its lower half. 65
56. Ovule solitary, rarely (Balanophoraceae) ovules 3. 57
Ovules numerous, rarely (Casuarinaceae) 2. 63
57. Ovule basal or attached by a basal funicle. 58
Ovule apical or adnate to the wall of the ovary. 62
58. Ovule straight. 59
Ovule incurved or inverted. 61
59. Flowers in fascicles, the male with a perianth. Stamens 1-5. Stigma 1. Fruit dry. Seed albuminous. =54. Urticaceae.=
Flowers in spikes, the male without a perianth, but sometimes with 2-6 bracteoles. Stamens 2-12. Fruit succulent. 60
60. Flowers unisexual. Stigmas 2, thread-like. Fruit a drupe. Seed exalbuminous. Trees, shrubs, or undershrubs. Leaves without stipules. Myrica, =48. Myricaceae=.
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, more rarely unisexual, but then leaves stipulate. Fruit a berry. Seed with copious albumen. =46. Piperaceae.=
61. Ovule incurved. Stigmas 2-5. Seed with curved embryo. Flowers usually in glomerule-, or spike-like cymes. =67. Chenopodiaceae.=
Ovule inverted. Stigmas 1-2. Seed with straight embryo. Flowers usually in heads. =226. Compositae.=
62. Leaves well-developed, stipulate. Green plants. Ovule solitary, free. =53. Moraceae.=
Leaves scale-like. Coloured (not green) herbaceous plants. =62. Balanophoraceae.=
63. (56.) Ovules 2, ascending, straight. Male flowers with a 2-parted perianth. Stamen 1. Fruit a nut. Trees or shrubs. Leaves whorled, scale-like. Male flowers in spikes, female in heads. Casuarina, =45. Casuarinaceae=.
Ovules numerous, inverted. Male flowers without a perianth, but sometimes with a disc. Fruit a capsule. Leaves well developed. Flowers in spikes or catkins. 64
64. Flowers with a disc sometimes replaced by scales. Stamens 2 or more. Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire toothed or lobed, stipulate. =47. Salicaceae.=
Flowers without a disc. Stamen 1 (or stamens 2 with united filaments.) Aquatic herbs. Hydrostachys, =94. Hydrostachyaceae.=
65. (55.) Ovary 2-celled at the base, with 1 ovule in each incomplete cell. Styles 2. Stamens 4. Trees or shrubs. Flowers in spikes or catkins. =50. Betulaceae.=
Ovary completely 2-4-celled. 66
66. Ovules solitary in each ovary-cell. 67
Ovules 2 or more in each ovary-cell. Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite. Male flowers without a perianth. 68
67. Ovary 2-3-celled. Ovules with a double coat. =122. Euphorbiaceae.=
Ovary 4-celled. Ovules with a single coat. Styles 2. Stamen 1. Male flowers without a perianth. Fruit a drupe. Herbs. Leaves opposite. Callitriche, =123. Callitrichaceae=.
68. Ovary 2-celled with 2 ovules in each cell. Style 1, with 2 stigmas. Stamens 2. Fruit a nut. Leaves pinnate, exstipulate. Fraxinus, =197. Oleaceae=.
Ovary 3-4-celled with numerous ovules in each cell. Styles 3-4. Stamens 3-8. Fruit a capsule or a schizocarp. Leaves undivided, stipulate. Myrothamnus, =99. Myrothamnaceae=.
69. (54.) Ovary superior or nearly so. 70
Ovary inferior to half-inferior. 153
70. Ovary 1, entire or lobed. 71
Ovaries 2 or more, distinct or united at the base only. 146
71. Ovary 1-celled, sometimes incompletely chambered. 72
Ovary completely or almost completely 2-or more-celled. 118
72. Ovule 1. 73
Ovules 2 or more. 103
73. Ovule erect or ascending or attached by a basal funicle. 74
Ovule pendulous or descending. 94
74. Ovule straight. 75
Ovule incurved or inverted. 80
75. Style 1 or none; stigma solitary or stigmas 2 or more, contiguous at the base. Stamens 1-12. 76
Styles 2-4, free or united at the base; stigmas not contiguous at the base. Stamens 4-50. 79
76. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Stigma sessile, 2-lobed. Seed with fleshy albumen. Shrubs or trees. Leaves without stipules. Exocarpus, =56. Santalaceae=.
Flowers unisexual, rarely polygamous, but then herbs and stigma penicillate. 77
77. Leaves exstipulate. Stamens 2-12. Stigmas 2. Seed without albumen. Myrica, =48. Myricaceae=.
Leaves stipulate, rarely exstipulate, but then stigma 1. Stamens 1-5. 78
78. Stamens straight in bud. Juice milky. Trees. =53. Moraceae.=
Stamens incurved in bud. Juice not milky. =54. Urticaceae.=
79. Leaves simple, entire toothed lobed or cleft, with a stem-clasping sheath at the base. Seed with copious mealy albumen. =66. Polygonaceae.=
Leaves compound, exstipulate. Stamens 5. Seed without albumen. Pistacia, =127. Anacardiaceae=.
80. (74.) Ovule incurved. Embryo distinctly curved; albumen usually mealy. 81
Ovule inverted. Embryo straight or nearly so; albumen usually fleshy or wanting. 87
81. Perianth-segments 6, petal-like, free. Stamens 8-10. Style 3-4-cleft. Flowers dioecious. Spiny trees. Didierea, =134. Sapindaceae=.
Perianth-segments 1-5. 82
82. Perianth with valvate and folded aestivation, lobed, enlarged in fruit. Stamens hypogynous, united at the base. =69. Nyctaginaceae.=
Perianth with imbricate or open aestivation, rarely with valvate not folded aestivation; in the latter case deeply divided. 83
83. Stamens 1-10, perigynous, rarely (Queria) 10, hypogynous. Stipules present, rarely absent, and then leaves opposite and styles 2-3. =75. Caryophyllaceae.=
Stamens 1-5, hypogynous or nearly so, rarely distinctly perigynous, but then stipules wanting and leaves alternate or style 1. 84
84. Stamens as many as the perianth-segments or one less (3-5), alternating with them, hypogynous. Flowers hermaphrodite. 85
Stamens as many as the perianth-segments or one less, but opposite to them, or considerably fewer, or in greater number. Leaves without stipules. 86
85. Flowers in cymes, 5-merous. Perianth membranous. Embryo hooked. Leaves whorled, usually stipulate. Adenogramma, =72. Aizoaceae=.
Flowers in spikes or racemes, with bracteoles. Perianth herbaceous. Embryo nearly ring-shaped. Leaves alternate, usually exstipulate. =71. Phytolaccaceae.=
86. Perianth more or less scarious or papery. Seed albuminous; embryo ring-or horseshoe-shaped. Flowers with bracteoles. =68. Amarantaceae.=
Perianth more or less herbaceous or membranous. Stigmas 2-5. =67. Chenopodiaceae.=
87. (80.) Leaves stipulate. 88
Leaves exstipulate. 89
88. Leaves opposite, undivided. Stamens 2-5. Seed albuminous. =75. Caryophyllaceae.=
Leaves alternate. Seed exalbuminous. =103. Rosaceae.=
89. Stem herbaceous. Flowers in heads, unisexual. Stamens as many as and alternate with the perianth-segments. Stigmas 2 in the female flowers. Seed exalbuminous. =226. Compositae.=
Stem woody. Stigma 1. 90
90. Perianth with imbricate aestivation. Stamens numerous, free or nearly so. Seed exalbuminous. Calophyllum, =149. Guttiferae=.
Perianth with valvate aestivation. 91
91. Stamens attached to the perianth, as many as its segments, 4, rarely 5; filaments free. Seed exalbuminous. 92
Stamens free from the perianth, as many as its segments or more often in greater number; filaments more or less united. Seed albuminous. 93
92. Stamens opposite the perianth-segments. Flowers in spikes or heads. =55. Proteaceae.=
Stamens alternate with the perianth-segments. Flowers solitary or in fascicles. Elaeagnus, =172. Elaeagnaceae=.
93. Stamens 5-15; filaments united at the base only. Anthers opening laterally. Perianth 5-toothed. Style slender. Seed without an aril; embryo large. Pisonia, =69. Nyctaginaceae=.
Stamens very numerous or with the filaments united throughout their length. Anthers opening outwards. Perianth 2-4-, rarely 5-lobed. Seed with an aril; embryo small. =82. Myristicaceae.=
94. (73.) Ovule straight. 95
Ovule incurved or inverted. 96
95. Perianth 4-parted. Stamens 4. Seed without albumen. Shrubs or trees. Flowers in spikes or heads. =55. Proteaceae.=
Perianth 9-12-parted. Stamens 12-16. Seed with a thin albumen. Herbs. Flowers solitary or in pairs in the axils of the leaves. Ceratophyllum, =77. Ceratophyllaceae=.
96. Leaves stipulate. 97
Leaves exstipulate. 100
97. Leaves compound, but sometimes with one leaflet only. Ovary tightly enclosed by the perianth. Seed exalbuminous. Herbs, undershrubs, or shrubs. =103. Rosaceae.=
Leaves simple, but sometimes (Moraceae) dissected. 98
98. Anthers 3-4-celled. Seed albuminous. Macaranga, =122. Euphorbiaceae=.
Anthers 2-celled. Seed usually exalbuminous. 99
99. Flowers solitary or in fascicles. Stamens straight in the bud. Shrubs or trees. Juice not milky. =52. Ulmaceae.=
Flowers in spikes, racemes, panicles, or heads, or inserted upon a dilated and often concave receptacle, rarely in fascicles, but then stamens bent inwards in the bud. Shrubs or trees with a milky juice or herbs. =53. Moraceae.=
100. Anthers opening by valves. Perianth-segments 4 or 6. Seed without albumen. Trees or shrubs. =84. Lauraceae.=
Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. 101
101. Stamens numerous. Flowers unisexual. Seed with copious fleshy albumen. Trees or shrubs. =83. Monimiaceae.=
Stamens 8-10. 102
102. Style simple. Seed with a straight embryo and a fleshy albumen or without albumen. =171. Thymelaeaceae.=
Styles 2. Seed with a curved embryo and mealy albumen. Flowers in panicles. Galenia, =72. Aizoaceae=.
103. (72.) Ovules basal or inserted upon a central placenta. 104
Ovules parietal or suspended from the apex of the cell. 108
104. Perianth of 2-3 minute scales. Ovules numerous, inserted upon a central placenta. Water-plants. =93. Podostemonaceae.=
Perianth of 4-5 segments. 105
105. Flowers unisexual or polygamous, 4-merous. Ovules 2. Stigma 1. Seeds without albumen; embryo straight. Shrubs. Leaves alternate. Empleurum, =115=. =Rutaceae.=
Flowers hermaphrodite. Seeds with mealy albumen; embryo more or less curved. Usually herbs. 106
106. Leaves alternate. Stamens 5. =68. Amarantaceae.=
Leaves opposite or whorled. 107
107. Stigma 1, rarely stigmas 2, and then ovules 2-4. Stamens 5 or more, perigynous. =72. Aizoaceae.=
Stigmas 3-5, more rarely 2, but then ovules numerous or stamens 1-3. =75. Caryophyllaceae.=
108. (103.) Ovules 2, suspended side by side from the apex of the cell or from a central placenta. Fruit drupaceous, usually one-seeded. 109
Ovules 2, one above the other, or more than 2, affixed to one or more parietal placentas. 112
109. Stamens as many as, and alternate with the perianth-segments. Leaves exstipulate. =132. Icacinaceae.=
Stamens as many as, and opposite the perianth-segments, or in greater number. 110
110. Flowers hermaphrodite. Leaves exstipulate. =59. Olacaceae.=
Flowers unisexual. Leaves stipulate. 111
111. Stamens very numerous. Perianth 4-5-parted. Flowers fascicled. Guya, =159. Flacourtiaceae=.
Stamens 2-8, rarely more, but then perianth 6-8-parted. =122. Euphorbiaceae.=
112. Ovules 2 or more, attached to a single placenta. Stamens more or less perigynous. Fruit a legume. Leaves compound or reduced to the dilated foot-stalk, usually stipulate. =105. Leguminosae.=
Ovules 3 or more, attached to 2 or more placentas, rarely to a single one, but then fruit a berry and leaves simple and undivided. 113
113. Style simple, or a sessile stigma. 114
Styles, style-branches, or sessile stigmas 2 or more. 116
114. Perianth-segments imbricate in bud. Stamens 10 or more. Ovary sessile. Seeds albuminous. =159. Flacourtiaceae.=
Perianth-segments valvate in bud, more rarely imbricate, but then ovary stalked. Seeds exalbuminous. 115
115. Stamens more or less perigynous. Ovary sessile or short-stalked. Perianth-segments valvate in bud. Leaves exstipulate. Seeds with straight embryo. =173. Lythraceae.=
Stamens hypogynous, more rarely perigynous, but then ovary long-stalked and leaves stipulate. Seeds with curved embryo. =87. Capparidaceae.=
116. Ovary at first open at the apex. Styles or sessile stigmas 3, free. Stamens 10-30. Perianth 5-6-cleft about halfway down. Seeds exalbuminous; embryo curved. Ochradenus, =89. Resedaceae=.
Ovary closed. Stamens 4 or more; if 10 or more, then perianth deeply divided. 117
117. Stamens as many as perianth-segments, 4-6, surrounded by a corona. Styles 3, free or united at the base. =161. Passifloraceae.=
Stamens more than perianth-segments, 6-40. Shrubs or trees. =159. Flacourtiaceae.=
118. (71.) Ovules solitary in each ovary-cell. 119
Ovules 2 or more in each ovary-cell. 129
119. Ovules erect or ascending. 120
Ovules pendulous or descending. 124
120. Style 1, with 1-3 stigmas. Stamens inserted within the disc or at its edge. Flowers polygamous or unisexual. Seeds albuminous. Leaves pinnate, exstipulate. =134. Sapindaceae.=
Styles 2-10, free or united below. Seeds albuminous, rarely exalbuminous, but then leaves stipulate. Leaves undivided or lobed. 121
121. Perianth-segments 3 or 6. Stamens 3. Flowers unisexual or polygamous. Dwarf shrubs. =125. Empetraceae.=
Perianth-segments 4-5. Stamens 4 or more. 122
122. Seeds with straight embryo. Fruit drupaceous. Styles 2-4, united below. Stamens 4-5, perigynous. Perianth valvate in bud. Shrubs. Leaves stipulate, alternate. =137. Rhamnaceae.=
Seeds with curved embryo and mealy albumen. Fruit dry, rarely baccate. Herbs or undershrubs, rarely shrubs, but then leaves exstipulate. 123
123. Flowers solitary or in cymes. Herbs or undershrubs. =72. Aizoaceae.=
Flowers in spikes or racemes. =71. Phytolaccaceae.=
124. Stamens hypogynous. 125
Stamens perigynous. 127
125. Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth-segments 4. Stamens 2, 4, or 6. Ovary-cells 2. Seeds exalbuminous; embryo curved. Herbs. Leaves exstipulate. Lepidium, =88. Cruciferae=.
Flowers unisexual, rarely hermaphrodite, but then perianth-segments 5, ovary-cells 5, and leaves stipulate. 126
126. Flowers unisexual. Leaves simple or palmately compound. Ovary usually 3-celled. =122. Euphorbiaceae.=
Flowers hermaphrodite, rarely unisexual, but then leaves pinnate and ovary surrounded by large scales. Ovary 5-celled. Leaves compound, stipulate. =113. Zygophyllaceae.=
127. Flowers unisexual or polygamous. Perianth of the male flowers consisting of calyx and corolla, that of the female and hermaphrodite flowers simple, valvate in bud. Stamens 5. Styles 2. Fruit capsular. Embryo straight. Leaves stipulate. Trichocladus, =101. Hamamelidaceae=.
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth simple. Leaves exstipulate. 128
128. Style and stigma simple. Embryo straight. Shrubs. Leaves alternate. =171. Thymelaeaceae.=
Styles or stigmas 2-5. Embryo curved. =72. Aizoaceae.=
129. (118.) Flowers unisexual or polygamous. 130
Flowers hermaphrodite. 136
130. Stamens 2. Ovary 2-celled with 2 ovules in each cell. Style 1, with 2 stigmas. Perianth 4-partite. Flowers polygamous. Leaves opposite, pinnate, exstipulate. Trees. Fraxinus, =197. Oleaceae=.
Stamens 3 or more, rarely 2, but then flowers unisexual. Leaves simple or digitate, rarely pinnate, but then alternate. 131
131. Leaves with a pitcher-shaped appendage. Style absent; stigma 4-partite. Ovary 4-celled with numerous ovules in each cell. Nepenthes, =91. Nepenthaceae=.
Leaves without pitchers. Style present. 132
132. Style 1, with 2-6 stigmas. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves alternate, without stipules. =134. Sapindaceae.=
Styles 2 or more, free at the base, towards the apex, or throughout. 133
133. Perianth-segments valvate in bud, united below. Filaments united. =144. Sterculiaceae.=
Perianth-segments imbricate or open in bud, rarely valvate, but then free and filaments also free. 134
134. Ovules with ventral raphe, 2 in a cell. Fruit usually opening septicidally and loculicidally. Leaves usually stipulate. =122. Euphorbiaceae.=
Ovules with dorsal raphe. Shrubs or trees. 135
135. Flowers monoecious. Stamens 4-6. Ovary 3-celled with 2 ovules in each cell. Fruit a loculicidal capsule. Leaves opposite, without stipules. =124. Buxaceae.=
Flowers dioecious or polygamous. Stamens 10 or more. Fruit a berry or a drupe. Leaves alternate. =159. Flacourtiaceae.=
136. (129.) Perianth-segments free or nearly so. Stamens hypogynous or nearly so. 137
Perianth-segments evidently united. Stamens usually perigynous. 142
137. Stem herbaceous or woody at the base only. 138
Stem woody throughout its length. 140
138. Perianth-segments 2-3. Stamens 1-4. Water-plants. =93. Podostemonaceae.=
Perianth-segments 4-5. Land-plants. Seeds with curved embryo. 139
139. Perianth-segments 4. Stamens 1-6. Ovary-cells 2. Style 1. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves exstipulate. =88. Cruciferae.=
Perianth-segments 5. Ovary-cells 3-7. Styles 3-7. Seeds albuminous. Leaves stipulate. =72. Aizoaceae.=
140. Ovary long-stalked. Perianth-segments 2-4, valvate or imbricate in bud; in the latter case stamens 4-8. Seeds exalbuminous; embryo curved. =87. Capparidaceae.=
Ovary sessile or short-stalked. Stamens 10 or more. Seeds albuminous; embryo straight. 141
141. Perianth-segments 5, valvate in bud. Grewia, =141. Tiliaceae=.
Perianth-segments; 3-8, imbricate or open in bud. =159. Flacourtiaceae.=
142. (136.) Styles or sessile stigmas 2-5. Seeds albuminous; embryo curved. =72. Aizoaceae.=
Style 1 or a sessile stigma. Seeds exalbuminous or with a straight embryo. 143
143. Stigmas or stigma-lobes 1-2. Ovules numerous in each ovary-cell. 144
Stigmas or stigma-lobes 4. Ovules 2-4 in each ovary-cell. Flowers 4-merous. Leaves opposite, stipulate. 145
144. Stamens 1-16. Ovary sessile or short-stalked. Embryo straight. Leaves without stipules. =173. Lythraceae.=
Stamens very numerous. Ovary long-stalked. Embryo curved. Leaves alternate, with small stipules. Maerua, =87. Capparidaceae=.
145. Perianth with valvate aestivation. Stamens 4. Ovules ascending, at least the lower ones. Seeds exalbuminous. =169. Penaeaceae.=
Perianth with imbricate aestivation. Stamens 8. Ovules pendulous. Seeds albuminous. Geissoloma, =168. Geissolomataceae=.
146. (70.) Ovules solitary in each carpel. 147
Ovules 2 or more in each carpel. 152
147. Ovules erect, incurved. Perianth regular, 4-5-parted. Seeds with a curved embryo and mealy albumen. Leaves undivided, without stipules. 148
Ovules pendulous or affixed laterally, rarely erect, but then perianth irregular and strap-shaped or surrounded by an epicalyx. 149
148. Flowers in spikes or racemes. Fruit succulent, baccate. Phytolacca, =71. Phytolaccaceae=.
Flowers in cymes. Fruit dry. =72. Aizoaceae.=
149. Perianth-segments free or nearly so. Stamens hypogynous. 150
Perianth-segments obviously united, at least in the female flowers. Stamens usually perigynous. 151
150. Flowers unisexual. Stamens as many as perianth-segments. Fruits fleshy, drupaceous. =80. Menispermaceae.=
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Stamens usually more than perianth-segments. Fruits usually dry. =78. Ranunculaceae.=
151. Leaves undivided, exstipulate. Shrubs or trees. Flowers unisexual. Stamens 10 or more. Seeds with copious albumen. =83. Monimiaceae.=
Leaves more or less deeply divided or compound, stipulate. Seeds without albumen. =103. Rosaceae.=
152. Perianth of 6 free segments, imbricate in bud. Stamens numerous, free. Herbs. Leaves floating, peltate, exstipulate. Brasenia, =76. Nymphaeaceae=.
Perianth 4-8-lobed, valvate in bud. Stamens 4 or more, united at the base. Trees. Leaves stipulate. =144. Sterculiaecae.=
153. (69.) Ovary 1-celled. 154
Ovary, at least after fertilisation, completely or almost completely 2-or more-celled. 177
154. Ovule 1. 155
Ovules 2 or more. 167
155. Ovule erect, ascending, attached by an erect funicle, or adnate to the ovary-wall. 156
Ovule pendulous or descending. 162
156. Ovule adnate to the ovary-wall. Style simple; stigma entire. Stamens as many as and opposite the perianth-segments. Perianth valvate in bud. Leaves without stipules. Shrubs growing upon trees. =61. Loranthaceae.=
Ovary free from the ovary-wall. Trees or shrubs growing on the ground, or herbaceous plants. 157
157. Ovule straight. Embryo straight. Flowers unisexual. Stamens as many as and opposite the perianth-segments or more. 158
Ovule incurved or inverted. Embryo curved, more rarely straight, but then stamens as many as and alternating with the perianth-segments. 159
158. Stamens 1-5. Leaves simple or digitate, stipulate. =54. Urticaceae.=
Stamens numerous. Stigmas 2. Trees. Leaves pinnate, exstipulate. Juglans, =49. Juglandaceae=.
159. Ovule inverted. Stamens as many as and alternating with the perianth-segments. Seeds exalbuminous; embryo straight. =226. Compositae.=
Ovule incurved. Stamens as many as and opposite the perianth-segments or more. Seeds albuminous; embryo curved. Herbs. 160
160. Flowers unisexual. Perianth-segments 2-4, valvate in bud. Stamens 10-30. Stigma 1. Fruit drupaceous. Cynocrambe, =70. Cynocrambaceae=.
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth-segments 5, imbricate in bud. Stamens 5. Stigmas 2-5. Fruit opening by a lid or bursting irregularly. 161
161. Style short, with long stigmas. Leaves alternate, exstipulate. Flowers in spike-or panicle-like inflorescences. Beta, =67. Chenopodiaceae.=
Style long, with 2 short stigmas. Leaves opposite, linear, stipulate. Flowers in heads. Sclerocephalus, =75. Caryophyllaceae=.
162. (155.) Ovule straight. Style simple. Stamen 1. Flowers polygamous. Reddish-brown herbs, parasitic upon roots. Leaves reduced to scales. Cynomorium, =184. Cynomoriaceae=.
Ovule incurved or inverted. Green plants. Leaves well developed. 163
163. Flowers unisexual or polygamous. Stamens as many as and opposite the perianth-segments or fewer. 164
Flowers hermaphrodite. Stamens as many as and alternate with the perianth-segments or more. Leaves exstipulate. 166
164. Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. Flowers unisexual. Leaves stipulate. =53. Moraceae.=
Anthers opening by valves. Leaves exstipulate. 165
165. Flowers unisexual. Leaves penninerved. Hypodaphnis, =84. Lauraceae=.
Flowers polygamous. Leaves palminerved. Gyrocarpus, =85. Hernandiaceae=.
166. Stamens 2. Styles 2. Embryo straight. Leaves radical. Gunnera, =183. Halorrhagaceae.=
Stamens 3-5. Styles 4, or a single style. Embryo curved. Leaves alternate. =72. Aizoaceae.=
167. (154.) Ovules 2-5. 168
Ovules numerous. 174
168. Ovules adnate to the ovary-wall. Stamens 2-6. Shrubs parasitic on the stem of trees. =61. Loranthaceae.=
Ovules free from the ovary-wall. Plants growing on the ground or parasitic upon roots. 169
169. Ovules suspended from the apex of the ovary-cell. Stamens 8-10, rarely 4-5. Seeds exalbuminous. Shrubs or trees. Flowers in spikes, racemes, or heads. =179. Combretaceae.=
Ovules inserted on a central, sometimes subparietal, placenta. Seeds albuminous. 170
170. Styles 4. Ovules 4. Stamens 4. Perianth of the male flowers consisting of calyx and corolla. Herbs or undershrubs. Laurembergia, =183. Halorrhagaceae=.
Style 1. Perianth of all flowers simple. 171
171. Stigma 6-10-lobed. Stamens 5. Albumen ruminate. Shrubs or trees. Octoknema, =60. Octoknemataceae=.
Stigma entire or 2-5-lobed. 172
172. Stamens 8, twice as many as the perianth-segments. Embryo with inferior radicle. Shrubs. Leaves opposite. Grubbia, =58. Grubbiaceae=.
Stamens 2-6, as many as, or fewer than, the perianth-segments. Embryo with superior radicle or undivided. 173
173. Stem and leaves or scales green. Embryo with 2 cotyledons. =56. Santalaceae.=
Stem and leaves not green; stem herbaceous; leaves scale-like. Flowers unisexual, in spikes or heads. Embryo without cotyledons. =62. Balanophoraceae.=
174. (167.) Placentas apical. Style wanting. Stamens 3-4, united. Flowers hermaphrodite. Stem herbaceous, not green, bearing neither leaves nor scales. Hydnora, =65. Hydnoraceae=.
Placentas parietal. Style present. Stem bearing leaves or scales. 175
175. Filaments united, 8 or more. Style 1. Embryo without cotyledons. Herbs. Leaves scale-like, not green. Flowers unisexual. =64. Rafflesiaceae.=
Filaments free. Embryo with 2 cotyledons. Shrubs or trees. Leaves well developed. 176
176. Flowers unisexual. Perianth 4-5-parted. Stamens 4-5. Style 1. Grevea, =96. Saxifragaceae=.
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth 7-8-parted. Stamens numerous. Styles 2-3. Bembicia. =159. Flacourtiaceae=.
177. (153.) Ovules solitary in each ovary-cell. 178
Ovules 2 or more in each ovary-cell. 183
178. Ovules erect or ascending. 179
Ovules pendulous or descending. 180
179. Leaves opposite or whorled. Perianth corolla-like. Ovary-cells and styles 2. Embryo curved. =219. Rubiaceae.=
Leaves alternate. Perianth calyx-like. Embryo straight. =137. Rhamnaceae.=
180. Perianth wanting in the male flowers. Stamens 4. Ovary almost completely 2-celled. Seeds exalbuminous. Shrubs. Leaves stipulate. Corylus, =50. Betulaceae=.
Perianth present in all flowers. Seeds albuminous. Herbs or undershrubs, rarely shrubs or trees, but then, as usually, leaves exstipulate. 181
181. Flowers in umbels or heads, rarely in whorls, and then leaves stipulate. Perianth-segments 5, alternating with as many stamens. Ovary-cells and styles 2. Seeds with horny albumen; embryo small. =186. Umbelliferae.=
Flowers solitary or in axillary fascicles or in spikes. Leaves exstipulate. Perianth-segments 4, rarely 3 or 5. Seeds with fleshy or mealy albumen. Herbs or undershrubs. 182
182. Flowers hermaphrodite. Seeds with a curved embryo and mealy albumen. Leaves undivided. Tetragonia, =72. Aizoaceae=.
Flowers unisexual or polygamous. Stamens 2, 4, or 8. Seeds with a straight embryo and fleshy albumen. Leaves, at least the lower ones, deeply divided. Myriophyllum, =183. Halorrhagaceae=.
183. (177.) Ovules 2 in each ovary-cell. Styles 3-6. Perianth-segments more or less united. Flowers unisexual, spicate. Leaves stipulate. Trees or shrubs. =51. Fagaceae.=
Ovules numerous in each ovary-cell, rarely (Lecythidaceae) 2-6, but then style 1 and flowers hermaphrodite. 184
184. Perianth-segments obviously united below. Seeds albuminous. Leaves without stipules. 185
Perianth-segments free or nearly so. Seeds exalbuminous. 186
185. Flowers unisexual, in terminal spikes, racemes or panicles. Perianth regular. Fruit a berry. Embryo without cotyledons. Herbs. Leaves scale-like, not green. Cytinus, =64. Rafflesiaceae=.
Flowers hermaphrodite, solitary or fascicled in the axils of the leaves. Perianth irregular. Stamens adnate to the style. Fruit a capsule. Embryo with 2 cotyledons. Leaves well developed, green. Aristolochia, =63. Aristolochiaceae=.
186. Flowers unisexual, in cymes. Perianth irregular. Stamens numerous. Styles 2-6, free or united at the base. Leaves stipulate. Begonia, =165. Begoniaceae=.
Flowers hermaphrodite, solitary or in racemes or heads. Perianth regular. Style 1, undivided. 187
187. Stamens 3-6. Leaves stipulate. Herbs. Ludwigia, =182. Oenotheraceae=.
Stamens numerous. Leaves exstipulate. Trees or shrubs. =176. Lecythidaceae=.
188. (53.) Ovary superior or nearly so. 189
Ovary inferior to half-inferior. 481
189. Ovary 1, entire or lobed. 190
Ovaries 2 or more, separate or united at the base only. 451
190. Ovary 1-celled, sometimes with incomplete partitions or containing one or more empty rudimentary cells besides the fertile one. 191
Ovary completely or almost completely 2-or more-celled, the partitions sometimes not quite reaching the apex; or one cell only fertile, the others empty but well developed. 273
191. Ovule 1. 192
Ovules 2 or more. 214
192. Ovule erect or ascending or attached by a basal funicle. 193
Ovule pendulous or descending. 205
193. Leaves stipulate. Sepals 5. 194
Leaves exstipulate. 198
194. Stigma 1, entire. 195
Stigma 1, five-lobed, or stigmas 2-3. Stamens 1-5, more or less distinctly perigynous. Flowers regular. Leaves undivided. 197
195. Flowers regular. Corolla with imbricate or contorted aestivation. Stamens 4-5, hypogynous. Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, undivided. Dovera, =131. Salvadoraceae=.
Flowers irregular, rarely regular, but then leaves alternate and corolla with valvate aestivation or stamens more than 5. Stamens more or less distinctly perigynous. 196
196. Style basal or nearly so. =103. Rosaceae.=
Style terminal or nearly so. Stamens 9-10. =105. Leguminosae.=
197. Stigma 5-lobed. Calyx valvate in bud. Seeds exalbuminous. Shrubs or trees. Maesopsis, =137. Rhamnaceae=.
Stigmas 2-3. Seeds albuminous. =75. Caryophyllaceae.=
198. Sepals 2, free or nearly so. 199
Sepals 3-7, free or more or less united, or an entire calyx. 201
199. Flowers unisexual. Stamens 8-10. Style 3-4-cleft. Trees. Leaves undivided. Didierea, =134. Sapindaceae=.
Flowers hermaphrodite. Stamens 2-7. Herbs or shrubs. 200
200. Corolla regular. Stamens 4-7, free or nearly so. Style 3-parted. Embryo large, curved. Shrubs. Leaves undivided. Portulacaria, =73. Portulacaceae=.
Corolla irregular. Stamens 2, three-cleft (or 6, united in 2 bundles). Style simple. Embryo small. Herbs. Leaves dissected. =86. Papaveraceae.=
201. Stamens numerous. Style 1. Corolla with imbricate or contorted aestivation. Leaves opposite. Shrubs or trees. Calophyllum, =149. Guttiferae=.
Stamens 1-10, rarely more, but then styles 3 or corolla with valvate aestivation. 202
202. Stamens as many as the petals, 4, opposite and adnate to them. Stigma 1. Calyx entire or toothed. Petals 4, valvate. Shrubs or trees. =55. Proteaceae.=
Stamens as many as and alternate with the petals or fewer or more numerous. 203
203. Stigmas or stigma-lobes 1-2. Stamens 2, 4, or 6. Sepals 4. Petals 4. Flowers hermaphrodite. Seeds with curved embryo. Herbs or undershrubs, rarely shrubs. =88. Cruciferae.=
Stigmas or stigma-lobes 3, rarely only 1, but then fertile stamens 1, 5, 8, or more. Shrubs or trees. 204
204. Flowers in axillary clusters, hermaphrodite. Sepals and petals valvate in bud. Petals hooded. Stamens 8-10, with 4-celled anthers (or 16-20 united in pairs). Style and stigma simple. Hua, =144. Sterculiaceae=.
Flowers in panicles. Petals not hooded. Stamens neither with 4-celled anthers nor united in pairs. =127. Anacardiaceae.=
205. (192.) Leaves stipulate. Stamens 9-10. 206
Leaves exstipulate, rarely (Polygalaceae) stipulate, but then stamens 8. 207
206. Flowers irregular. Stamens more or less perigynous. Style simple. =105. Leguminosae.=
Flowers regular. Stamens hypogynous. Styles 3-4, free or partly united. Trees, shrubs, or undershrubs. Erythroxylon, =112. Erythroxylaceae=.
207. Flowers distinctly irregular, hermaphrodite. Stamens 8; filaments united; anthers opening by a pore. Style 1. Shrubs or trees. Leaves undivided. Securidaca, =120. Polygalaceae=.
Flowers regular or nearly so, rarely distinctly irregular, but then unisexual or with 10 stamens. Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. 208
208. Flowers unisexual. Stamens as many as and opposite the petals or more. Leaves simple or digitate. =80. Menispermaceae.=
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, rarely (Anacardiaceae) unisexual, but then stamens alternating with the petals or leaves pinnate. 209
209. Stamens distinctly perigynous, 4, 8, or 10. Style simple; stigma entire. Leaves undivided. Shrubs. =171. Thymelaeaceae.=
Stamens hypogynous or nearly so, rarely (Anacardiaceae) distinctly perigynous, but then stigma lobed and leaves pinnate. 210
210. Stamens as many as and opposite the petals, 4-5. Calyx little developed, entire or obscurely toothed. Shrubs. Leaves undivided. =57. Opiliaceae.=
Stamens as many as and alternate with the petals or more. Calyx distinctly developed. 211
211. Stamens 6. Sepals 4. Petals 4. Embryo curved. Herbs or undershrubs, rarely shrubs. Leaves simple. =88. Cruciferae.=
Stamens 4 or more, rarely 6, but then sepals 3 and petals 3. Shrubs or trees. 212
212. Stamens numerous; filaments united. Style thread-shaped. Corolla with imbricate or contorted aestivation. Leaves opposite, undivided. Shrubs. Endodesmia, =149. Guttiferae=.
Stamens 4-20; if more than 10, then style short and thick, corolla with valvate aestivation, and leaves pinnate. 213
213. Ovule with ventral raphe. Stamens 10. Leaves with 1-3 transparently dotted leaflets. Eriander, =115. Rutaceae=.
Ovule with dorsal raphe. =127. Anacardiaceae.=
214. (191.) Ovules 2. 215
Ovules 3 or more. 231
215. Ovules or their funicle erect or ascending. 216
Ovules or their funicle pendulous or descending. 224
216. Ovules attached one above the other, rarely side by side; in the latter case flowers irregular, stamens 9-10, and style terminal or nearly so. Leaves usually stipulate. 217
Ovules attached one opposite the other or side by side. Flowers regular, more rarely irregular, but then stamens 6 or style basal. Leaves usually exstipulate. 218
217. Flowers regular. Calyx 5-lobed, valvate in bud. Stamens 5, opposite the petals, hypogynous. Leaves undivided. Waltheria, =144. Sterculiaceae=.
Flowers irregular, more rarely regular, but then, as usually, stamens perigynous or more than 5. Leaves usually compound. =105. Leguminosae.=
218. Ovules straight. Stamens 5 or 10, more or less distinctly perigynous. Leaves compound. Shrubs or trees. =104. Connaraceae.=
Ovules incurved or inverted. Leaves simple, undivided or dissected; in the latter case herbs. 219
219. Styles 2, free or united below. Stamens 2-5, hypogynous or nearly so. Leaves opposite. Herbs or undershrubs. =75. Caryophyllaceae.=
Style 1, with a single stigma. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, but then shrubs or trees. 220
220. Style basal. Stamens perigynous. Leaves alternate. Shrubs or trees. Seeds exalbuminous. =103. Rosaceae.=
Style terminal or nearly so. Stamens hypogynous; rarely perigynous, but then leaves opposite. 221
221. Stamens 5, perigynous. Sepals united below. Leaves opposite. Shrubs or trees. Pleurostylia, =129. Celastraceae=.
Stamens 6, hypogynous. Sepals free. Leaves alternate. 222
222. Flowers irregular. Sepals 2. Petals 4. Fruit a 2-seeded nut. Herbs. Leaves dissected. Sarcocapnos, =86. Papaveraceae=.
Flowers regular. Sepals 3-6. Leaves undivided. 223
223. Perianth of 4 sepals and 4 petals. Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. Style distinctly developed. Fruit a 1-seeded nut. Undershrubs. Flowers white. Dipterygium, =87. Capparidaceae=.
Perianth of 3-6 sepals, 3 petals, and 6 honey-scales. Anthers opening by valves. Style none. Fruit a berry. Shrubs. Flowers yellow. Berberis, =79. Berberidaceae=.
224. (215.) Ovules suspended from a free central placenta. Stamens 4-10. Shrubs or trees. Leaves undivided, exstipulate. =59. Olacaceae.=
Ovules attached to the wall of the ovary, usually near the apex. 225
225. Ovules one above the other, rarely side by side; in the latter case flowers irregular with 9-10 stamens. Leaves usually compound and stipulate. =105. Leguminosae.=
Ovules side by side or one opposite the other. Flowers regular, rarely somewhat irregular, but then stamens 3-6. 226
226. Ovules attached laterally. Stamens 3-5. Flowers usually unisexual. Embryo large. Leaves exstipulate, usually compound. =115. Rutaceae.=
Ovules attached by the apex, rarely laterally, but then stamens more than 5. Flowers usually hermaphrodite. Leaves simple. 227
227. Stamens 4-5. Shrubs or trees. Leaves exstipulate. =132. Icacinaceae.=
Stamens 6 or more. 228
228. Stamens 6. Style 1. Sepals 4. Petals 4. Embryo curved. Leaves exstipulate. =88. Cruciferae.=
Stamens 10 or more. Leaves undivided, stipulate. Shrubs or trees. 229
229. Stamens 10, hypogynous. Styles or stigmas 3-4. Sepals 5. Petals 5. Erythroxylon, =112. Erythroxylaceae=.
Stamens 12 or more. 230
230. Style 1, with a single stigma. Stamens 12-20, perigynous. Sepals 5-12. Petals 5-12. Seeds with scanty albumen or without any. =103. Rosaceae.=
Styles 2-6 or style 1 with 2 stigmas; in the latter case stamens more then 20. Seeds with copious albumen. =159. Flacourtiaceae.=
231. (214.) Ovules basal or attached to a central placenta. 232
Ovules attached to one or more parietal placentas. 244
232. Ovules basal. 233
Ovules attached to a central placenta. 239
233. Style or sessile stigma 1, entire. 234
Styles, stigmas, or stigma-lobes 2-6. 236
234. Stamens 10. Calyx closed in bud, subsequently 2-3-parted. Flowers solitary or in pairs. =196. Styracaceae.=
Stamens 5-6. Calyx with 3-9 imbricate segments. 235
235. Flowers 5-merous, in cymes. Stamens perigynous. Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. Style present. Leaves opposite. Pleurostylia, =129. Celastraceae=.
Flowers 6-merous, in racemes. Stamens hypogynous. Anthers opening by valves. Style wanting. Leaves alternate or all radical. =79. Berberidaceae.=
236. Stamens very numerous. Anthers linear. Style 2-cleft. Trees. Leaves alternate, stipulate. Lophira, =147. Ochnaceae=.
Stamens 1-20; if more than 10, then styles 5. 237
237. Leaves and flowers clothed with glandular hairs; the former alternate. Stamens 10-20. Styles 5, free. Ovules upon a long funicle. Seeds albuminous, with a minute embryo. Undershrubs. Drosophyllum, =92. Droseraceae=.
Leaves and flowers without glandular hairs. Stamens 1-10. Seeds with a large or rather large embryo. 238
238. Leaves alternate. Disc present. Ovules upon a short funicle. Seeds exalbuminous. =153. Tamaricaceae.=
Leaves opposite. Seeds albuminous; embryo usually curved. =75. Caryophyllaceae.=
239. (232.) Ovules pendulous. Style 1. Fertile stamens 3-6. =59. Olacaceae.=
Ovules ascending or horizontal. 240
240. Stamens as many as and opposite the petals. Style simple; stigma entire or obscurely lobed. 241
Stamens as many as and alternate with the petals or fewer or more numerous. 242
241. Stamens 3. Leaves opposite. Herbs. Pelletiera, =191. Primulaceae=.
Stamens 4-7. Leaves alternate. Shrubs or trees. =190. Myrsinaceae.=
242. Calyx with valvate aestivation. Petals perigynous. Style simple with an entire or 2-lobed stigma. Seeds exalbuminous; embryo straight. =173. Lythraceae.=
Calyx with imbricate aestivation. Petals hypogynous or nearly so. Style simple with a 3-lobed stigma or with several stigmas, or styles 2 or more. Seeds albuminous; embryo usually curved. 243
243. Sepals 2. Stamens 8-30. Stigmas or stigma-lobes 3. Leaves alternate. =73. Portulacaceae.=
Sepals 4-5. Stamens 1-10. Leaves opposite. =75. Caryophyllaceae.=
244. (231.) Ovules attached to a single placenta. 245
Ovules attached to two or more placentas. 248
245. Sepals evidently united, rarely free or nearly so, and then petals 5 or leaves stipulate. Stamens usually perigynous. Stigma 1. Leaves usually compound. =105. Leguminosae.=
Sepals free or nearly so. Petals 2-4. Stamens hypogynous. Leaves exstipulate, simple, but often dissected. Herbs or undershrubs. 246
246. Flowers distinctly irregular. Sepals 5. Petals 2-4. Stamens numerous. Fruit opening at one side. Embryo straight. Delphinium, =78. Ranunculaceae=.
Flowers regular or nearly so. Sepals 4 or 8. Petals 4. Stamens 4 or 6. Fruit opening in two valves or remaining closed. Embryo more or less curved. 247
247. Stamens 4. Anthers opening by valves. Stigma 1. Albumen abundant. Leaves dissected. Epimedium, =79. Berberidaceae=.
Stamens 6. Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. Albumen scanty or wanting. =88. Cruciferae.=
248. (244.) Style 1, undivided, with a single stigma or with 2 or more stigmas contiguous at the base, or 1 sessile stigma. 249
Styles 2-6, free or more or less united with separated stigmas (not contiguous at the base), or 2-6 free sessile stigmas. 266
249. Fertile stamens as many as petals or fewer, 2-10. 250
Fertile stamens more than petals. 257
250. Fertile stamens 10. Filaments united. Anthers opening outwards. Stigmas 5. Sepals 3. Trees. Warburgia, =157. Winteranaceae=.
Fertile stamens 2-6. 251
251. Fertile stamens 2-4. Flowers hermaphrodite. Seeds exalbuminous, with curved embryo. =87. Capparidaceae.=
Fertile stamens 5, rarely (Passifloraceae) 4 or 6, but then flowers unisexual. Seeds rarely exalbuminous, and then with straight embryo. 252
252. Fertile stamens opposite the petals. Shrubs or trees. 253
Fertile stamens alternate with the petals. Leaves simple. Seeds albuminous. 254
253. Flowers irregular. Petals perigynous. Anthers opening by a single slit. Placentas 3. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves pinnate. Moringa, =90. Moringaceae=.
Flowers regular. Anthers opening by 2 slits. Seeds albuminous. Leaves simple, undivided. =159. Flacourtiaceae.=
254. Sepals united below. Petals perigynous, sometimes nearly hypogynous, and then, as usual, staminodes or a corona interposed between the petals and the stamens. Flowers regular. =161. Passifloraceae.=
Sepals free or nearly so. Petals hypogynous or nearly so; in the latter case neither staminodes nor a corona within them. 255
255. Staminodes present, sometimes petal-like. Placentas 3. Flowers regular. Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves stipulate. =147. Ochnaceae.=
Staminodes wanting. 256
256. Leaves stipulate, rarely exstipulate and then stem herbaceous or suffruticose. Placentas 3. =158. Violaceae.=
Leaves exstipulate. Stem woody. Flowers regular. Placentas 2, rarely 3-5. Pittosporum, =97. Pittosporaceae=.
257. (249.) Sepals and petals together 6 (2 sepals and 4 petals), rarely 9 (3 sepals and 6 petals). Stamens 6 or many. Stem herbaceous. Leaves more or less deeply divided. =86. Papaveraceae.=
Sepals and petals together 7, 8, 10, or more, rarely 9, but then stem woody and leaves undivided. 258
258. Sepals and petals together 9; sepals 3, small; petals 6, unequal. Stamens numerous, inserted upon an elevated receptacle. Ovules scattered over the inner wall of the ovary. Stigma sessile or nearly so. Albumen ruminate. Trees. Leaves undivided. Flowers hermaphrodite. Monodora, =81. Anonaceae=.
Sepals and petals together 7, 8, 10, or more, rarely (Flacourtiaceae) 9, but then ovules attached to 2-10 placentas and either style distinctly developed or stamens 5-15. 259
259. Perianth of 4 sepals and 4 petals, rarely (Capparidaceae) of 2 sepals and 6 petals or of 5 sepals and 5 petals; in the latter case ovary long-stalked. Albumen scanty or wanting. 260
Perianth of 3-6 sepals and 4 or more petals, but not of 4 sepals and 4 petals. Ovary sessile or nearly so. 262
260. Filaments united throughout their whole length, 8. Placentas 3-5, with 2 ovules each. Calyx 4-lobed. Leaves pinnate. Shrubs or trees. =118. Meliaceae.=
Filaments free or united at the base. Placentas 2 or more, in the latter case with numerous ovules. Embryo curved. Leaves simple or digitate. 261
261. Stamens 6, four of them longer than the other two. Ovary sessile or nearly so. Placentas 2. Flowers regular or nearly so. Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves simple, without stipules. =88. Cruciferae.=
Stamens few or many; if 6, then not four longer than the rest. Ovary usually stalked. Stigma usually sessile. Flowers mostly irregular. =87. Capparidaceae.=
262. Filaments united in 3-5 bundles. Sepals 5. Petals 5. Seeds ex-albuminous. Leaves opposite, undivided, exstipulate. =149. Guttiferae.=
Filaments all free or united at the base. Seeds albuminous. 263
263. Anthers opening at the apex by pores or very short slits. Sepals 5. Petals 5. Leaves alternate, stipulate, usually lobed. 264
Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. Leaves entire or toothed. 265
264. Anthers curved. Placentas 2. Petals red. Flowers and flower-stalks clothed with minute scales. Bixa, =155. Bixaceae=.
Anthers straight. Placentas 3-5. Petals yellow. Flowers and flower-stalks glabrous or clothed with simple hairs. Cochlospermum, =156. Cochlospermaceae=.
265. Embryo distinctly curved, folded, or rolled up. Ovules usually straight. Disc and corona usually wanting. Anthers opening inwards or laterally. Sepals 3 or 5. Petals 5, with contorted aestivation. Leaves mostly opposite. Herbs, undershrubs, or shrubs. =154. Cistaceae.=
Embryo straight or nearly straight. Ovules inverted. Disc or corona usually present. Anthers usually opening outwards. Leaves alternate. Shrubs or trees. =159. Flacourtiaceae.=
266. (248.) Leaves opposite, rarely whorled, undivided. Land-plants. 267
Leaves alternate or all radical, rarely (Droseraceae) whorled, but then water-plants with 5 stamens and 5 styles. 268
267. Sepals united below, valvate in bud. Stamens 4-6. Style 2-3-cleft. Seeds with abundant albumen. =152. Frankeniaceae.=
Sepals free, imbricate in bud. Stamens 9 or more. Seeds without albumen. Hypericum, =149. Guttiferae=.
268. Herbs with glandular hairs or with whorled leaves. Sepals, petals, and stamens equal in number, 4, 5, or 8. Anthers more or less turned outwards. =92. Droseraceae.=
Herbs or undershrubs without glandular hairs or woody plants; if herbs, then anthers turned inwards, at least when young. Leaves alternate or all radical. 269
269. Flowers irregular. Ovary open at the apex. Stigmas sessile. Seeds exalbuminous; embryo curved. =89. Resedaceae.=
Flowers regular. Ovary closed. 270
270. Corolla with contorted aestivation, more or less perigynous. Calyx deciduous, callous or glandular within. Sepals, petals, and stamens 5. Anthers turned inwards. Styles 3. =160. Turneraceae.=
Corolla with imbricate, not contorted, or with valvate aestivation, very rarely with contorted aestivation, but then stamens numerous. 271
271. Seeds exalbuminous, rarely albuminous, and then placentas finally separating from the wall of the ovary. Anthers usually turned outwards. Leaves exstipulate. =153. Tamaricaceae.=
Seeds albuminous. Placentas not separating from the wall of the ovary. Anthers turned inwards, rarely outwards, but then, as usually, leaves stipulate. 272
272. Stem erect, rarely climbing, and then stamens numerous or anthers turned outwards. Corona, if present, simple or double. Ovary sessile or nearly so. Shrubs or trees. Leaves simple, undivided. =159. Flacourtiaceae.=
Stem climbing, usually tendril-bearing, rarely erect, but then corona 3-or more-fold or ovary distinctly stalked. Stamens 4-10. Anthers turned inwards. Sepals 4-6, more or less united, imbricate in bud. Petals as many as sepals. =161. Passifloraceae.=
273. (190.) Ovules solitary in each ovary-cell. 274
Ovules 2 or more in each ovary-cell. 319
274. Ovules erect or ascending. 275
Ovules pendulous, descending, or horizontal. 288
275. Disc outside the stamens, sometimes one-sided or broken up into several glands. Leaves alternate, compound, rarely simple and then stamens 8-10. 276
Disc or separate glands within or between the stamens or wanting, rarely outside the stamens, but then leaves simple and stamens 4-6. 277
276. Flowers hermaphrodite. Petals 5. Stamens 4-5. Ovary 4-celled. Seeds with abundant albumen; embryo straight. Bersama, =135. Melianthaceae=.
Flowers unisexual or polygamous. Seeds without albumen; embryo more or less curved. =134. Sapindaceae.=
277. Petals and stamens hypogynous. 278
Petals and stamens more or less perigynous. Leaves simple, stipulate. Shrubs or trees. 285
278. Sepals 3. Petals 3 or 6. Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, undivided, exstipulate. 279
Sepals 4 or 5, rarely 2. Petals 3-5. 280
279. Sepals valvate in bud. Stamens numerous. Anthers opening outwards. Ovary many-celled. Styles numerous. =81. Anonaceae.=
Sepals imbricate or open in bud. Stamens 3. Anthers opening laterally. Ovary 2-9-celled. Style 2-9-cleft. Flowers unisexual or polygamous. =125. Empetraceae.=
280. Sepals valvate in bud, 5. Petals with contorted aestivation. Filaments united. Stigmas several. Leaves simple, stipulate. 281
Sepals imbricate in bud, rarely valvate, but then only 2. Leaves exstipulate. 282
281. Anthers 1-celled. Fertile stamens numerous. Ovary 3-or more-celled. Seeds albuminous. =142. Malvaceae.=
Anthers 2-celled. Fertile stamens 5, rarely more, but then ovary 2-celled and seeds exalbuminous. =144. Sterculiaceae.=
282. Stamens numerous. Leaves opposite, undivided. Shrubs or trees. =149. Guttiferae.=
Stamens 2-10. Stigmas 1-2. Leaves alternate. 283
283. Leaves pinnate. Shrubs or trees. Stigma 1. =118. Meliaceae.=
Leaves simple. Herbs or undershrubs, rarely shrubs. Embryo curved. 284
284. Sepals 4. Petals 4. Stamens 2-6. Glands present between the stamens. =88. Cruciferae.=
Sepals 5. Petals 3-5. Stamens 5-10, united at the base. Limeum, =72. Aizoaceae=.
285. (277.) Flowers irregular. Petals 4-5. Stamens 10-20. Ovary 2-celled. Style basal. Stigma 1. Parinarium, =103. Rosaceae=.
Flowers regular. Petals 4-8. Stamens 4-8. Style terminal or nearly so. 286
286. Petals, stamens, and carpels 8 each. Dirachma, =107. Geraniaceae=.
Petals 4-5. Stamens 4-5. Carpels 2-5. 287
287. Calyx with valvate aestivation. Stamens opposite the petals. Style 1, with a more or less deeply divided stigma, or several styles. =137. Rhamnaceae.=
Calyx with imbricate or open aestivation. Stamens alternate with the petals. Style 1, with an entire or lobed stigma. =129. Celastraceae.=
288. (274.) Flowers unisexual. 289
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. 293
289. Leaves simple. 290
Leaves compound. Shrubs or trees. 293
290. Sepals 2-3, united below, valvate in bud. Petals 5, with contorted aestivation. Stamens numerous. Ovary 2-celled. Style wanting; stigma lobed. Shrubs or trees. Carpodiptera, =141. Tiliaceae=.
Sepals, at least in the female flowers, 4-6, sometimes almost wholly united. 291
291. Ovary slightly sunk in the receptacle, 2-celled. Styles 2. Stamens 5. Anthers opening by valves. Sepals and petals valvate in bud. Shrubs. Trichocladus, =101. Hamamelidaceae=.
Ovary wholly superior, usually 3-celled. Styles usually 3. Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. 292
292. Ovules straight. Stigmas sessile or nearly so. Stamens 10. Calyx-limb nearly entire. Fruit drupaceous. Panda, =106. Pandaceae=.
Ovules inverted. =122. Euphorbiaceae.=
293. Leaves stipulate. Ovary surrounded by scales. Fruit capsular. Spiny shrubs. Neoluederitzia, =113. Zygophyllaceae=.
Leaves exstipulate. Fruit usually drupaceous. =127. Anacardiaceae.=
294. (288.) Flowers distinctly irregular. 295
Flowers regular or nearly so. 298
295. Leaves compound. Receptacle expanded into a disc or elongated into a stalk. Filaments free. Trees or shrubs. =127. Anacardiaceae.=
Leaves simple, undivided. Receptacle small. 296
296. Stamens 10. Shrubs or undershrubs. =119. Malpighiaceae.=
Stamens 5-8. 297
297. Filaments free. Anthers opening by two longitudinal slits. Petals 5, perigynous. Style 1; stigmas 3. Climbing herbs. Tropaeolum, =109. Tropaeolaceae=.
Filaments united. Anthers opening by an apical pore. Petals hypogynous. =120. Polygalaceae.=
298. (294.) Stamens as many as the petals or fewer or more numerous, but less than twice as many, 2-6. 299
Stamens twice as many as the petals or in greater number, rarely (Thymelaeaceae) as many as the petals, but then 8-10. 305
299. Filaments all united below. Fertile and sterile stamens together as many as the petals, 4-6. Disc not distinctly developed. Leaves undivided. 300
Filaments free or united in pairs. 301
300. Stamens all fertile. Seeds albuminous. =110. Linaceae.=
Stamens partly sterile (2 fertile, 3 sterile). Seeds exalbuminous. Cottsia, =119. Malpighiaceae=.
301. Anthers opening by apical pores. Petals and stamens 5, slightly perigynous. Ovary 3-celled. Style simple; stigma 3-lobed. Seeds with abundant albumen. Undershrubs. Leaves rolled inwards when young, undivided, bearing glandular hairs. Roridula, =147. Ochnaceae=.
Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. Seeds with scanty albumen or without any. 302
302. Stamens 6, rarely 2 or 4. Style 1. Sepals 4. Petals 4. Embryo curved. Herbs or undershrubs, rarely shrubs. Leaves simple. =88. Cruciferae.=
Stamens 5, rarely 4, but then styles 4 and leaves pinnate. Shrubs or trees. 303
303. Flowers 4-merous. Disc within the stamens. Leaves pinnate. =116. Simarubaceae.=
Flowers 5-merous. 304
304. Disc within the stamens. Ovary 3-or 5-celled. Styles or sessile stigmas 3 or 5. Leaves simple. =127. Anacardiaceae.=
Disc outside the stamens. Ovary 2-celled. Style simple. Leaves pinnate. Filicium, =134. Sapindaceae=.
305. (298.) Filaments free. Shrubs or trees, rarely undershrubs. 306
Filaments united into a tube, at least at the base. 312
306. Disc present, more or less ring-, cushion-, or cup-shaped. 307
Disc wanting. Leaves undivided. 310
307. Flowers polygamous, 4-5-merous. Leaves compound, exstipulate. =127. Anacardiaceae.=
Flowers hermaphrodite, rarely polygamous, but then 3-merous. 308
308. Leaves with glandular dots, compound, exstipulate. Ovary 3-5-celled. Style simple. =115. Rutaceae.=
Leaves without dots. 309
309. Leaves stipulate, pinnate with 1-2 pairs of leaflets, more rarely simple and undivided, and then stigma 3-parted. Ovary 3-5-celled. Style simple. =113. Zygophyllaceae.=
Leaves rarely stipulate, but then undivided and stigma entire or 2-lobed. =116. Simarubaceae.=
310. Sepals united into a minute, entire or toothed calyx. Petals 4-6, valvate in bud. Ovary 3-4-celled. Seeds with abundant albumen. =59. Olacaceae.=
Sepals free or united at the base only. Seeds without albumen. 311
311. Petals 5, imbricate in bud. Ovary 2-3-celled. =119. Malpighiaceae.=
Petals 8-10, rarely 4-5, scale-like, valvate in bud. Sepals free, petaloid. Ovary 4-5-celled. Octolepis, =171. Thymelaeaceae=.
312. (305.) Stamens numerous. Anthers opening by one slit. Calyx with valvate aestivation. Seeds with curved embryo. Leaves simple, stipulate. =142. Malvaceae.=
Stamens twice as many as the petals, 6-12, rarely (Malpighiaceae) a few more (11-15). Anthers opening by two slits. Calyx with imbricate or open aestivation. 313
313. Style 1, undivided with a single stigma or with two or more stigmas contiguous at the base. 314
Styles 2-5, free or more or less united with separate (not contiguous) stigmas. Stamens 10, rarely 11-15. 316
314. Leaves compound, exstipulate. Seeds without albumen. =118. Meliaceae.=
Leaves simple, undivided. Stamens 10. 315
315. Ovary 5-celled. Disc present. Seeds albuminous. Trees. Leaves exstipulate. Saccoglottis, =111. Humiriaceae=.
Ovary 2-3-celled. Disc wanting. Shrubs or undershrubs. 316
316. Seeds albuminous. Flowers in axillary fascicles. Leaves alternate, stipulate. Nectaropetalum, =110. Linaceae=.
Seeds exalbuminous. Flowers in racemose inflorescences, rarely solitary. Sepals usually with glands on the outside. =119. Malpighiaceae.=
317. Styles and ovary-cells 5. Herbs or undershrubs, rarely shrubs. =108. Oxalidaceae.=
Styles and ovary-cells 2-4. Trees or shrubs, rarely undershrubs. Leaves undivided. 318
318. Flowers solitary or in fascicles. Petals with a scale on the inside. Styles or style-branches 3-4. Fruit a drupe. Seeds usually albuminous. Leaves alternate, stipulate. Erythroxylon, =112. Erythroxylaceae=.
Flowers in racemose inflorescences. Sepals usually with glands on the outside. Styles or style-branches 2-3. Seeds exalbuminous. =119. Malpighiaceae.=
319. (273.) Ovules 2 in each ovary-cell. 320
Ovules 3 or more in each ovary-cell. 389
320. Style 1, undivided, or 2 or more styles united to the base of the stigmas, or 1 sessile stigma. 321
Styles 2 or more, free or united below, but not up to the base of the stigmas, or 2 or more free sessile stigmas. 371
321. Stamens as many as or fewer than the petals. 322
Stamens more than the petals. 339
322. Stamens as many as and opposite to the petals. 323
Stamens as many as and alternate with the petals, or fewer. 325
323. Stamens 10. Ovary 10-celled. Herbs. Leaves opposite. Augea, =113. Zygophyllaceae=.
Stamens 3-7. Leaves alternate. 324
324. Petals with valvate aestivation. Filaments free. Ovary 2-celled. Fruit a berry. =138. Vitaceae.=
Petals with imbricate-contorted aestivation. Filaments more or less united. Ovary 3-or more-celled. Fruit a capsule. =144. Sterculiaceae.=
325. Stamens 2-4. 326
Stamens 5. 333
326. Sepals 2-4. Petals 3-4. 327
Sepals 5. Petals 2-5. 332
327. Leaves marked with glandular dots, at least at the edges. Stipules wanting. 328
Leaves without glandular dots. 329
328. Leaves simple, undivided. Flowers hermaphrodite. Disc cushion-shaped. Stigmas 3. Fruit separating into 3 drupe-like, 2-celled mericarps. Seeds with curved embryo. Chamaelea, =114. Cneoraceae=.
Leaves compound, more rarely simple, but then fruit not drupe-like. =115. Rutaceae.=
329. Leaves stipulate. Ovules usually erect. Corolla imbricate in bud. Shrubs or trees. 330
Leaves exstipulate. Ovules usually pendulous. Ovary 2-celled or transversally septate. Flowers hermaphrodite. 331
330. Disc present. =129. Celastraceae.=
Disc wanting. Flowers unisexual. Ovary 2-celled. Azima, =131. Salvadoraceae=.
331. Leaves opposite. Petals valvate in bud. Receptacle without glands. Shrubs or trees. =197. Oleaceae.=
Leaves alternate. Petals imbricate in bud. Receptacle provided with glands. Herbs or undershrubs, rarely shrubs. =88. Cruciferae.=
332. (326.) Anthers opening outwards. Stamens 3. Disc present. Ovary 3-celled. Seeds exalbuminous. =130. Hippocrateaceae.=
Anthers opening inwards. Disc reduced to separate glands or wholly wanting. Ovary 5-celled. Stigmas 5. Seeds albuminous. =107. Geraniaceae.=
333. (325.) Filaments united, at least at the base. 334
Filaments free. 336
334. Filaments united nearly to the apex. Petals with valvate aestivation. Stigma 1. Leaves pinnate, exstipulate. Quivisianthe, =118. Meliaceae=.
Filaments united only at the base. Petals with imbricate or contorted aestivation. Leaves stipulate. 335
335. Petals with contorted aestivation. Stigma 1. Seeds with an aril. Shrubs. Leaves undivided. Phyllocosmus, =110. Linaceae=.
Petals with imbricate aestivation. Stigmas 5. Seeds without an aril. =107. Geraniaceae.=
336. Leaves gland-dotted, exstipulate, but sometimes with axillary spines. =115. Rutaceae.=
Leaves not dotted, simple, stipulate. 337
337. Calyx with valvate aestivation. Triumfetta, =141. Tiliaceae=.
Calyx with imbricate or open aestivation. 338
338. Calyx large. Ovules pendulous. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves alternate. Dichapetalum, =121. Dichapetalaceae=.
Calyx small. Ovules erect, more rarely pendulous, but then leaves opposite, at least those of the flowering branches. =129. Celastraceae.=
339. (321.) Stamens fewer than twice as many as the petals, 5-8. 340
Stamens twice as many as the petals, or more. 343
340. Flowers unisexual or polygamous. Disc outside the stamens. Stamens 8, rarely 5-6; in the latter case ovary 3-celled. Ovules ascending, at least one of them, or horizontal. Shrubs or trees. 341
Flowers hermaphrodite. Stamens 5-7. Ovary 2-or 5-celled or transversally septate. Herbs or undershrubs, rarely shrubs. 342
341. Ovary 2-celled. Leaves opposite, lobed. Acer, =133. Aceraceae=.
Ovary 3-celled. Leaves alternate, pinnate. =134. Sapindaceae.=
342. Sepals 4. Petals 4. Stamens 6. Ovary 2-celled or transversally septate. Stigmas 1-2. Leaves exstipulate. =88. Cruciferae.=
Sepals 5. Ovary 5-celled. Stigmas 5. Leaves stipulate. =107. Geraniaceae.=
343. (339.) Stamens twice as many as the petals. 344
Stamens more than twice as many as the petals. 359
344. Filaments free. 345
Filaments evidently united, at least at the base. 354
345. Calyx with valvate aestivation. 346
Calyx with imbricate aestivation. 349
346. Leaves gland-dotted, without stipules, but sometimes with axillary spines. =115. Rutaceae.=
Leaves not gland-dotted, usually with stipules. 347
347. Leaves opposite or whorled, undivided, stipulate. Petals valvate in bud. Stamens perigynous. Shrubs or trees. =177. Rhizophoraceae.=
Leaves alternate. 348
348. Leaves simple, stipulate. Stamens hypogynous. =141. Tiliaceae.=
Leaves compound, more rarely simple, but then, as usual, exstipulate. Shrubs or trees. =117. Burseraceae.=
349. Stipules present, but sometimes very small and caducous. 350
Stipules wanting, but axillary spines sometimes present. 352
350. Sepals 3, surrounded by a 6-toothed involucre. Petals 5. Disc cup-shaped. Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, undivided. Leptochlaena, =140. Chlaenaceae=.
Sepals 4-6. Disc ring-or cushion-shaped or reduced to separate scales or wanting. 351
351. Stigma 1, entire or lobed. Filaments usually provided with an appendage. Leaves usually compound. =113. Zygophyllaceae.=
Stigmas 5. Filaments without an appendage. Leaves simple, but sometimes dissected. Fruit beaked, splitting into 5 nutlets. =107. Geraniaceae.=
352. Flowers irregular, 4-merous. Disc outside the stamens, one-sided, sometimes indistinct. Ovary 2-3-celled. Leaves pinnate. =134. Sapindaceae.=
Flowers regular. 353
353. Bark resinous. Leaves rarely dotted. Ovules pendulous or laterally attached. Fruit drupe-like, but sometimes dehiscing. Seeds exalbuminous. =117. Burseraceae.=
Bark not resinous. Leaves gland-dotted. Ovules usually ascending. =115. Rutaceae.=
354. (344.) Sepals valvate in bud, united below. Leaves stipulate. 355
Sepals imbricate in bud. 356
355. Leaves opposite or whorled. Petals toothed or slit, valvate in bud. =177. Rhizophoraceae.=
Leaves alternate. Petals nearly always imbricate in bud. =144. Sterculiaceae.=
356. Stigmas 5. Ovary lobed. Sepals and petals imbricate in bud. Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves simple, stipulate. =107. Geraniaceae.=
Stigmas 1-3. Shrubs or trees. 357
357. Leaves stipulate, undivided. Petals with contorted aestivation. Disc wanting. =110. Linaceae.=
Leaves exstipulate. Stigma 1, entire or lobed. 358
358. Leaves simple, undivided. Ovary 3-celled. Disc wanting. Asteropeia, =148. Theaceae=.
Leaves compound, more rarely simple, but then ovary 4-20-celled. Disc usually present. =118. Meliaceae.=
359. (343.) Petals with valvate aestivation. Trees or shrubs. 360
Petals with imbricate or contorted aestivation. 362
360. Sepals free. Petals and stamens hypogynous. Anthers opening by an apical pore. Elaeocarpus, =139. Elaeocarpaceae=.
Sepals united below. Petals and stamens more or less perigynous. Anthers opening by two longitudinal slits. 361
361. Calyx entire or nearly so. Leaves alternate. =145. Scytopetalaceae.=
Calyx more or less deeply divided. Leaves opposite or whorled. =177. Rhizophoraceae.=
362. Calyx with valvate aestivation. 363
Calyx with imbricate aestivation. 366
363. Leaves exstipulate, undivided, opposite. Ovules ascending or horizontal. Seeds exalbuminous. =149. Guttiferae.=
Leaves stipulate. Petals 5. 364
364. Filaments free. Anthers opening by two slits. =141. Tiliaceae.=
Filaments evidently united. 365
365. Anthers opening by a single slit. =142. Malvaceae.=
Anthers opening by two slits. Stigmas 3 or 5. Dombeya, =144. Sterculiaceae=.
366. Stem herbaceous or woody at the base. 367
Stem woody throughout. Leaves undivided. 368
367. Sepals and petals with contorted aestivation. Ovary 3-celled. Stigmas 1-3. Fruit opening loculicidally. Leaves entire. =154. Cistaceae.=
Sepals and petals with imbricate aestivation. Stamens 15. Ovary 5-celled. Stigmas 5. Fruit opening septicidally. Leaves stipulate. =107. Geraniaceae.=
368. Leaves stipulate. 369
Leaves exstipulate. 370
369. Sepals 3, surrounded by a 3-5-toothed involucre. Disc cup-shaped. Fruit dehiscent. Sarcochlaena, =140. Chlaenaceae=.
Sepals 5. Disc wanting. Fruit indehiscent. =150. Dipterocarpaceae.=
370. Leaves alternate. Ovules pendulous. =148. Theaceae.=
Leaves opposite. Ovules ascending or horizontal. =149. Guttiferae.=
371. (320.) Stamens as many to twice as many as petals, 4-12. 372
Stamens more than twice as many as petals. 382
372. Filaments free. 373
Filaments obviously united, at least at the base. 377
373. Stipules present, but sometimes very small and caducous. 374
Stipules wanting, but axillary spines sometimes present. 376
374. Leaves opposite or whorled. Flowers hermaphrodite. Stamens 8-10. =98. Cunoniaceae.=
Leaves alternate. 375
375. Style 1, 2-3-cleft, with undivided branches. Stamens 5. Disc present. Sepals imbricate in bud. Petals usually 2-cleft. Fruit a drupe or nut. Seeds exalbuminous. Dichapetalum, =121. Dichapetalaceae=.
Styles 2, 3, or 5, free or united at the base, usually 2-cleft. Flowers unisexual. Fruit usually a capsule. =122. Euphorbiaceae.=
376. Leaves with glandular dots. Petals 4-5. Stamens as many or twice as many. =115. Rutaceae.=
Leaves without glandular dots, lobed, opposite. Petals 5. Stamens 8, inserted at the inner edge of the disc. Ovary-cells and style-branches 2. Acer, =133. Aceraceae=.
377. Flowers unisexual. Stamens as many as and alternate with the petals. Leaves alternate, undivided, stipulate. =122. Euphorbiaceae.=
Flowers hermaphrodite, rarely polygamous. 378
378. Sepals valvate in bud, united below. Leaves alternate, stipulate. =144. Sterculiaceae.=
Sepals imbricate in bud. 379
379. Petals with a callosity or scale on the inside. Ovary-cells and styles or style-branches 3-4. Stamens 10. Flowers solitary or in fascicles. Leaves undivided, stipulate. Shrubs or trees. =112. Erythroxylaceae.=
Petals without an appendage on the inside. Ovary-cells and styles or style-branches 5, more rarely 3-4, but then stamens 4-5 or flowers in racemes or panicles. 380
380. Ovary lobed, 5-celled. Styles 5. Stamens 10. Fruit a capsule. Herbs or undershrubs, rarely shrubs. Leaves alternate, usually compound. =108. Oxalidaceae.=
Ovary entire. Stamens 4-5 or 10; in the latter case styles 3 or fruit a drupe. Leaves simple, undivided. 381
381. Ovary-cells and styles or style-branches 3. Stamens 10. Flowers in panicles. Leaves alternate, exstipulate. Small trees or climbing shrubs. Asteropeia, =148. Theaceae=.
Ovary-cells and styles or style-branches 5, rarely 3-4, but then stamens 4-5 or flowers in cone-like racemes. =110. Linaceae.=
382. (371.) Leaves stipulate, alternate. 383
Leaves exstipulate. 386
383. Calyx imbricate in bud, 4-partite. Stamens 10. Filaments free or united at the base. Anthers turned outwards, 2-celled. Flowers unisexual. Trees. Heywoodia, =122. Euphorbiaceae=.
Calyx valvate in bud. 384
384. Anthers 1-celled (one half only developed). Filaments united. Seeds albuminous; embryo curved. =142. Malvaceae.=
Anthers 2-celled (both halves developed, but sometimes finally confluent). 385
385. Filaments united at the base or higher up. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. =144. Sterculiaceae.=
Filaments free or united at the base; in the latter case flowers unisexual. =141. Tiliaceae.=
386. Leaves opposite, undivided. Ovules ascending or horizontal. Seeds exalbuminous. =149. Guttiferae.=
Leaves alternate. 387
387. Sepals 2. Petals 4-5, imbricate in bud. Filaments free. Anthers 2-celled. Disc cup-shaped. Ovary 2-celled. Ovules ascending. Style 1, two-cleft. Talinella, =73. Portulacaceae=.
Sepals 5. Disc wanting. Ovary 3-5-celled. Ovules pendulous. Styles 3-5, free or united at the base. 388
388. Flowers unisexual, in glomerules. Petals in the male flowers 3, valvate in bud. Anthers 4-celled. Junodia, =122. Euphorbiaceae=.
Flowers hermaphrodite, in panicles. Petals 5, imbricate in bud. Anthers 2-celled. =148. Theaceae.=
389. (319.) Style 1, undivided, with a single stigma or with two or more stigmas contiguous at the base, or one sessile stigma. 390
Styles 2 or more, free or united below, but not to the base of the stigmas, or two or more free sessile stigmas. 439
390. Stamens fewer than twice as many as the petals. 391
Stamens twice as many as the petals or more. 404
391. Petals and stamens hypogynous. 392
Petals, and usually also the stamens, more or less perigynous. Leaves undivided. 399
392. Stamens 7-9, free. Sepals 3 or 5, petals 5, both with contorted aestivation. Flowers regular. Leaves entire. =154. Cistaceae.=
Stamens 2-6. 393
393. Ovary 2-celled. Stamens 6, rarely 2 or 4. Sepals 4, petals 4. Receptacle with glands. Leaves simple, without stipules, but often with auricles at the base. =88. Cruciferae.=
Ovary 3-or more-celled. Stamens 4-5. 394
394. Sepals valvate in bud, united below. Filaments usually united. Disc wanting. Leaves stipulate. 395
Sepals imbricate or open in bud, free or nearly so, rarely evidently united, but then leaves exstipulate. Filaments free; anthers sometimes united. 396
395. Anthers opening by 1 slit. Leaves palmately compound. Trees. Ceiba, =143. Bombacaceae=.
Anthers opening by 2 slits or pores. Leaves simple. =144. Sterculiaceae.=
396. Anthers united, opening at the apex. Stamens 5. Disc wanting. Petals 3 or 5. Sepals 3 or 5, one of them spurred. Herbs. Leaves undivided, exstipulate. Impatiens, =136. Balsaminaceae=.
Anthers free, opening lengthwise. 397
397. Flowers irregular. Stamens usually fewer than the petals. Disc present. Ovary 4-5-celled. Albumen abundant. Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, pinnate. Melianthus, =135. Melianthaceae=.
Flowers regular. Stamens as many as the petals. Albumen scanty or wanting. 398
398. Disc present. Leaves stipulate, usually opposite or compound. =113. Zygophyllaceae.=
Disc wanting. Staminodes in bundles alternating with the fertile stamens. Sepals united below. Leaves exstipulate, alternate, undivided. Thomassetia, =148. Theaceae=.
399. (391.) Calyx with valvate aestivation. Seeds exalbuminous; embryo straight. =173. Lythraceae.=
Calyx with imbricate or open aestivation. 400
400. Stem herbaceous. Leaves without glandular dots, exstipulate. Sepals 4. Petals 4. Stamens 6. Ovary 2-celled. Subularia, =88. Cruciferae=.
Stem woody. Stamens 3-5, very rarely 6-8, but then sepals 5 and petals 5. 401
401. Leaves with glandular dots, alternate, exstipulate. Stamens 5-8. Ovary 2-3-celled. Seeds exalbuminous. Heteropyxis, =180. Myrtaceae=.
Leaves without glandular dots. Stamens 3-5. Ovary 3-7-celled. 402
402. Leaves opposite, rarely alternate and then, as usually, stamens 3. Stamens inserted upon the disc. Filaments dilated. Ovary 3-celled. Seeds exalbuminous. =130. Hippocrateaceae.=
Leaves alternate. Stamens 4-5, inserted below the edge of the disc. Seeds albuminous. 403
403. Leaves stipulate. Ovary 3-5-celled. Fruit a capsule. Seeds with an aril. =129. Celastraceae.=
Leaves exstipulate. Ovary 5-7-celled. Fruit a drupe. Seeds without an aril. Brexia, =96. Saxifragaceae.=
404. (390.) Stamens twice as many as the petals. 405
Stamens more than twice as many as the petals. 416
405. Petals and stamens hypogynous. 406
Petals, and usually also the stamens, perigynous. Leaves undivided. 413
406. Filaments united in a tube, at least at the base. 407
Filaments free, rarely (Rutaceae) united in several bundles. 408
407. Sepals valvate in bud, very rarely at first imbricate; in this case many ovules in each ovary-cell and leaves undivided. Disc wanting. Leaves stipulate. =144. Sterculiaceae.=
Sepals imbricate in bud. Ovules few in each ovary-cell, rarely many, but then leaves pinnate. Disc usually distinctly developed. Leaves exstipulate. Shrubs or trees. =118. Meliaceae.=
408. Ovary distinctly stalked, entire. Seeds exalbuminous; embryo curved. =87. Capparidaceae.=
Ovary sessile or nearly so. 409
409. Calyx with valvate aestivation. Disc wanting. Leaves stipulate. =141. Tiliaceae.=
Calyx with imbricate, contorted, or open aestivation. 410
410. Calyx with contorted aestivation. Disc wanting. Leaves undivided. Seeds albuminous; embryo curved. =154. Cistaceae.=
Calyx with imbricate, not contorted, or with open aestivation. Disc ring-, cushion-, or cup-shaped. 411
411. Disc outside the stamens. Flowers usually irregular. Seeds with a copious albumen and straight embryo. Shrubs or trees. =135. Melianthaceae.=
Disc within the stamens. Flowers regular. 412
412. Leaves with translucent dots, exstipulate. =115. Rutaceae.=
Leaves without dots, stipulate. =113. Zygophyllaceae.=
413. (405.) Anthers opening by 1-2 apical pores. Leaves opposite or whorled, exstipulate. =181. Melastomataceae.=
Anthers opening by 2 longitudinal slits. 414
414. Calyx with valvate aestivation. =173. Lythraceae.=
Calyx with imbricate aestivation. Stamens 10. Ovary 3-celled. Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, exstipulate. 415
415. Flowers polygamous, without bracteoles. Calyx shortly lobed. Filaments free. Anthers attached by the base. Fruit indehiscent. Leaves with translucent dots. Psiloxylon, =180. Myrtaceae=.
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx deeply divided. Anthers attached by the back. Fruit dehiscing loculicidally. Leaves without dots. Asteropeia, =148. Theaceae=.
416. (404.) Petals and stamens hypogynous. 417
Petals, and usually also the stamens, perigynous. 433
417. Stipules present, but sometimes minute and caducous. 418
Stipules wanting, but axillary spines sometimes present. 428
418. Calyx with valvate, closed, or open aestivation. 419
Calyx with imbricate or contorted aestivation. 425
419. Corolla with valvate aestivation. 420
Corolla with imbricate or contorted aestivation. 421
420. Petals toothed or laciniate. Anthers opening by a single pore or slit at the apex. Trees. Leaves undivided. Elaeocarpus, =139. Elaeocarpaceae=.
Petals entire or emarginate. Anthers opening by 2 pores or slits. =141. Tiliaceae.=
421. Ovary distinctly stalked. Stigma usually sessile. Petals with imbricate, not contorted aestivation. Seeds exalbuminous. =87. Capparidaceae.=
Ovary sessile or nearly so. Petals usually with contorted aestivation. 422
422. Anthers 1-celled, opening by 1 slit or pore. Filaments united. Petals 5. 423
Anthers 2-celled, opening by 2, rarely confluent slits or pores. 424
423. Leaves simple. Flowers with an epicalyx. Filaments united to the apex or nearly so. Pollen-grains spiny. =142. Malvaceae.=
Leaves palmately compound. Flowers without an epicalyx. Filaments united below. Pollen-grains smooth or nearly so. Trees. =143. Bombacaceae.=
424. Filaments more or less united. Staminodes present. =144. Sterculiaceae.=
Filaments free, rarely shortly united at the base, but then staminodes absent. =141. Tiliaceae.=
425. (418.) Calyx and corolla with contorted aestivation. Petals 5-6. Ovary sessile or nearly so. Seeds albuminous. Leaves undivided. 426
Calyx and corolla with imbricate, not contorted aestivation. 427
426. Disc present. Ovules inverted. =140. Chlaenaceae.=
Disc absent. Ovules usually straight. =154. Cistaceae.=
427. Ovary sessile, 2-3-celled. Style awl-shaped. Ovules ascending. Seeds with copious albumen. Flowers regular. Leaves undivided. Sphaerosepalum, =156. Cochlospermaceae=.
Ovary stalked. Seeds without albumen. =87. Capparidaceae.=
428. (417.) Leaves all radical, floating, peltate. Petals numerous. Ovary 6-or more-celled. Stigma sessile. Seeds albuminous; embryo straight. Nuphar, =76. Nymphaeaceae=.
Leaves cauline and radical or all cauline, not floating. Petals 4-5. 429
429. Leaves opposite. Calyx with valvate, open, or imbricate, not contorted aestivation. Filaments usually united in several bundles. Seeds exalbuminous. =149. Guttiferae.=
Leaves alternate, more rarely (Cistaceae) opposite, but then calyx and corolla with contorted aestivation, filaments free, and seeds albuminous. 430
430. Leaves compound, with 1-3 leaflets, translucently dotted. Sepals united below. Ovary sessile, 5-or more-celled. Seeds exalbuminous. =115. Rutaceae.=
Leaves simple, undivided, not dotted, rarely digitate or dotted, but then ovary stalked. 431
431. Ovary stalked. Stigma usually sessile. Disc usually present. Seeds exalbuminous. =87. Capparidaceae.=
Ovary sessile. Disc not distinctly developed. Flowers regular. 432
432. Sepals and petals with contorted aestivation. Ovules usually straight. Seeds albuminous. =154. Cistaceae.=
Sepals and petals 5, with imbricate, not contorted aestivation. Ovules inverted or incurved. Trees or shrubs. =148. Theaceae.=
433. (416.) Calyx with valvate, closed, or open aestivation. 434
Calyx with imbricate or contorted aestivation. Leaves undivided. 438
434. Corolla with valvate, calyx with open aestivation. Ovary 3-8-celled.
Seeds albuminous. Leaves alternate, undivided. Trees or shrubs. =145. Scytopetalaceae.=
Corolla with imbricate or open aestivation; in the latter case calyx valvate. Seeds exalbuminous, rarely with scanty albumen, but then leaves digitate. 435
435. Anthers opening by a single slit. Filaments united. Ovary 5-10-celled, slightly sunk in the receptacle. Petals 5, with contorted aestivation. Seeds albuminous. Leaves digitate, stipulate. Trees. =143. Bombacaceae.=
Anthers opening by 2 slits. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves undivided, rarely digitate, but then ovary stalked and 2-celled. 436
436. Ovary stalked, 2-celled. Embryo curved. Leaves alternate. =87. Capparidaceae.=
Ovary sessile. Embryo straight. Leaves undivided, usually opposite. 437
437. Ovary 2-6-celled. =173. Lythraceae.=
Ovary 10-20-celled. Ovules inserted upon the dissepiments. Petals linear. Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, exstipulate. Sonneratia, =174. Sonneratiaceae=.
438. Calyx and corolla with contorted aestivation. Petals 5-6. Disc present. Ovary 3-celled. Style present. Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, not peltate. =140. Chlaenaceae.=
Calyx and corolla with imbricate, not contorted aestivation. Petals numerous. Disc wanting. Ovary 6-or more-celled. Style wanting. Herbs. Leaves all radical, floating, peltate. Nymphaea, =76. Nymphaeaceae=.
439. (389.) Stamens as many or twice as many as the petals, 3-10. 440
Stamens numerous. 446
440. Petals and stamens perigynous or inserted at the base of an hypogynous disc. Stamens 8 or 10. Styles free. Seeds albuminous. 441
Petals and stamens hypogynous. Disc wanting. 442
441. Stem herbaceous. Leaves usually radical or alternate and exstipulate. Placentas thick. Saxifraga, =96. Saxifragaceae=.
Stem woody. Leaves opposite or whorled, stipulate. Ovules in two rows. =98. Cunoniaceae.=
442. Leaves opposite or whorled, undivided, stipulate. Filaments free. Styles free. Seeds exalbuminous. Herbs or undershrubs. =151. Elatinaceae.=
Leaves alternate or all radical. 443
443. Sepals united below, valvate in bud. Leaves stipulate. =144. Sterculiaceae.=
Sepals free or nearly so, imbricate in bud. 444
444. Ovary-cells and styles 5. Petals with contorted aestivation. Seeds albuminous. =108. Oxalidaceae.=
Ovary-cells and styles or style-branches 3. Stamens 10. Trees or shrubs. Leaves undivided. 445
445. Filaments free. Anthers opening at the apex. Style shortly 3-cleft. Ovules in several rows. Albumen abundant. Bracteoles absent. Clethra, =188. Clethraceae=.
Filaments united at the base. Ovules in two rows. Albumen scanty or wanting. Bracteoles present. Asteropeia, =148. Theaceae=.
446. (439.) Petals and stamens perigynous, adnate to the ovary at the base, numerous. Filaments free. Sepals imbricate in bud. Leaves all radical, stipulate. Nymphaea, =76. Nymphaeaceae=.
Petals and stamens hypogynous, free from the ovary. Petals 3-9. 447
447. Leaves opposite, undivided, exstipulate. Seeds exalbuminous. =149. Guttiferae.=
Leaves alternate. 448
448. Petals 8. Sepals 5, imbricate in bud. Filaments free. Styles free. Seeds with a straight embryo and copious albumen. Herbs. Leaves dissected, exstipulate. Nigella, =78. Ranunculaceae=.
Petals 3-5. Filaments united, at least at the base. 449
449. Sepals 5, free or nearly so, imbricate in bud. Albumen scanty or wanting. Trees or shrubs. Leaves undivided, exstipulate. =148. Theaceae.=
Sepals 3-5, valvate or open in bud. Leaves stipulate. 450
450. Anthers opening by a single slit or pore. =142. Malvaceae.=
Anthers opening by two slits or pores. =144. Sterculiaceae.=
451. (189.) Styles united below or throughout their whole length. 452
Styles entirely free or loosely cohering above. 457
452. Anthers 1-celled, opening by a single slit. Stamens numerous. Filaments united. Disc not distinctly developed. Calyx with valvate aestivation. Seeds albuminous. Leaves simple, stipulate. =142. Malvaceae.=
Anthers 2-celled, opening by 2 slits or pores. Calyx with imbricate, more rarely with open or valvate aestivation, in the latter case leaves exstipulate. 453
453. Ovules solitary in each carpel. Trees or shrubs. 454
Ovules 2 or more in each carpel. Leaves exstipulate. 456
454. Receptacle more or less elongated. Stamens 10 or more. Fruits drupaceous. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves undivided, stipulate. =147. Ochnaceae.=
Receptacle expanded into a disc. Leaves exstipulate. 455
455. Stamens inserted within the disc. Ovules ascending. =134. Sapindaceae.=
Stamens inserted outside the disc. =116. Simarubaceae.=
456. Sepals 3. Petals 6. Stamens numerous. Trees or shrubs. =81. Anonaceae.=
Sepals 4-5. Petals 4-5. Stamens 4-10. Leaves translucently dotted. =115. Rutaceae.=
457. (451.) Ovules solitary in each carpel. 458
Ovules 2 or more in each carpel. 470
458. Leaves opposite, exstipulate. 459
Leaves alternate or the uppermost whorled, or all radical. 462
459. Stamens 3-10. Carpels 3-9. Albumen scanty. Leaves undivided. 460
Stamens numerous. Carpels 2 or many. Albumen abundant. 461
460. Stamens 3-9. Petals white or reddish. Fruit dehiscent. Crassula, =95. Crassulaceae=.
Stamens 10. Petals greenish, fleshy. Fruit indehiscent. Shrubs. Flowers in racemes. Coriaria, =126. Coriariaceae=.
461. Carpels 2. Ovules ascending. Sepals 5. Petals 5. Seeds with an aril. Erect shrubs or trees. Leaves undivided. Hibbertia, =146. Dilleniaceae=.
Carpels numerous. Ovules pendulous. Seeds without an aril. Clematis, =78. Ranunculaceae=.
462. Leaves stipulate. 463
Leaves exstipulate. 467
463. Stamens as many as the petals, 3-8, hypogynous or nearly so. Styles terminal. Flowers unisexual. 464
Stamens twice as many as the petals or more, rarely as many as the petals or fewer, but then distinctly perigynous and styles basal. Ovules inverted. 465
464. Stem erect, tree-like. Leaves lobed. Flowers in heads. Ovules pendulous, straight. Fruit dry. Platanus, =102. Platanaceae=.
Stem climbing. Leaves undivided. Flowers in racemes or panicles. Ovules laterally affixed, half-inverted. Fruit fleshy. Tiliacora, =80. Menispermaceae=.
465. Petals and stamens perigynous. =103. Rosaceae=.
Petals and stamens hypogynous. Leaves undivided. 466
466. Flowers regular. Sepals 3-4, valvate in bud. Stamens numerous, with united filaments. Disc absent. Trees. Christiania, =141. Tiliaceae=.
Flowers irregular. Sepals 5. Disc present. Shrubs. Astrocarpus, =89. Resedaceae=.
467. Disc present. Sepals 2-5. Albumen scanty or wanting. Stem woody. =116. Simarubaceae.=
Disc absent. Albumen abundant, rarely scanty or wanting, but then sepals 6 or more. 468
468. Flowers unisexual. Sepals 6 or more. Stamens usually as many as petals or fewer. Fruits drupaceous. Stem usually climbing. Flowers usually in racemes. =80. Menispermaceae.=
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, rarely unisexual, but then sepals 2-3. Stamens usually more than petals. Albumen abundant. 469
469. Stem woody. Leaves entire or toothed. Sepals 2-3. Albumen ruminate. =81. Anonaceae.=
Stem herbaceous or woody at the base only, rarely throughout, but then leaves lobed or dissected and sepals 4 or more. Albumen uniform. =78. Ranunculaceae.=
470. (457.) Leaves stipulate. 471
Leaves exstipulate. 474
471. Petals and stamens perigynous. =103. Rosaceae.=
Petals and stamens hypogynous. 472
472. Disc one-sided, scale-like. Ovary stalked. Stamens 10-15. Flowers irregular, 5-merous. Seeds exalbuminous. Herbs. Leaves undivided. Caylusea, =89. Resedaceae=.
Disc stalk-like or wanting. Seeds albuminous. Shrubs or trees. 473
473. Calyx with valvate, corolla with contorted aestivation. Stamens 10 or more. Petal-like staminodes within the stamens 5-10. Flowers regular, 5-merous. =144. Sterculiaceae.=
Calyx and corolla with imbricate aestivation. Stamens numerous. Leaves undivided. =146. Dilleniaceae.=
474. Stamens as many or twice as many as the petals. 475
Stamens numerous, not exactly twice as many as the petals, hypogynous. Seeds with abundant albumen. 479
475. Sepals 2-3. Petals 3-6. Stamens 6-12, hypogynous. Albumen abundant. Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, undivided. =81. Anonaceae.=
Sepals 4 or more, rarely 3, but then stamens 3. 476
476. Stem herbaceous or woody at the base, rarely throughout, but then, as usually, ovules numerous. Albumen scanty or wanting. =95. Crassulaceae.=
Stem woody throughout. Ovules 2. 477
477. Leaves pinnate, with 3 or more leaflets, alternate, rarely dotted and then stamens 10. Flowers 5-merous. Ovules ascending, straight. Seeds with an aril. =104. Connaraceae.=
Leaves simple or compound; in the latter case, as usually, leaves translucently dotted and stamens 3-5. Ovules inverted. Seeds without an aril. 478
478. Style terminal or nearly so. Stamens 3-5. Seeds albuminous, with a thick and hard coat. Fagara, =115. Rutaceae=.
Styles basal or nearly so. Stamens 5-10. Seeds exalbuminous, with a thin coat. Leaves undivided. Suriana, =116. Simarubaceae=.
479. Sepals 2-3. Petals 3-6. Albumen ruminate. Shrubs or trees. Leaves undivided. =81. Anonaceae.=
Sepals 4-6, imbricate in bud. 480
480. Seeds with an aril. Sepals persistent. Shrubs or trees. Leaves undivided. =146. Dilleniaceae.=
Seeds without an aril. Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves more or less deeply divided or compound. =78. Ranunculaceae.=
481. (188.) Ovary 1-celled, sometimes incompletely chambered. 482
Ovary completely or almost completely 2-or more-celled, rarely 2 or more distinct ovaries. 507
482. Ovules not distinctly differentiated from the placenta. Shrubs parasitic upon trees or shrubs. Leaves undivided. Calyx-limb little developed. Petals 2-6, valvate in bud. Stamens as many as and opposite the petals. Stigma 1. Loranthus, =61. Loranthaceae=.
Ovules distinctly developed. Herbs or non-parasitic shrubs or trees. 483
483. Ovule 1. 484
Ovules 2 or more. 490
484. Ovule erect, straight. Stigmas 2. Stamens numerous. Petals 3-4. Flowers monoecious, in spikes. Leaves pinnate. Trees. Juglans, =49. Juglandaceae=.
Ovule pendulous, inverted. Stamens as many as the petals or fewer, rarely (Alangiaceae) more, but then petals 6-10 and flowers hermaphrodite. 485
485. Filaments wholly united. Anthers 5, twisted. Flowers unisexual. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves angled or lobed. Climbing, tendril-bearing plants. =223. Cucurbitaceae.=
Filaments free or united at the base only. Plants without tendrils. 486
486. Anthers opening by valves. Stigma 1. Seed exalbuminous. Trees or climbing shrubs. Leaves palminerved. Flowers in panicles. =85. Hernandiaceae.=
Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Seed albuminous. 487
487. Flowers 4-merous, in racemes or panicles. Leaves pinnate. Shrubs or trees. Fruit a drupe. Polyscias, =185. Araliaceae=.
Flowers 5-10-merous. Leaves simple, but sometimes dissected, and then herbs or undershrubs with the flowers in umbels. 488
488. Flowers in umbels. Leaves more or less deeply divided. Herbs or undershrubs. Fruit a nut. =186. Umbelliferae.=
Flowers in heads, spikes, or cymes. Leaves undivided. Shrubs or trees. 489.
489. Flowers in cymes. Petals valvate in bud. Fruit a drupe. Embryo large. Alangium, =178. Alangiaceae.=
Flowers in heads or spikes, 5-merous. Petals imbricate in bud. Fruit a nut. Embryo small. =100. Bruniaceae.=
490. (483.) Ovules basal or inserted on a free central placenta. 491
Ovules parietal or inserted at the apex of the ovary-cell. 499.
491. Flowers unisexual. Stamens as many as the petals or fewer, 2-5. Fruit a berry or a nut. Herbs or undershrubs, rarely shrubs. 492
Flowers hermaphrodite. 493
492. Flowers 4-merous. Styles or sessile stigmas 4, free. Seeds albuminous. Herbs. Leaves undivided. Laurembergia, =183. Halorrhagaceae=.
Flowers 5-merous. Style 1, entire or cleft. Seeds exalbuminous. =223. Cucurbitaceae.=
493. Sepals 2. Fruit opening by a lid. Herbs. Leaves alternate, undivided. Portulaca, =73. Portulacaceae=.
Sepals 4-8, sometimes united into an entire calyx. Style simple. Fruit indehiscent. Trees or shrubs, rarely (Bruniaceae) undershrubs. 494
494. Stamens numerous. Petals 5. Ovules 2. Fruit a drupe. Leaves alternate, stipulate. =103. Rosaceae.=
Stamens as many or twice as many as the petals, 4-16. Leaves undivided. 495
495. Stamens twice as many as the petals, 8-16. Leaves opposite or whorled. 496
Stamens as many as the petals, 4-6. Seeds albuminous. 497
496. Leaves stipulate. Petals 5-8, toothed or lobed, valvate in bud. Anthers without appendages. Seeds albuminous. Carallia, =177. Rhizophoraceae=.
Leaves exstipulate. Petals usually 4. Anthers with appendages. Seeds exalbuminous. =181. Melastomataceae.=
497. Stamens opposite the petals. Petals valvate in bud. Ovules pendulous. Fruit a drupe. Leaves alternate. =59. Olacaceae.=
Stamens alternating with the petals. Petals imbricate in bud. 498
498. Stigma 1. Ovules erect. Fruit a drupe. Leaves opposite, stipulate. Pleurostylia, =129. Celastraceae=.
Stigmas 2. Ovules pendulous. Fruit a capsule or a nut. Leaves alternate, exstipulate. =100. Bruniaceae.=
499. (490.) Ovules apical. 500
Ovules parietal. 502
500. Ovules numerous, affixed to 2-3 placentas suspended from the apex of the ovary-cell. Styles 2-3, free. Stamens 5. Flowers hermaphrodite. Fruit capsular. Seeds with abundant albumen. Herbs. Leaves opposite, undivided. Vahlia, =96. Saxifragaceae=.
Ovules 2-6, suspended from the apex of the ovary-cell. Style 1, entire or cleft. Seeds without albumen. 501
501. Stamens 2-5. Flowers unisexual. Herbs, undershrubs, or shrubs, usually climbing or prostrate. =223. Cucurbitaceae.=
Stamens 8 or more, rarely 4-6, but then flowers hermaphrodite. Style simple. Trees, shrubs, or undershrubs. Leaves undivided. =179. Combretaceae.=
502. Flowers unisexual, rarely polygamous. Herbs or undershrubs, rarely shrubs. 503
Flowers hermaphrodite. Shrubs or trees. Seeds albuminous. 504
503. Flowers 5-merous. Stamens 2-5. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves well-developed. =223. Cucurbitaceae.=
Flowers 6-merous. Stamens 12 or more. Seeds albuminous. Leaves scale-like. Pilostyles, =64. Rafflesiaceae=.
504. Stamens as many as and alternating with the petals, 5. Petals small. Style 2-cleft. Ovary inferior. Ovules many. Fruit a berry. Leaves lobed. Ribes, =96. Saxifragaceae=.
Stamens as many as and opposite the petals or in greater number. Style simple, more rarely divided, but then ovary half-inferior. Leaves undivided or wanting. 505
505. Stamens numerous, not collected in bundles. Ovary inferior. Style simple, with several stigmas. Fruit a berry. Succulent, usually leafless plants. =167. Cactaceae.=
Stamens as many or twice as many as the petals, or collected in several bundles. Ovary half-inferior. Style simple with an entire or slightly lobed stigma, or more or less deeply divided into 2-6 branches. Leafy plants. 506
506. Petals 5-6, lobed or slit, valvate in bud. Stamens twice their number. Style simple. Ovules 6. Fruit a berry. Leaves opposite or whorled. Ceriops, =177. Rhizophoraceae=.
Petals 4-8, imbricate in bud. Stamens placed singly or in pairs or bundles opposite the petals; if in pairs or bundles, then style divided. Fruit a capsule. =159. Flacourtiaceae.=
507. (481.) Ovules solitary in each ovary-cell. 508
Ovules two or more in each ovary-cell. 527
508. Ovules erect or ascending. 509
Ovules pendulous or descending. 513
509. Stamens 10 or more. Sepals 5. Petals 5. Ovary 4-10-celled. Styles or style-branches 2-10. Shrubs or trees. Leaves stipulate. =103. Rosaceae.=
Stamens 2-5. 510
510. Flowers 2-merous. Herbs. Leaves opposite, exstipulate. Circaea, =182. Oenotheraceae=.
Flowers 4-5-merous. 511
511. Stamens, at least apparently (by coalescence), fewer than the petals, 3. Sepals 5. Petals 5. Ovary-cells and stigmas 3. Flowers unisexual. Tendril-bearing herbs. Leaves alternate. Cayaponia, =223. Cucurbitaceae=.
Stamens as many as the petals, 4-5. Shrubs or trees, rarely undershrubs. 512
512. Stamens alternating with the petals. Calyx with imbricate or open aestivation. =129. Celastraceae.=
Stamens opposite the petals. Calyx with valvate aestivation. =137. Rhamnaceae.=
513. (508.) Ovary 2-celled. 514
Ovary 3-15-celled. 522
514. Style 1, with a single stigma. Flowers 4-merous. 515
Style 1, with 2-3 stigmas, or styles 2. 517
515. Stamens numerous. Flowers hermaphrodite, in cymes. Fruit a berry. Seeds exalbuminous. Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite. Pimenta, =180. Myrtaceae=.
Stamens 4. 516
516. Flowers unisexual, in cymes. Fruit a drupe. Seeds albuminous. Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite. Cornus, =187. Cornaceae=.
Flowers hermaphrodite, solitary. Fruit a nut. Seeds exalbuminous. Herbs. Leaves radical. Trapa, =182. Oenotheraceae=.
517. Stamens numerous. Petals 5. Stigmas 3. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves alternate. Kissenia, =164. Loasaceae=.
Stamens as many as the petals. Stigmas 2. Seeds albuminous. 518
518. Fruit a capsule, rarely a nut, and then ovary half-inferior. Trees, shrubs, or undershrubs. Leaves simple, undivided. Flowers in heads or head-like spikes, rarely in racemes or panicles. 519
Fruit a schizocarp (splitting into 2 nutlets), a nut, or a drupe. Ovary inferior, rarely half-inferior, but then leaves compound or divided. Flowers in umbels, more rarely in heads, whorls, spikes, racemes, or panicles. 520
519. Leaves stipulate. Flowers usually 4-merous. Styles 2, free. Fruit a capsule. Albumen scanty. =101. Hamamelidaceae.=
Leaves exstipulate, rarely stipulate, but then style 1. Flowers 5-merous. Petals clawed, imbricate in bud. Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. Albumen abundant. =100. Bruniaceae.=
520. Fruit a schizocarp splitting into two nutlets, rarely a nut, and then, as usually, stem herbaceous or woody at the base only. Flowers 5-merous. Epigynous disc usually 2-parted. Styles free. =186. Umbelliferae.=
Fruit a drupe or a nut. Stem woody throughout. Epigynous disc usually entire. 521
521. Leaves compound or more or less deeply divided. Flowers in umbels, spikes, or racemes. Ovules with ventral raphe. =185. Araliaceae.=
Leaves simple, undivided, exstipulate. Flowers in racemes or panicles. Ovules with dorsal raphe. Fruit a drupe. =187. Cornaceae.=
522. (513.) Stem herbaceous. Fruit dry. 523
Stem woody. Fruit more or less succulent. 524
523. Flowers 4-merous. Stamens 2-8. Fruit indehiscent or splitting into 2-4 nutlets. Seeds albuminous. Leaves exstipulate. Water-plants. Myriophyllum, =183. Halorrhagaceae=.
Flowers 5-merous. Stamens 10. Fruit capsular. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves stipulate. Land-plants. =103. Rosaceae.=
524. Leaves compound or more or less deeply divided, rarely the upper ones undivided, and then ovary-cells and styles 5. Flowers in umbels or heads, rarely in spikes or racemes. Stamens as many as petals, 4-16, rarely twice their number, 10. =185. Araliaceae.=
Leaves undivided, exstipulate. Flowers in spikes, racemes, panicles, or fascicles. Ovary 3-4-celled. Styles 1-4. 525
525. Stamens as many as and opposite the petals, 4-5. Style simple. Flowers in racemes or fascicles. =59. Olacaceae.=
Stamens as many as and alternate with the petals or twice as many. 526
526. Stamens as many as the petals, 4-10. Seeds albuminous. =187. Cornaceae.=
Stamens twice as many as the petals, 6-8, but the alternate ones sometimes without anthers. Sepals and petals valvate in bud. Styles 3-4. Flowers polygamous. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves alternate. =177. Rhizophoraceae.=
527. (507.) Ovules 2-4 in each ovary-cell. 528
Ovules more than 4 in each ovary-cell. 537
528. Stamens as many as the petals or fewer. 529
Stamens twice as many as the petals or more. 533
529. Stamens, at least apparently (by coalescence), fewer than the petals, 2-4. Flowers 5-merous, unisexual. Ovary inferior. Usually herbaceous and tendril-bearing plants. Leaves alternate. =223. Cucurbitaceae.=
Stamens as many as the petals, 4-5, free or nearly so. Trees or shrubs, rarely undershrubs. 530
530. Stamens opposite the petals. Petals valvate in bud. Ovary inferior. Style simple; stigma entire. Leaves opposite, exstipulate. Olinia, =170. Oliniaceae=.
Stamens alternating with the petals. Ovary usually half-inferior. Leaves opposite, but stipulate, or alternate. 531
531. Leaves exstipulate, alternate. Flowers hermaphrodite, 5-merous. Ovules pendulous. Seeds with a minute embryo and abundant albumen. =100. Bruniaceae.=
Leaves stipulate. 532
532. Calyx large. Petals 5, usually two-cleft. Stigmas 2-3. Ovules pendulous. Fruit indehiscent. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves alternate. Dichapetalum, =121. Dichapetalaceae=.
Calyx small. Petals imbricate in bud. Style simple or wanting. Ovules erect, rarely pendulous, but then leaves, at least those of the flowering branches, opposite. =129. Celastraceae.=
533. Stamens twice as many as the petals. Petals with valvate aestivation. Style 1. Seeds albuminous. Leaves opposite or whorled, stipulate. =177. Rhizophoraceae.=
Stamens more than twice as many as the petals. Petals with imbricate or contorted aestivation. Seeds exalbuminous. 534
534. Style 1, with a single stigma. Ovules in the whole ovary 4 or more. Leaves exstipulate. 535
Style 1, with 2-5 stigmas, or styles 2-5. Sepals 5. Leaves alternate. 536
535. Leaves opposite, gland-dotted. Sepals 4-5. Filaments free or united into several bundles. =180. Myrtaceae.=
Leaves alternate, rarely dotted. Sepals 2-4. Filaments united into a cup at the base. Fruit indehiscent. =176. Lecythidaceae.=
536. Stipules absent. Calyx with open aestivation. Filaments collected in 5 bundles. Ovules in the whole ovary 3, pendulous. Style entire or cleft at the top. Fruit a nut. Kissenia, =164. Loasaceae=.
Stipules present. Calyx with imbricate aestivation. Ovules ascending. Style more or less deeply divided. Fruit a berry or a drupe. =103. Rosaceae.=
537. (527.) Style 1, undivided, with a single stigma or with 2 or more stigmas contiguous at their base. 538
Styles 2-20, free or united below, the stigmas not contiguous at the base. 546
538. Stamens as many or twice as many as the petals or fewer, 2-16. 539
Stamens more than twice as many as the petals, or stamens and petals very numerous. 543
539. Stamens fewer than the petals, at least apparently (by coalescence), rarely as many as the petals, but then, as usually, herbs with tendrils. Leaves alternate. Flowers unisexual, rarely polygamous, 5-merous. Fruit usually succulent and indehiscent. Seeds exalbuminous. =223. Cucurbitaceae.=
Stamens as many or twice as many as the petals. Herbs without tendrils, or woody plants. 540
540. Sepals valvate in bud. Stamens twice as many, rarely as many as the petals; in the latter case leaves with small stipules. Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. Seeds exalbuminous. =182. Oenotheraceae.=
Sepals imbricate or open in bud, rarely valvate, but then either stamens as many as the petals, leaves without stipules, and seeds albuminous, or anthers opening by apical pores. 541
541. Leaves opposite or whorled, undivided, exstipulate, usually with several longitudinal nerves. Filaments bent down in bud. Anthers usually opening by apical pores. Stigma 1. Seeds exalbuminous. =181. Melastomataceae.=
Leaves alternate. Stamens as many as the petals. Fruit capsular. Seeds albuminous. 542
542. Stem herbaceous or woody at the base. Leaves exstipulate. Flowers or inflorescences in the axils of the leaves or terminal. Ovules numerous in each ovary-cell. =224. Campanulaceae.=
Stem woody throughout. Flowers or inflorescences in the axils or on the surface of the leaves. Ovules 6-8 in each ovary-cell. Seeds with an aril. =129. Celastraceae.=
543. Petals numerous. Stigmas 4-20. Seeds albuminous. Herbs or undershrubs. Mesembryanthemum, =72. Aizoaceae=.
Petals 4-8. Stigma 1, entire or lobed. Seeds exalbuminous. Shrubs or trees. Leaves undivided, exstipulate. 544
544. Sepals 5-8, red, with valvate aestivation. Petals crumpled in the bud. Ovules at first basal, finally parietal. Leaves not dotted. Punica, =175. Punicaceae=.
Sepals 2-4, rarely more, but then with imbricate, open, or closed aestivation. Ovules axile. 545
545. Leaves alternate, rarely dotted. Sepals 2-4. Filaments united into a cup at the base. =176. Lecythidaceae.=
Leaves opposite, gland-dotted. =180. Myrtaceae.=
546. (537.) Stamens 2-10. 547
Stamens numerous. 548
547. Stamens fewer than the petals, at least apparently (by coalescence), more rarely as many as the petals, but then, as usually, tendril-bearing herbs. Styles usually 3. Flowers 5-merous, unisexual or polygamous. Fruit more or less berry-like. Seeds exalbuminous. =223. Cucurbitaceae.=
Stamens as many as the petals, 4-5, and then styles 2 and stem woody, or twice as many. Fruit capsular. Seeds albuminous, rarely exalbuminous, but then flowers 4-merous. =96. Saxifragaceae.=
548. Petals 3-5. Seeds exalbuminous. 549
Petals numerous. Seeds albuminous. Herbs or undershrubs. 550
549. Flowers unisexual. Sepals and petals not distinctly differentiated, together 8-9. Ovules many in each ovary-cell. Begonia, =165. Begoniaceae=.
Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals and petals distinctly differentiated, together 10. Ovules few in each ovary-cell. Shrubs. Cydonia, =103. Rosaceae=.
550. Sepals nearly hypogynous, 4. Ovules inserted upon the dissepiments. Fruit bursting irregularly. Embryo straight. Leaves radical, floating, peltate or cordate. Flowers solitary. Nymphaea, =76. Nymphaeaceae=.
Sepals epigynous, usually 5. Ovules basal or parietal. Fruit opening loculicidally. Embryo curved. Leaves not floating. Flowers in cymes or panicles. Mesembryanthemum, =72. Aizoaceae=.
551. (52.) Ovary superior or nearly so. 552
Ovary inferior to half-inferior. 728
552. Ovary 1, entire or lobed. 553
Ovaries 2 or more, separate or cohering at the base only. 719
553. Ovary 1-celled, sometimes incompletely chambered. 554
Ovary completely or almost completely 2-or more-celled, at least at the time of flowering (sometimes incompletely septate in the bud). 604
554. Ovule 1. 555
Ovules 2 or more. 570
555. Ovule erect or ascending. 556
Ovule pendulous or descending. Style simple. 564
556. Style 1, entire or cleft at the top into 2 or more stigmas (or branches stigmatose on the inside). 557
Styles 3-5, free or united at the base. Stamens 5, opposite the petals. 563
557. Stamens free from the corolla or inserted on its base. 558
Stamens inserted on the upper part or near the middle of the corolla. 561
558. Corolla (or corolla-like perianth) with valvate or folded aestivation. Leaves exstipulate. =69. Nyctaginaceae.=
Corolla with imbricate or open aestivation; in the latter case leaves stipulate. Stamens as many as the divisions of the corolla. 559
559. Flowers 5-merous. Stigmas 3. Herbs. Leaves opposite, stipulate. Cometes, =75. Caryophyllaceae=.
Flowers 4-merous. Stigma 1. 560
560. Flowers unisexual, solitary or in fascicles. Seeds albuminous. Herbs. Leaves all radical, exstipulate. Litorella, =218. Plantaginaceae=.
Flowers hermaphrodite, in racemes or panicles. Seeds exalbuminous. Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, stipulate. Salvadora, =131. Salvadoraceae=.
561. Stamens fewer than the divisions of the corolla, 4. Leaves whorled. Shrubs. =205. Verbenaceae.=
Stamens as many as the divisions of the corolla. 562
562. Stamens alternating with the divisions of the corolla (or the petaloid staminodes). Seeds albuminous. =68. Amarantaceae.=
Stamens opposite the divisions of the corolla (or petaloid perianth), 4. Stigma 1. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves alternate. Shrubs or trees. =55. Proteaceae.=
563. (556.) Sepals 2. Anthers turned outwards. Styles 3. Seeds with curved embryo. =74. Basellaceae.=
Sepals 5. Anthers turned inwards. Styles 5. Seeds with straight embryo. =192. Plumbaginaceae.=
564. Petals in the male flowers 2-4, united below, in the female 1-2, free. Sepals in the male flowers 4, in the female 1-2. Stamens 4-10, with united filaments. =80. Menispermaceae.=
Petals united below in the flowers of both sexes, or flowers hermaphrodite. 565
565. Stamens fewer than the divisions of the calyx or corolla, 4. Anthers opening by a transverse slit. Flowers 5-merous, irregular. Seeds albuminous. 566
Stamens as many as or more than the divisions of the corolla, rarely (Ericaceae) fewer, but then only 3. 567
566. Ovary 1-celled from the beginning. Stigma 2-lobed, rarely entire, and then corolla-lobes very unequal. =215. Globulariaceae.=
Ovary originally 2-celled, one cell becoming rudimentary. Stigma entire. Corolla-lobes almost equal. Microdon, =208. Scrophulariaceae=.
567. Stamens as many as and opposite the divisions of the corolla (or corolla-like perianth), 4, inserted on the upper part or near the middle of the corolla. Corolla valvate in bud. Seeds exalbuminous. =55. Proteaceae.=
Stamens as many as and alternate with the divisions of the corolla, or fewer or more numerous, inserted on the base of the corolla or free from it. 568
568. Stamens 10, perigynous. Anthers opening by two longitudinal slits. Flowers regular. =171. Thymelaeaceae.=
Stamens 3-8, hypogynous. 569
569. Flowers regular. Sepals 3-4. Corolla-lobes 3-4. Anthers opening by two pores or slits. Seeds albuminous. =189. Ericaceae.=
Flowers irregular. Sepals 5. Corolla-lobes 3 or 5. Stamens 8. Anthers opening by a single pore or slit. Seeds exalbuminous. Securidaca, =120. Polygalaceae=.
570. (554.) Ovules 2. 571
Ovules 3 or more. 578
571. Stamens 4, fewer than the divisions of the corolla. Flowers irregular. Leaves opposite. 572
Stamens 3 or more, as many as or more than the divisions of the corolla. 573
572. Anthers opening by pores. Fruit a drupe. Seeds exalbuminous. Climbing shrubs. Flowers in clusters. Afromendoncia, =216. Acanthaceae=.
Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. Stigmas 2. Fruit a capsule or nut. Seeds albuminous. Prostrate herbs. Flowers solitary. Linariopsis, =210. Pedaliaceae=.
573. Stamens as many as the divisions of the corolla, 4-5. Leaves simple, entire toothed or lobed. Flowers regular. 574
Stamens more than the divisions of the corolla, rarely the same number, but then, as usually, leaves compound. 576
574. Stamens opposite to the divisions of the corolla. Calyx with valvate, corolla with contorted aestivation. Ovules ascending. Leaves stipulate. Waltheria, =144. Sterculiaceae=.
Stamens alternating with the divisions of the corolla. Leaves exstipulate. 575
575. Ovules erect. Style 2-parted, rarely simple, and then herbs. Calyx with imbricate, corolla with valvate or folded aestivation. =202. Convolvulaceae.=
Ovules pendulous. Style simple or wanting. Shrubs or trees. =132. Icacinaceae.=
576. Stamens more than the divisions of the corolla, but fewer than twice as many, 4-7, usually 6. Anthers opening by pores. Corolla 4-lobed. Leaves whorled, undivided, linear. Salaxis, =189. Ericaceae=.
Stamens as many or twice as many as the divisions of the corolla, or more. Leaves alternate. 577
577. Corolla regular, 5-partite, with imbricate aestivation. Stamens 10, five of them sometimes sterile. Ovules erect, straight. Shrubs or trees. Leaves compound, exstipulate. Flowers in panicles or racemes. Connarus, =104. Connaraceae=.
Corolla regular, with valvate aestivation, or irregular. Ovules inverted. Leaves usually stipulate. =105. Leguminosae.=
578. (570.) Ovules basal or inserted upon a free central placenta. 579
Ovules parietal. 587
579. Ovules 3, pendulous. Style simple. Fertile stamens as many as and opposite the corolla-lobes, 5-6, or fewer, 3. Flowers regular. Fruit a drupe. Trees, shrubs, or undershrubs. Leaves alternate. Olax, =59. Olacaceae=.
Ovules 3, ascending, or more. 580
580. Style 3-cleft. Stamens more than corolla-lobes, 8-30, rarely fewer, 3. Sepals 2. Corolla-lobes 5. Herbs or undershrubs. =73. Portulacaceae.=
Style simple or 2-cleft, rarely (Caryophyllaceae) 3-cleft, but then sepals, corolla-lobes and stamens 5 each. 581
581. Stamens as many as and opposite the divisions of the corolla, 3-7. Style simple. 582
Stamens as many as and alternate with the divisions of the corolla, or fewer or more numerous. 583
582. Fruit a capsule. Herbs or undershrubs. =191. Primulaceae.=
Fruit a nut, berry, or drupe. Shrubs or trees, very rarely herbs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate, gland-dotted. =190. Myrsinaceae.=
583. Stamens 5. Flowers regular. 584
Stamens 2, 4, or 8. 585
584. Leaves opposite, stipulate. Corolla deeply divided, with imbricate aestivation. Styles 1 or 3. Herbs or undershrubs. =75. Caryophyllaceae.=
Leaves alternate, exstipulate. Styles 1-2. =202. Convolvulaceae.=
585. Stamens 4, free from the corolla, or 8. Flowers regular, 4-merous. Stigma 1. Seeds albuminous. Low shrubs. Leaves whorled, narrow. =189. Ericaceae.=
Stamens 4, inserted on the corolla-tube, or 2. 586
586. Anthers opening by a transverse slit. Stamens 2. Style wanting. Sepals 2 or 5. Corolla distinctly 2-lipped. Leaves alternate or all radical. Herbs. =214. Lentibulariaceae.=
Anthers opening by two longitudinal slits. Style present. Ovules 4. Leaves opposite or whorled. =205. Verbenaceae.=
587. (578.) Ovules attached to a single placenta. Style simple. Stamens as many as or more than the divisions of the corolla. Leaves alternate, compound or reduced to the dilated petiole. =105. Leguminosae.=
Ovules attached to two or more placentas. 588.
588. Style simple or 2-cleft. 589
Style 3-10-cleft. Flowers unisexual or polygamous. 603
589. Fertile stamens fewer than the divisions of the corolla, 1-4. 590
Fertile stamens as many as or more than the divisions of the corolla. 595
590. Fertile stamen 1, staminodes 3. Corolla-lobes 4. Stigma 2-cleft. Herbs. Leaves opposite, undivided. =199. Gentianaceae.=
Fertile stamens 2 or 4. 591
591. Fertile stamens 2. Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves undivided. Flowers irregular. 592
Fertile stamens 4. 594
592. Seeds 4, with thin albumen. Fruit a capsule with a drupaceous rind Ovules 4-16. Stigma 2-parted. Staminodes 3. Martynia, =211. Martyniaceae=.
Seeds numerous, without albumen. Ovules numerous. 593
593. Disc wanting. Ovary and fruit ovate. Placentas little projecting. Staminodes none. Small water-plants. Leaves opposite. Dintera, =208. Scrophulariaceae=.
Disc rarely wanting, and then ovary and fruit linear or oblong and placentas much projecting. =213. Gesneraceae.=
594. Placentas 2. Fruit a berry or nut. Seeds exalbuminous. Shrubs or trees. Leaves compound. =209. Bignoniaceae.=
Placentas 4. Fruit a capsule. Seeds albuminous. Herbs without green colour. Leaves scale-like. Flowers irregular. =212. Orobanchaceae.=
595. (589.) Stamens as many as the divisions of the corolla, 3-8. 596
Stamens more numerous than the divisions of the corolla, 7 or more. Shrubs or trees. 600
596. Style stigmatose beneath the thickened, often 2-lobed apex. Placentas 2. Corolla with contorted aestivation. Flowers regular or nearly so, 5-, rarely 4-merous. Juice milky. =200. Apocynaceae.=
Style stigmatose at the apex or between the apical lobes. Juice not milky. 597
597. Leaves and stem without green colour; stem herbaceous, leaves scale-like. Flowers irregular. Stamens 4. Placentas 4. =212. Orobanchaceae.=
Leaves green, rarely (Gentianaceae) without green colour, but then flowers regular, stamens 5 and placentas 2. 598
598. Leaves alternate, without stipules. Stem woody. Bark resinous. Flowers regular, 5-merous. Stigma 1. Pittosporum, =97. Pittosporaceae=.
Leaves opposite or whorled, rarely alternate or all radical, but then stem herbaceous. 599
599. Stem woody. Leaves opposite or whorled, usually stipulate. Flowers 4-merous. =198. Loganiaceae.=
Stem herbaceous or woody at the base only, rarely throughout, but then flowers 5-merous. Leaves exstipulate. =199. Gentianaceae.=
600. Stamens 7-18, with united filaments. Placentas 3-5. 601
Stamens 23 or more, with free filaments. Leaves undivided. 602
601. Sepals 3. Corolla-lobes 4-6. Stamens 7-9 or 14-18. Anthers opening outwards. Cinnamosma, =157. Winteranaceae=.
Sepals 4-5. Corolla-lobes 4-5. Stamens 8-10. Anthers opening inwards or laterally. =118. Meliaceae.=
602. Corolla-lobes 6. Sepals 3. Filaments and styles very short. Placentas numerous, confluent. Albumen abundant, ruminate. =81. Anonaceae.=
Corolla-lobes 11-14. Sepals 2-4. Filaments and styles long. Placentas 2, two-cleft. Albumen scanty, uniform. Hoplestigma, =194. Hoplestigmataceae=.
603. (588.) Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes, 3-5. Fruit a capsule. Herbs or undershrubs. =162. Achariaceae.=
Stamens twice as many as the corolla-lobes, 10. Fruit a berry. Trees. Carica, =163. Caricaceae=.
604. (553.) Ovary 2-celled. 605
Ovary 3-or more-celled. 669
605. Ovules solitary in each ovary-cell. 606
Ovules 2 or more in each ovary-cell. 621
606. Ovules erect or ascending. 607
Ovules pendulous, descending, or horizontal. 611
607. Fertile stamens 2 or 4. 608
Fertile stamens 5 or 6. 609
608. Seeds borne on a hook-like outgrowth of the funicle, exalbuminous. Fruit capsular. =216. Acanthaceae.=
Seeds not on a hook-like outgrowth of the funicle. =205. Verbenaceae.=
609. Stamens opposite the divisions of the corolla. Anthers opening outwards. Stigma 1. Trees or shrubs. =193. Sapotaceae.=
Stamens alternate with the divisions of the corolla. Anthers opening inward. 610
610. Stigma 1. Corolla with imbricate or contorted aestivation. Seeds exalbuminous. Herbs. Leaves alternate, exstipulate. Rochelia, =204. Borraginaceae=.
Stigmas 2. Corolla with valvate aestivation. Seeds albuminous. Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or whorled, stipulate. Gaertnera, =219. Rubiaceae=.
611. (606.) Fertile stamens 2 or 4. 612
Fertile stamens 5 or more. 618
612. Stamens 4, free from the corolla. Corolla regular or nearly so, 2-4-lobed. Seeds with abundant albumen. =189. Ericaceae.=
Stamens inserted on the corolla. 613
613. Corolla scarious, regular, 4-lobed. Stamens 4. Stigma 1. Fruit opening by a lid. Seeds albuminous. Plantago, =218. Plantaginaceae=.
Corolla not scarious, more or less irregular, rarely regular, but then stamens 2 or stigmas 2. 614
614. Corolla regular. Stamens 2, alternating with the ovary-cells. Disc wanting. Seeds with scanty albumen. Shrubs. Leaves compound, but sometimes with a single leaflet. Jasminum, =197. Oleaceae=.
Corolla more or less irregular, rarely regular, but then stamens 4. Leaves simple. 615
615. Flowers regular. Stamens 4. Anthers opening by two slits. Style 2-cleft. Fruit capsular. Seeds exalbuminous. Low shrubs. Leaves alternate. Wellstedia, =204. Borraginaceae=.
Flowers more or less irregular. Leaves opposite or whorled, rarely alternate, but then anthers opening by a single slit or pore. 616
616. Leaves alternate, at least the upper ones. Anthers opening by a single slit or pore. Seeds albuminous. =208. Scrophulariaceae.=
Leaves opposite or whorled. 617
617. Fruit a capsule. Seeds borne on a hook-like process of the funicle, exalbuminous. =216. Acanthaceae.=
Fruit a drupe or a nut. Seeds not on a hook-like process of the funicle, albuminous. Stamens 4. Anthers opening by two slits. Herbs. =205. Verbenaceae.=
618. (611.) Flowers distinctly irregular. Stamens united at the base with one another and with the corolla. Anthers opening by a single pore. =120. Polygalaceae.=
Flowers regular or nearly so. Anthers opening by two slits or pores. 619
619. Flowers unisexual. Stamens free from the corolla. =122. Euphorbiaceae.=
Flowers hermaphrodite. Leaves undivided. 620
620. Calyx and corolla of 2-4 divisions each. Stamens 6-8, free from the corolla or nearly so. =189. Ericaceae.=
Calyx and corolla of 5 divisions each. Stamens 5, attached to the corolla; filaments free. Stigmas 2. =200. Apocynaceae.=
621. (605.) Ovules 2 in each cell of the ovary. 622
Ovules 3 or more in each cell of the ovary. 640
622. Fertile stamens 2-3. 623
Fertile stamens 4-30. 626
623. Flowers regular. Stamens 2, alternating with the ovary-cells, rarely 3. Disc wanting. =197. Oleaceae.=
Flowers more or less irregular. Stamens not regularly alternating with the ovary-cells. 624
624. Leaves stipulate, alternate. Style 2-cleft. Petals 2-cleft. Seeds exalbuminous. Trees or shrubs. Tapura, =121. Dichapetalaceae=.
Leaves exstipulate, opposite or whorled, rarely alternate, but then, as nearly always, style simple. 625
625. Seeds borne on a hook-like outgrowth of the funicle, exalbuminous. =216. Acanthaceae.=
Seeds not on a hook-like outgrowth of the funicle, albuminous. =208. Scrophulariaceae.=
626. (622.) Fertile stamens 4. 627
Fertile stamens 5-30. 634
627. Corolla with 4 divisions. 628
Corolla with 5 divisions. 632
628. Flowers more or less irregular. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves opposite or whorled, without stipules. =216. Acanthaceae.=
Flowers regular. Seeds albuminous. 629
629. Corolla scarious, regular. Stigma entire. Fruit opening by a lid. Leaves sessile. Plantago, =218. Plantaginaceae=.
Corolla not scarious. 630
630. Leaves alternate. Styles or stigmas 2. Ovules erect =202. Convolvulaceae.=
Leaves opposite or whorled. Shrubs or trees. 631
631. Leaves provided with stipules or connected at their base by transverse lines or ridges. =198. Loganiaceae.=
Leaves without either stipules or transverse lines or ridges at their base. =197. Oleaceae.=
632. Leaves alternate, at least the upper ones. Flowers regular or nearly so. Corolla white. Stigma entire or 4-lobed. Fruit a drupe. Seeds albuminous. =217. Myoporaceae.=
Leaves opposite or whorled, rarely the upper ones alternate, but then flowers irregular, stigma 2-partite and fruit a capsule or nut. 633
633. Seeds with scanty albumen. Plants with glandular hairs. =210. Pedaliaceae.=
Seeds without albumen. =216. Acanthaceae.=
634. (626.) Stamens 5. 635
Stamens 8-30. 639
635. Style (or styles) stigmatose beneath the thickened and sometimes 2-lobed apex. Corolla with contorted aestivation. =200. Apocynaceae.=
Style (or styles) stigmatose at the apex or between the apical lobes. 636
636. Leaves opposite or whorled, stipulate or connected by transverse lines or ridges. Shrubs or trees. =198. Loganiaceae.=
Leaves alternate. 637
637. Ovules erect. Corolla lobed or nearly entire, usually folded in bud. =202. Convolvulaceae.=
Ovules pendulous. Styles or stigmas 2. Corolla lobed, but imbricate in bud, or deeply divided. Shrubs or trees. 638
638. Leaves stipulate. Flowers in axillary cymes or panicles. Fruit a drupe. Dichapetalum, =121. Dichapetalaceae=.
Leaves exstipulate. Flowers in terminal spikes or heads. Fruit a capsule. Lonchostoma, =100. Bruniaceae=.
639. Stamens 8. Style 1. Flowers hermaphrodite. Salaxis, =189. Ericaceae=.
Stamens 10-30. Styles 2. Flowers unisexual or polygamous. Euclea, =195. Ebenaceae=.
640. (621.) Fertile stamens 1-4. 641
Fertile stamens 5-16. 658
641. Flowers more or less irregular. 642
Flowers regular. 652
642. Leaves opposite or whorled. 643
Leaves alternate, at least the upper ones. 648
643. Leaves provided with stipules or connected at their base by transverse lines or ridges. Shrubs or trees. =198. Loganiaceae.=
Leaves rarely with stipules or transverse lines or ridges at their base, and then herbs or undershrubs. 644
644. Seeds with distinctly developed albumen. 645
Seeds with very scanty albumen or without any. 646
645. Seeds with funicles provided with a wart-like outgrowth. Placentas remaining attached to the beaked and recurved valves of the capsule. Disc not distinctly developed. Calyx deeply divided. Corolla-lobes 5, with descending aestivation. Anther-halves not confluent. Stigma lobed. Flowers in spikes. =216. Acanthaceae.=
Seeds without an outgrowth from the funicle or without a funicle. Placentas usually separating from the valves of the capsule. Disc more or less distinctly developed. =208. Scrophulariaceae.=
646. Seeds with scanty albumen. Plants with glandular hairs. Stamens 4. =210. Pedaliaceae.=
Seeds without albumen. 647
647. Seeds borne on a large hook-like outgrowth of the funicle, rarely on a small cushion-shaped one, and then herbs. Fruit a capsule, the valves bearing the split dissepiment. Ovules usually few. Leaves simple. =216. Acanthaceae.=
Seeds not on a hook-like outgrowth of the funicle, more or less distinctly winged or marginate. Fruit a capsule, the valves usually separating from the more or less dilated dissepiment, or a nut or berry. Ovules numerous. Stamens 4. Leaves usually compound. Shrubs or trees. =209. Bignoniaceae.=
648 (642.) Corolla with valvate or folded aestivation. Partition of the ovary usually placed obliquely to the median plane of the flower. =207. Solanaceae.=
Corolla with imbricate, not folded aestivation. Partition of the ovary usually placed transversely to the median plane of the flower. 649
640. Fruit a drupe. Ovules in each ovary-cell 4-6, in pairs placed one above the other. Stigma 1. Stamens 4. Anther-halves confluent at the apex. Shrubs. Oftia, =217. Myoporaceae=.
Fruit a capsule, nut, or berry. Ovules usually numerous. 650
650. Seeds exalbuminous, usually horizontal and winged. Ovules numerous. Stigmas 2. Stamens 4. Shrubs or trees. Leaves usually compound. =209. Bignoniaceae.=
Seeds albuminous. Leaves simple, but sometimes dissected. 651
651. Albumen very thin, nearly membranous. Stigmas or stigma-lobes 2. Stamens 4. Plants with glandular hairs. Lower leaves opposite. =210. Pedaliaceae.=
Albumen distinctly developed. =208. Scrophulariaceae.=
652. (641.) Corolla with contorted aestivation. Stamens 4. 653
Corolla with valvate or imbricate, not contorted aestivation. 654
653. Style stigmatose below the apex. Mostly shrubs or trees. =200. Apocynaceae.=
Style stigmatose at the apex or between the apical lobes. Fruit a septicidal capsule. Herbs or undershrubs. =199. Gentianaceae.=
654. Corolla scarious. Stamens 4. Disc wanting. Stigma 1. Fruit dehiscing by a lid. Flowers in spikes or heads. Plantago, =218. Plantaginaceae=.
Corolla not scarious. Fruit dehiscing lengthwise or indehiscent. 655
655. Anthers with confluent halves, opening by a transverse slit. Disc more or less distinctly developed. =208. Scrophulariaceae.=
Anthers with distinct halves, opening by two longitudinal slits or apical pores. 656
656. Leaves alternate, simple, but sometimes dissected. Corolla usually folded in bud. Partition of the ovary usually placed obliquely to the median plane of the flower. Ovules generally numerous. =207. Solanaceae.=
Leaves opposite or whorled, rarely alternate, but then compound. Corolla not folded. Trees, shrubs, or undershrubs. 657
657. Leaves provided with stipules or connected at their base by transverse lines or ridges, simple, opposite or whorled. Ovules usually numerous. =198. Loganiaceae.=
Leaves without either stipules or transverse lines or ridges at their base. Ovules 3-4 in each ovary-cell. Disc none. =197. Oleaceae.=
658. (640.) Leaves opposite or whorled. 659
Leaves alternate. 662
659. Leaves provided with stipules or connected at their base by transverse lines or ridges. Shrubs or trees. =198. Loganiaceae.=
Leaves without stipules, but sometimes connected by transverse lines; in this case herbs or undershrubs. Stamens 5. 660
660. Corolla with imbricate, not contorted aestivation. Style stigmatose at the entire apex. Fruit a berry. Shrubs growing upon trees. Dermatobotrys, =208. Scrophulariaceae=.
Corolla with contorted aestivation. 661
661. Style stigmatose at the apex or between the apical lobes. Fruit a septicidal capsule. Herbs or undershrubs. =199. Gentianaceae.=
Style stigmatose below the apex. Mostly shrubs or trees. =200. Apocynaceae.=
662. Corolla with valvate or folded aestivation. 663
Corolla with imbricate or contorted aestivation. 665
663. Stamens free from the corolla. Herbs. Lightfootia, =224. Campanulaceae=.
Stamens attached to the corolla. 664
664. Corolla almost entire, somewhat irregular. Trees. Humbertia, =202. Convolvulaceae=.
Corolla lobed, rarely almost entire, but then herbs or undershrubs. =207. Solanaceae.=
665. Corolla with contorted aestivation. Style stigmatose beneath the thickened and sometimes 2-lobed apex. =200. Apocynaceae.=
Corolla with imbricate, not contorted aestivation. Style (or styles) stigmatose at the apex or between the apical lobes. 666
666. Styles 2, free or united at the base. Disc wanting. Corolla regular Seeds albuminous; embryo straight. Herbs or undershrubs. =203. Hydrophyllaceae.=
Style 1, undivided. 667
667. Seeds winged, exalbuminous. Fruit a loculicidal capsule. Stigmas 2. Corolla slightly irregular. Shrubs. =209. Bignoniaceae.=
Seeds not winged, albuminous. 668
668. Seeds with straight embryo. Fruit a capsule opening lengthwise. Stigma 1. Corolla slightly irregular; tube short. =208. Scrophulariaceae.=
Seeds with curved embryo. Fruit a capsule opening by a lid, or a berry. Anthers opening by two longitudinal slits. =207. Solanaceae.=
669. (604.) Ovule 1 in each ovary-cell 670
Ovules 2 or more in each ovary-cell. 685
670. Stamens as many as and alternate with the divisions of the corolla, or fewer. 671
Stamens as many as and opposite the divisions of the corolla, or more. 679
671. Flowers unisexual, regular. Corolla divided almost to the base. Disc wanting. Fruit a drupe. Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate. Ilex, =128. Aquifoliaceae=.
Flowers hermaphrodite, rarely polygamous. 672
672. Anthers opening by an apical pore. Stamens 5. Ovary 3-celled. Flowers irregular. =120. Polygalaceae.=
Anthers opening by two longitudinal slits sometimes confluent at the apex; in the latter case ovary 4-celled. 673
673. Stamens free from the corolla or scarcely adhering to it, 4. Flowers regular. =189. Ericaceae.=
Stamens evidently attached to the corolla-tube. 674
674. Corolla scarious, 4-lobed, regular. Stamens 4. Disc wanting. Stigma 1. Ovules pendulous or laterally affixed. Fruit opening by a lid. Plantago, =218. Plantaginaceae=.
Corolla not scarious. 675
675. Corolla with valvate or folded aestivation, regular. Stamens 5. Leaves alternate. =202. Convolvulaceae.=
Corolla with imbricate or contorted aestivation. 676
676. Stamens as many as the divisions of the corolla. Ovules with the micropyle directed upwards. Leaves, all or the upper ones, alternate, undivided. Inflorescences cymose, usually one-sided and coiled when young. =204. Borraginaceae.=
Stamens fewer than the divisions of the corolla, rarely the same number, but then ovules with the micropyle directed downwards and leaves opposite or whorled. 677
677. Leaves alternate, at least the upper ones, undivided. Corolla regular, 5-lobed. Stamens 4. Anther-halves confluent at the apex. Ovules pendulous, the micropyle directed upwards. Fruit a drupe. Shrubs. Myoporum, =217. Myoporaceae=.
Leaves opposite or whorled, rarely alternate, but then corolla 2-lipped. Ovules with the micropyle directed downwards. 678
678. Ovary deeply divided, more rarely slightly lobed, and then, as usually, fruit dry. Inflorescence composed of sometimes one-flowered cymes arranged in false whorls. =206. Labiatae.=
Ovary entire, rarely slightly lobed, and then fruit succulent, drupaceous. Inflorescence usually of the racemose type. =205. Verbenaceae.=
679. (670.) Anthers 1-celled, opening by a single slit. Stamens numerous. Calyx with valvate, corolla with contorted aestivation. Leaves simple, stipulate. =142. Malvaceae.=
Anthers 2-celled. 680
680. Style 1, undivided. 681
Styles 2 or more, free or partially united. 683
681. Stamens more than the divisions of the corolla, 4-8. Fruit a capsule or nut. Leaves undivided, exstipulate. =189. Ericaceae.=
Stamens as many as or more than the divisions of the corolla; in the latter case, 12 or more. Fruit a berry. 682
682. Corolla with valvate aestivation. Stamens 5. Leaves pinnate. Leea, =138. Vitaceae=.
Corolla with imbricate aestivation. Leaves undivided. =193. Sapotaceae.=
683. Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals free. Corolla 5-partite. Stamens 10. Ovary lobed, 5-celled. Styles 5, free. Herbs or undershrubs, rarely shrubs. =108. Oxalidaceae.=
Flowers unisexual or polygamous, rarely hermaphrodite, but then sepals united below and ovary-cells twice as many as the styles. 684
684. Leaves exstipulate, undivided. Shrubs or trees. Flowers solitary or in cymes, axillary. Corolla with contorted or valvate aestivation. =195. Ebenaceae.=
Leaves stipulate, rarely exstipulate, but then herbs or undershrubs, and corolla with imbricate, not contorted aestivation. Flowers in racemes or panicles, unisexual. =122. Euphorbiaceae.=
685. (669.) Ovules 2 in each ovary-cell. 686
Ovules 3 or more in each ovary-cell. 701
686. Stamens as many as and alternate with the divisions of the corolla, or fewer. 687
Stamens as many as and opposite the divisions of the corolla, or more. 693
687. Stamens 4. 688
Stamens 5-7, rarely (Dichapetalaceae) 2-3 only fertile. 691
688. Corolla irregular, 5-lobed. Seeds with scanty albumen. Herbs. Leaves opposite, lobed, stipulate. Pretrea, =210. Pedaliaceae=.
Corolla regular, 4-lobed or 4-parted. Seeds with abundant albumen. Leaves opposite and exstipulate, or alternate. 689
689. Flowers unisexual. Corolla deeply divided. Fruit a drupe. Ilex, =128. Aquifoliaceae=.
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Fruit a capsule or nut. 690
690. Stamens free from the corolla or slightly adhering to it at the base. =189. Ericaceae.=
Stamens evidently attached to the corolla-tube. Plantago, =218. Plantaginaceae=.
691. Ovary 4-8-celled. Disc wanting. Corolla deeply divided. Flowers unisexual. Ilex, =128. Aquifoliaceae=.
Ovary 3-celled. Disc present. 692
692. Corolla folded in the bud. Ovules erect. Seeds albuminous. Ipomoea, =202. Convolvulaceae=.
Corolla not folded in the bud. Ovules pendulous. Stigmas 3. Seeds exalbuminous. Shrubs or trees. Leaves stipulate. =121. Dichapetalaceae.=
693. (686.) Stamens as many to twice as many as the divisions of the corolla. 694
Stamens more than twice as many as the divisions of the corolla. 698
694. Leaves stipulate, alternate. Sepals united below, valvate in bud. =144. Sterculiaceae.=
Leaves exstipulate, rarely (Oxalidaceae) stipulate, but then sepals free and imbricate in bud. 695
695. Style 1, undivided. 696
Styles 2-8, free or partially united. 697
696. Stamens 8-10; filaments united; anthers opening by longitudinal slits. =118. Meliaceae.=
Stamens 4-8; filaments free, rarely united, but then anthers opening by apical pores. Leaves undivided. =189. Ericaceae.=
697. Sepals free. Corolla deeply divided. Stamens 10. Filaments united in a cup at the base. Styles 5. Herbs or undershrubs, rarely shrubs. Leaves alternate. Flowers hermaphrodite. =108. Oxalidaceae.=
Sepals united below. Filaments free or united in several bundles. Shrubs or trees. =195. Ebenaceae.=
698. Leaves exstipulate, undivided. Styles 2-8, free or united at the base. Shrubs or trees. =195. Ebenaceae.=
Leaves stipulate, rarely exstipulate, but then style 1, undivided. 699
699. Corolla with valvate aestivation. Style simple. Shrubs or trees. Leaves undivided. =145. Scytopetalaceae.=
Corolla with contorted, calyx with valvate aestivation. 700
700. Anthers 1-celled. =142. Malvaceae.=
Anthers 2-celled. =144. Sterculiaceae.=
701. (685.) Stamens as many as and alternate with the divisions of the corolla, or fewer. 702
Stamens as many as and opposite the divisions of the corolla, or more. 708
702. Stamens fewer than the divisions of the corolla, 4. Flowers irregular. Albumen scanty. 703
Stamens as many as the divisions of the corolla. 704
703. Anthers opening by a transverse slit. Stigma 1. Ovary 3-celled. Leaves whorled. Shrubs. Bowkeria, =208. Scrophulariaceae=.
Anthers opening by two longitudinal slits. Stigmas 2. =210. Pedaliaceae.=
704. Corolla with valvate or folded aestivation. 705
Corolla with imbricate or contorted aestivation. 706
705. Leaves opposite or whorled. Calyx and corolla with valvate aestivation. Ovary 5-7-celled. Embryo straight. Shrubs. Roussea, =96. Saxifragaceae=.
Leaves alternate. Corolla with folded aestivation. Embryo curved. =207. Solanaceae.=
706. Stamens free from the corolla or adhering to it at the base. =189. Ericaceae.=
Stamens attached on the middle or the upper part of the corolla-tube. 707
707. Fruit a capsule. Disc wanting. Stamens 4. Leaves without stipules. Plantago, =218. Plantaginaceae.=
Fruit a berry or a drupe. Leaves opposite or whorled, provided with stipules or connected by transverse lines at the base. Shrubs or trees. =198. Loganiaceae.=
708. (701.) Stamens 3-12. 709
Stamens numerous. 714
709. Flowers unisexual. Fruit a berry. Trees or shrubs. 710
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. 711
710. Flowers monoecious. Calyx subentire. Corolla of the male flowers with a long tube, of the female ones with free petals. Staminodes absent in the female flowers. Ovary sessile. Style short. Stigmas 5. Leaves lobed. Cylicomorpha, =163. Caricaceae=.
Flowers dioecious. Calyx of free sepals. Corolla with a short tube. Staminodes present in the female flowers. Ovary shortly stalked. Style long. Stigma 1, lobed. Leaves undivided. Cercopetalum, =87. Capparidaceae=.
711. Styles 5, free. Stamens 10, united at the base. Calyx with imbricate, corolla with contorted, aestivation. =108. Oxalidaceae.=
Style 1, simple or divided; in the latter case calyx with valvate aestivation. 712
712. Leaves exstipulate, undivided. =189. Ericaceae.=
Leaves stipulate. Calyx with valvate or closed, corolla with contorted, aestivation. 713
713. Anthers 1-celled, opening by a single slit, twisted, 5. Leaves digitate. Trees. Ceiba, =143. Bombacaceae=.
Anthers 2-celled, opening by two slits or pores. =144. Sterculiaceae.=
714. (708.) Corolla of numerous divisions. Styles 5. Leaves without stipules. Herbs. Orygia, =72. Aizoaceae=.
Corolla of 5 divisions. 715
715. Corolla with valvate aestivation. Shrubs or trees. =145. Scytopetalaceae.=
Corolla with imbricate or contorted aestivation. 716
716. Calyx with valvate or closed, corolla with contorted, aestivation. Leaves stipulate. 717
Calyx with imbricate aestivation. Leaves exstipulate, undivided. Shrubs or trees. 719
717. Anthers 2-celled. =144. Sterculiaceae.=
Anthers 1-celled. Filaments united. Embryo curved. 718
718. Leaves palmately compound. Trees. =143. Bombacaceae.=
Leaves simple. =142. Malvaceae.=
719. Stamens 15. Style simple, with 5 stigmas. Albumen abundant. Ficalhoa, =189. Ericaceae=.
Stamens more than 15. Albumen scanty or wanting. =148. Theaceae.=
720. (552.) Style 1, or styles 2 or more, united at the base or apex. 721 Styles 2 or more, entirely free. 725
721. Stamens numerous. Filaments united. Anthers 1-celled. Ovaries 5 or more. Calyx with valvate, corolla with contorted aestivation. Leaves stipulate. =142. Malvaceae.=
Stamens 2-5. Ovaries 2-5. 722
722. Fertile stamens 2 or 4. Ovaries 4, one-ovuled. Flowers usually irregular. Leaves usually opposite or whorled. =206. Labiatae.=
Fertile stamens 5. Flowers usually regular. 723
723. Ovaries 4, one-ovuled. Style or style-branches stigmatose at the apex or between the apical lobes. Disc present. Leaves, at least the upper ones, alternate. =204. Borraginaceae.=
Ovaries 2, rarely 3 or 5, very rarely 4, but then 2-ovuled. Style or styles stigmatose beneath the thickened apex. Leaves usually opposite. 724
724. Stylar head with 5 gland-like pollen-carriers alternating with and adhering to the anthers. Styles 2, united at the top. Pollen-grains cohering. Disc wanting. =201. Asclepiadaceae.=
Stylar head without pollen-carriers, but sometimes adhering to the anthers. Styles partially or wholly united. Pollen-grains free. =200. Apocynaceae.=
725. Styles 2. Ovaries 2 or 4. Ovules together 4. Stamens 5. Corolla with folded or valvate aestivation. Herbs. =202. Convolvulaceae.=
Styles 3 or more. Ovaries 3 or more. 726
726. Sepals 2-3. Corolla-lobes 3-6. Stamens 6 or more. Albumen abundant, ruminate. Shrubs or trees. Leaves undivided, exstipulate. =81. Anonaceae.=
Sepals 4 or more, rarely 3, but then stamens 3. Albumen scanty or wanting. 727
727. Flowers unisexual. Ovules solitary in each ovary. Fruits indehiscent. Trees. Leaves alternate, lobed, stipulate. Platanus, =102. Platanaceae=.
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Ovules 2 or more in each ovary, rarely solitary, but then leaves opposite. Fruits dehiscent. Leaves exstipulate. 728
728. Ovules 2 in each ovary. Flowers 5-merous. Leaves alternate, pinnate. Shrubs or trees. =104. Connaraceae.=
Ovules numerous, rarely 1-2 in each ovary, but then leaves opposite and undivided. Herbs or undershrubs, rarely shrubs. =95. Crassulaceae.=
729. (551.) Ovary single, 1-celled. 730
Ovary 2-or more-celled, or 2 separate ovaries. 747
730. Ovules 1-4, not distinctly separated from the tissues of the ovary. Stamens as many as and opposite the divisions of the corolla. Shrubs growing upon trees. Loranthus, =61. Loranthaceae=.
Ovules distinctly developed. Stamens as many as and alternate with the divisions of the corolla, or more, or fewer, rarely opposite the divisions, but then ovules numerous. 731
731. Ovule 1. 732
Ovules 2 or more. 740
732. Ovule erect. 733
Ovule pendulous. 734
733. Stigmas 2. Stamens 3-5; anthers coherent. Corolla with valvate or open aestivation. Calyx little developed. Seed exalbuminous. Flowers in heads, rarely in spikes or umbels or solitary. Leaves exstipulate. =226. Compositae.=
Stigmas 3. Stamens 9-10; anthers free. Corolla with contorted, calyx with imbricate aestivation. Seed albuminous. Flowers in racemes or panicles. Leaves stipulate. Tendril-bearing shrubs. Ancistrocladus, =166. Ancistrocladaceae=.
734. Leaves alternate. 735
Leaves opposite, whorled, or all radical. 737
735. Flowers unisexual. Seed exalbuminous. Climbing or prostrate plants. Stamens 2-5. =223. Cucurbitaceae.=
Flowers hermaphrodite. Seed albuminous. Erect shrubs. Leaves undivided. 736
736. Corolla with imbricate aestivation. Stamens 4 or 5. Stigma 1. Fruit dry, indehiscent. Flowers in terminal heads. Berzelia, =100. Bruniaceae=.
Corolla with valvate aestivation. Stamens 6 or more. Stigmas 2-6. Fruit succulent, drupaceous. Flowers in axillary cymes. Alangium, =178. Alangiaceae=.
737. Style 3-parted. Stamens 5. Fruit drupaceous. Shrubs or trees. Viburnum, =220. Caprifoliaceae=.
Style simple with 1-3 stigmas or 2-parted. Herbs or undershrubs. 738
738. Stamens 5. Corolla with valvate aestivation. =219. Rubiaceae.=
Stamens 1-4. Corolla with imbricate aestivation. 739
739. Flowers in heads. Calyx surrounded by an epicalyx. Stamens 2-4. Seed albuminous. =222. Dipsacaceae.=
Flowers in cymose inflorescences, without an epicalyx. Stamens 1-3. Seed exalbuminous. =221. Valerianaceae.=
740. (731.) Ovules basal or apical or inserted upon a free central placenta. 741
Ovules inserted upon two or more parietal placentas. 745
741. Calyx of 2, corolla of 4-6 divisions. Stamens as many as and opposite the divisions of the corolla or more. Herbs or undershrubs. Portulaca, =73. Portulacaceae=.
Calyx and corolla of 4-5 divisions each. Stamens as many or fewer. 742
742. Ovules basal or apical. Stamens as many as and alternate with the divisions of the corolla or fewer. Corolla usually with valvate aestivation. 743
Ovules inserted upon a free central placenta. Stamens as many as and opposite the divisions of the corolla. Corolla with imbricate aestivation. 744
743. Flowers hermaphrodite. Stamens free. Ovules 4, basal. Stigma 2-lobed. Seeds albuminous. Undershrubs. Merciera, =224. Campanulaceae=.
Flowers unisexual or polygamous. Seeds exalbuminous. =223. Cucurbitaceae.=
744. Staminodes alternating with the fertile stamens. Fruit a capsule. Herbs or undershrubs. Samolus, =191. Primulaceae=.
Staminodes wanting. Fruit a berry or nut. Shrubs. Maesa, =190. Myrsinaceae=.
745. Stamens numerous. Flowers hermaphrodite. Fruit a berry. Seeds albuminous. Succulent, usually leafless plants. =167. Cactaceae.=
Stamens 2-11. Leafy plants. 746
746. Corolla with contorted aestivation. Stamens 5-11. Fruit capsular. Seeds albuminous. Leaves opposite or whorled, undivided, stipulate. =219. Rubiaceae.=
Corolla with valvate, rarely with imbricate aestivation. Stamens 2-5. Flowers unisexual or polygamous. Fruit berry-or nut-like. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves nearly always alternate. =223. Cucurbitaceae.=
747. (729.) Ovaries 2, distinct. Styles more or less united above, stigmatose beneath the thickened apex. Stamens 5. Leaves usually opposite. 748
Ovary 1. 749
748. Stylar head with 5 gland-like pollen-carriers alternating with the anthers, to which the pollen united into masses adheres. Styles free below the thickened apex. Disc wanting. =201. Asclepiadaceae.=
Stylar head without pollen-carriers, but sometimes adhering to the anthers. Pollen of free grains. =200. Apocynaceae.=
749. Ovules solitary in each ovary-cell. 750
Ovules 2 or more in each ovary-cell. 758
750. Leaves opposite, whorled, or all radical. 751
Leaves alternate. 753
751. Stamens fewer than the divisions of the corolla, 1-3. Ovary 3-celled. Seeds exalbuminous. Herbs or undershrubs. =221. Valerianaceae.=
Stamens as many as the divisions of the corolla. 752
752. Leaves pinnately dissected. Stamens 5. Anthers opening outwards. Style 3-5-parted. Fruit a drupe. Sambucus, =220. Caprifoliaceae=.
Leaves undivided. =219. Rubiaceae.=
753. Flowers unisexual. Stamens as many as or fewer than the divisions of the corolla. Seeds exalbuminous. =223. Cucurbitaceae.=
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Stamens as many as or more than the divisions of the corolla. Seeds albuminous. Trees, shrubs, or undershrubs. 754
754. Stamens as many as and opposite the divisions of the corolla. Corolla with valvate aestivation. Ovary 3-4-celled. Leaves undivided. =59. Olacaceae.=
Stamens as many as and alternate with the divisions of the corolla or more. 755
755. Flowers irregular. Corolla folded in bud. Ovules erect. Stigma 1, enclosed by a cup. Leaves undivided. Scaevola, =225. Goodeniaceae=.
Flowers regular. Ovules pendulous. 756
756. Corolla with imbricate aestivation, divided nearly to the base. Styles or stigmas 2. Leaves undivided. =100. Bruniaceae.=
Corolla with valvate aestivation. 757
757. Flowers in cymes. Petals slightly cohering at the base. Leaves undivided. Alangium, =178. Alangiaceae=.
Flowers in umbels, heads, racemes, or spikes. Petals usually united throughout their whole length. Leaves usually compound. =185. Araliaceae.=
758. (749.) Stamens as many as or fewer than the divisions of the corolla. 759
Stamens more numerous than the divisions of the corolla. 769
759. Leaves opposite or whorled. 760
Leaves alternate. 764
760. Leaves stipulate, undivided. Stamens as many as corolla-lobes, inserted on the corolla, with free filaments. =219. Rubiaceae.=
Leaves exstipulate. 761
761. Flowers unisexual. Seeds exalbuminous. =223. Cucurbitaceae.=
Flowers hermaphrodite. Stamens as many as corolla-lobes. Seeds albuminous. 762
762. Stamens free from the corolla or nearly so. Corolla with valvate aestivation. Usually herbs. =224. Campanulaceae.=
Stamens evidently inserted upon the corolla, 5. Corolla with imbricate or contorted aestivation. Usually shrubs or trees. 763
763. Flowers more or less irregular. Corolla with imbricate aestivation. Style stigmatose at the apex. Fruit a berry. Shrubs. =220. Caprifoliaceae.=
Flowers regular. Corolla with contorted aestivation. Style stigmatose below the apex. Ovary 2-celled. =200. Apocynaceae.=
764. Leaves stipulate, entire. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-3-celled with 2 ovules in each cell. Seeds exalbuminous. Shrubs or trees. Dichapetalum, =121. Dichapetalaceae=.
Leaves exstipulate, rarely stipulate, but then more or less deeply divided or stamens fewer than 5 or ovules numerous. 765
765. Flowers unisexual or polygamous, 5-merous, regular, rarely somewhat irregular, in the latter case, as usually, stamens fewer than the divisions of the corolla. Seeds exalbuminous. =223. Cucurbitaceae.=
Flowers hermaphrodite, rarely unisexual or polygamous, but then irregular. Stamens as many as the divisions of the corolla. Seeds albuminous. Leaves entire, toothed, or lobed. 766
766. Corolla with contorted aestivation. Ovary 2-celled. Style simple, stigmatose beneath the thickened apex. =200. Apocynaceae.=
Corolla with imbricate (not contorted) or valvate aestivation. Style stigmatose at the apex or between the apical lobes. 767
767. Corolla imbricate in bud, regular. Ovary 2-celled, with 2-4 ovules in each cell. Style simple with 2 stigmas or 2-parted. Shrubs or undershrubs. =100. Bruniaceae.=
Corolla valvate in bud, rarely imbricate, but then irregular or ovules numerous. Style simple. 768
768. Style with hairs or glands in its upper part, rarely without, and then corolla irregular or imbricate in bud. Stigma more or less deeply divided, at least after the period of flowering. =224. Campanulaceae.=
Style without hairs or glands. Stigma entire, capitate. Ovary 3-4-celled with numerous ovules. Anthers free. Corolla regular, 5-partite, valvate in bud. Undershrubs. Berenice, =96. Saxifragaceae=.
769. (758.) Stamens 8-10. Seeds with a straight embryo and abundant fleshy albumen. Vaccinium, =189. Ericaceae=.
Stamens numerous. 770
770. Corolla of numerous petals united at the base. Seeds with a curved embryo and mealy albumen. Herbs or undershrubs. Mesembryanthemum, =72. Aizoaceae=.
Corolla of 3-6 petals. Shrubs or trees. 771
771. Petals united at the base, imbricate in bud. Filaments united at the base. Ovary inferior. Seeds exalbuminous. =176. Lecythidaceae.=
Petals united into a hood throughout their whole length, sometimes finally separating. Filaments free or nearly so. 772
772. Ovary half-inferior. Seeds albuminous. Rhaptopetalum, =145. Scytopetalaceae=.
Ovary inferior. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves gland-dotted. =180. Myrtaceae.=
KEY TO THE GENERA
EMBRYOPHYTA SIPHONOGAMA
(PHANEROGAMAE)
SUBDIVISION GYMNOSPERMAE
CLASS I. CYCADALES
FAMILY 1. CYCADACEAE
Stem simple, rarely branched at the top, woody, with mucilagineous juice. Leaves pinnate or pinnatisect, forming a tuft at the top of the stem and intermingled with scales. Flowers solitary, terminal, in the shape of a cone (but sometimes overtopped by the continued growth of the stem), dioecious, without a perianth. Stamens bearing many pollen-sacs on their lower side. Ovules 2-8 to each carpel, straight, with a single coat. Seeds drupe-like, albuminous. Embryo with two more or less united cotyledons.--Genera 3, species 25. Tropical and South Africa. (Plate 1.)
1. Stem growing through the female flower, covered with the remains of the old leaves. Leaf-segments one-nerved, coiled in bud. Carpels pinnately toothed or cleft, each with 4-8 ascending ovules.--Species 2, one growing wild in Madagascar and the neighbouring islands, the other cultivated and sometimes naturalized in various parts of Africa. Used as ornamental and medicinal plants; the fruits are edible and the pith contains starch (sago). [Tribe CYCADEAE.] =Cycas= L.
Stem not growing through the female flower. Leaf-segments with several nerves, straight in bud. Carpels each with 2 descending ovules. [Tribe ZAMIEAE.] 2
2. Leaf-segments with pinnate nerves. Stem without remains of old leaves at the base. Cone-scales (stamens and carpels) imbricate.--Species 2. South-east Africa (Natal). Used as ornamental plants. =Stangeria= Th. Moore
Leaf-segments with parallel nerves. Stem covered with the remains of old leaves. Cone-scales not imbricate.--Species 20. South and Central Africa. The pith (Kaffir-bread) and the seeds of some species are eaten and also used for making a sort of beer. Several species yield gum or serve as ornamental plants. (Plate 1.) =Encephalartos= Lehm.
CLASS II. CONIFERAE
FAMILY 2. TAXACEAE
Stem branched, woody, with resinous juice. Leaves alternate, linear or linear-lanceolate. Flowers solitary or the male umbellate, dioecious, without a perianth. Stamens with 2-9 pollen-sacs. Carpels free, one-ovuled, shorter than the seeds, sometimes rudimentary. Seeds 1-2, drupe-like, surrounded by a fleshy aril. Embryo with 2 or more free cotyledons.--Genera 2, species 9. (Under CONIFERAE.)
Stamens with 2 pollen-sacs and a triangular blade. Pollen-grains with air-bladders. Carpels distinctly developed. Ovule inverted, with two coats. Aril enveloping the seed. Leaves with resin-ducts.--Species 8. South and East Africa, Madagascar, Island of St. Thomas. They yield timber and bark for tanning. (Including Nageia Gaertn.) [Subfamily =PODOCARPOIDEAE=.] =Podocarpus= L’ Hér.
Stamens with 5-9 pollen-sacs and a peltate blade. Pollen-grains without air-bladders. Carpels rudimentary. Ovule straight, with one coat. Aril cup-shaped. Leaves without resin-ducts.--Species 1. North-west Africa. A poisonous, medicinal and ornamental plant, with hard wood. “Yew.” [Subfamily =TAXOIDEAE=]. =Taxus= L.
FAMILY 3. PINACEAE
Stem branched, woody, with resinous juice. Leaves needle-or scale-like. Flowers unisexual, without a perianth. Stamens in catkins, with 2-5 pollen-sacs below the scale-like limb. Carpels arranged in the shape of a cone or bud, leathery woody or fleshy, when ripe. Ovules 2 or more to each carpel, rarely only 1. Seeds hidden by the carpels, without an aril. Embryo with 2 or more free cotyledons.--Genera 6, species 25. (Under CONIFERAE.) (Plate 2.)
1. Leaves alternate (as are also the floral leaves), but sometimes fascicled, needle-like. Stamens with 2 pollen-sacs. Pollen-grains with air-bladders. Carpels divided into an inner and an outer scale, leathery or woody when ripe. Ovules and seeds 2 to each carpel; ovules turned downwards. [Tribe ABIETINEAE.] 2
Leaves opposite or whorled. Stamens with 3-5, very rarely 2 pollen-sacs. Pollen-grains without air-bladders. Ovules turned upwards. [Tribe CUPRESSINEAE.] 4
2. Shoots all alike (all long). Leaves solitary, flat. Pollen-sacs opening obliquely or transversely; connective without an appendage. Cones ripening the first year; scales leathery.--Species 2. North-west Africa. The wood and the resin are used, the latter especially for the preparation of turpentine. “Silver fir.” =Abies= Juss.
Shoots of two kinds, long and short. Leaves of the short shoots in clusters of two or more, surrounded by scales when young. Pollen-sacs opening longitudinally; connective with an appendage. Cones ripening the second or third year; scales woody. 3
3. Leaves all needle-like; those of the short shoots in clusters of many; those of the long shoots scattered. Flowers inserted upon short shoots, the males solitary. Cone-scales flat, imbricate, without a terminal appendage, deciduous.--Species 2. North-west Africa. They yield timber and medicinal drugs. “Cedar.” =Cedrus= Loud.
Leaves of the short shoots needle-like, in clusters of two or three, very rarely solitary; leaves of the long shoots scale-like. Male flowers in spikes replacing short shoots; female flowers towards the end of the branches, replacing long shoots. Cone-scales thick, with a terminal umbonate appendage, persistent.--Species 4. North Africa; also naturalized in South Africa and St. Helena. Wood, bark, and resin are used for carpenters’ and joiners’ work, for tanning and for the manufacture of paper, tar, pitch, colophony, turpentine, and other chemical products, as well as in medicine. The seeds of some species (especially those of the stone-pine, P. Pinea L.) are edible. “Pine.” =Pinus= L.
4. Fruit fleshy, berry-or drupe-like. Seeds not winged, as many as the carpels or fewer. Leaves usually needle-like.--Species 9. North and East Africa. They yield wood, bark for tanning, resin, an essential oil, brandy (gin), and medicines; some are used as ornamental plants. (Including Arceuthos Ant. & Kotschy and Sabina Spach). =Juniperus= L.
Fruit woody, cone-like. Seeds winged, as many as the carpels or more. Leaves usually scale-like. 5
5. Carpels 4, valve-like, separating at the apex when ripe, 1-10-seeded.--Species 8, one of them only naturalized. North, South, and southern East Africa, Madagascar and Mauritius. Some of them (especially C. quadrivalvis Vent.) yield timber and resin (sandarac) which is used for the preparation of lacquer, varnish, cement, and in medicine. (Including Tetraclinis Mast. and Widdringtonia Endl.) (Plate 2.) =Callitris= Vent.
Carpels 8-10, peltate, separating at the margins when ripe, many-seeded.--Species 1. Cultivated in North Africa as an ornamental plant and sometimes naturalized. It yields timber and is used in medicine. “Cypress.” =Cupressus= L.
CLASS III. GNETALES
FAMILY 4. GNETACEAE
Stem woody. Juice not resinous. Leaves opposite, undivided. Flowers in spikes or panicles or the female solitary, unisexual, but the male sometimes with rudimentary ovules. Perianth of the male flowers tubular or 2-4-parted, of the female bladder-like. Stamens 2-8. Ovule 1, erect, straight. Embryo with 2 cotyledons.--Genera 3 species 8. North and Central Africa.
1. Stem turnip-shaped, very short. Leaves 2, very large, sessile, linear, with parallel nerves. Flowers in panicled spikes; the male consisting of a 4-partite perianth, 6 stamens with 3-celled anthers, and a rudimentary ovule. Ovule with a single coat.--Species 1; German South-west Africa and Angola. (Tumboa Welw.) [Subfamily =WELWITSCHIOIDEAE=.] =Welwitschia= Hook. fil.
Stem shrubby or twining. Leaves numerous, not very large. Male flowers consisting of a 2-partite or a tubular, undivided perianth and 2-8 stamens with 1-2-celled anthers, without rudimentary ovules, but sometimes accompanied by sterile female flowers. 2
2. Leaves large, with a short foot-stalk, lanceolate oblong elliptical or oval, penninerved. Stem climbing. Flowers in spikes or panicles, the male consisting of a tubular, undivided perianth and 2 stamens with 1-celled anthers. Ovule with two coats.--Species 2. West Africa. The young leaves are used as a vegetable. [Subfamily =GNETOIDEAE=.] =Gnetum= L.
Leaves scale-like. Male flowers in spikes or panicles, female solitary or in pairs. Male flowers consisting of a 2-partite perianth and 2-8 stamens with 2-celled anthers. Ovule with a single coat exceeding the perianth.--Species 5. North Africa and northern Central Africa. The fruits of some species are eaten or used in medicine. [Subfamily =EPHEDROIDEAE=.] =Ephedra= L.
SUBDIVISION ANGIOSPERMAE
CLASS IV. MONOCOTYLEDONEAE
ORDER PANDANALES
FAMILY 5. TYPHACEAE
Aquatic or marsh herbs with a creeping root-stock and simple stems. Leaves in two ranks, linear. Inflorescences spadix-like, cylindrical, superposed, interrupted by bracts, the lower female, the upper male. Flowers unisexual, without a perianth, but usually surrounded by hairs. Stamens 2-7; connective thickened; anthers opening lengthwise by two slits. Ovary 1-celled. Ovule 1, pendulous, inverted. Style and stigma simple. Fruit tardily dehiscent. Seed with abundant albumen and a long, axile embryo.
Genus 1, species 4. They are used as ornamental plants and in medicine, and yield potash and also materials for plaiting and stuffing and for the manufacture of paper and felt. The root-stock and the pollen are edible. “Reedmace.” =Typha= Tourn.
FAMILY 6. PANDANACEAE
Shrubs or trees, usually with aerial roots. Leaves in three ranks, sword-shaped, usually spiny. Flowers dioecious, without bracts, arranged in solitary or panicled, spike-or head-like spadices, which are inserted in the axil of spathe-like bracts. Perianth none. Ovaries connate, 1-celled. Ovule 1, descending, inverted. Stigma 1, sessile. Fruits drupe-like, congested into a globose or ovoid head. Seed with abundant albumen. (Plate 3.)
Genus 1, species 65. Tropics. They yield timber, fibres, flowers used in perfumery, edible fruits, and medicinal drugs. “Screw-pine.” =Pandanus= L.
FAMILY 7. SPARGANIACEAE
Aquatic or marsh herbs with a creeping root-stock. Leaves in two ranks, linear. Flowers unisexual, in globular heads, the lower of which are female. Perianth of membranous scales. Stamens 3 or more. Ovary superior, 1-2-celled. Ovule 1 in each cell, pendulous, inverted. Style simple, stigmas 1-2. Fruits drupe-like. Seed with a mealy albumen and a large, axile embryo. (Under TYPHACEAE.)
Genus 1, species 2. North-west Africa. “Bur-reed.” =Sparganium= L.
ORDER HELOBIAE
SUBORDER POTAMOGETONINEAE
FAMILY 8. POTAMOGETONACEAE
Aquatic herbs. Leaves with axillary scales. Flowers solitary or spicate, regular, with 1-4-merous whorls. Perianth simple and little developed or wanting. Stamens 1-4. Anthers sessile, opening outwards or laterally. Carpel 1, with a 1-celled ovary, or several distinct or almost distinct carpels. Ovules solitary in each carpel, very rarely 2, pendulous or laterally fixed Fruit indehiscent. Seed exalbuminous. Embryo with a strongly developed radicle.--Genera 8, species 35. (Including ZOSTERACEAE, under NAIADACEAE.) (Plate 4.)
1. Flowers in spikes, hermaphrodite or polygamous, without a perianth, but the stamens sometimes provided with a sepal-like connective. 2
Flowers solitary or in cymes, unisexual. 5
2. Spikes with a flat axis, at the time of flowering enclosed in the sheaths of the uppermost leaves. Stamen 1. Pollen-grains filiform. Carpel 1. Stigmas 2, on a short style. Embryo with a very large radicle and a tail-like cotyledon. Submerged marine plants.--Species 2. North and South Africa and Madagascar. Used for stuffing and as packing material. “Grass-wrack.” [Tribe ZOSTEREAE.] =Zostera= L.
Spikes with a cylindrical axis, at the time of flowering not enclosed in the sheaths of the uppermost leaves. Stamens 2-4. Stigma 1, undivided or many-parted. 3
3. Spikes compound, submerged. Spikelets shorter than their bracts. Flowers polygamous. Stamens 3, rarely 4. Pollen-grains filiform. Carpel 1. Stigma divided (or provided with narrow appendages). Embryo with a very large radicle and a straight cotyledon resembling the leaves of the plumule. Marine plants.--Species 1. Mediterranean Sea. The leaves are used for packing and thatching, and also in medicine. [Tribe POSIDONIEAE.] =Posidonia= Koen.
Spikes simple, above the water. Flowers hermaphrodite. Pollen-grains globular or bent. Carpels usually 4. Stigma simple, more or less peltate. Embryo with a curved cotyledon. [Tribe POTAMOGETONEAE.] 4
4. Spikes two-flowered. Stamens 2. Anthers with a very short appendage and kidney-shaped cells opening outwards. Pollen-grains bent. Fruit stalked. Embryo with a very thick radicle. Salt-water plants. Leaves subulate.--Species 1. =Ruppia= L.
Spikes several-flowered. Stamens 4. Anthers with a sepal-like appendage and straight cells opening laterally. Pollen-grains globular. Fruit sessile. Embryo with a slightly thickened radicle.--Species 20. Used for manure; some have edible root-stocks. “Pondweed.” (Plate 4.) =Potamogeton= Tourn.
5. Perianth none. Stamens 2. Pollen-grains filiform. Carpels 2. Stigmas strap-shaped, longer than the style. Embryo with an accumbent cotyledon. Marine plants. [Tribe CYMODOCEAE.] 6
Perianth present, at least in the female flowers. Stamens 1-2. Pollen-grains globular. Carpels 3-9. Stigma shield-or funnel-shaped, shorter than the style. Embryo with a hooked or rolled cotyledon. Fresh-or brackish-water plants. [Tribe ZANICHELLIEAE.] 7
6. Stigma 1. Anthers inserted at slightly different heights. Ripe carpels scarcely compressed.--Species 2. Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Angola. (Halodule Endl., under Cymodocea Koen.) =Diplanthera= Thouars
Stigmas 2. Anthers inserted at the same height. Ripe carpels compressed and keeled.--Species 5. North Africa, Senegambia, East Africa, Madagascar and neighbouring islands. (Including Phycagrostis Ascherson) =Cymodocea= Koen.
7. Perianth in the male flowers none, in the female cup-shaped and undivided. Anthers stalked, opening by 2 longitudinal slits. Carpels usually 4, slightly curved, with a peltate stigma.--Species 1. North and South Africa, southern West Africa, Madagascar and neighbouring islands. =Zannichellia= Mich.
Perianth in the male flowers 3-toothed, in the female consisting of 1-3 segments. Anthers sessile, opening with one longitudinal slit. Carpels 3, straight, with a funnel-shaped stigma.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). =Althenia= Fr. Petit
FAMILY 9. NAIADACEAE
Herbs growing in fresh or brackish water. Leaves linear, toothed or spiny. Flowers axillary, solitary or in glomerules, unisexual. Perianth little developed, in the male flowers simple or double, sack-like, in the female simple and sack-like or wanting. Stamen 1. Anthers 1-or 4-celled. Pollen-grains globular or ovoid. Ovary 1-celled. Ovule 1, erect, inverted. Style 1; stigmas 2-3. Seed with a hard coat, exalbuminous. Embryo straight, with a large radicle and a well developed plumule.
Genus 1, species 10. (Including Caulinia A. Braun) =Naias= L.
FAMILY 10. APONOGETONACEAE
Aquatic herbs with a tuberous root-stock. Leaves radical, narrow, with several longitudinal and many transverse nerves. Flowers in 1-4 spikes connected at the base, enclosed when young in a sheath, and rising above the water. Perianth of 1-3 more or less brightly coloured segments. Stamens 6 or more, hypogynous, free. Anthers attached by the base, opening with two longitudinal slits. Carpels 3-8, distinct. Ovules in each carpel 2-8, basal or sutural, ascending, inverted. Fruits membranous, dehiscent. Seeds 2 or more, erect, exalbuminous, with a straight embryo. (Under NAIADACEAE.) (Plate 5.)
Genus 1, species 20. Tropical and South Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants, especially the lattice-leaf (A. fenestralis Hook. fil.) with perforated leaves. The tubers are edible and contain starch. (Including Ouvirandra Thouars). =Aponogeton= Thunb.
FAMILY 11. SCHEUCHZERIACEAE
Marsh herbs. Leaves linear, with axillary scales. Flowers in terminal racemes or spikes, regular, hermaphrodite. Perianth of 6 segments, usually green. Stamens 3-6. Anthers turned outwards; pollen-grains ovoid. Ovary 3-6-celled. Ovule 1 in each cell, ascending, inverted. Stigmas sessile. Seeds exalbuminous, with a straight embryo. (JUNCAGINEAE, under NAIADACEAE.)
Genus 1, species 4. North, South, and West Africa. The leaves and fruits of some species are edible. (Juncago Tourn.) =Triglochin= L.
SUBORDER ALISMATINEAE
FAMILY 12. ALISMATACEAE
Aquatic or marsh herbs, with milky juice. Leaves with axillary scales. Flowers regular. Perianth of 3 sepals and 3 petals, rarely in the female flowers of 3 sepals only. Stamens 6 or more, rarely 3. Anthers opening outwards. Pollen-grains globular. Carpels 6 or more, rarely 3, distinct or united at the base. Ovules solitary in each carpel, rarely two or more, inverted. Seeds without albumen; embryo curved.--Genera 9, species 15. Tropical and North Africa. (Plate 6.)
1. Carpels on a large and distinctly convex receptacle. Inner perianth-segments petal-like, larger than, or almost as large as the outer. Stamens 6 or more. [Tribe SAGITTARIEAE.] 2
Carpels on a small and almost flat receptacle. 4
2. Flowers hermaphrodite. Ripe carpels numerous, slightly compressed, with many ribs.--Species 3. Central and North-west Africa. (Under Alisma L.) =Echinodorus= Engelm.
Flowers unisexual or polygamous. Ripe carpels much compressed laterally. 3
3. Flowers monoecious or polygamous. Petals a little longer than the sepals. Carpels many. Ripe carpels with two crest-like ribs.--Species 1. Tropics. (Lophiocarpus Miq., under Sagittaria L.) =Lophotocarpus= Th. Dur.
Flowers dioecious. Petals shorter than the sepals, white. Carpels 7-9. Ripe carpels with 3 ribs.--Species 1. German South-west Africa. =Rautanenia= Buchenau
4. Petals much smaller than the sepals or wanting. Stamens 3 or 9. [Tribe WIESNEREAE.] 5
Petals larger than the sepals, coloured. Stamens 6, rarely 9. [Tribe ALISMEAE.] 6
5. Flowers dioecious. Petals in the female flowers wanting. Stamens 9. Carpels about 12.--Species 1. East Africa. =Burnatia= Mich.
Flowers monoecious. Petals present, but very small and falling off early. Stamens 3. Carpels 3-6.--Species 2. East Africa and Madagascar. (Wisneria Mich.) =Wiesnera= Mich.
6. Carpels 6-8, united at the base and spreading horizontally, containing 2 or more ovules each and opening by a lid when ripe.--Species 2. North Africa. The root-stock is edible. =Damasonium= Tourn.
Carpels 6-20, distinct, with a single ovule in each, indehiscent. 7
7. Flowers polygamous-monoecious. Carpels 15-20. Pericarp bony within, hollow on either side. Leaves sagittate.--Species 3. Tropics. (Plate 6.) =Limnophyton= Miq.
Flowers hermaphrodite. Leaves ovate, cordate, or lanceolate. 8
8. Carpels 6-12, irregularly whorled, slightly compressed and 3-5-ribbed when ripe; pericarp woody within.--Species 2. Tropics and Egypt. (Under Alisma L.) =Caldesia= Parl.
Carpels 15-20, distinctly whorled, much compressed and 2-ribbed when ripe; pericarp leathery or parchment-like.--Species 1. North and East Africa. The root-stock contains starch and is used in medicine. “Water-plantain.” =Alisma= L.
SUBORDER BUTOMINEAE
FAMILY 13. BUTOMACEAE
Aquatic or marsh herbs. Leaves linear or lanceolate. Flowers in umbel-like cymes, regular, hermaphrodite. Perianth of 6 segments, all, or the inner ones only, petal-like. Stamens 9, very rarely fewer. Pollen-grains globular. Carpels 6, very rarely fewer, distinct or united at the base only, opening when ripe along the ventral suture. Ovules on irregularly branched parietal placentas, numerous, inverted. Seeds without albumen.--Genera 2, species 2. North and Central Africa. (Under ALISMACEAE.)
Perianth-segments nearly equal, all petal-like, pink, persistent. Embryo straight. Leaves linear. Juice not milky.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). Used as a garden plant. The root-stock is edible. “Flowering-rush.” =Butomus= Tourn.
Perianth-segments unequal, outer sepal-like, inner petal-like, white, falling off very early. Embryo horseshoe-shaped. Leaves elliptical. Juice milky.--Species 1. Northern part of Central Africa. (Butomopsis Kunth) =Tenagocharis= Hochst.
FAMILY 14. HYDROCHARITACEAE
Aquatic herbs. Leaves with axillary scales. Flowers enclosed when young in a one-or several-flowered spathe of one or two bracts, regular, rarely somewhat irregular. Perianth consisting of a calyx and a corolla, rarely simple. Stamens 2-12. Anthers opening outwards or laterally. Ovary inferior, more or less distinctly one-celled, with 2-15 parietal placentas, which sometimes form incomplete dissepiments. Seeds without albumen.--Genera 10, species 40. (Plate 7.)
1. Stigmas 2-5. Placentas as many, slightly raised. 2
Stigmas 6 or more. Placentas as many, much projecting and generally meeting in the centre of the ovary. 6
2. Petals none. Stamens 3. Pollen-grains filiform. Stigmas several times as long as the sepals. Embryo with a strongly developed radicle. Totally submerged marine plants. Leaves more or less distinctly stalked.--Species 2. Indian Ocean. [Subfamily =HALOPHILOIDEAE=.] =Halophila= Thouars
Petals present, but sometimes very small and falling off very early. Pollen-grains globular. Stigmas at most twice as long as the sepals. Embryo with a not very strongly developed radicle. Freshwater plants; flowers raised above the water. Leaves sessile. [Subfamily =VALLISNERIOIDEAE=.] 3
3. Leaves whorled. Spathes 1-flowered. Flowers unisexual. Stamens 3.--Species 1. Upper Nile, Madagascar, Mauritius. Used in refining sugar. [Tribe HYDRILLEAE.] =Hydrilla= L. C. Rich.
Leaves spirally arranged. Spathes of the male flowers several-flowered. 4
4. Spathes of the male flowers 2-10-flowered, not breaking away from the stem. Stamens 3-9. Ovules inverted.--Species 3. Madagascar and Angola. [Tribe BLYXEAE.] =Blyxa= Noronha
Spathes of the male flowers many-flowered, breaking away from the stem. Stamens 2-3. Ovules straight. [Tribe VALLISNERIEAE.] 5
5. Male flowers regular, with 3 fertile and 2-4 sterile stamens. Stigmas linear, 2-cleft or 2-parted. Leaves one-nerved. Stem elongated.--Species 10. Tropical and South Africa. =Lagarosiphon= Harv.
Male flowers somewhat irregular, with 2-3 fertile stamens and sometimes a sterile one. Stigmas ovate, notched or two-toothed. Leaves several-nerved.--Species 2. North and Central Africa. Used in refining sugar. =Vallisneria= Mich.
6. Leaves in two rows. Ovules inverted, inserted in the angles formed by the placentas and the wall of the ovary. Radicle of the embryo strongly developed. Marine plants. [Subfamily =THALASSIOIDEAE=.] 7
Leaves in rosettes. Ovules inverted, but inserted on the whole surface of the placentas, or straight. Radicle of the embryo not strongly developed. Freshwater plants. [Subfamily =STRATIOTOIDEAE=.] 8
7. Scape of the male flowers short, of the female long and at length spirally twisted. Male spathes several-flowered; flowers with 3 petals and 3 stamens.--Species 1. Madagascar and Red Sea. Yields fibres and edible seeds. =Enalus= L. C. Rich.
Scapes moderately long, not spirally twisted. Male spathes one-flowered; flowers without petals, with 6 stamens.--Species 1. East Africa. =Thalassia= Soland.
8. Placentas undivided. Ovules straight. Fertile stamens 9. Stem emitting runners. Leaves floating.--Species 1. Algeria and Madagascar. “Frogbit.” [Tribe HYDROCHARITEAE.] =Hydrocharis= L.
Placentas two-cleft. Ovules inverted. Seeds very numerous. Fertile stamens 6-12. Stem very short, without runners. Leaves at least partially submerged. [Tribe OTTELIEAE.] 9
9. Flowers hermaphrodite. Spathes one-flowered. Stigmas 6.--Species 9. Tropics and Egypt. Some are used as vegetables. (Plate 7.) =Ottelia= Pers.
Flowers dioecious. Spathes of the male flowers several-flowered. Stigmas 9-15.--Species 10. Tropics. Some are used as vegetables. =Boottia= Wall.
ORDER TRIURIDALES
FAMILY 15. TRIURIDACEAE
Small, pale, yellowish or reddish herbs. Leaves reduced to scales. Flowers in racemes, regular, monoecious. Perianth of 6 petaloid, valvate segments united at the base. Stamens 3; filaments short or wanting; anthers 2-celled, opening transversely. Carpels inserted on a convex or conical receptacle, numerous, distinct; styles lateral; ovules solitary, erect, inverted. Fruits dehiscing by a longitudinal slit.
Genus 1, species 3. West Africa and Seychelles. (Including Seychellaria Hemsl.) =Sciaphila= Blume
ORDER GLUMIFLORAE
FAMILY 16. GRAMINEAE
Stem usually herbaceous and hollow between the nodes. Leaves alternate, usually linear and furnished at their base with a sheath split open on one side and ending in a ligule. Inflorescence consisting of spikelets, rarely of single flowers, usually enclosed by 2 glumes (outer or empty glumes) and arranged in spikes, racemes, or panicles. Flowers in the axil of the flowering glume (or valve), subtended by the usually 2-keeled palea and sometimes by one or two, rarely more, minute lodicules. Perianth none. Stamens 1-6, usually 3. Anthers opening by 2 slits or pores. Ovary 1-celled. Ovule 1, erect or laterally affixed, slightly curved, with the micropyle turned downwards. Styles 2, rarely 3 or 1. Fruit indehiscent; pericarp usually dry and adnate to the seed. Embryo outside the copious albumen.--Genera 205, species 1600. “Grasses.” (Plate 8.)
1. Spikelets 1-flowered, rarely 2-flowered, the upper flower fertile, the lower male or barren and inserted immediately below the fertile one. Axis of the spikelet not produced beyond the fertile flower, jointed below the outer glumes or not jointed; ripe spikelets falling entire from their stalk or from the rachis of the spike, sometimes together with a part of it. [Subfamily =PANICOIDEAE=.] 2
Spikelets either 1-flowered with the axis produced beyond the flower or jointed above the outer glumes, which therefore persist when the spikelet falls off, or 2-flowered with both flowers fertile or with a distinct interval between the flowers or with a continuation of the axis beyond the flowers, or 3-to many-flowered. 65
2. Spikelets distinctly compressed from the side. Stamens usually 6. Seed with a linear hilum. [Tribe ORYZEAE.] 3
Spikelets compressed from front to back or not distinctly compressed. Stamens usually 1-3. Seed usually with a punctiform hilum. 7
3. Spikelets in terminal clusters of two or three, connate, at length hardened. Stamens 3. Style undivided, papillose.--Species 1. North Africa. One source of the Esparto-grass, which is used for plaiting and paper-making. =Lygeum= L.
Spikelets in panicles. Stamens nearly always 6. Style 3-cleft or 3-parted, with feathery stigmas. 4
4. Spikelets unisexual; 1-2 sessile female and a stalked male on each branch of the panicle. Flowering glume globose. Stamens 6. Style 1, long, 3-cleft. Leaves broad-lanceolate, stalked.--Species 1. Equatorial West Africa. =Leptaspis= R. Br.
Spikelets bisexual or polygamous. Styles 3, short, free or united at the very base. Leaves linear or narrow lanceolate. 5
5. Outer glumes rudimentary. Flowering glume awnless.--Species 4. (Homalocenchrus Mieg.) =Leersia= Swartz
Outer glumes distinctly developed. Stamens 6. 6
6. Flowering glume and palea slightly compressed, awnless. Leaves linear-lanceolate, more or less distinctly stalked.--Species 4. Madagascar and Natal. (Under Potamophila R. Br.) =Maltebrunia= Kunth
Flowering glume and palea strongly compressed.--Species 3, two wild in Central Africa, the third (O. sativa L., rice) cultivated in various regions. The seeds are used for food and for the preparation of meal, starch, oil, and brandy, the straw for plaiting and for the manufacture of paper and brush-ware. =Oryza= L.
7. (2.) Flowering glume and palea (if present) stiff or at length hardened, firmer than the outer glumes and awnless, at least in the hermaphrodite flowers. Lowest glume usually smaller than the others. Rachis of the spike or raceme or branches of the panicle rarely jointed. [Tribe PANICEAE.] 8
Flowering glume and palea (if present) membranous, thinner than the outer glumes. 26
8. Flowers unisexual, monoecious. Spikelets in panicles, the male in the lower portion of the panicle or in special panicles. Outer glumes in the male spikelets none, in the female 2. Lodicules 3. Leaves net-veined.--Species 2. Tropical and South-East Africa. =Olyra= L.
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous; in the latter case spikelets arranged in spikes. 9
9. Spikelets partly hermaphrodite, partly male or neuter. 10
Spikelets all hermaphrodite. 11
10. Spikelets in short spikes consisting of a lower hermaphrodite and two or three upper neuter spikelets; spikes unilateral on the flattened, leaf-like rachis of a compound spike. Stem erect. Leaves lanceolate, sagittate.--Species 1. Southern West Africa (Angola). =Phyllorhachis= Trimen.
Spikelets in a simple spike consisting of 1-2 lower female and 4-6 upper male spikelets; rachis of the spike enlarged at the base, but not leaf-like. Stem creeping.--Species 1. Madagascar. =Thuarea= Pers.
11. Spikelets in short spikes sunk in pits on a broad rachis. Stem creeping.--Species 4. Tropical and South Africa. Used for binding the sand on riverbanks or as fodder; also in medicine. =Stenotaphrum= Trin.
Spikelets not sunk in pits on a broad rachis. 12
12. Spikelets surrounded or subtended singly or 2-3 together by an involucre formed of one or several bristles or spines or of 2 toothed glumes inserted below the two empty glumes. 13
Spikelets without an involucre formed of bristles, spines, or toothed glumes. Empty glumes 1-3. Stigmas 2, feathery. 16
13. Involucre formed by two toothed glumes. Stigma 1, papillose. Aquatic herbs.--Species 1. Abyssinia. =Odontelytrum= Hack.
Involucre formed by one or several bristles or spines. Stigmas 2, feathery. 14
14. Axis of the spikelet jointed above the persistent involucre. Bristles of the involucre stiff and rough. Styles free from the base. Spikelets in spike-like panicles.--Species 30. Some of them (especially S. italica Beauv.) are cultivated as cereals. =Setaria= Beauv.
Axis of the spikelet jointed below the involucre or not jointed; involucre falling together with the spikelet; rarely axis jointed above the persistent involucre, but then styles united at the base. 15
15. Bristles of the involucre numerous, stiff, thickened and often united at the base. Spikelets in spikes or racemes.--Species 10. Tropics and Egypt. Some have edible seeds; several are fodder-grasses. =Cenchrus= L.
Bristles of the involucre fine, not thickened at the base.--Species 65. Some (especially the duchn, P. typhoideum Rich.) are cultivated as cereals, as fodder, or as ornamental plants. (Including Gymnothrix Beauv. and Penicillaria Willd.) =Pennisetum= Pers.
16. Spikelets with 2 outer glumes and 1 flower, or with 1 outer glume and 2 flowers. 17
Spikelets with 3 outer glumes and 1 flower, or with 2 outer glumes and 2 flowers. 21
17. Spikelets containing an hermaphrodite and a male flower, arranged in panicles. Glumes awnless. Styles free.--Species 1. South-west Africa (Nama-land). =Anthaenantia= Beauv.
Spikelets 1-flowered, arranged in one-sided, usually digitate or panicled spikes. 18
18. Rachis of the spike prolonged beyond the spikelets. Style 1, with 2 stigmas.--Species 3. North-west and South Africa. =Spartina= Schreb.
Rachis of the spike not prolonged beyond the spikelets. Styles 2, free or shortly united. 19
19. Styles united at the base. Flowering glume papery. Upper outer glume awned. Spikelets in digitate racemes.--Species 1. East Africa. (Stereochlaena Hack.) =Chloridion= Stapf.
Styles free. Flowering glume cartilaginous. 20
20. Lower outer glume decurrent into a callous swelling. Flowering glume mucronate.--Species 6. Central Africa. =Eriochloa= Kunth
Lower outer glume without a callus at the base.--Species 15. Tropical and South Africa. Used as fodder-, medicinal, or ornamental plants. The seeds of several species (especially those of the fundi P. exile Kippist) are sometime used as food. =Paspalum= L.
21. Spikelets containing two hermaphrodite flowers. Axis of the spikelet jointed above the persistent outer glumes. Outer glumes awnless. Spikelets arranged in panicles.--Species 6. Tropics. =Isachne= R. Br.
Spikelets containing a single hermaphrodite flower and sometimes also a male flower. Axis of the spikelet jointed below the outer glumes; spikelet falling as a whole. 22
22. First (lowest) outer glume awned, as well as the second. Spikelets one-flowered, directed to one side and disposed in panicles.--Species 4. Tropical and South Africa. Some are used as fodder. =Oplismenus= Beauv.
First outer glume awnless. 23
23. Second outer glume apparently removed from the first by a conical or cylindrical, strongly-haired swelling at the base, usually awned or mucronate. Spikelets in panicles. 25
Second outer glume without a basal swelling. 24
24. First outer glume as large as or larger than the second, papery.--Species 1. South-west Africa to Angola. (Under Panicum L.). =Leucophrys= Rendle
First outer glume much smaller than the second.--Species 20. Some are used as ornamental or fodder-plants. (Including Monachyron Parl. and Rhynchelytrum Nees, under Panicum L.) =Tricholaena= Schrad.
25. Second outer glume bearing, like the third, a long, twisted awn.--Species 1. German East Africa. =Acritochaete= Pilger
Second outer glume unawned.--Species 220. Some (especially P. miliaceum L., millet, and P. sanguinale L.) are cultivated as cereals, others furnish vegetables, syrup, or fodder, or are used for plaiting-work or as ornamental plants. (Including Axonopus Beauv., Digitaria Pers., Echinolaena Desv., Sacciolepis Nash, and Syntherisma Walt.) =Panicum= L.
26. (7.) Outer glumes 3, the lowest smaller than the others, the uppermost sometimes including a male flower. Rachis and branches of the inflorescence not jointed. [Tribe TRISTEGINEAE.] 27
Outer glumes 1-3; if 3, then the lowest larger than the uppermost. 30
27. Spikelets arranged in spikes. First and second outer glume minute, the third awned.--Species 3. Abyssinia. =Beckera= Fresen.
Spikelets arranged in panicles. Second outer glume not very small. Flowering glume awnless. 28
28. Lowest outer glume minute, like the second awnless, the third more or less distinctly awned. Spikelets arranged singly along the branches of the panicle.--Species 1. Tropical and South-east Africa. Used as a fodder-grass. =Melinis= Beauv.
Lowest outer glume not very small; the third awnless, rarely both the second and third awned. 29
29. Outer glumes, at least the second, awned. Spikelets arranged singly along the branches of the panicle. (See 24.) =Tricholaena= Schrad.
Outer glumes awnless, the first and second about half the length of the third and the flowering glume. Spikelets in clusters along the branches of the panicle.--Species 2. West Africa and Mascarene Islands. Used as ornamental plants. =Thysanolaena= Nees
30. (26.) Flowers unisexual. Male and female spikelets in different inflorescences, or male spikelets in the upper, female in the lower portion of the inflorescence. [Tribe MAYDEAE.] 31
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, rarely (Andropogon) unisexual, but then male and female spikelets in the same inflorescence and arranged in pairs, the male spikelets sometimes rudimentary. 33
31. Male spikelets in a terminal spike, the female at its base, enclosed singly or 2-3 together by a hardened globose bract. Style not very long, 2-cleft.--Species 1 (C. Lacryma Jobi L., Job’s tears). North-west Africa, Madagascar and neighbouring islands. Used medicinally and for making ornamental articles and rosaries. =Coix= L.
Male spikelets in spikes arranged in a terminal panicle, female in spikes or spadices with membranous bracts or spathes. Style very long, undivided or shortly 2-cleft. 32
32. Female spikelets in fascicled spikes with a jointed rachis. Style 2-cleft. Fruit enclosed when ripe in a cartilagineous case.--Species 1 (E. mexicana Schrad., Teosinte), cultivated as an ornamental or fodder-plant. =Euchlaena= Schrad.
Female spikelets connate into a spadix with a thick, not jointed rachis. Fruit projecting beyond the membranous glumes, rarely enclosed by leathery glumes.--Species 1 (Z. Mays L., maize or Indian corn). Cultivated for the grain or as a fodder-or ornamental plant. The seeds are also used for the preparation of starch, oil, and spirituous drinks. The leaves and spathes yield fibre. =Zea= L.
33. Spikelets in heads surrounded by 2 or 3 involucral bracts, containing a single hermaphrodite flower. Outer glumes 2, membranous, awnless, the lower one short. Flowering glume larger than the outer glumes, awnless. Stamens 2.--Species 1. North Africa and Senegambia. =Crypsis= Ait.
Spikelets in spikes, racemes, or panicles. 34
34. Spikelets arranged singly or in clusters of 3-6, very rarely in pairs, along the continuous rachis of a spike or raceme. Outer glumes 2. [Tribe ZOYSIEAE.] 35
Spikelets arranged in pairs, one sessile, the other stalked, more rarely singly or in clusters of 3 or more, along the more or less distinctly jointed rachis of a spike or raceme or along the branches of a sometimes very narrow (spike-like) panicle. Outer glumes usually 3. [Tribe ANDROPOGONEAE.] 42
35. Spikelets in clusters of 3-6, falling as a whole. 36
Spikelets solitary along the rachis, rarely in pairs. 38
36. Clusters of spikelets enclosed by a hard, urn-shaped involucre formed by the lowest outer glumes. Rachis of the spike wavy.--Species 5. Central and South Africa. =Anthephora= Schreb.
Clusters of spikelets without an involucre. 37
37. Clusters containing 2-4 fertile spikelets and a barren one. Outer glumes 1-2, the upper one with hooked spines on the nerves. Rachis of the spike glabrous.--Species 4. (Nazia Adans.) =Tragus= Hall.
Clusters containing 1-2 fertile and 2-3 barren, often awn-like spikelets. Outer glume 1, with rough nerves, awned.--Species 1. Southern West Africa (Hereroland). =Monelytrum= Hack.
38. Styles united at the base; stigmas short, feathery. Outer glumes 2, glabrous, with a long awn or awnless. Flowering glume smaller. Spikelets diverging from the rachis.--Species 4. Tropical and South Africa. Used as fodder-grasses. =Perotis= Ait.
Styles free or the stigmas elongated and short-haired all round. 39
39. Outer glume 1, compressed, keeled, awnless. Styles free. Spikelets pressed close to the rachis. Leaves stiff.--Species 1. Mascarene Islands. (Osterdomia Neck.) =Zoysia= Willd.
Outer glumes 2. 40
40. Outer glumes subulate, with a long awn, short-haired. Flowering glume somewhat shorter, with a rather long awn. Palea slightly shorter than the flowering glume, acuminate. Styles free. Fruit with a large hilum. Spikelets in pairs.--Species 1. Northern East Africa. =Tetrachaete= Chiovenda
Outer glumes and flowering glume with a short awn or awnless. 41
41. Outer glumes convex, with hooked spines on the back, awnless. Flowering glume much shorter, unarmed or mucronate. Styles free; stigmas feathery. Spikelets with a flattened stalk.--Species 1. Northern part of Central Africa. =Latipes= Kunth
Outer glumes compressed and keeled, not bearing hooked spines. Flowering glume broad, 3-nerved, mucronate or shortly awned. Stigmas long, short-haired all round.--Species 5. North Africa. Used as ornamental or fodder-plants. “Foxtail grass.” (Including Colobachne Beauv.) =Alopecurus= L.
42. (34.) Joints of the rachis much thickened, forming, together with the appressed or adnate pedicels of the stalked spikelets, hollows in which the sessile spikelets are sunk. Flowering glumes awnless. Lowest outer glume leathery or hardened. Sessile spikelets hermaphrodite, stalked ones male or neuter, rarely (Ophiurus) reduced to the adnate pedicel and therefore apparently absent. [Subtribe ROTTBOELLIINAE.] 43
Joints of the rachis not much thickened, nor forming hollows for the reception of the spikelets, rarely slightly concave, but then flowering glumes of the sessile spikelets awned or (Elionurus) the lowest outer glume membranous or papery and marked with two transparent balsamiferous streaks. 48
43. Lower outer glume awned or tailed, at least in the stalked spikelets. 44
Lower outer glume neither awned nor tailed, rarely tailed in the terminal spikelet only. 46
44. Lower outer glume with a long tail (or soft awn). Racemes digitate. Aquatic herbs.--Species 1. Central Africa. Forming the chief element of the grass-barriers (sudd) of the upper Nile. =Vossia= Wall. & Griff.
Lower outer glume with 1-2 short awns, or in the stalked spikelets with a long awn, in the sessile awnless. Racemes solitary or arranged in racemes. 45
45. Lower outer glume with 1-2 short awns. Joints of the rachis horizontally truncate without an appendage.--Species 7. Central Africa. Used for plaiting-work. (Rhytidachne Hack., including Jardinea Steud.) =Rhytachne= Desv.
Lower outer glume in the sessile spikelets awnless, in the stalked ones with a long awn or tail. Joints of the rachis obliquely truncate with an appendage at the tip.--Species 5. Central and South Africa. =Urelytrum= Hack.
46. Lower outer glume globular, pitted. Leaves cordate at the base.--Species 1. Tropics. Used in medicine. (Including Hackelochloa O. Ktze.) =Manisuris= Swartz
Lower outer glume more or less ovate, flat or rounded on the back. 47
47. Stalked spikelets reduced to the adnate pedicel and therefore apparently absent.--Species 1. Northern East Africa. (Under Rottboellia L. fil.) =Ophiurus= Gaertn.
Stalked spikelets containing a male flower or reduced to empty glumes.--Species 15. (Including Hemarthria R. Br.) =Rottboellia= L. fil.
48. (42.) Sessile spikelets 2-flowered, the lower flower male, the upper male or hermaphrodite. Stalked spikelets 1-2-flowered or reduced to empty glumes. 49
Sessile spikelets 1-flowered, rarely all spikelets stalked and 1-or (Imperata) 2-flowered. 52
49. Sessile spikelets containing 2 male flowers, stalked spikelets a male and a female or hermaphrodite flower. Outer glumes of the sessile spikelets awned. Flowering glumes awnless. Spikelets in compound racemes. Leaves lanceolate.--Species 1. Madagascar. =Cyphochlaena= Hack.
Sessile spikelets containing a male and an hermaphrodite flower. Flowering glumes of the sessile spikelets nearly always awned. [Subtribe ISCHAEMINAE.] 50
50. Racemes reduced to the 3 terminal spikelets, surrounded by sheathing bracts, fasciculate; fascicles arranged in panicles. Stamens 2-3.--Species 1. Islands of Réunion and Socotra. Used as an ornamental plant. =Apluda= L.
Racemes consisting of numerous pairs of spikelets, solitary or digitate; one spikelet of each pair sometimes reduced to the pedicel. Stamens 3. 51
51. Stalked spikelets reduced to the pedicel. Lower outer glume tuberculate.--Species 1. Abyssinia. =Thelepogon= Roth
Stalked spikelets 1-2-flowered or reduced to empty glumes.--Species 7. Tropical and South Africa. Some are used as fodder-or garden plants. =Ischaemum= L.
52. Spikelets all alike, hermaphrodite. [Subtribe SACCHARINAE.] 53
Spikelets of two kinds, the sessile hermaphrodite, rarely female, the stalked ones male or neuter, sometimes reduced to the pedicel. [Subtribe ANDROPOGONINAE.] 60
53. Rachis of the raceme jointed. 54
Rachis of the raceme not jointed. 57
54. Racemes more or less palmately arranged on a short main axis, rarely solitary. 55
Racemes arranged in panicles along a slender main axis, silky. Spikelets in pairs. 56
55. Spikelets solitary on the branches of the inflorescence, all sessile. Flowering glumes awned from the back. Leaves cordate-lanceolate.--Species 5. Tropics. =Arthraxon= Beauv.
Spikelets in pairs on the branches of the inflorescence, one sessile, the other stalked. Flowering glumes awned from the tip, rarely awnless. Leaves linear or lanceolate with a narrow base.--Species 5. South and East Africa, Madagascar and the neighbouring islands. (Including Eulalia Kunth) =Pollinia= Trin.
56. Flowering glume produced into a bristle or awn.--Species 5. South Africa, southern Central Africa, and Algeria. Some are used as ornamental plants or for plaiting mats. =Erianthus= Michx.
Flowering glume unarmed like the other glumes.--Species 5. One of them (S. officinarum L., sugar-cane) known only in a cultivated state. It is used for the manufacture of sugar, syrup, rum, and wax, also as a vegetable and a fodder-plant. =Saccharum= L.
57. Spikelets in pairs along the rachis of the raceme, awnless. Outer glumes 3, membranous, silky. Stamens 1-2.--Species 1 (I. cylindrica P. Beauv.) Sometimes a noxious weed in plantations, but also used for paper-making, and as a fodder-, medicinal or ornamental plant. =Imperata= Cyr.
Spikelets scattered along the rachis of the raceme, awned. 58
58. Outer glumes 3, the two lower stiff. Flowering glume very small, ending in a long awn. Panicle spreading, hairy.--Species 2. Central Africa. =Cleistachne= Benth.
Outer glumes 2. Flowering glume rather large, with a usually short awn in a terminal notch or on the back. Panicle spike-like. 59
59. Stigmas projecting at the tip of the spikelet, short-haired all round. Outer glumes awnless, rarely with a short awn. (See 41.) =Alopecurus= L.
Stigmas projecting near the base of the spikelet, feathery. Outer glumes with usually long awns.--Species 6. North Africa, Abyssinia, and South Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. “Beardgrass.” =Polypogon= Desf.
60. (52.) Racemes bearing at their base a false whorl of 4 male or neuter spikelets and subtended by a spathe-like bract, more rarely without a bract. 61
Racemes without a whorl of male or neuter spikelets at their base, rarely surrounded by an imperfect whorl of spikelets, but then racemes in pairs subtended by a common spathe. 62
61. Hermaphrodite spikelets produced at the base into an appendage decurrent along the rachis, easily separating from the whorl of spikelets below them.--Species 2. (Anthistiria L. fil.). =Themeda= Forsk.
Hermaphrodite spikelets without a decurrent appendage at the base, falling together with the whorl of spikelets below them.--Species 1. Naturalized in the Island of Mauritius. (Under Anthistiria L. fil.) =Iseilema= Anders.
62. Spikelets all stalked, in pairs, the longer-stalked hermaphrodite, the shorter-stalked male. Rachis of the raceme indistinctly jointed. Racemes terminal, solitary or 2-3 together.--Species 1. Tropical and South Africa. =Trachypogon= Nees
Spikelets partly sessile, partly stalked. Rachis of the raceme distinctly jointed, fragile at maturity, rarely indistinctly or not jointed, but then spikelets in clusters of three, arranged in panicles. 63
63. Lowest outer glume marked with two transparent balsamiferous streaks, usually 2-toothed. Glumes awnless. Racemes solitary; rachis nearly always silky.--Species 10. Tropical and South Africa. =Elionurus= Humb. & Bonpl.
Lowest outer glume without balsamiferous streaks. Flowering glumes of the sessile spikelets awned, very rarely awnless and then racemes nearly always panicled. 64
64. Flowering glumes awned from the back. Leaves cordate at the base. (See 55.) =Arthraxon= Beauv.
Flowering glumes awned from the tip or awnless. Leaves not cordate.--Species 110. The sorghum or Guinea corn (A. Sorghum Brot.) is cultivated as a cereal and used for manufacturing sugar, spirituous drinks, dyes, and brushware. Other species are used in perfumery (lemon-grass, vetiver-root) and medicine, for plaiting-work, or as fodder-or garden-plants. (Including Anatherum Beauv., Chrysopogon Trin., Cymbopogon Spreng., Euclaste Franch., Heterochloa Desv., Heteropogon Pers., Homopogon Stapf, and Sorghum Pers.) =Andropogon= L.
65. (1.) Leaf-blade jointed with the sheath and finally separating from it, often contracted at the base into a short stalk, usually transversely veined. Stem generally woody. [Subfamily =BAMBUSOIDEAE=.] 66 Leaf-blade passing into the sheath without a joint and without a stalk, rarely transversely veined. Stem herbaceous. [Subfamily =POOIDEAE=.] 79
66. Stamens 3. Styles 2-3, free. Outer glumes 1-2. Pericarp dry and thin. [Tribe ARUNDINARIEAE.] 67
Stamens 6. 68
67. Spikelets 2-flowered. Upper flowering glume keeled. Herbs.--Species 1. Equatorial West Africa. =Microcalamus= Franch.
Spikelets many-flowered. Flowering glumes not keeled. Undershrubs or shrubs.--Species 2. East and South Africa. They yield wood, fibre, vegetables, edible seeds, and medicaments. =Arundinaria= Michx.
68. Fruit a nut or a berry; pericarp thick, free from the seed. Tall shrubs or trees. 69
Fruit a caryopsis; pericarp thin, adnate to the seed. [Tribe BAMBUSEAE.] 72
69. Palea rounded on the back, similar to the flowering glume. Spikelets 1-flowered. [Tribe MELOCANNEAE.] 70
Palea 2-keeled. Fruit a nut. [Tribe DENDROCALAMEAE.] 71
70. Spikelets in one-sided spikes, the axis not continued beyond the flower. Outer glumes acuminate. Fruit a large apple-like berry. Trees.--Species 1. Naturalized in the Island of Mauritius. The fruits are edible; also the wood and the fibres are used. =Melocanna= Trin.
Spikelets in panicled clusters, the axis continued beyond the flower in the form of a bristle. Outer glumes rolled inwards. Fruit a small wrinkled nut. Shrubs.--Species 1. Madagascar. Used medicinally. =Schizostachyum= Nees
71. Spikelets 1-flowered, in scattered heads. Lodicules 2-3, large. Fruit oblong.--Species 1. Madagascar. =Cephalostachyum= Munro
Spikelets 2-or more-flowered, in panicled glomerules. Lodicules 1-2, very small, or absent. Fruit subglobular, beaked.--Species 1. Naturalized in the Island of Mauritius. Yields wood, fibre, vegetables, edible seeds, and medicaments, and is also used as an ornamental plant. =Dendrocalamus= Nees
72. Filaments united into a tube. Palea of the uppermost (hermaphrodite) flower of each spikelet usually 1-keeled. 73
Filaments free. Palea of the uppermost flower 2-keeled, rarely without a keel. 75
73. Spikelets terete. Lodicules none. Tall shrubs.--Species 5. Central Africa. =Oxytenanthera= Munro
Spikelets compressed. Herbs. 74
74. Outer glumes 2. Fruit spindle-shaped, furrowed; style much broadened at the base. Spikelets in racemes.--Species 1. Equatorial West Africa. =Atractocarpa= Franch.
Outer glumes 3-4. Fruit subglobular, not furrowed; style not broadened.--Species 5. Equatorial West Africa. =Puelia= Franch.
75. Spikelets 1-flowered. Outer glumes 6-10. Ovary glabrous. Style 2-3-cleft or-parted. Tall shrubs.--Species 3. Madagascar and Mascarenes. =Nastus= Juss.
Spikelets 2-or more-flowered. Outer glumes 1-6. 76
76. Lodicules none. Spikelets 2-flowered, in clusters surrounded by two bracts. Ovary glabrous. Style undivided, hairy.--Species 1. German East Africa. =Oreobambus= K. Schum.
Lodicules 2-3. Spikelets without bracts. Ovary hairy. 77
77. Lodicules 2. Outer glume 1. Palea not winged on the keels. Styles 2, free. Spikelets many-flowered. Herbs with 4 large leaves.--Species 1. West Africa (Cameroons). (Under Guaduella Franch.) =Microbambus= K. Schum.
Lodicules 3. Outer glumes usually 2. 78
78. Palea with winged keels. Spikelets strongly flattened. Herbs.--Species 5. Equatorial West Africa. =Guaduella= Franch.
Palea not winged on the keels. Spikelets slightly flattened. Tall shrubs.--Species 2. Cultivated and sometimes naturalized. They yield wood, fibre, vegetables, edible seeds, drinks, and medicaments, and are also used as ornamental plants. “Bamboo.” =Bambusa= Schreb.
79. (65.) Spikelets sessile in the notches on the rachis of a nearly always equal-sided spike, usually 2-ranked. [Tribe HORDEAE.] 80
Spikelets along a rachis without notches, in usually one-sided spikes or in racemes or panicles. 94
80. Spike one-sided. Spikelets solitary in each notch, 1-flowered. Outer glume 1, minute. Flowering glume awned. Stigma 1. Leaves stiff.--Species 1. Azores. “Matgrass.” [Subtribe NARDEAE.] =Nardus= L.
Spike equal-sided. Stigmas 2. 81
81. Spikelets solitary in each notch of the spike. 82
Spikelets 2-6 in each notch of the spike. [Subtribe ELYMINAE.] 93
82. Spikelets with the back towards the hollows of the rachis. [Subtribe LOLIINAE.] 83
Spikelets with the side towards the hollows of the rachis. 88
83. Spikelets 1-flowered, awnless, the terminal one with 2 outer glumes, the others with one. 84
Spikelets 2-to many-flowered. 86
84. Flowering glumes with a hairy callus at their base. Outer glumes 1-3-nerved. Dwarf herbs.--Species 2. South and East Africa. =Oropetium= Trin.
Flowering glumes with a glabrous, sometimes rudimentary callus. 85
85. Joints of the rachis of the spike produced into wing-like appendages.--Species 1. Island of Socotra. =Ischnurus= Balf. fil.
Joints of the rachis of the spike without wing-like appendages.--Species 3. Madagascar, South and North-west Africa. =Monerma= Beauv.
86. Spikelets 2-flowered. Styles long. Outer glumes 2. Flowering glumes produced into 3 points.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). (Including Kralikiella Coss. et Durieu). =Kralikia= Coss. et Durieu
Spikelets many-flowered. Styles very short. 87
87. Outer glumes 2, awnless. Flowering glumes with 2 points and a dorsal awn. Lodicules 2-cleft. Fruit hairy at the top.--Species 2. North Africa. (Including Meringurus Murbeck). =Gaudinia= Beauv.
Outer glumes in the terminal spikelets 2, in the lateral single. Fruit glabrous.--Species 6. North, South, and East Africa. Two species (ray-grass) are cultivated on lawns; one (the darnel, L. temulentum L.) is poisonous. (Including Arthrochortus Lowe). =Lolium= L.
88. Spikelets 1-, very rarely 2-flowered, in a slender spike; joints of the spike separating at maturity together with the lower spikelet. Outer glumes approximate in front. [Subtribe LEPTURINAE.] 89
Spikelets 2-to many-flowered, in usually stout spikes; joints of the spike separating at maturity together with the upper spikelet or not separating at all. Outer glumes opposite one another. [Subtribe TRITICINAE.] 90
89. Outer glume 1, very small. Flowering glumes awned. Stamen 1. Rachis of the spike with but slightly hollowed joints.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). =Psilurus= Trin.
Outer glumes 2, large. Flowering glumes awnless.--Species 4. North Africa, Abyssinia, Socotra. =Lepturus= R. Br.
90. Flowering glumes decurrent into a callus limited by a furrow, falling with the fruit when ripe. Fruit adhering to the palea.--Species 7. North Africa, Abyssinia, South Africa. The quitch grass (A. repens Beauv.) is used for binding the sand, as fodder, for making syrup, and medicinally. (Including Eremopyrum Jaub. et Spach). =Agropyrum= Gaertn.
Flowering glumes without a callus at the base, persisting at maturity. Fruit free. 91
91. Outer glumes ovate, 3-to many-nerved. Fertile spikelets ventricose, 2-5-flowered. Spike usually with a terminal spikelet.--Species 13. Ten species spontaneous in North Africa and Abyssinia, the others (especially the wheat, T. sativum Lam. and polonicum L.) cultivated in various regions. The latter are used as cereals and for plaiting-work, other species as ornamental plants. (Including Aegilops L.) =Triticum= L.
Outer glumes oblong lanceolate or subulate, 1-2-nerved. Spikelets not ventricose, 2-, rarely 3-flowered. Spike without a terminal spikelet. 92
92. Outer glumes truncate, two-keeled, with a long awn. Flowering glumes awned from below the tip. Spike very dense.--Species 2. North-west Africa. =Haynaldia= Schur
Outer glumes acuminate, one-nerved. Flowering glumes awned from the tip. Spike rather loose.--Species 3. North Africa, Abyssinia, and South Africa. One of them (the rye, S. cereale L.) is cultivated as a cereal and also used as fodder, for making brandy and paper, and for plaiting-work. =Secale= L.
93. Spikelets 1-flowered, sometimes with an empty glume above the flower. Flowering glume awned.--Species 8. North Africa; some species also cultivated or naturalized in Abyssinia, Madagascar, and South Africa. The barley (H. sativum Jessen) is cultivated as a cereal and for making beer; it is also used as fodder and for medicinal purposes. Other species are used as ornamental plants. =Hordeum= L.
Spikelets 2-6-flowered.--Species 2. North Africa. Used as ornamental plants. “Lymegrass.” =Elymus= L.
94. (79.) Spikelets in two rows approximated to one another, forming one-sided, sometimes panicled spikes (or spike-like racemes). [Tribe CHLORIDEAE.] 95
Spikelets in sometimes spike-like but equal-sided racemes or more frequently in panicles not consisting of one-sided spikes. 123
95. Spikelets containing 1 hermaphrodite flower. 96
Spikelets containing 2 or more hermaphrodite flowers. 108
96. Spikelets bearing no male flowers or empty glumes above the hermaphrodite flower, but sometimes ending in a short bristle. 97
Spikelets bearing above the hermaphrodite flower a male flower or one or several empty, sometimes very small or awn-like glumes. 101
97. Spikelets awned. 98
Spikelets awnless. 99
98. Flowering glume much shorter than the outer glumes, with a very long awn. Spikes 1-4, terminal.--Species 3. Central Africa and Egypt. =Schoenefeldia= Kunth
Flowering glume almost as long as the outer glumes, with a short awn. Spikes numerous, arranged along a common axis.--Species 4. Southern West Africa. =Willkommia= Hack.
99. Spikes solitary, terminal.--Species 3. Central and South Africa. Used in medicine. =Microchloa= R. Br.
Spikes digitate or in racemes. 100
100. Spikes digitate, 3-5. Flowering glume usually larger than the outer glumes.--Species 5. Some are used as pasture-grasses or in medicine. “Dogstooth.” =Cynodon= Pers.
Spikes arranged along a common axis. Rachis of the spike dilated. Flowering glume much smaller than the outer glumes.--Species 2. East Africa. =Craspedorhachis= Benth.
101. Outer glumes 4. Second outer glume and flowering glume awned. Spikes solitary, rarely 2-3 together.--Species 5. Tropical and South Africa and Egypt. (Including Campulosus Desv.) =Ctenium= Panzer
Outer glumes 2. 102
102. Spike 1, terminal. 103
Spikes 2 or more, sometimes fascicle-like. 105
103. Flowering glume many-nerved, awned. Styles united at the base, with shortly bearded, at length spirally twisted stigmas.--Species 1. Central Africa. =Streptogyne= Beauv.
Flowering glume 3-nerved. Styles free, with feathery stigmas. 104
104. Spikelets awned, imbricate, in slender spikes.--Species 6. East and South Africa, Madagascar and Seychelles. =Enteropogon= Nees
Spikelets awnless, crowded, in stout spikes.--Species 1. South Africa. =Harpechloa= Kunth
105. Spikes in false whorls or closely superposed.--Species 25. Some are used as ornamental or fodder-plants. (Plate 8.) =Chloris= Swartz
Spikes all distant or the lowest only approximate. 106
106. Spikes very short and very dense. Outer glumes ciliate, with a straight awn. Flowering glume with 3 awns. Several empty glumes above the flowering glume. Low grasses.--Species 1. Northern East Africa. =Melanocenchris= Nees
Spikes more or less elongated and loose. Flowering glume with 1 awn or awnless. Rather tall grasses. 107
107. Flowering glume awned, 2-toothed. Empty glume above the flowering one awn-like. Spikes very loose, at first erect.--Species 1. Abyssinia. =Gymnopogon= Beauv.
Flowering glume awnless. Spikes rather dense, spreading.--Species 8. Central Africa. Some have edible seeds. (Including Cypholepis Chiov.) =Leptochloa= Beauv.
108. (95.) Spikes 1-3, terminal. 109
Spikes more than 3. 114
109. Flowering glumes with 3, sometimes very short awns. Spikelets many-flowered. Spikes long, rather loose.--Species 4. Central Africa. =Tripogon= Roth
Flowering glumes with one awn or mucro or unarmed. Spikes dense, usually short. 110
110. Flowering glumes with a rather long awn, long-haired on the back. Spikelets 2-3-flowered.--Species 6. Central and North Africa. (Including Lepidopironia Rich.) =Tetrapogon= Desf.
Flowering glumes unarmed or mucronate. 111
111. Spikes 2-3 together. Spikelets 3-4-flowered. Fruit almost orbicular. Leaves rather broad.--Species 1. Egypt and Nubia. (Under Eragrostis Beauv.) =Coelachyrum= Nees
Spike solitary. Fruit oblong. Leaves narrow. 112
112. Spikelets 2-flowered. Flowering glumes and paleas delicately membranous.--Species 3. South Africa. (Prionanthium Desv.) =Prionachne= Nees
Spikelets 3-to many-flowered. Flowering glumes and paleas firmly membranous, rather stiff. 113
113. Outer glumes subequal.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). =Wangenheimia= Moench
Outer glumes very unequal or only one present.--Species 50. Some are used for the manufacture of paper or as ornamental or fodder-plants. Fescue.” (Including Ctenopsis De Not., Nardurus Reichb., and Vulpia Gmel.) =Festuca= L.
114. (108.) Outer glumes 4. Spikelets falling entire. 115
Outer glumes 2, usually persisting on the stalk of the spikelet. 116
115. Outer glumes 1-nerved. Flowering glumes 5-nerved. Styles short.--Species 1. South Africa. =Tetrachne= Nees
Outer glumes 3-8-nerved. Flowering glumes 7-11-nerved. Styles long.--Species 2. South Africa and Angola. (Under Tetrachne Nees). =Entoplocamia= Stapf
116. Outer glumes shortly awned, much longer than the flowering glumes. Spikes short, distant, at length bent downward.--Species 2. Central Africa and Egypt. Used as ornamental grasses. (Dineba Jacq.) =Dinebra= Jacq.
Outer glumes unarmed or mucronate, shorter than the flowering glumes. 117
117. Spikelets very densely crowded. Spikes digitate, at least the upper. 118
Spikelets not very densely crowded. Spikes distant. 119
118. Spikes ending in a point. Outer glumes mucronate.--Species 6. Used as cereals, fodder-, medicinal, or ornamental plants, and for making beer. (Under Eleusine Gaertn.) =Dactyloctenium= Willd.
Spikes terminated by a spikelet. Outer glumes usually unarmed. Pericarp usually loose.--Species 10. The coracan (E. coracana Gaertn.) is cultivated as a cereal and for the preparation of beer; other species are used as medicinal or ornamental plants. (Including Acrachne Wight Arn.) =Eleusine= Gaertn.
119. Flowering glumes rounded on the back. Pericarp more or less adhering to the palea. (See 113.) =Festuca= L.
Flowering glumes keeled. Pericarp free. 120
120. Glumes thinly membranous, the outer subequal. 121
Glumes firmly membranous, glabrous, the outer conspicuously unequal. 122
121. Flowering glumes 4-toothed, shortly awned.--Species 3. East and South Africa. (Under Diplachne Beauv.) =Leptocarydium= Hochst.
Flowering glumes entire or obscurely 2-3-toothed. (See 107.) =Leptochloa= Beauv.
122. Spikelets 2-8-flowered, with a jointed, ciliate axis. Lodicules very small. Fruit linear-oblong, closely enveloped by the glumes.--Species 2. South and East Africa. Used as fodder-grasses. (Under Eragrostis L. or Leptochloa Beauv.) =Pogonarthria= Stapf
Spikelets many-flowered, with a tough axis. Lodicules rather large. Fruit ovate, loosely enveloped by the glumes.--Species 1. East Africa and Egypt. (Stapfiola O. Ktze., under Eragrostis L.) =Desmostachya= Stapf
123. (94.) Spikelets 1-flowered. 124
Spikelets 2-or more-flowered. 153
124. Outer glumes 4, rarely 3. Palea usually 1-nerved. [Tribe PHALARIDEAE.] 125
Outer glumes 2, rarely 1 or none. Palea usually 2-nerved. [Tribe AGROSTIDEAE.] 129
125. Leaves lanceolate or elliptical, transversely veined. Spikelets in pairs on the branches of a panicle. Outer glumes 3.--Species 2. Madagascar. =Poecilostachys= Hack.
Leaves linear. Flowering glume awnless. 126
126. Upper two outer glumes, or at least the uppermost, larger than the lower. Stamens 6, rarely 3.--Species 25. South and East Africa, Mascarene Islands, St. Helena. =Ehrharta= Thunb.
Upper two outer glumes smaller than the lower, more rarely equalling them. Stamens 2-3. 127
127. Upper two outer glumes awnless, smaller than the lower. Flowering glume and palea hardening. Lodicules present. Stamens 3.--Species 10. North, East, and South Africa. Some species are used as ornamental grasses. The seeds of Ph. canariensis L. (Canary-seeds) are used as food and in medicine. =Phalaris= L.
Upper two outer glumes awned; lower two unequal. Flowering glume and palea membranous. Lodicules none. Stamens 2. 128
128. Upper two outer glumes smaller than the lower.--Species 5. North-west and Central Africa. The vernal grass (A. odoratum L.) imparts a sweet scent to new-made hay. =Anthoxanthum= L.
Upper two outer glumes about as large as the lower.--Species 5. South Africa and Madagascar. “Holygrass.” (Ataxia R. Br., under Anthoxanthum L.). =Hierochloë= Gmel.
129. (124.) Stigmas shortly branched all round, protruding between the tips of the slightly gaping glumes. [Subtribe PHLEINAE.] 130
Stigmas feathery, protruding above the base of the spikelet or enclosed in it. 133
130. Flowering glume rather stiff, awned or mucronate. Axis of the spikelet produced beyond the flower into a bristle usually bearing an empty glume.--Species 2. South Africa. =Fingerhuthia= Nees
Flowering glume thinly membranous, unarmed. Axis of the spikelet rarely produced beyond the flower into a bristle without empty glumes. 131
131. Spikelets in slender simple spikes. Outer glumes obscurely keeled, unarmed. Flowering glume somewhat shorter than the outer. Leaves awl-shaped.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). =Mibora= Adans.
Spikelets in spike-like panicles. Outer glumes distinctly keeled. Leaves flat. 132
132. Flowering glume somewhat longer than the outer. Outer glumes unarmed.--Species 4. North Africa to Senegambia, East Africa, Madagascar. =Heleochloa= Host
Flowering glume much shorter than the outer. Outer glumes mucronate or shortly awned.--Species 5. North Africa to Senegambia. Some species have edible seeds or are used as ornamental grasses. Ph. pratense L. is a valuable fodder-grass. “Timothy-grass.” =Phleum= L.
133. Flowering glume harder than the outer glumes at maturity, tightly enclosing the fruit. Axis of the spikelet not prolonged beyond the flower. [Subtribe STIPINAE.] 134
Flowering glume thinner than the outer at maturity, loosely enclosing or not enclosing the fruit, rarely harder or tightly enclosing the fruit, but then the axis of the spikelet prolonged into a bristle. 137
134. Flowering glume awnless.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). Yields edible seeds and is used as an ornamental grass. =Milium= L.
Flowering glume awned. 135
135. Flowering glume narrow, with a 3-branched awn, but the lateral branches sometimes very short. Lodicules 2.--Species 80. Some of them have edible seeds or are used as fodder. (Including Arthratherum Beauv.) =Aristida= L.
Flowering glume with a single awn. 136
136. Flowering glume narrow, with a strong, kneed, usually twisted, persistent awn. Palea not distinctly keeled. Lodicules usually 3.--Species 15. North Africa, northern East Africa, Madagascar, and South Africa. The Esparto-grass (St. tenacissima L.) is used for the manufacture of paper, ropes, and in plaiting-work, other species as ornamental grasses (feather-grass); some have edible seeds. (Stupa L., including Macrochloa Kunth) =Stipa= L.
Flowering glume broad, with a fine, short, deciduous awn. Palea 2-keeled. Lodicules usually 2.--Species 3. North Africa, one species also introduced into South Africa. (Piptatherum Beauv.) =Oryzopsis= Michx.
137. Fruit not enclosed by the glumes; pericarp usually loose and dehiscing. Axis of the spikelet not produced beyond the flower. Glumes unarmed. Flowering glume usually longer than the outer ones.--Species 60. Some of them yield edible seeds or are used as fodder and for plaiting-work. (Including Triachyrium Hochst. and Vilfa Beauv.) =Sporobolus= R. Br.
Fruit enclosed by the flowering glume and the palea; pericarp usually adnate to the seed. 138
138. Spikelets of two kinds, the fertile surrounded by the sterile, which consist of numerous glumes. Flowering glume 1-nerved, with a dorsal awn.--Species 1. North Africa and Abyssinia; also introduced into South Africa. Used as an ornamental grass. (Chrysurus Pers.) =Lamarckia= Moench
Spikelets all alike. 139
139. Outer glumes conspicuously shorter than the flowering glume. Flowering glume firmly herbaceous, 3-5-nerved, with a long, straight, terminal or subterminal awn. Panicle loose.--Species 2. East and South-east Africa (Kilimandjaro and Transvaal). (Under Brachyelytrum Beauv.) =Pseudobromus= K. Schum.
Outer glumes almost equalling the flowering glume or exceeding it. Flowering glume membranous, rarely firmer, but then many-nerved or with a distinctly dorsal awn or awnless. 140
140. Outer glumes feathery, long. Flowering glume with two short terminal awns or with a long dorsal one. Panicles spike-or head-like.--Species 1. North Africa; introduced in South Africa. Used as an ornamental grass. “Harestail-grass.” =Lagurus= L.
Outer glumes not feathery. 141
141. Outer glumes bladdery at the base, much longer than the flowering glume. Panicles spike-like.--Species 2. North Africa and Abyssinia. “Nitgrass.” =Gastridium= Beauv.
Outer glumes not bladdery. 142
142. Flowering glume cleft into 9-23 awn-shaped teeth. Panicles spike-like.--Species 13. Some are used as fodder-grasses. (Including Enneapogon Desv.) =Pappophorum= Schreb.
Flowering glume with 1-3 awns or awnless. 143
143. Flowering glume with a delicate dorsal awn and two long and thin lateral awns.--Species 2. Egypt and Abyssinia. =Trisetaria= Forsk.
Flowering glume awnless or with a single awn and sometimes 2 short bristles. 144
144. Flowering glume with a terminal awn, rounded on the back, sometimes keeled towards the tip. (See 113.) =Festuca= L.
Flowering glume with a dorsal awn or with a short mucro or unarmed. 145
145. Flowering glume decurrent into a callus bearing a tuft of long hairs. 146
Flowering glume with a glabrous or shortly and scantily hairy callus or without a callus. 147
146. Flowering glume papery, unarmed or shortly mucronate. Spikelets large, with a glabrous and bristle-like or a club-shaped prolongation of the axis.--Species 1 (A. arundinacea Host, maram). North Africa. Used for binding sand-dunes and as a fodder-grass; the root-stock is edible. (Psamma Beauv.) =Ammophila= Host
Flowering glume membranous, awned from the back, very rarely awnless. Spikelets rather small, sometimes with a bristle-like and usually hairy prolongation of the axis.--Species 6. Azores, mountains of tropical Africa, South Africa. Some are used as ornamental or medicinal plants. (Including Deyeuxia Beauv.) =Calamagrostis= Roth
147. Axis of the spikelet not distinctly continued beyond the flower. Flowering glume shorter than the outer glumes. 148
Axis of the spikelet produced beyond the flower into a bristle-like appendage bearing sometimes empty glumes. 149
148. Palea as long as the flowering glume. Panicles few-flowered.--Species 1. South Africa. (Under Agrostis L. or Colpodium Trin.) =Poagrostis= Stapf
Palea shorter than the flowering glume. Panicles many-flowered.--Species 30. North and South Africa and mountains of the tropics. Some are used as fodder-or ornamental grasses. “Bent-grass.” =Agrostis= L.
149. Flowering glume much shorter than the outer glumes, with 2 bristles at the top and an awn on the back near the base. Continuation of the axis of the spikelet hairy, without glumes. Panicles spike-like.--Species 1. North-west Africa. (Under Gastridium Beauv.) =Triplachne= Link
Flowering glume slightly shorter or longer than the outer glumes. Continuation of the axis of the spikelet glabrous or bearing empty glumes. 150
150. Flowering glume with a very long awn. Outer glumes unequal. Continuation of the axis of the spikelet without glumes. Panicle loose.--Species 2. North-west Africa (Algeria). Used as ornamental grasses. =Apera= Adans.
Flowering glume with a short or moderate awn or awnless. Outer glumes subequal. Continuation of the axis of the spikelet usually with empty glumes. 151
151. Lower outer glume 1-nerved. Flowering glume 3-5-nerved, membranous, about as long as the outer glumes. Continuation of the axis of the spikelet with 1-2 empty glumes or without glumes.--Species 10. North Africa, Abyssinia, South Africa. Some are used as fodder-grasses. =Koeleria= Pers.
Lower outer glume 3-9-nerved. Flowering glume 5-to many-nerved, leathery or longer than the outer glumes. 152
152. Fruit deeply grooved. Flowering glume leathery, rounded on the back, with a kneed dorsal awn. Outer glumes 7-9-nerved.--Species 20. Extra-tropical regions and mountains of the tropics. Some (especially A. sativa L.) are cultivated as cereals (oat) or fodder, and yield also oil and medicaments; others are used as ornamental grasses. (Including Avenastrum Juss.) =Avena= L.
Fruit not deeply grooved. Flowering glume keeled, longer than the outer ones. Outer glumes 3-7-nerved. Empty glumes above the flower 2 or more.--Species 10. Extra-tropical regions. Some are used as ornamental grasses. =Melica= L.
153. (123.) Flowering glumes, at least one in each spikelet, bearing a twisted or kneed, generally dorsal awn, usually shorter than the outer glumes, rarely awnless, and then spikelets 2-flowered with a very short axis not prolonged beyond the flowers. [Tribe AVENEAE.] 154
Flowering glumes bearing a straight, terminal or subterminal awn, or unawned, usually longer than the outer glumes. Spikelets 2-flowered, the axis prolonged between the flowers or above them, or 3-many-flowered. [Tribe FESTUCEAE.] 177
154. Spikelets 2-flowered without a continuation of the axis beyond the upper flower. Flowering glumes usually unawned. 155
Spikelets 2-flowered with a continuation of the axis beyond the upper flower, or 3-many-flowered. Flowering glumes awned. 161
155. Spikelets solitary, enveloped by a spathe. Flowering glumes connate. Style 1, undivided. Stigma papillose. (See 3.) =Lygeum= L.
Spikelets in panicles, racemes, or spikes. Flowering glumes free. Styles 2, free. Stigmas feathery. 156
156. Outer glumes with a cartilaginous, pectinately-toothed keel. Panicle spike-like. (See 112.) =Prionachne= Nees
Outer glumes membranous. 157
157. Outer glumes hemispherical. Panicle spike-like.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). =Airopsis= Desv.
Outer glumes not hemispherical. Panicle spreading. 158
158. Outer glumes shorter than the flowering glumes. Flowering glumes truncate or minutely toothed.--Species 1. North-west Africa. (Under Aira L.) =Molineria= Parl.
Outer glumes somewhat longer than the flowering glumes. 159
159. Flowering glumes blunt, unarmed, hardened at maturity. Axis of the spikelet very short. (See 21.) =Isachne= R. Br.
Flowering glumes 3-lobed, 2-toothed, or mucronate, usually provided with a dorsal awn, not hardened at maturity. 160
160. Flowering glumes 3-lobed, unarmed. Axis of the spikelet somewhat elongated between the flowers.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). Used as an ornamental grass. (Under Aira L.) =Antinoria= Parl.
Flowering glumes 2-toothed or mucronate, nearly always with a dorsal awn. Axis of the spikelet very short.--Species 8. Extra-tropical regions and mountains of the tropics. Some species are used as ornamental grasses. =Aira= L.
161. (154.) Flowering glumes with a terminal awn inserted between the apical lobes or teeth. 162
Flowering glume with a dorsal awn inserted below the apex. 168
162. Spikelets 2-flowered; the lower flower male, the upper female or hermaphrodite. 163
Spikelets 2-or more flowered; all flowers hermaphrodite or the uppermost male. Flowering glumes 5-11-nerved. 165
163. Spikelets in clusters of 3 at the tips of the branches of a raceme or panicle.--Species 13. Tropical and South Africa. =Tristachya= Nees
Spikelets solitary at the tips of the branches of a panicle. 164
164. Palea auricled. Flowering glume of the upper flower not distinctly toothed. Spikelets small.--Species 4. Tropical and South Africa. Some are used for plaiting-work. =Arundinella= Raddi
Palea not auricled. Flowering glume of the upper flower distinctly toothed. Spikelets large.--Species 25. Tropical and South Africa. =Trichopteryx= Nees
165. Spikelets with 2 flowers and a minute or bristle-like continuation of the axis. Flowering glumes with 2-4, at least partly bristle-like teeth. 166
Spikelets with 3 or more flowers, the uppermost of which is usually incomplete. Flowering glumes with 2 rarely bristle-like teeth. 167
166. Fruit globular; pericarp crusty, almost free from the seed.--Species 5. South Africa. (Under Danthonia DC.) =Pentameris= Beauv.
Fruit oblong.--Species 40. Southern and tropical Africa. The seeds of some species are eaten or used in medicine. (Under Danthonia DC.) =Pentaschistis= (Nees) Stapf
167. Spikelets falling entire with a part of their stalk. Lowest flowering glume without, the others with side-bristles.--Species 4. South Africa. (Under Danthonia DC.) =Chaetobromus= (Nees) Stapf
Spikelets not falling entire; axis jointed between and below the flowering glumes.--Species 30. Extra-tropical regions and mountains of the tropics. The seeds of several species are eaten or used in medicine. =Danthonia= DC.
168. (161.) Spikelets in spikes, many-flowered. (See 87.) =Gaudinia= Beauv.
Spikelets in sometimes spike-like panicles. 169
169. Lower flowers male, upper hermaphrodite. 170
Lower or all flowers hermaphrodite, upper sometimes male or barren. 171
170. Spikelets with 2 flowers and a bristle-like continuation of the axis. Stamens 3. Styles short.--Species 2. North-west Africa. They yield fodder and edible seeds. =Arrhenatherum= Beauv.
Spikelets with 3 flowers, one of which is sometimes reduced to a glume, without a continuation of the axis. Stamens in the male flowers 3, in the hermaphrodite 2. Styles long. (See 128.) =Hierochloe= Gmel.
171. Axis of the spikelets jointed at the base; spikelets falling entire, 2-flowered, the upper flower usually male, the lower hermaphrodite with the flowering glume unarmed.--Species 6. North-west and South Africa. Some are used as ornamental grasses. =Holcus= L.
Axis of the spikelets jointed above the persistent outer glumes. 172
172. Fruit grooved in front, usually adherent to the glumes. Spikelets large. 173
Fruit not grooved, free. Spikelets usually small. 174
173. Fruit slightly grooved. Styles inserted laterally below the summit of the ovary.--Species 30. Extra-tropical regions and mountains of the tropics. Some species are poisonous, others are used as fodder-, medicinal, or ornamental plants. =Bromus= L.
Fruit deeply grooved. Styles inserted at or near the summit of the ovary. (See 152.) =Avena= L.
174. Flowering glumes 2-cleft or 2-toothed to 2-awned. 175
Flowering glumes irregularly and minutely toothed or 2-lobed with toothed lobes or entire. 176
175. Flowering glume of the lower flower awnless, entire. Outer glumes 3-5-nerved. Spikelets linear-oblong.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria) =Ventenata= Koeler Flowering glume of the lower flower awned, 2-toothed. Outer glumes 1-3-nerved. Spikelets lanceolate-elliptical.--Species 20. Extra-tropical regions and mountains of the tropics. Some species are used as fodder-or ornamental grasses. =Trisetum= Pers.
170. Awns of the flowering glumes jointed, thickened towards the tip.--Species 3. North Africa. (Under Aira L.) =Corynephorus= Beauv.
Awns of the flowering glumes not jointed, slender throughout.--Species 5. Azores, Canaries, high mountains of Central Africa, subantarctic islands. Used as ornamental grasses. (Under Aira L.) =Deschampsia= Beauv.
177. (153.) Flowering glumes of the fertile flowers cleft in 3-23 awn-like or awn-bearing lobes. [Subtribe PAPPOPHORINAE.] 178
Flowering glumes entire or 2-lobed, rarely (Triodia) 3-lobed, bearing a single awn or unawned. 182
178. Flowering glumes 3-cleft, with 3 awns. Spikelets 5-15-flowered, in panicles.--Species 9. Southern and Central Africa, Sahara, Egypt. Some are used as fodder-grasses. =Triraphis= R. Br.
Flowering glumes 4-many-cleft, with 5 or more awns. Spikelets 2-6-flowered. 179
179. Flowering glumes with 5-9 awns springing from the back of the lobes. Style 1, short and broad, 2-cleft. Spikelets 2-3-flowered, in dense panicles.--Species 1. Egypt. =Boissiera= Hochst.
Flowering glumes with 5-23 awns springing from the tips of the lobes or from the notches between them. Styles 2, free. 180
180. Flowering glumes with 9-23 awn-like lobes. Spikelets 2-3-flowered, in spike-like panicles. (See 142.) =Pappophorum= Schreb.
Flowering glumes with 5-7 awns or awn-like lobes. 181
181. Flowering glumes with 5-7 subequal, awn-like lobes. Spikelets 2-3-flowered, in heads.--Species 1. North-west Africa. =Echinaria= Desv.
Flowering glumes with 9 lobes, 5 of which are awn-like. Spikelets 4-6-flowered, in rather loose panicles.--Species 3. Central and South Africa and Egypt. Used as fodder and in medicine. (Antoschmidtia Steud.) =Schmidtia= Steud.
182. Axis of the spikelets or flowering glumes covered with long hairs enveloping the glumes. [Subtribe ARUNDINAE.] 183 Axis of the spikelets and flowering glumes glabrous or short-haired. 185
183. Flowering glumes firmly membranous, 5-nerved, hairy like the axis of the spikelets. Ovary hairy at the top. Leaves narrow, more or less rolled up. Low grasses.--Species 1 (A. tenax Link). North Africa. Used for making paper, in plaiting-work, as fodder, and as an ornamental plant. =Ampelodesma= Beauv.
Flowering glumes delicately membranous, 3-nerved; if hairy, then axis of the spikelets glabrous. Ovary glabrous. Leaves flat and rather broad. Tall grasses. 184
184. Flowering glumes glabrous, entire, produced into a fine point. Axis of the spikelets hairy. Lowest flower of each spikelet usually male. Panicles lax.--Species 2. Used in house-building, for plaiting-work and divers utensils, and as ornamental grasses; the root-stock is edible and used in medicine. “Reed.” (Trichoon Roth) =Phragmites= Trin.
Flowering glumes hairy, 2-toothed, with a mucro in the notch. Axis of the spikelets glabrous. Flowers all hermaphrodite or the uppermost flower or all flowers of the lower spikelets male. Panicles dense.--Species 5. North Africa, Madagascar, South Africa. Used in house-building, for plaiting-work, and as medicinal, fodder-, and ornamental plants. Reed.” (Donax Beauv., including Neyraudia Hook. fil.) =Arundo= L.
185. Stigmas shortly papillose on all sides, projecting between the tips of the flowering glumes; styles long. [Subtribe SESLERINAE.] 186
Stigmas feathery, rather short, projecting near the base of the flowering glumes; styles short or almost wanting. 191
186. Styles united at the base. Stigmas spirally twisted. Spikelets in one-sided spikes or spike-like racemes, 2-flowered, very rarely 3-4-flowered. Glumes many-nerved; the outer ones unarmed, the flowering ones awned. Leaves transversely veined. (See 103.) =Streptogyne= Beauv.
Styles free. Spikelets in sometimes spike-like panicles or in heads. 187
187. Spikelets in spike-like panicles, falling singly and entire, 2-flowered, very rarely 3-4-flowered, the uppermost flower male. Glumes awned or mucronate. (See 130.) =Fingerhuthia= Nees
Spikelets in heads or head-like panicles or in fascicles arranged in spike-like panicles, not falling entire. 188
188. Spikelets in fascicles arranged in slender spike-like panicles, rarely in heads, and then stamen 1. Glumes 1-3-nerved, mucronate or awned. Spikelets 3-7-flowered.--Species 2. Central Africa. =Elytrophorus= Beauv.
Spikelets in head-like panicles. Stamens 3. 189
189. Glumes 4-7-nerved, long-awned. Spikelets 3-7-flowered. Panicles enveloped by the sheath of the uppermost leaf. Leaves awl-shaped.--Species 1. South Africa. =Urochlaena= Nees
Glumes 1-3-nerved, not awned, but sometimes mucronate. Leaves flat. 190
190. Spikelets 2-3-flowered, in spikes arranged in heads enveloped by the sheath of the uppermost leaf.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Morocco). (Under Ammochloa Boiss.) =Dictyochloa= (Murb.) Camus
Spikelets 7-15-flowered. Inflorescence not enveloped by a sheath. Species 2. North Africa. =Ammochloa= Boiss.
191. (185.) Spikelets 2-flowered, the lower flower hermaphrodite, the upper female. Axis of the spikelet elongated between the flowers, but not continued beyond them. Glumes unarmed, with faint nerves. Spikelets in loose panicles.--Species 1. Madagascar. =Coelachne= R. Br.
Spikelets 2-flowered, both flowers hermaphrodite or the lower flower hermaphrodite, the upper one male or rudimentary, or 3-many-flowered. 192
192. Flowering glumes 1-3-nerved. [Subtribes TRIODIINAE and ERAGROSTINAE.] 193
Flowering glumes 5-many-nerved. 207
193. Flowering glumes 2-4-toothed or-cleft, rounded on the back, at least at the base. 194
Flowering glumes entire or obscurely toothed, rarely (Diplachne) distinctly 2-toothed and sometimes awned from the notch, but then keeled. 196
194. Flowering glumes with 3 rather obtuse lobes.--Species 1. North-west Africa. =Triodia= R. Br.
Flowering glumes with 2 acute lobes and an awn or mucro between them. 195
195. Flowering glumes with a long awn, the upper ones empty. Outer glumes unequal. Spikes approximate, almost digitate.--Species 1. South Africa. =Lophacme= Stapf
Flowering glumes with a short awn or a mucro. Outer glumes subequal.--Species 2. Central and South Africa. (Under Diplachne Beauv.) =Crossotropis= Stapf
196. Spikelets of two kinds, the fertile 2-3-flowered and surrounded by the sterile consisting of numerous two-ranked glumes, arranged in one-sided spike-like panicles. Flowering glumes awned or mucronate.--Species 8. North and South Africa. Some have edible seeds or are used as fodder or ornamental grasses. “Dogstail.” =Cynosurus= L.
Spikelets all alike. 197
197. Spikelets in spike-like racemes, laterally flattened, falling as a whole, containing 3-4 fertile flowers and two empty glumes above them.--Species 1. Abyssinia. =Harpachne= Hochst.
Spikelets in panicles; empty glume above the fertile flowers 1 or none. 198
198. Main branches of the panicles two-ranked, usually branched at their base. 199
Main branches of the panicles not two-ranked. 203
199. Panicles spreading, with long, thin branches. Spikelets 2-4-flowered, with membranous, unarmed glumes. 200
Panicles contracted (more or less spike-like) or with very short, rather thick, but somewhat spreading branches. 201
200. Outer glumes slightly unequal. Perennial, creeping grasses, with flat leaves.--Species 1. North Africa. =Catabrosa= Beauv.
Outer glumes very unequal the lower very small. Stalk of the spikelet somewhat thickened. Delicate, annual grasses with narrow leaves.--Species 2. North Africa. =Sphenopus= Trin.
201. Panicles with short, rather thick, more or less spreading branches. Glumes hard. Spikelets 3-13-flowered.--Species 5. North Africa. =Cutandia= Willk.
Panicles strongly contracted, dense, more or less spike-like. Glumes membranous. Spikelets 2-5-flowered. 202
202. Upper outer glume much broader and somewhat longer than the flowering glumes. Lower outer glume very short, almost bristle-like. Flowering glumes awned below the tip.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). =Avellinia= Parl.
Upper outer glume neither broader nor longer than the flowering glumes. Lower outer glume almost equalling the upper one. (See 151.) =Koeleria= Pers.
203. Branches of the panicle spike-like. Flowering glumes 1-3-nerved, usually toothed. 204
Branches of the panicle raceme-like. Flowering glumes 3-nerved, not distinctly toothed, unarmed or mucronate. 205
204. Panicles contracted, spike-like. Flowering glumes entire, acuminate. Lodicules membranous. Fruit terete.--Species 3. South Africa and southern East Africa. (Triphlebia Stapf, under Lasiochloa Kunth). =Stiburus= Stapf
Panicles lax. Lodicules fleshy.--Species 9. Tropical and South Africa and Egypt. Some are used as fodder-grasses. =Diplachne= Beauv.
205. Flowering glumes rounded on the back. Spikelets conical, loosely 2-4-flowered; axis jointed, fragile. Fruit oblong, broadly grooved.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). Used in plaiting-work and as an ornamental grass. =Molinia= Schrank
Flowering glumes keeled. Spikelets not conical, densely 5-many-flowered. 206
206. Outer glumes unequal, the lower 3-nerved, the upper 5-nerved. Axis of the spikelet fragile. Fruit broadly grooved.--Species 1. Coast of East Africa. =Halopyrum= Stapf
Outer glumes 1-nerved, rarely the upper one 3-nerved. Axis of the spikelet usually tough. Fruit usually ovate and not grooved.--Species 130. Some are used as fodder-or ornamental grasses, others as sand-binders or for plaiting-work. The tef (E. abyssinica Link) is cultivated in Abyssinia as a cereal. =Eragrostis= Host
207. (192.) Axis of the spikelet bearing above the fertile flowers two or more empty glumes usually forming a club-shaped body. Flowering glumes keeled. Outer glumes 3-5-nerved. (See 152.) [Subtribe MELICINAE.] =Melica= L.
Axis of the spikelet bearing above the fertile flowers a single empty glume or none, rarely several, but then flowering glumes rounded on the back. 208
208. Leaves broadly-lanceolate or ovate, with fine transverse veins between the nerves. [Subtribe CENTOTHECINAE.] 209
Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, without distinct transverse veins. [Subtribes FESTUCINAE and BRACHYPODINAE.] 210
209. Spikelets 2-flowered, in pairs on the spike-like branches of a panicle. Outer glumes 3, the uppermost sometimes bearing a barren spikelet in its axil. (See 125.) =Poecilostachys= Hack.
Spikelets many-flowered. Outer glumes 2.--Species 4. Tropics. =Centotheca= Desv.
210. Spikelets in glomerules arranged in panicles. 211
Spikelets not in glomerules. 212
211. Panicles one-sided. Outer glumes unequal, 1-3-nerved. Flowering glumes larger, firmer, 5-nerved, mucronate or awned, ciliate on the keel.--Species 1. North and South Africa. Used as a fodder-and ornamental grass. “Cocksfoot.” =Dactylis= L.
Panicles equal-sided. Outer glumes subequal, 5-7-nerved, usually hispid. Flowering glumes shorter, thinner, 7-9-nerved, unarmed.--Species 3. South Africa. =Lasiochloa= Kunth
212. Spikelets tightly imbricate in short spikes arranged in racemes or heads. Flowering glumes broad, 7-9-nerved, somewhat shorter than the palea, mucronate.--Species 4. North and East Africa. =Aeluropus= Trin.
Spikelets tightly imbricate in solitary spikes or not imbricate. 213
213. Spikelets very tightly imbricate, arranged in a linear false spike. Flowering glumes sharply keeled from the base, 7-nerved, unarmed.--Species 7. North and South Africa and St. Helena. Used as ornamental plants. (Brizopyrum Link). =Desmazeria= Dumort.
Spikelets not very tightly imbricate; if rather tightly, then flowering glumes not keeled. 214
214. Styles inserted on the front of the ovary, conspicuously below the top. Flowering glumes usually awned. Fruit linear or oblong, adhering to the palea. (See 173.) =Bromus= L.
Styles inserted on the top of the ovary or close to it. 215
215. Flowering glumes much shorter than the outer ones, 2-lobed or 2-cleft. Outer glumes with white, membranous margins.--Species 4. South and North Africa. =Schismus= Beauv.
Flowering glumes slightly shorter or longer than the outer ones. 216
216. Flowering glumes cordate at the base, very concave, scarious, broader than the outer glumes. Fruit strongly compressed.--Species 5. North Africa, Senegambia, and South Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. “Quaking-grass.” =Briza= L.
Flowering glumes not cordate. 217
217. Flowering glumes distinctly keeled. 218
Flowering glumes rounded on the back, sometimes slightly keeled towards the tip. 220
218. Flowering glumes shortly awned, scarious. Panicles spike-like. (See 151.) =Koeleria= Pers.
Flowering glumes unawned, membranous herbaceous or cartilaginous. Panicles usually spreading. 219
219. Flowering glumes cartilaginous at the base, herbaceous towards the tip. Outer glumes unequal. Axis of the spikelet thickened. Panicles one-sided.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). =Sclerochloa= Beauv.
Flowering glumes membranous or herbaceous at the base or throughout.--Species 20. Extra-tropical regions and mountains of the tropics. Some are used as ornamental grasses. =Poa= L.
220. Spikelets 2-flowered with very approximate flowers and a bristle-like continuation of the axis beyond them. Outer glumes rather stiff, 1-3-nerved. Flowering glumes somewhat shorter, blunt, awnless.--Species 10. South and East Africa. =Achneria= Munro
Spikelets 2-flowered, with perceptibly distant flowers and usually membranous outer glumes, or 3-many-flowered. 221
221. Outer glumes 7-11-nerved, membranous. Flowering glumes toothed, usually awnless. Paleas narrow, 2-toothed. Spikelets usually 2-flowered. Fruit deeply furrowed. (See 152.) =Avena= L.
Outer glumes 1-5-nerved, rarely 7-9-nerved, and then flowering glumes awned and paleas broad. Spikelets usually 3-many-flowered. 222
222. Flowering glumes 2-cleft, awned, 7-9-nerved. (See 167.) =Danthonia= DC.
Flowering glumes entire, rarely toothed or 2-cleft, but then unarmed or 5-nerved. Styles very short. 223
223. Side-nerves of the flowering glumes nearly parallel, not joining the middle-nerve, sometimes obscure. Flowering glumes unarmed. Fruit oblong or ovate. 224
Side-nerves of the flowering glumes curved, converging towards the middle-nerve. Fruit oblong or linear. 225
224. Lodicules united. Styles distinctly developed. Fruit free, narrowly or not grooved.--Species 1 (G. fluitans R. Br., manna-grass). North-west Africa. The seeds are used as food. (Under Poa L.) =Glyceria= R. Br.
Lodicules free. Styles wanting. Fruit usually adherent to the palea, broadly or not grooved.--Species 4. North-west and South Africa. (Under Glyceria R. Br.) =Atropis= Rupr.
225. Paleas with rigidly ciliate keels. Flowering glumes 7-9-nerved. Outer glumes 3-7-nerved, rather stiff. Spikelets in spike-like racemes.--Species 9. Extra-tropical regions and mountains of the tropics. Some species are used as ornamental grasses. =Brachypodium= Beauv.
Paleas with finely ciliate or rough keels. Flowering glumes usually 5-nerved. Outer glumes 1-3-nerved. 226
226. Seed with a linear hilum. (See 113.) =Festuca= L.
Seed with a punctiform hilum. 227
227. Spikelets upon stout stalks in one-sided panicles. Flowering glumes unarmed.--Species 2. North Africa, also introduced into South Africa. (Under Festuca L.) =Scleropoa= Griseb.
Spikelets in spike-like racemes.--Species 3. North-west Africa. (Under Festuca L.) =Catapodium= Link
FAMILY 17. CYPERACEAE
Grass-like herbs, very rarely (Schoenodendron) low trees. Stems usually triangular, rarely jointed. Leaves with a closed sheath, sometimes without a blade. Flowers in genuine or spurious spikelets arranged in spikes, heads, or panicles. Perianth much reduced or wanting. Stamens 1-6. Anthers opening by 2 longitudinal slits. Ovary superior or naked, 1-celled. Ovule 1, basal, inverted. Style simple or with 2-3 branches. Fruit a nut or a drupe. Seed free. Embryo lateral, enclosed by the albumen.--Genera 40, species 880. “Sedges.” (Plate 9.)
1. Flowers unisexual, but sometimes (Bisboeckelerieae) apparently hermaphrodite, single female flowers being surrounded by several male ones; in this case false spikelets branched at the insertion of one of the lowest bracts. 2
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Flowers either in centripetal spikelets without a terminal flower or in centrifugal (false) spikelets branched at the insertion of the uppermost bract below the terminal flower. 13
2. Spikelets unisexual, rarely partly unisexual, partly bisexual; the female 1-flowered, the male 2-or more-flowered. Stamens 1-2, rarely 3. [Tribe SCLERIEAE.] 3
Spikelets bisexual, rarely 1-flowered and spicate. 8
3. Perianth consisting of scales or bristles. Partial inflorescences panicled. 4
Perianth none. 6
4. Perianth of numerous bristles. Spikelets in spikes.--Species 6. Central Africa to Transvaal. =Eriospora= Hochst.
Perianth of 2-5 scales. 5
5. Perianth of 2-3 laciniate scales. Spikelets in head-like clusters. Herbs.--Species 1. West Africa. =Microdracoides= Hua
Perianth of 3-5 ciliate scales. Spikelets in spikes. Small trees.--Species 1. West Africa (Cameroons). =Schoenodendron= Engl.
6. Female flowers in the upper portion of the partial inflorescences. Spikelets in panicles.--Species 1. Madagascar. (Under Eriospora Hochst.) =Fintelmannia= Kunth
Female flowers in the lower portion of the partial inflorescences or in special partial inflorescences. 7
7. Style thickened and jointed at the base, deeply 3-cleft. Fruit without a distinct disc. Spikelets in panicles. Leaves broad.--Species 3. Tropics. (Under Scleria Berg) =Acriulus= Ridl.
Style not thickened at the base. Fruit very hard, surrounded by a disc at the base.--Species 60. Tropical and South Africa. (Including Diplacrum R. Br.) =Scleria= Berg
8. (2.) Spikelets consisting of a terminal female flower surrounded by 3 or more male ones. Stamen 1. Female flowers not enclosed by an utricle-like bracteole. [Tribe BISBOECKELERIEAE, Subtribe CHRYSITRICHINAE.] 9 Spikelets 1-flowered, spicate, rarely 2-flowered or consisting of a basal female flower and several male ones. Stamens usually 3. Female flowers enclosed by an utricle-like bracteole. [Tribe CARICEAE.] 11
9. Male flowers 3. Style-branches 3. Spikelets numerous, in spikes which are sometimes arranged in panicles or heads.--Species 12. Tropics. (Including Thoracostachyum Kurz) =Mapania= Aubl.
Male flowers 6 or more. Spikelets in spikes arranged in heads. 10
10. Style-branches 2. Fruit not ribbed. Spikes consisting of numerous spikelets. Leaves reduced to the sheath.--Species 1. Madagascar. Used for plaiting-work. =Lepironia= Rich.
Style-branches 3. Fruit many-striate. Spikes consisting of 1-4 spikelets.--Species 3. South Africa. =Chrysithrix= L.
11. Lateral spikelets consisting of one female flower and 1-6 male inserted above the female flower upon the distinctly developed axis of the spikelet; rarely male flowers reduced to empty glumes or wanting. Utricle usually 2-cleft.--Species 6. South and East Africa. (Including Hemicarex Benth.) =Schoenoxiphium= Nees
Lateral spikelets consisting only of 1 female flower and the usually rudimentary axis. Utricle closed, entire or toothed. 12
12. Axis of the spikelet projecting beyond the utricle and hooked at the tip.--Species 2. Subantarctic islands. =Uncinia= Pers.
Axis of the spikelet enclosed and straight or more frequently rudimentary and usually early disappearing.--Species 80. Extra-tropical regions and mountains of the tropics. =Carex= L.
13. (1.) Spikelets (false spikelets) centrifugal, with a terminal flower, branched from the uppermost bract, 1-2-, rarely 3-6-flowered. 14
Spikelets centripetal, without a terminal flower, 3-many-, rarely 1-2-flowered; flowers hermaphrodite, a male one sometimes added. 24
14. Spikelets containing 1 terminal male flower and 1-2 lateral hermaphrodite flowers. Style dilated at the base.--Species 30. South Africa. (Elynanthus Nees, including Macrochaetium Steud.) [Tribe GAHNIEAE.] =Tetraria= Beauv.
Spikelets containing only hermaphrodite flowers, a male one being sometimes added. [Tribe RHYNCHOSPOREAE.] 15
15. Glumes 2-ranked. Style-branches 3. 16
Glumes not distinctly 2-ranked. 19
16. Perianth-bristles 6, alternately unequal. Fruit crowned by the base of the style. Spikelets in heads.--Species 9. South Africa, Madagascar and Mascarene Islands. (Under Carpha R. Br.) =Asterochaete= Nees
Perianth-bristles equal or wanting. 17
17. Perianth-bristles stiff, not feathery, or wanting. Fruit not beaked.--Species 6. South Africa, Madagascar and neighbouring islands, Abyssinia, North Africa. (Including Epischoenus C.B. Clarke). =Schoenus= L.
Perianth-bristles feathery. 18
18. Perianth-bristles 3. Glumes 4-5. Style with a thickened, persistent base. Spikelets in spikes or solitary.--Species 3. South Africa. (Ecklonea Steud.) =Trianoptiles= Fenzl
Perianth-bristles 6. Glumes numerous. Style slightly thickened. Spikelets in panicles.--Species 2. Madagascar and neighbouring islands. (Under Schoenus L.) =Cyclocampe= Steud.
19. Style-branches 1-2. Perianth of 6 or more bristles or wanting.--Species 15. (Rynchospora Vahl). =Rhynchospora= Vahl
Style-branches 3. 20
20. Perianth of 3-6 bristles. 21
Perianth none. 22
21. Perianth of 3 bristles. Upper leaves with red sheaths.--Species 1. South Africa. (Decalepis Boeck., under Tetraria Beauv.) =Boeckeleria= Dur.
Perianth of 5-6 bristles. Lowest flower male.--Species 6. Madagascar and South Africa. =Costularia= C. B. Clarke
22. Partial inflorescences arranged in a panicle.--Species 5. =Cladium= R. Br.
Partial inflorescences arranged in a head. 23
23. Involucre of the inflorescence short. Stem leafless.--Species 1. Madagascar and neighbouring islands. (Arthrostylis Boeck.) =Actinoschoenus= Benth.
Involucre of the inflorescence long. Stem leafy.--Species 1. West Africa and Madagascar. Used medicinally. =Remirea= Aubl.
24. (13.) Bracteoles 1-2. [Tribe HYPOLYTREAE.] 25
Bracteoles none. [Tribe SCIRPEAE.] 28
25. Bracteoles 1-2, parallel with the glume (bract), i.e. placed before or behind or before and behind it. Stamens 1-2. [Subtribe LIPOCARPHINAE.] 26
Bracteoles 2, lateral to the glume, sometimes united. Stamens 2-3. [Subtribe HYPOLYTRINAE.] 27
26. Bracteole 1, deciduous. Stamen 1. Spikelets solitary or in clusters of 2-3, subtended by a single involucral bract.--Species 2. Central and South Africa. (Under Scirpus L.) =Hemicarpha= Nees
Bracteoles 2, persistent. Stamens 1-2. Spikelets in heads surrounded by several involucral bracts.--Species 10. Tropical and South Africa. (Hypaelyptum Vahl). =Lipocarpha= R. Br.
27. Bracteoles united in front, longer than the glume. Spikelets solitary or in heads. Stem leafy at the base only.--Species 9. Tropical and South Africa. =Ascolepis= Nees
Bracteoles free or united behind, as long as or shorter than the glumes. Spikelets in heads or panicles. Stem leafy throughout its length.--Species 10. Tropics. =Hypolytrum= Rich.
28. (22.) Glumes distinctly 2-ranked. Partial inflorescences usually arranged in heads or umbels. [Subtribe CYPERINAE.] 29
Glumes not distinctly 2-ranked. Partial inflorescences usually arranged in spikes or panicles. [Subtribe SCIRPINAE.] 34
29. Perianth consisting of 6 bristles. Spikelets in panicles.--Species 1. Region of the great lakes. (Under Carpha R. Br.) =Oreograstis= K. Schum.
Perianth none. 30
30. Flowers with a toothed or lobed disc at the base of the ovary. Spikelets solitary or in heads.--Species 3. South Africa. (Under Ficinia Schrad.) =Hemichlaena= Schrad.
Flowers without a disc. 31
31. Style-branches 2. Spikelets containing an hermaphrodite and sometimes also a male flower, arranged in heads.--Species 40. Tropical and South Africa. The root-stock of some species is used in perfumery and medicine; others yield fodder. (Plate 9.) =Kyllinga= Rottb.
Style-branches 3, rarely 1-2, but then spikelets many-flowered. 32
32. Fertile flowers in each spikelet 1-2. Glumes with a winged keel, the lower glume enclosing the upper one. Spikelets in umbellately arranged heads.--Species 2. Tropics to Transvaal. =Courtoisia= Nees
Fertile flowers in each spikelet 3 or more, rarely 1-2, but then glumes not winged or the lower glume not enclosing the upper one. 33
33. Glumes with the margins united into a cylinder at their base, long acuminate at the top. Spikelets terete, 3-4-flowered, in spikes. Stamens 2.--Species 1. South-east Africa. (Under Mariscus Gaertn. or Cyperus L.) =Cylindrolepis= Boeck.
Glumes with free margins.--Species 300. The root-stocks of some (especially C. esculentus L.) are eaten and used for the preparation of oil, perfume, and medicaments; the culms (especially of C. Papyrus L.) are used for making paper and for plaiting-work; some species serve as fodder-or ornamental plants, others are noxious weeds. (Including Galilea Parl., Juncellus Griseb., Mariscus Vahl, Pycreus Beauv., and Torulinium Desv.) =Cyperus= L.
34. (28.) Style conspicuously thickened at the base. 35
Style not or slightly thickened at the base. 37
35. Perianth none. Style deciduous.--Species 75. Some are used as fodder. (Including Abildgaardia Vahl and Bulbostylis Kunth). =Fimbristylis= Vahl
Perianth consisting of 3-8 bristles. Base of the style usually persistent. 36
36. Spikelets in heads. Glumes in 5 rows.--Species 1. Tropics. (Under Fuirena Rottb.) =Pentasticha= Turcz.
Spikelets solitary.--Species 25. Some are used for plaiting-work or yield starch. (Eleocharis R. Br.) =Heleocharis= R. Br.
37. Flowers with a toothed or lobed, persistent disc at the base of the ovary. Glumes usually brown or black.--Species 65. South Africa and mountains of East Africa and Madagascar. =Ficinia= Schrad.
Flowers without a disc. 38
38. Perianth-bristles 6 or more, much elongated after flowering. Spikelets solitary or in umbels.--Species 1. South Africa. The cotton-like perianth-bristles are used for stuffing cushions. “Cotton-grass.” =Eriophorum= L.
Perianth-bristles not elongated or wanting. 39
39. Glumes hairy, like the whole plant. Perianth of 3-6 toothed scales or bristles.--Species 20. =Fuirena= Rottb.
Glumes glabrous.--Species 70. Some are used as ornamental plants or for plaiting-work, others have edible root-stocks, also used in medicine. (Including Isolepis R. Br. and Schoenoplectus Reichb.) =Scirpus= L.
ORDER PRINCIPES
FAMILY 18. PALMAE
Stem woody, usually simple. Leaves pinnately or palmately split, at least 2-cleft, usually collected in a crown at the top of the stem. Flowers in simple or branched spadices enveloped by spathes, usually unisexual and provided with rudimentary stamens or carpels. Perianth-segments 6, similar in texture, but often unequal in size, leathery or parchment-like, green, white or yellow. Stamens 6 or more, rarely 3, united at the base or adnate below to the perianth. Carpels 3, superior, distinct or united and then forming a 1-3-celled ovary; sometimes 2 carpels empty or reduced to the style. Ovules solitary in each cell, filling the cell and sometimes adhering to its wall. Fruits berry-or drupe-like. Seeds with a small embryo and horny albumen.--Genera 36, species 100. (Plates 10 and 11.)
1. Carpels 3, distinct. Fruit consisting of 1-3 smooth berries. Leaf-segments induplicate in bud. [Subfamily =CORYPHOIDEAE=.] 2
Carpels 3, united and forming a 1-3-celled ovary, or carpel 1. 3
2. Leaves fan-shaped. Spadices with 2 or more incomplete spathes. Flowers polygamous or dioecious. Perianth of the female flowers as in the male. Seed ovate, not deeply grooved; albumen ruminate. Stem short, usually branched.--Species 1 (Ch. humilis L.). North-West Africa. Used as an ornamental plant; the leaf-buds are eaten and the fibres used for making ropes or paper or for stuffing cushions. “Dwarf-palm.” [Tribe SABALEAE.] =Chamaerops= L.
Leaves pinnate. Spadices with one complete spathe. Flowers dioecious. Perianth of the female flowers differing from the male. Seed oblong, with a deep longitudinal groove.--Species 5. Some (especially the date-palm, Ph. dactylifera L.) have edible fruits, also used for making brandy and sugar. They yield also palm-wine, wood, and fibres for plaiting and stuffing, and are used as ornamental plants. [Tribe PHOENICEAE.] =Phoenix= L.
3. Leaves fan-shaped. Spadices with many incomplete spathes. Fruit a drupe with 1-3 distinct stones; epicarp smooth or minutely dotted. [Subfamily =BORASSOIDEAE=, tribe BORASSEAE.] 4
Leaves pinnately dissected or 2-cleft. Fruit berry-like or covered with imbricate scales or containing a single stone; if fruit drupe-like and one-seeded, then spadices with 1-4 complete spathes. 8
4. Male flowers many in each pit of the spadix. 5
Male flowers solitary in each pit of the spadix. 6
5. Male flowers 20-30 in each pit of the spadix. Stamens about 30. Fruit nearly always with a single stone. Seeds deeply 2-lobed.--Species 1. Seychelles. The fruit (“double cocoa-nut”) is eaten and used in medicine. =Lodoicea= Labill.
Male flowers 10 in each pit of the spadix. Stamens 6. Fruit with 3 stones. Seeds emarginate. Species 1 (B. flabellifer L., Palmyra palm). Tropics. It yields timber, fibre (piassave), starch (sago), gum, vegetables, edible fruits, wine, vinegar, alcohol, sugar, and medicaments. =Borassus= L.
6. Stamens 15-30. Fruit with 3 stones, very rarely with 1-2. Medium-sized trees.--Species 3. Madagascar and Mascarene Islands. They furnish fibre for plaiting-work and are used as ornamental plants; one species has edible fruits. =Latania= Comm.
Stamens 6. Fruit with a single stone. Tall trees. 7
7. Albumen ruminate. Fruit medium-sized (the size of a walnut). Stem simple.--Species 3. Upper Nile and Madagascar. They yield timber, fibre, edible pith, and alcohol. (Including Bismarckia Hildebr. & Wendl.) =Medemia= G. de Wuert. & Braun
Albumen homogeneous. Fruit large. Stem usually branched.--Species 13. Tropics to Natal and Egypt. They yield wood, fibre, edible fruits, and wine. “Dum palm.” =Hyphaene= Gaertn.
8. (3.) Ovary and fruit clothed with imbricate scales. Fruit one-seeded. Flowers with bracts and bracteoles. Leaf-segments reduplicate in bud. [Subfamily =LEPIDOCARYOIDEAE=, tribe METROXYLEAE.] 9
Ovary and fruit without scales. Flowers usually without bracts. [Subfamily =CEROXYLOIDEAE=.] 15
9. Ovary incompletely 3-celled. [Subtribe CALAMINAE.] 10
Ovary completely 3-celled. [Subtribe RAPHIINAE.] 11
10. Stem erect. Leaves without tendrils. Spadices terminal. Seed depressed-globose.--Species 1 (M. Rumphii Mart.) Cultivated in Madagascar and the Mascarenes. It yields wood, fibre for plaiting and weaving, vegetables, and starch (sago). (Sagus Blume). =Metroxylon= Rottb.
Stem climbing. Leaves with tendrils. Spadices lateral.--Species 6. Tropics. The stems (cane) are used for plaiting-work and for the manufacture of walking-sticks and various utensils. “Rattan-palm.” =Calamus= L.
11. Stem erect. Flowers monoecious, the male and female on the same branches of the much-branched terminal spadices. Seed oblong or ovate.--Species 10. Tropics. The leaf-stalks (false bamboo) are used for building houses and making furniture, the fibres (piassave) for plaiting, weaving, and brush-making. The stems, leaf-buds, and fruits of some species yield starch, meal, vegetables, wine, and oil. (Plates 10 and 11.) =Raphia= Beauv.
Stem climbing. Leaves with tendrils. 12
12. Flowers monoecious, in cymes on the primary branches of the lateral spadices; cymes consisting of one female and several male flowers.--Species 2. Equatorial West Africa. They furnish cane for plaiting-work and for the manufacture of various utensils. (Under Calamus L.) =Oncocalamus= Mann & Wendl.
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, in pairs on the branches of the spadices. 13
13. Spadices lateral. Spathes none.--Species 5. West Africa to the upper Nile. They furnish cane for plaiting-work and for the manufacture of various utensils. (Under Calamus L.) =Eremospatha= Mann & Wendl.
Spadices terminal. Spathes tubular. 14
14. Seed flattened, with a thick raphe. Leaves with a short stalk and narrow segments.--Species 1. West Africa to the upper Nile. They furnish cane for plaiting-work and for the manufacture of various utensils. (Under Calamus L.) =Ancistrophyllum= Mann & Wendl.
Seed roundish, deeply grooved, kidney-shaped in transverse section. Leaves with a rather long stalk and rather broad segments.--Species 2. West Africa. They furnish cane for plaiting-work and for the manufacture of various utensils. (Under Ancistrophyllum Mann & Wendl. or Calamus L.) =Laccosperma= Mann & Wendl.
15. (8.) Fruit a drupe; endocarp very hard, with 3 pores. [Tribe COCOEAE.] 16
Fruit a berry; endocarp membranous, rarely woody. [Tribe ARECEAE.] 17
16. Flowers sunk singly in deep pits of the spadix-branches. Spadices unisexual, with 2 deciduous spathes. Stamens united high up. Fruit rather small; pericarp spongy outside; pores towards the top of the stone.--Species 1 (E. guineensis L. oil-palm). Central Africa. The stem and the leaves furnish wood, fibre, vegetables, and wine; the fruits are edible and used for making oil. [Subtribe ELAEIDINAE.] =Elaeis= Jacq.
Flowers inserted singly or in groups of three in shallow pits or notches of the spadix-branches. Spadices bisexual, with a woody, persistent spathe. Stamens free or united at the base. Fruit large; pericarp fibrous; pores towards the base of the stone.--Species 1 (C. nucifera L., coco-nut-palm). Cultivated and sometimes naturalised on the shores of the tropics. The stem and the leaves furnish wood, fibre, tanning materials, vegetables, wine, and medicaments; the fruits are edible and yield oil, fodder, and a drink. [Subtribe ATTALEINAE.] =Cocos= L.
17. Leaves with long prickles. Spadices branched; spathes 2 or more, complete. Corolla of the female flowers imbricate in bud. Ovary 1-celled, with a laterally affixed ovule. Stigmas 3. 18
Leaves without prickles. 23
18. Leaves with a long sheath. Spadices below the leaves. Seed with homogeneous albumen. 19
Leaves with a rather short sheath. Spadices between the leaves. Seed with ruminate albumen. 20
19. Seed obtusely triquetrous. Stamens 9.--Species 1. Seychelles. =Deckenia= Wendl.
Seed ellipsoid, slightly compressed laterally. Stamens usually 12.--Species 3. Madagascar and Mascarenes. Used in house-building and as ornamental plants. =Acanthophoenix= Wendl.
20. Leaves 2-cleft, with pinnately toothed margins. 21
Leaves irregularly pinnatisect. 22
21. Stamens 6. Seed and endocarp furrowed. Spadices with 3 spathes. Leaf-stalk prickly.--Species 1. Seychelles. Used as an ornamental plant. =Verschaffeltia= Wendl.
Stamens 15-20. Seed and endocarp not furrowed. Spadices with 2 spathes. Leaf-stalk smooth.--Species 1. Seychelles. Used as an ornamental plant. (Stevensonia Duncan). =Phoenicophorium= Wendl.
22. Stamens 6. Seed elliptical. Spadices twice branched, with several spathes.--Species 1. Seychelles. Used as an ornamental plant. =Roscheria= Wendl.
Stamens 40-50. Seed kidney-shaped. Spadices once branched, with 2 spathes.--Species 1. Seychelles. =Nephrosperma= Balf.
23. (17.) Spadices with many tubular incomplete spathes, twice branched. Stamens 6. Ovary 3-celled. Stem tree-like.--Species 4. Madagascar and Mascarenes. Used as ornamental plants. The fruit is said to be poisonous. =Hyophorbe= Gaertn.
Spadices with 1-4 spathes, all or the uppermost complete (i.e. completely enveloping the spadix, when young.) 24
24. Spadices with 4 spathes, simple. Flowers sunk in pits on the spadix. Corolla valvate in bud. Stamens 6. Ovary 3-celled. Stem reed-like.--Species 1. West Africa. The fruit is edible. =Podococcus= Mann & Wendl.
Spadices with 1-3 spathes; if simple, then corolla of the female flowers imbricate in bud or stamens 3 or many. 25
25. Stamens numerous. Stigma 1. Ovary 1-celled. Corolla valvate in bud. Spadices simple. Flowers sunk in pits on the spadix. Stem short.--Species 1. Equatorial West Africa. =Sclerosperma= Mann & Wendl.
Stamens 3-6. Stigmas usually 3. 26
26. Stamens in the male flowers 3, staminodes in the female 6. Ovary with 1 fertile and 2 empty cells. 27
Stamens 6. 28
27. Stamens opposite the petals, united at the base.--Species 3. Madagascar. =Trichodypsis= Baill.
Stamens alternating with the petals, free or almost free.--Species 7. Madagascar. Used as ornamental plants. (Including Adelodypsis Becc.) =Dypsis= Nor.
28. Ovary 1-celled. 29
Ovary 3-celled, but usually one cell only fertile. 34
29. Spadices simple. Leaves deeply forked. Stem short, erect.--Species 5. Madagascar. =Haplophloga= Baill.
Spadices branched. 30
30. Spadices once branched. Stigma usually 1. Stem tree-like.--Species 5. Madagascar and neighbouring islands. Used as ornamental plants. The fibres of the leaves (piassave) are used in the manufacture of ropes and stuffs. =Dictyosperma= Wendl. & Drude
Spadices 2-3 times branched. Stigmas usually 3. 31
31. Spadices twice branched. Male flowers with valvate or subimbricate sepals. Anthers sagittate, basifixed, opening outwards or laterally. Rudimentary pistil 3-cleft. Female flowers larger than the male. Stigmas 3, subsessile. Tall trees.--Species 1 (A. Catechu L., betel palm). Cultivated in East Africa. It yields wood, bark for tanning, fibre, vegetables, wine, and medicaments; the fruits are chewed. =Areca= L.
Spadices thrice branched. Male flowers with imbricate sepals. Anthers ovoid, opening inwards. Rudimentary pistil entire. 32
32. Styles basal. Stem reed-like.--Species 2. Madagascar. (Chrysalidocarpus Wendl.) =Neodypsis= Baill.
Styles or stigmas terminal. 33
33. Leaves irregularly pinnatisect, with lanceolate segments. Stem low, reed-like.--Species 1. Madagascar. (Under Dypsidium Baill.) =Neophloga= Baill.
Leaves regularly pinnatisect, with linear segments. Stem tall.--Species 2. Madagascar and Comoro Islands. (Including Vonitra Becc.) =Phlogella= Baill.
34. Spadices simple. Petals lanceolate. Anther-halves linear. Style conical.--Species 3. Madagascar. =Haplodypsis= Baill.
Spadices much branched. Petals ovate or orbicular. Anther-halves oblong or ovate. Style 3-partite. 35
35. Flowers monoecious. Sepals of the male flowers orbicular. Stamens unequal in length. Stigmas awl-shaped. Albumen ruminate.--Species 5. Madagascar. Leaves used for plaiting-work. =Phloga= Nor.
Flowers dioecious. Sepals of the male flowers elliptical. Stamens subequal. Stigmas short and thick. Albumen homogeneous.--Species 2. Madagascar and Comoro Islands. =Ravenea= Hildebr. & Bouché
ORDER SPATHIFLORAE
FAMILY 19. ARACEAE
Leaves usually net-veined. Flowers in spadices, without bracteoles. Perianth simple or wanting. Fruit indehiscent or bursting irregularly, usually berry-like. Seed-coat fleshy.--Genera 33, species 150. (Plate 12.)
1. Flowers hermaphrodite. 2
Flowers unisexual. 5
2. Perianth none. Ovary incompletely 2-celled with several ascending ovules. Climbing shrubs. Leaves stalked, lanceolate.--Species 2. West Africa. Used as ornamental plants. (Raphidophora Schott). [Tribe MONSTEREAE.] =Afroraphidophora= Engl.
Perianth of 4-6 segments. 3
3. Ovary 1-celled. Ovules 2 or more. Tall herbs. Juice milky. Root-stock tuberous. Leaves sagittate; stalk prickly.--Species 1. West Africa. Used for making salt. [Tribe LASIEAE.] =Cyrtosperma= Griff.
Ovary 2-3-celled. Juice not milky. 4
4. Ovule one in each cell, ascending, inverted. Seeds exalbuminous. Climbing shrubs. Leaves stalked, lanceolate to ovate. Spathe oblong or ovate.--Species 1. Madagascar and Comoro Islands. [Tribe POTHOEAE.] =Pothos= L.
Ovules several in each cell, pendulous, straight. Seeds albuminous. Herbs with a creeping root-stock. Leaves sessile, linear, sword-shaped. Spathe linear, sword-shaped, forming a continuation of the flowering stem.--Species 1 (A. Calamus L., sweet-flag). Introduced in the Mascarene Islands. Yields tanning-materials and is used in the preparation of perfumes, liquors, snuff, and medicaments. [Tribe ACOREAE.] =Acorus= L.
5. Perianth present. 6
Perianth none. 8
6. Perianth cupular. Ovary 1-4-celled with 2 or more ovules in each cell. Juice milky. Leaves sagittate; stalk not thickened near the middle. Spathe-margins connate below.--Species 20. Central and South-East Africa. [Tribe STYLOCHITONEAE.] =Stylochiton= Leprieur
Perianth of 4 free segments. Ovary 2-celled with 1 ovule in each cell. Juice not milky. Leaves pinnate; stalk with a thickened joint near the middle. Spathe-margins free. [Tribe ZAMIOCULCASEAE.] 7
7. Stamens with free filaments; anthers opening by slits. Leaves several, once pinnate. Spathe upon a short stalk.--Species 1. East Africa and Mascarene Islands. Used as an ornamental plant. =Zamioculcas= L.
Stamens with united filaments; anthers opening by pores. Leaf 1, thrice pinnate in the adult stage. Spathe upon a long stalk.--Species 2. East Africa to the upper Congo. =Gonatopus= Hook. fil.
8. Stamens united throughout their length or almost so. 9
Stamens free or united in pairs or at the base only. 17
9. Female (inferior) part of the spadix adnate to the spathe, 1-flowered. Stamens 2. Floating water-plants. Juice not milky.--Species 1. Tropical and South Africa and Egypt. Used medicinally. [Tribe PISTIEAE.] =Pistia= L.
Female part of the spadix free from the spathe, several-flowered. Stamens 3-8, very rarely 2. Land-or marsh-plants. Juice milky. 10
10. Stem creeping. Leaves lanceolate, parallel-veined, with numerous primary and secondary lateral veins. Ovary completely or incompletely 2-3-celled with numerous ovules.--Species 12. West Africa. [Tribe ANUBIADEAE.] =Anubias= Schott
Stem erect or tuberous. Leaves ovate, ovate-sagittate or dissected, net-veined, rarely parallel-veined with 5 primary lateral nerves. 11
11. Ovules 1-3. Spadix with barren flowers below and above the male ones. Stem short, ascending. Leaves ovate or sagittate, entire, with about 5 primary lateral nerves and many parallel secondary ones.--Species 2. Madagascar and neighbouring islands and Zanzibar. They yield fibre and edible tubers and seeds and are used in medicine. =Typhonodorum= Schott
Ovules 4 or more. Leaves sagittate-or cordate-ovate and net-veined, or dissected. 12
12. Ovules 4. Female flowers with staminodes. Spadix with a terminal appendage. Stem tuberous. Leaves dissected.--Species 1. Seychelles. [Tribe PROTAREAE.] =Protarum= Engl.
Ovules more than 4. Leaves sagittate-or cordate-ovate. [Tribe COLOCASIEAE.] 13
13. Ovary completely 1-celled. Ovules straight or almost so. 14
Ovules incompletely 2-3-celled. Ovules inverted. Spadix without a terminal appendage. 16
14. Ovules few, basal. Stem erect. Spadix with a terminal appendage.--Species 1. Cultivated and sometimes naturalised in Madagascar and the neighbouring islands. Stem and leaves are edible; also used as an ornamental plant. =Alocasia= Schott
Ovules many, parietal. Stem tuberous. 15
15. Spadix with a terminal appendage. Spathe erect. Stamens 3-6.--Species 1 (C. antiquorum Schott, taro or dinde). Cultivated and sometimes naturalised in Tropical and North Africa. The tubers and leaves are eaten and used in medicine; also an ornamental plant. (Under Caladium Vent.) =Colocasia= Schott
Spadix without an appendage. Spathes recurved at the top. Stamens 2-3.--Species 1. Island of Socotra. Used as an ornamental plant. =Remusatia= Schott
16. Style disc-like, adnate to the styles of the neighbouring flowers. Ovules with a long funicle. Leaves leathery.--Species 2. Cultivated and sometimes naturalised in West Africa and the Mascarene Islands. Used as ornamental plants or vegetables. =Xanthosoma= Schott
Style none. Ovules with a short funicle. Leaves herbaceous, usually with red spots.--Species 1. Cultivated and sometimes naturalised in West Africa. Used as an ornamental plant. =Caladium= Vent.
17. (8.) Stem above ground and usually climbing or underground and creeping. Spadix without an appendage. Ovary 1-2-celled with 1 ovule in each cell. 18
Stem underground, short and thick, more or less tuberous. Juice milky. 23
18. Juice milky. Leaves cordate or sagittate. Female inflorescence not adnate to the spathe. Ovary 1-celled. [Tribe NEPHTHYTIDEAE.] 19
Juice not milky. Leaves lanceolate oblong or elliptical, acute or obtuse at the base, rarely cordate and then female inflorescence adnate to the spathe or ovary 2-celled. Seed albuminous. 22
19. Stem underground, creeping.--Species 3. West Africa. Used as ornamental plants. (Including Oligogynium Engl.) =Nephthytis= Schott
Stem above ground, climbing, woody. 20
20. Leaves perforated or dissected. Male inflorescence three times as long as the female and contiguous to it. Ovary with a strongly projecting parietal placenta.--Species 2. West Africa. =Rhektophyllum= N. E. Brown
Leaves entire or lobed, not perforated. Ovary with a slightly projecting parietal or sub-basal placenta. 21
21. Leaves oblong, shortly cordate at the base. Male inflorescence twice as long as the female and contiguous to it. Stamens 2-3.--Species 1. West Africa (Cameroons). (Under Cercestis Schott). =Alocasiophyllum= Engl.
Leaves sagittate or hastate. Stamens usually 4.--Species 7. West Africa. =Cercestis= Schott
22. Stem creeping. Female inflorescence adnate to the spathe, as long as the male. Ovary conical. Style present.--Species 1. Central Africa. Used as an ornamental plant. [Tribe CALLOPSIDEAE.] =Callopsis= Engl.
Stem climbing or erect. Female inflorescence free from the spathe. Ovary subglobose. Style wanting.--Species 17. Central Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. [Tribe CULCASIEAE.] =Culcasia= Beauv.
23. (17.) Spadix covered with fertile flowers to the top. Ovary with 4 or more ovules. Leaves sagittate or hastate. Spathe funnel-shaped.--Species 10. South Africa and southern Central Africa; one species (Z. aethiopica Spreng.) cultivated as an ornamental plant under the name of “Calla” and naturalised in the island of Madeira. (Aroides Heist., Richardia Kunth). [Tribe ZANTEDESCHIEAE.] =Zantedeschia= Spreng.
Spadix ending in an appendage which is glabrous or covered with rudimentary flowers, rarely without an appendage, but then ovary 1-2-ovuled and leaves dissected. 24
24. Ovules inverted. Ovary usually 2-4-celled. Male and female portions of the spadix contiguous, rarely separated by a glabrous interval without barren flowers. Leaf 1, dissected. [Tribe AMORPHOPHALLEAE.] 25
Ovules straight. Ovary 1-celled. Seeds albuminous. Spadix with a terminal appendage. [Tribe AREAE.] 27
25. Spadix ending in a flowerless appendage.--Species 35. Tropics. Some have edible tubers or are used as ornamental plants. (Under Amorphophallus Blume). (Plate 12.) =Hydrosme= Schott.
Spadix covered with flowers to the top; upper flowers sometimes reduced to barren stamens. 26
26. Ovary 1-celled. Male inflorescence as long as the female. Spathe boat-shaped.--Species 7. Central Africa. Some have edible tubers. =Anchomanes= Schott
Ovary 2-celled. Male inflorescence longer than the female.--Species 2. Equatorial West Africa. (Including Zyganthera N.E. Brown). =Pseudohydrosme= Engl.
27. Spadix unisexual (containing male or female flowers only). Stamens 2-4. Ovules basal. Leaves dissected.--Species 4. East Africa. Some are poisonous. =Arisaema= Mart.
Spadix bisexual (containing both male and female flowers). 28
28. Male inflorescence contiguous to the female. 29
Male inflorescence separated from the female by a distinct interval usually covered with rudimentary flowers. 30
29. Stamen 1. Anther opening by a slit. Ovules basal. Leaves sagittate or hastate.--Species 2. North Africa. Used as ornamental plants. The tubers are poisonous when raw, but edible when cooked, and furnish starch, medicaments, and a substitute for soap. =Arisarum= Targ. Tozz.
Stamens 3-4. Anthers opening by pores. Ovules basal or apical. Leaves several dissected.--Species 2. North-west Africa. Used as ornamental plants. The tubers are poisonous when raw, but edible when cooked, and furnish starch, medicaments, and a substitute for soap. =Dracunculus= Schott
30. Interval between the male and the female inflorescence without rudimentary flowers. Spathe divided into two chambers, one of which contains a female flower, the other one several male flowers. Stamens 2. Ovules numerous. Leaves ovate.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). =Ambrosinia= Bassi
Interval between the male and the female inflorescence clothed with rudimentary flowers. Spathe not 2-chambered. Female flowers several. 31
31. Ovules 6 or more, parietal. Stamens 3-4. Leaves sagittate or hastate.--Species 2. North Africa. Poisonous and sometimes used as ornamental plants. The tubers are edible when cooked and yield starch; they are also used in medicine and as a substitute for soap. =Arum= L.
Ovules 1-4, basal. Stamens 1-2. Leaves linear, oblong, ovate, or dissected. 32
32. Ovule 1. Leaves several, entire.--Species 3. North Africa. Used as ornamental plants. The tubers are edible when cooked, and yield starch, medicaments, and a substitute for soap. =Biarum= Schott
Ovules 2-4. Leaf 1, dissected.--Species 2. East Africa and Angola. Used as ornamental plants. The tubers are edible when cooked, and yield starch, medicaments, and a substitute for soap. =Sauromatum= Schott
FAMILY 20. LEMNACEAE
Floating herbs without distinct stems or leaves, consisting of leaf-or grain-like fronds. Inflorescence seated in a cavity of the frond and consisting of 1-2 male flowers and a female. Flowers monoecious, without a perianth. Stamen 1. Ovary 1-celled, with 1-6 basal ovules and a funnel-shaped stigma. Seed-coat fleshy.--Genera 3, species 12.
1. Fronds rootless. Inflorescence on the back of the frond, without a spathe and consisting of 1 male and 1 female flower.--Species 6. (Including Wolffiella Hegelm., under Lemna L.) [Subfamily =WOLFFIOIDEAE=.] =Wolffia= Horkel
Fronds with roots. Inflorescence at the margin of the frond, consisting of 2 male and a female flower enclosed by a spathe. [Subfamily =LEMNOIDEAE=.] 2
2. Fronds with one root each, 3-5-nerved.--Species 5. Some are used in medicine. “Duckweed.” =Lemna= L.
Fronds with several roots each, many-nerved.--Species 1. (Under Lemna L.) =Spirodela= Schleid.
ORDER FARINOSAE
SUBORDER FLAGELLARIINEAE
FAMILY 21. FLAGELLARIACEAE
Climbing herbs. Leaves lanceolate, ending in a tendril. Flowers in panicles, regular, hermaphrodite. Perianth-segments 6, free, subpetaloid, yellowish or whitish, the outer somewhat shorter than the inner. Stamens 6. Anthers turned inwards. Ovary superior, 3-celled, with a solitary, inverted ovule in the inner angle of each cell. Style with 3 linear, recurved stigmas. Fruit a 1-2-seeded berry. Seeds with a mealy albumen and a small marginal embryo.
Genus 1. Species 1. Tropical and South-east Africa. Used in medicine and for plaiting-work. =Flagellaria= L.
SUBORDER ENANTIOBLASTAE
FAMILY 22. RESTIONACEAE
Grass-like herbs. Leaves linear or reduced to the sheath. Flowers in spikelets usually arranged in spikes or panicles, regular, unisexual. Perianth of 3-6 membranous or scarious segments, imbricate in bud, rarely absent in the female flowers. Stamens 2-3. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary superior, 1-3-celled, with 1-3 pendulous, straight ovules. Fruit dry. Seeds with a mealy albumen and a marginal embryo.--Genera 12. Species 230. South Africa to Nyasaland. (Plate 13.)
1. Ovary 1-celled, sometimes 2-3-celled when young. Fruit 1-celled, indehiscent. 2
Ovary 2-3-celled. Fruit 1-3-celled, dehiscent. Flowers dioecious. 10
2. Spikelets, all or most of them, bisexual, containing a male and a female flower, arranged in spikes. Styles 2.--Species 1. South Africa. =Phyllocomos= Mast.
Spikelets unisexual. 3
3. Female spikelets 1-flowered. Styles or stigmas 2. 4
Female spikelets 2-many-flowered, very rarely 1-flowered, but then stigmas 3. 6
4. Glumes distant. Male spikelets in panicles, female in spikes.--Species 10. South Africa (Cape Colony). (Including Ceratocaryum Nees). =Willdenowia= Thunb.
Glumes closely imbricate. 5
5. Female flowers on a thick stalk. Style 1, with 2 stigmas. Fruits more or less distinctly stalked.--Species 15. South Africa (Cape Colony). =Hypodiscus= Nees
Female flowers on a thin stalk or sessile. Styles 2. Fruits sessile.--Species 20. South Africa to Nyasaland. =Hypolaena= R. Br.
6. Outer perianth-segments of the female flowers winged on the keel. 7
Outer perianth-segments not winged. Styles 2-3. 8
7. Style 1. Female spikelets in spikes.--Species 15. South Africa (Cape Colony). =Thamnochortus= Berg
Styles 2-3. Female spikelets solitary or in fascicles.--Species 5. South Africa (Cape Colony). (Under Thamnochortus Berg). =Staberoha= Kunth
8. Female spikelets solitary or in clusters of 2-3 on the top of the stem, 2-5-flowered. Outer perianth-segments larger than the inner. Styles 2.--Species 8. South Africa (Cape Colony). =Cannomois= Beauv.
Female spikelets in spikes or panicles. Outer perianth-segments as large as or smaller than the inner, more rarely larger, but then styles 3. 9
9. Leaf-sheaths persistent. Styles 3.--Species 15. South Africa. =Leptocarpus= R. Br.
Leaf-sheaths deciduous, more rarely persistent, but then styles 2.--Species 30. South Africa. (Including Lamprocaulos Mast.) =Elegia= L.
10. (1.) Leaf-sheaths persistent.--Species 100. South Africa. (Plate 13.) =Restio= L.
Leaf-sheaths, at least the upper ones, deciduous. Spikelets few-flowered. 11
11. Ovary and fruit 2-celled. Female spikelets in short spikes.--Species 1. South Africa (Cape Colony). =Askidiosperma= Steud.
Ovary and fruit 3-celled.--Species 15. South Africa. =Dovea= Kunth
FAMILY 23. MAYACACEAE
Herbs. Leaves alternate, linear, 2-toothed at the apex. Flowers in axillary, 2-3-flowered umbels, regular, hermaphrodite. Perianth consisting of 3 imbricate sepals and 3 imbricate petals. Stamens 3. Anthers opening by a terminal pore. Ovary superior, 1-celled, with 3 parietal placentas. Ovules numerous, straight. Style and stigma simple. Fruit capsular. Embryo at the apex of the mealy albumen.
Genus 1, species 1. Southern West Africa (Angola). =Mayaca= Aubl.
FAMILY 24. XYRIDACEAE
Herbs. Leaves radical, linear. Flowers in spikes or heads with an involucre of imbricate bracts, hermaphrodite. Sepals 3, one much larger than the others and deciduous. Petals 3, united below into a tube. Fertile stamens 3, adnate to the petals; staminodes 3. Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, 1-celled or incompletely 3-celled. Ovules numerous, straight. Style 3-cleft. Fruit capsular. Embryo at the apex of the mealy albumen. (Plate 14.)
Genus 1, species 40. Tropical and South Africa. Some are used in medicine. =Xyris= L.
FAMILY 25. ERIOCAULACEAE
Herbs. Leaves radical, linear. Flowers in heads surrounded by an involucre, very small, monoecious. Perianth membranous, simple or double, rarely in the female flowers none. Stamens 2-6. Anthers 2-celled. Ovary superior, 2-3-celled, with one pendulous ovule in each cell. Styles or style-branches 2-3. Fruit capsular. Embryo small, at the apex of the albumen.--Genera 4, species 80. Tropical and South Africa. (Plate 15.)
1. Stamens 2-3, opposite the petals. Petals of the male flowers united below, without a gland on the inside. Style-branches 6, three of which bear a stigma, rarely 3. [Subfamily =PAEPALANTHOIDEAE=.] 2
Stamens 4-6, very rarely fewer, but then petals free. Petals usually with a gland on the inside near the apex. Style-branches 2-3, without alternating appendages. [Subfamily =ERIOCAULOIDEAE=.] 3
2. Petals of the female flowers united at their middle part.--Species 6. Central and South Africa. (Under Paepalanthus Mart.) =Syngonanthus= Ruhl.
Petals of the female flowers free.--Species 3. West Africa and Mascarene Islands. =Paepalanthus= Mart.
3. Petals united into a tube, but free at the base in the female flowers. Inner involucral bracts more or less spreading. Stamens 6.--Species 8. Tropics. Some are used in medicine. (Plate 15.) =Mesanthemum= Koern.
Petals free or absent. Inner involucral bracts rarely spreading.--Species 60. Tropical and South Africa. =Eriocaulon= L.
SUBORDER BROMELIINEAE
FAMILY 26. RAPATEACEAE
Herbs. Leaves radical, lanceolate. Flowers in heads with 2 large involucral bracts, regular, hermaphrodite. Perianth corolla-like, yellow or whitish, 6-lobed. Stamens 6, inserted in the tube of the perianth. Anthers linear, opening by two terminal pores. Ovary superior, 3-celled, with 1 ascending, inverted ovule in each cell. Style simple. Fruit capsular. Embryo near the apex of the mealy albumen.
Genus 1, species 1. West Africa (Liberia). =Maschalocephalus= Gilg & Schum.
FAMILY 27. BROMELIACEAE
Herbs. Leaves for the most part radical, linear, toothed. Inflorescence terminal, cone-shaped. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Perianth consisting of a calyx and a corolla. Petals slightly cohering and bearing two scales at the base. Stamens 6, slightly adhering to the petals. Anthers linear, turned inwards. Ovary inferior or half-inferior, 3-celled, with many axile, inverted ovules. Style 1; stigmas 3. Fruits berry-like, united into a cone-shaped head. Embryo near the base of the mealy albumen.
Genus 1, species 1 (A. sativus Schult., pine-apple). Cultivated and often naturalised in the tropics. The edible fruit and the fibres of the leaves are used. (Ananassa Lindl.) =Ananas= Adans.
SUBORDER COMMELININEAE
FAMILY 28. COMMELINACEAE
Herbs. Leaves alternate. Inflorescence cymose. Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth-segments 6, more or less distinctly separated into sepals and petals. Fertile stamens 2-6. Ovary superior, 2-3-celled. Ovules straight. Style terminal. Embryo near the apex of the more or less mealy albumen.--Genera 12, species 160. (Plate 16.)
1. Fruit indehiscent, ovate or globular. Ovary 3-celled. Petals free, white, more rarely pale pink or blueish. Inflorescence a panicle without spathe-like bracts. [Tribe POLLIEAE.] 2
Fruit dehiscing loculicidally. 3
2. Pericarp succulent. Margin of the leaves silky. Perfect stamens 3.--Species 10. West Africa and Upper Nile. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Palisota= Reichb.
Pericarp crusty. Margin of the leaves nearly glabrous. Perfect stamens 3 or 6.--Species 5. Tropics. =Pollia= Thunb.
3. Fertile stamens 2-3, sterile ones 0-4, often bearing empty anthers. [Tribe COMMELINEAE.] 4
Fertile stamens 5-6. [Tribe TRADESCANTIEAE.] 7
4. Inflorescence in the axil of spathe-like bracts. 5
Inflorescence without spathe-like bracts. 6
5. Sterile stamens with linear anther-halves cohering at the base. Ovary 2-celled with 1 ovule in each cell. Petals white. Spathes on the elongate branches of a panicle.--Species 1. West Africa. =Polyspatha= Benth.
Sterile stamens with cross-shaped anthers. Ovary usually 3-celled. Petals usually blue.--Species 80. Some have an edible root-stock or yield vegetables, medicaments, or dyeing-materials; others are used as ornamental plants. =Commelina= L.
6. Sepals large, equal, lanceolate, acute. Petals equal. Fruit with 3 equal-sized, many-seeded cells.--Species 1. East Africa. =Anthericopsis= Engl.
Sepals small, unequal, ovate or oblong-ovate, obtuse. Petals unequal. Fruit with 2 cells, more rarely with 3, one of which is smaller and 1-2-seeded.--Species 30. Tropical and South Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. (Plate 16.) =Aneilema= R. Br.
7. Petals united below into a tube, but sometimes free at the base, blueish or reddish. Ovary 3-celled with 1-2 ovules in each cell. 8
Petals free or nearly so. 9
8. Stamens inserted towards the top of the corolla-tube. Petals united from the base.--Species 5. Tropical and South Africa. =Coleotrype= C. B. Clarke
Stamens inserted at the base of the corolla. Petals free at the base.--Species 15. Tropical and South Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Cyanotis= Don
9. Ovary 2-celled with 1 ovule in each cell. Fruit ovate. Filaments glabrous. Petals red or yellow. Inflorescence a panicle.--Species 9. Tropical and South-east Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Floscopa= Lour.
Ovary 3-celled. 10
10. Ovules 4-10 in each cell. Fruit oblong. Filaments glabrous. Petals whitish. Inflorescence a panicle.--Species 2. Central Africa. =Buforrestia= C. B. Clarke
Ovules 1-2 in each cell. Fruit ovoid or globular. Stamens hairy. Inflorescence spike-, head-, or umbel-like. 11
11. Ovules 2 in each cell; in the dorsal cell sometimes solitary. Fruit subglobular. Stamens with a narrow connective. Sepals herbaceous, green. Inflorescence spike-or head-like. Stem long.--Species 3. Equatorial West Africa. =Forrestia= A. Rich.
Ovule 1 in each cell. Fruit ovoid. Stamens with a broad connective. Sepals subpetaloid. Inflorescence umbel-like and surrounded by an involucre of two bracts. Stem short.--Species 1. West Africa (Congo). =Rhoeo= Hance
SUBORDER PONTEDERIINEAE
FAMILY 29. PONTEDERIACEAE
Aquatic herbs. Flowers in spikes, racemes or panicles, without bracts, hermaphrodite. Perianth-segments 6, petaloid, white, yellow or blue, united below into a tube, rarely nearly free. Stamens 3 or 6, affixed to the perianth. Anthers oblong. Ovary superior, 1-or 3-celled, with numerous inverted ovules. Style simple. Fruit a loculicidal, many-seeded capsule. Seeds with a ribbed testa, a copious mealy albumen, and a long cylindrical embryo.--Genera 3, species 5. Tropics.
1. Stamens 3. Ovary 1-celled or incompletely 3-celled. Perianth funnel-shaped, with a distinct tube.--Species 3. Central Africa. =Heteranthera= Ruiz & Pav.
Stamens 6. Ovary 3-celled. Perianth blue or violet. 2
2. Perianth funnel-shaped, with a distinct tube; Filaments thread-like. Anthers attached by the back. Stigma entire or shortly lobed.--Species 1. Tropics. Used as an ornamental plant. =Eichhornia= Kunth
Perianth bell-shaped, with nearly free segments. Filament of the largest stamen toothed at the base. Anthers attached by the base. Stigma deeply cleft.--Species 1. Central Africa (Upper Nile and Kasai). Used as an ornamental plant, and in medicine. =Monochoria= Presl
FAMILY 30. CYANASTRACEAE
Herbs. Root-stock tuberous. Leaves elliptical or cordate, with curved main-nerves. Flowers in terminal racemes or panicles, provided with bracts. Perianth-segments 6, petaloid, shortly united at the base. Stamens 6, inserted at the base of the perianth, more or less united below. Anthers linear, longer than the filaments, opening by short slits at the apex. Ovary slightly sunk in the receptacle, deeply lobed, 3-celled. Ovules 2 in each cell, ascending, inverted. Style simple, with a 3-lobed stigma. Fruit a 1-seeded nut. Seed with a thin testa, a copious albumen, and a transversely-ovate marginal embryo. (Under PONTEDERIACEAE or HAEMODORACEAE.)
Genus 1, species 5. Central Africa. Some have edible tubers. (Schoenlandia Cornu). =Cyanastrum= Oliv.
ORDER LILIIFLORAE
SUBORDER JUNCINEAE
FAMILY 31. JUNCACEAE
Leaves linear or reduced to the sheath. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Perianth-segments 6, free, stiff, usually green. Stamens 3 or 6. Ovary superior, 1-or 3-celled. Ovules 3 or more, inverted. Style 1; stigmas 3, elongated. Fruit capsular. Seeds with a straight axile embryo and abundant albumen.--Genera 3, species 55. (Plate 17.)
1. Stem woody. Leaves at its top, stiff, serrate. Ovary 3-celled, with 2 or few ovules in each cell. Style very short. Seeds with a large embryo and appressed testa.--Species 1. South Africa. It yields fibres and vegetables and is used for plaiting-work. “Palmiet.” (Plate 17.) =Prionium= E. Mey.
Stem herbaceous. Style thread-like. Seeds with a small embryo. 2
2. Ovary 1-celled, with 3 basal ovules. Leaves with a closed sheath and ciliate margins.--Species 10. North and South Africa and high mountains of Central Africa. “Wood-rush.” =Luzula= DC.
Ovary 1-3-celled, with numerous parietal or axile ovules.--Species 45. Some are used in medicine or for plaiting-work. “Rush.” =Juncus= L.
SUBORDER LILIINEAE
FAMILY 32. LILIACEAE
Perianth more or less corolla-like. Stamens 6, rarely fewer. Ovary superior, usually 2-5-celled, rarely 1-celled with parietal placentas. Seeds with a small embryo and abundant, fleshy or horny albumen.--Genera 79, species 1450. (Including COLCHICACEAE and SMILACEAE.) (Plate 18.)
1. Underground part of the stem a bulb or a corm. 2
Underground part of the stem a rootstock or not distinctly developed. 41
2. Leaves all radical, rarely also some much smaller cauline leaves present. 3
Leaves distributed along the stem or crowded at its top. 31
3. Stem arising out of a corm, very short, underground during the time of flowering, bearing 1-3 flowers at the top. Perianth with a very long, sometimes split tube. Capsule opening septicidally. [Tribe COLCHICEAE.] 4
Stem arising out of a bulb. Flowers in racemes or umbels, very rarely solitary. Perianth with a not very long tube or without a tube. Capsule opening loculicidally. 5
4. Perianth-segments free.--Species 2. Algeria and Abyssinia. Used as ornamental plants. =Merendera= Ram.
Perianth-segments united below.--Species 5. North Africa. Poisonous and used as medicinal and ornamental plants. =Colchicum= L.
5. Flowers in cymose umbels or heads surrounded by 2-3 bracts. Scape distinctly developed. Leaves usually linear. Perianth-segments free or united at the base only. [Tribe ALLIEAE.] 6
Flowers in racemes, corymbs, or spikes, very rarely solitary, rarely in umbels or heads surrounded by 3 or more bracts, but then scape almost wanting, leaves oblong to ovate, spreading, and perianth-segments united to the middle or higher up. 8
6. Inflorescence surrounded by narrow bracts. Radical leaves 1-3. Perianth usually yellow.--Species 10. North Africa. =Gagea= Salisb.
Inflorescence surrounded by broad membranous bracts usually united at the base. 7
7. Perianth-segments united into a short tube at the base. Filaments dilated. Ovules in each ovary-cell 6-12. Smell not alliaceous.--Species 2. Cultivated and sometimes naturalised in North Africa, the Mascarene Islands, and St. Helena. Ornamental plants. (Milla Cav.) =Nothoscordum= Kunth
Perianth-segments free or nearly free. Ovules in each ovary-cell 2, rarely 3-6. Smell alliaceous.--Species 30. North Africa, Abyssinia, southern West Africa, and South Africa. Some of them (onion, leek, garlic) are cultivated as vegetables or pot-herbs, and yield also condiments, medicaments, and glue; others are used as ornamental plants. =Allium= L.
8. Anthers attached by the base. Stem or inflorescence branched or twining. Leaves vanishing before the time of flowering. [Tribe ASPHODELEAE, Subtribe ERIOSPERMINAE.] 9
Anthers attached by the back. Stem simple. [Tribe SCILLEAE.] 10
9. Inflorescence twining, bearing flowers on its upper branches only. Seeds oblong, with a small embryo.--Species 1. South Africa. Used as an ornamental plant. =Bowiea= Harv.
Inflorescence bearing flowers on all its branches or not branched. Seeds ovoid or globose, with a large embryo.--Species 7. South Africa to Angola. =Schizobasis= Bak.
10. Flowers in nearly sessile heads or umbels surrounded by an involucre. Perianth-segments united into a tube below. Leaves 2, oblong or ovate. 11
Flowers in racemes or spikes, rarely solitary. 12
11. Perianth-segments very unequal. Filaments free.--Species 3. South Africa. Used as ornamental plants. =Daubenya= Lindl.
Perianth-segments subequal. Filaments united at the base.--Species 30. South Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Massonia= Thunb.
12. Perianth-segments free or nearly free. 13
Perianth-segments united into a tube below. 18
13. Seeds flattened or sharply angled, more or less distinctly winged. Perianth white, yellow, or green. 14
Seeds globose or obovoid. 15
14. Perianth persistent; inner segments somewhat shorter than the outer, connivent at the top, hood-shaped or crested.--Species 70. South and Central Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Albuca= L.
Perianth deciduous; segments subequal, spreading or connivent and bell-shaped.--Species 55. Some of them are poisonous or used in medicine or as ornamental plants. =Urginea= Steinh.
15. Inflorescence racemose, crowned by a tuft of leafy bracts. Perianth greenish.--Species 10. South Africa to Nyasaland. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Eucomis= L’Hér.
Inflorescence without a terminal tuft of bracts. 16
16. Perianth-segments convex, connivent at the top, whitish. Flowers in spikes or spike-like racemes, sessile or short-stalked, the uppermost abortive. Filaments broadened almost to the top.--Species 17. Central and South Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Drimiopsis= Lindl.
Perianth-segments spreading or campanulately-connivent at the base. Flowers in racemes, long-or short-stalked, in the latter case filaments thread-shaped or broadened at the base only. 17
17. Perianth-segments 1-nerved, blue or red, rarely whitish or greenish. Stamens affixed to the perianth; filaments thread-shaped or broadened at the base only.--Species 100. Some have edible bulbs or are used in medicine or as ornamental plants. “Squill.” (Including Endymion Dumort.) =Scilla= L.
Perianth-segments obscurely many-nerved, white or yellow and usually striped, rarely brownish or greenish. Stamens usually free from the perianth and with flattened filaments.--Species 90. Some have edible bulbs. =Ornithogalum= L.
18. Perianth-tube cylindrical, linear or oblong in section. 19
Perianth-tube bell-, urn-, funnel-, or saucer-shaped. 23
19. Perianth-segments very short and broad, more or less ovate. 20
Perianth-segments narrow and more or less elongated. 21
20. Perianth falling off after flowering. Stamens inserted below the throat; filaments very short. Ovules numerous. Seeds flattened. Leaves awl-shaped. Flowers solitary or in pairs.--Species 1. South Africa. =Litanthus= Harv.
Perianth withering. Stamens inserted in the middle of the tube; filaments thread-shaped. Ovules 2 in each cell. Seeds thick. Leaves strap-shaped. Flowers in dense racemes.--Species 3. South Africa. Used as ornamental plants. =Veltheimia= Gled.
21. Seeds flattened. Anthers linear. Perianth-segments unequal, the outer spreading, the inner erect, as long as or shorter than the outer. Leaves linear, usually more than 2.--Species 60. =Dipcadi= Medik.
Seeds thick. Anthers oblong. Perianth-segments equal or, if unequal, the inner usually longer than the outer. Leaves oblong or lanceolate, more rarely linear, usually 2. 22
22. Perianth-segments equal, lanceolate, shorter than the tube. Stamens inserted at the throat of the perianth. Leaves 2, oblong.--Species 10. South Africa. =Polyxena= Kunth
Perianth-segments more or less unequal in length, oblong or spatulate. Stamens inserted in the tube of the perianth.--Species 40. South Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Lachenalia= Jacq.
23. Perianth-segments very short, usually blue. 24
Perianth-segments half as long as the tube or longer. 25
24. Perianth urn-shaped. Ovules 2 in each cell.--Species 7. North Africa. Several species serve as ornamental plants; the bulbs are used in medicine and as a substitute for soap. =Muscari= Mill.
Perianth bell-shaped. Ovules 5-6 in each cell.--Species 1. Madagascar. =Rhodocodon= Bak.
25. Perianth-segments unequal, the inner longer. Leaves 2, rarely 3-5. (See 22.) =Lachenalia= Jacq.
Perianth-segments nearly equal. 26
26. Perianth with a very short tube and spreading segments. Filaments united at the base. Leaves 2, broad. Flowers in spikes.--Species 1. South Africa (Cape Colony). =Whiteheadia= Harv.
Perianth with a more or less elongated tube, very rarely with a short tube, but with erect segments. Leaves 2, narrow, or more. 27
27. Seeds globular or obovoid, turgid. Ovules 2-6 in each cell.--Species 12. North and South Africa, southern East Africa, and Madagascar. Some species are used in medicine, perfumery, or gardening. (Including Bellevalia Lapeyr.). =Hyacinthus= L.
Seeds flattened or angular. Ovules 6 or more in each cell. Flowers whitish. 28
28. Perianth-segments erect or converging. 29
Perianth-segments spreading or bent back. 30
29. Perianth funnel-shaped; segments half as long as the curved tube. Stamens inserted at the throat. Ovary oblong. Style subulate. Leaves large, lanceolate. Raceme dense, about 100-flowered.--Species 2. German South-west Africa. =Pseudogaltonia= Kuntze
Perianth bell-shaped; segments as long as the tube or longer. Stamens inserted below the throat. Ovary ovate. Style short, columnar. Leaves short, linear. Raceme lax, 6-20-flowered.--Species 2. South Africa (Cape Colony). =Rhadamantus= Salisb.
30. Perianth withering; segments as long as the tube, the outer oblong, the inner obovate. Stamens inserted below the throat. Seeds angular.--Species 3. South Africa. Used as ornamental plants. =Galtonia= Decne.
Perianth falling off after flowering; segments somewhat longer than the tube, linear or oblong. Stamens inserted at the throat. Seeds discoid.--Species 30. Southern and tropical Africa. Some are used as ornamental or medicinal plants. =Drimia= Jacq.
31. (2.) Anthers turned outwards, opening outwards or laterally. Styles 3. [Tribe ANGUILLARIEAE.] 32
Anthers turned inwards, opening inwards or laterally. Style 1, sometimes very short, with 1-3 stigmas. Flowers solitary or in lax, few-flowered racemes or umbels. 37
32. Capsule opening loculicidally. Flowers long-stalked, solitary or in racemes, rarely short-stalked and then solitary and axillary. Perianth dark brown. 33
Capsule opening septicidally. Flowers sessile or short-stalked, in spikes, spike-like racemes, or heads, rarely solitary and terminal. 34
33. Perianth deciduous; segments without a gland at the base. Stamens with thickened filaments. Flowers solitary, axillary.--Species 10. Tropics and northern South Africa. =Iphigenia= Kunth
Perianth persistent; segments with a gland at the base. Stamens with thread-shaped filaments. Flowers in racemes.--Species 3. South Africa, southern Central Africa, and Madagascar. Used as ornamental plants. =Ornithoglossum= Salisb.
34. Perianth-segments united below, persistent. Stigmas capitate. Flowers in spikes, without bracts.--Species 4. South Africa and mountains of Central Africa. Used as ornamental plants. =Wurmbea= Thunb.
Perianth-segments free, clawed. Flowers in heads or racemes, rarely solitary or in spikes; in the latter case perianth deciduous and stigmas on the inside of the styles. 35
35. Flowers in spikes, without bracts. Perianth deciduous, whitish. Ovary 3-lobed, obovate.--Species 3. South Africa (Cape Colony). (Including Neodregea Wright). =Dipidax= Salisb.
Flowers in heads or racemes, rarely solitary, provided with bracts. Perianth persistent. 36
36. Flowers in racemes or solitary. Stigmas lateral. Ovary triangular-cylindrical. Perianth yellow or red. Stem distinctly developed.--Species 1. South Africa (Cape Colony). =Baeometra= Salisb.
Flowers in heads. Stigmas minute. Ovary usually ovoid.--Species 20. South, East, and North Africa. (Erythrostictus Schlecht.) =Androcymbium= Willd.
37. Flowers large, usually solitary. Perianth deciduous, bell-or funnel-shaped, usually white or reddish. Anthers linear or oblong. Stigma usually 3-lobed. [Tribe TULIPEAE.] 38
Flowers rather small, usually umbellate. Perianth persistent, finally more or less wheel-shaped with spreading segments, usually yellow. Anthers ovate or oblong. Stigma usually simple. 40
38. Perianth funnel-shaped, white; segments recurved at the apex. Anthers attached by the back. Flowers in racemes.--Species 1. North Africa. Used as an ornamental plant. “Lily.” =Lilium= L.
Perianth bell-shaped, usually reddish; segments more or less erect, not recurved. Anthers attached by the base. Flowers usually solitary. 39
39. Flowers drooping. Perianth-segments with a nectar-bearing pit or spot at the base. Style long.--Species 2. North-west Africa (Algeria). Used as ornamental plants. =Fritillaria= L.
Flowers erect, sometimes slightly drooping before flowering. Perianth-segments without a pit, but often with a nectar-bearing spot at the base. Style very short.--Species 2. North-west Africa (Algeria). Used as ornamental plants. “Tulip.” =Tulipa= L.
40. Perianth funnel-shaped, whitish, with oblong-ovate segments. Style short; stigma 3-lobed.--Species 1. North Africa (Cyrenaica). =Lloydia= Salisb.
Perianth wheel-shaped, usually yellow and with lanceolate segments. (See 6.) =Gagea= Salisb.
41. (1.) Branches leaf-like, but often awl-shaped. Leaves scale-like. Flowers axillary, solitary or in pairs, more rarely in fascicles, umbels, or racemes. Fruit a berry. [Tribe ASPARAGEAE.] 42
Branches not leaf-like; stem usually simple. Leaves well developed. 44
42. Flowers inserted at the base of the usually linear leaf-like branches. Perianth-segments free or slightly united at the base. Stamens 6, with free filaments.--Species 80. Some of them are used as vegetables, medicinal-, ornamental-, or hedge-plants. (Including Myrsiphyllum Willd.) =Asparagus= L.
Flowers inserted on the surface or margin of the lanceolate or broader leaf-like branches. Stamens with united filaments. 43
43. Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth-segments united high up. Anthers 6. Ovary 3-celled. Style distinctly developed; stigmas 3.--Species 1. Canary Islands, Madeira, and Azores. =Semele= Kunth
Flowers dioecious. Perianth-segments free. Anthers 3. Ovary 1-celled. Style very short; stigma lobed.--Species 2. North Africa. Used as ornamental and medicinal plants. =Ruscus= L.
44. Flowers solitary, axillary. Anthers turned outwards. Fruit capsular. [Tribe UVULARIEAE.] 45
Flowers solitary but terminal or collected into various inflorescences. Anthers turned inwards. 47
45. Perianth-segments free, spreading or reflexed. Style bent downwards at the base.--Species 5. Tropical and South Africa. Poisonous and used as medicinal and ornamental plants; some of them yield starch. =Gloriosa= L.
Perianth-segments united below or connivent. Style not bent downwards. 46
46. Perianth-segments free or almost so, with a nectar-bearing cavity at their base.--Species 6. Tropical and South Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Littonia= Hook. fil.
Perianth-segments united almost to the top into a pitcher-shaped tube, with a short spur at the base.--Species 1. South-East Africa. Used as an ornamental plant. =Sandersonia= Hook. fil.
47. Flowers solitary, in 2-3-flowered heads, in axillary cymes, or in umbels, the latter sometimes arranged in racemes. 48
Flowers in spikes, racemes, or panicles, which are sometimes contracted into many-flowered heads or consist of fascicles or cymes. 52
48. Stem herbaceous. Leaves radical, linear, parallel-veined. Inflorescence terminal. Fruit a capsule. 49
Stem woody at least at the base, usually climbing. Leaves cauline, oblong or broader, net-veined. Inflorescence axillary. Fruit a berry. 51
49. Flowers solitary or in groups of 2-3, surrounded by an involucre of 5-7 bracts, sessile. Perianth-segments free. Ovary-cells with a single ovule.--Species 1. North Africa. [Tribe APHYLLANTHEAE.] =Aphyllanthes= L.
Flowers in umbels enclosed by 2 bracts. Perianth-segments united below. Ovary-cells with many ovules. [Tribe AGAPANTHEAE.] 50
50. Perianth with a long tube and a corona at the throat. Style short, columnar.--Species 20. South Africa and southern Central Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Tulbaghia= L.
Perianth with a short tube, without a corona. Style filiform. Seeds winged.--Species 3. South Africa. Used as ornamental plants. =Agapanthus= L’ Hér.
51. Flowers in cymes, hermaphrodite. Perianth-segments united below into a long tube.--Species 1. South Africa. [Tribe LUZURIAGEAE.] =Behnia= Didrichs.
Flowers in umbels, dioecious. Perianth-segments free.--Species 9. Some of them are used medicinally. [Tribe SMILACEAE.] =Smilax= Tourn.
52. Perianth-segments free or almost so, more or less spreading. Stem herbaceous. Ovary 3-celled. [Tribe ASPHODELEAE.] 53
Perianth-segments evidently united at their base or connivent into a long tube, rarely almost free and not connivent into a tube, but then stem woody, very seldom herbaceous plants growing upon trees and having a 1-celled ovary. 66
53. Anthers attached by the base or between the lobes of the base. 54
Anthers attached by the back. 62
54. Anthers opening by terminal pores, sometimes prolonged into slits. Filaments thickened. Perianth blue, rarely white. Fruit a berry. Leaves 2-ranked, linear. Flowers in lax panicles.--Species 2, one native in Madagascar and the neighbouring islands, the other one naturalized in the Island of St. Helena. They are used as ornamental and medicinal plants; the berries are poisonous. [Subtribe DIANELLINAE.] =Dianella= Lam.
Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. Fruit a capsule. Leaves in several ranks or 1-2 only present. Flowers usually in racemes. 55
55. Anthers without a pit at the base. Perianth more or less campanulate. Seeds woolly. Root-stock tuberous. Leaves 1-3, usually a single leaf.--Species 50. South and Central Africa. Some are used as ornamental or medicinal plants. [Subtribe ERIOSPERMINAE.] =Eriospermum= Jacq.
Anthers attached to the filament in a small pit at the base. Perianth more or less rotate. [Subtribes ANTHERICINAE and ASPHODELINAE.] 56
56. Perianth spirally twisted after flowering, blue violet or red. Ovules 2 in each ovary-cell. 57
Perianth not twisted, usually white. Ovules 4 or more in each ovary-cell. 58
57. Stamens free or the inner attached to the perianth; filaments flattened. Perianth blue. Stem very short, 2-3-flowered.--Species 1. South Africa (Cape Colony). =Nanolirion= Benth.
Stamens attached to the perianth; filaments thread-shaped. Stem long, many-flowered.--Species 4. South Africa and Madagascar. =Caesia= R. Br.
58. Ovules many in each cell. Filaments short and broad. Perianth funnel-shaped, with erect segments.--Species 3. West Africa. (Debesia Kuntze). =Acrospira= Welw.
Ovules 4-8 in each cell. Filaments thread-shaped or slightly broadened in the middle. 59
59. Stamens as long as or longer than the perianth. Flowers almost sessile. 60
Stamens shorter than the perianth. Flowers distinctly stalked. 61
60. Perianth-segments erect. Leaves broadly elliptical.--Species 1. Southern West Africa. =Verdickia= De Wild.
Perianth-segments spreading. Leaves linear or lanceolate.--Species 15. Central Africa. (Under Chlorophytum Ker). =Dasystachys= Bak.
61. Fruit deeply 3-lobed or acutely angled. Seeds discoid.--Species 80. Tropical and South Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Chlorophytum= Ker
Fruit not distinctly lobed, obtusely angled. Filaments thread-shaped.--Species 120. Some are used as ornamental or medicinal plants. (Phalangium Juss.) =Anthericum= L.
62. (53.) Anthers attached to the filament in a small dorsal pit. 63
Anthers without a dorsal pit. 65
63. Perianth wheel-shaped, with spreading 5-nerved segments, white on the inner face, violet or red on the outer. Filaments woolly. Seeds globular or ovoid.--Species 1. North-West Africa. Used in medicine. =Simethis= Kunth
Perianth bell-or funnel-shaped, with more or less connivent, 1-nerved segments. Seeds triquetrous. 64
64. Perianth yellow. Filaments distinctly unequal, bent downwards. Stem bearing leaves to the middle or higher up.--Species 2. North Africa. Used as ornamental or medicinal plants. =Asphodeline= Reichb.
Perianth white or reddish. Filaments subequal. Stem bearing leaves at the base only.--Species 10. North Africa, northern East Africa, and Mascarene Islands. Some are used as ornamental or medicinal plants or for preparing glue. =Asphodelus= L.
65. Filaments glabrous. Ovules 2 in each ovary-cell. Perianth white or yellow.--Species 9. South Africa. =Bulbinella= Kunth
Filaments bearded. Ovules 3 or more in each ovary-cell. Perianth yellow, rarely whitish.--Species 30. South and Central Africa. Some are poisonous to cattle. =Bulbine= L.
66. (52.) Stamens free from the perianth, rarely (Lomatophyllum) slightly attached to it at the base. Anthers attached to the tip of the filament in a small pit. Perianth-segments evidently united or connivent into a narrow tube at the base. Fruit a capsule which is rarely fleshy. Leaves leathery and all radical, or more or less fleshy. [Tribe ALOINEAE.] 67
Stamens attached to the perianth, rarely almost free, but then anthers without a pit, perianth-segments almost free, spreading or globosely-connivent, fruit a berry, and leaves not fleshy. 75
67. Leaves leathery, minutely toothed or entire, radical or nearly so. Inflorescence terminal, simple, densely racemose, upon an almost naked stalk. Perianth usually yellow or red; limb regular or nearly so, not 2-lipped. [Subtribe KNIPHOFIINAE.] 68
Leaves fleshy and usually prickly, generally inserted on a woody stem, rarely leathery, but then inflorescence subcapitate or loosely racemose or perianth with a 2-lipped limb. Inflorescence axillary, but often apparently terminal. [Subtribe ALOINAE.] 69
68. Perianth campanulate, with a short and wide tube. Flowers spreading, rarely erect.--Species 5. South Africa to Angola. =Notosceptrum= Benth.
Perianth cylindrical, with a long and narrow tube. Flowers more or less drooping, rarely erect.--Species 65. South and East Africa to Katanga and Madagascar. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Kniphofia= Moench
69. Perianth-segments erect or converging. Flowers usually large and red or yellow. 70
Perianth-segments spreading or bent back. Flowers usually small and whitish. 72
70. Perianth-tube long, curved, swollen below, cylindrical above. Perianth usually red. Stamens shorter than the perianth. Stem short. Leaves not toothed. Racemes lax, one-sided.--Species 40. South Africa. Most of them are used as ornamental plants. =Gasteria= Duval
Perianth-tube straight or almost so, cylindrical or campanulate. Perianth usually reddish-yellow. Stamens as long as the perianth or somewhat longer. 71
71. Flowers small, erect, whitish, with minute bracts. Perianth-segments free. Stamens exserted. Filaments thread-shaped. Leaves not awned.--Species 1. South Africa (Cape Colony). (Under Aloë L.) =Chamaealoë= Berg.
Flowers large, spreading or drooping, yellow or red, rarely small erect and whitish, but then bracts large, filaments flattened, and leaves long-awned.--Species 160. They yield fibre, vegetables, dye-stuffs, vermin-poison, and medicaments, and are often used as ornamental plants. =Aloë= L.
72. Perianth with a 2-lipped limb. Stamens shorter than the perianth. Fruit dry. 73
Perianth with a regular, stellate limb. Stem woody. 74
73. Ovary and fruit conical, acuminate. Leaves leathery, jointed, dilated at the base and forming a bulb.--Species 4. South Africa to Angola. (Under Haworthia Duval) =Chortolirion= Berg.
Ovary and fruit rounded at the top. Leaves fleshy, not jointed and not forming a bulb.--Species 60. South Africa to Angola. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Haworthia= Duval
74. Perianth with short segments, whitish. Stamens equalling the perianth-tube. Fruit dry.--Species 9. South Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Apicra= Willd.
Perianth with long segments, red or green. Fruit fleshy.--Species 3. Mascarene Islands. Used as ornamental plants. =Lomatophyllum= Willd.
75. (66.) Anthers attached to the tip of the filament in a pit at their back. Ovary 3-celled with many ovules in each cell. Fruit a leathery capsule. Flowers yellowish-red, large, panicled. Leaves all radical. [Tribe HEMEROCALLEAE.] 76
Anthers without a pit. Ovary 3-celled with 1-8 ovules in each cell, or incompletely 6-celled, or 1-celled. Fruit a berry, rarely a fleshy capsule or a nut. Flowers usually whitish. 77
76. Leaves herbaceous. Inflorescence few-flowered. Seeds ovate, angled.--Species 1. Naturalised in the Mascarene Islands. A garden-plant. “Day-lily.” =Hemerocallis= L.
Leaves leathery. Inflorescence many-flowered. Seeds oblong, winged.--Species 1 (Ph. tenax Forst., New-Zealand-flax). Cultivated in South Africa and the Mascarene Islands. Yields fibre and is used as an ornamental and medicinal plant. =Phormium= Forst.
77. Perianth-segments globosely-campanulately converging, slightly cohering at the base. Stamens with the filaments thickened at the apex and with sagittate basifixed anthers. Ovary 3-celled, each cell with an incomplete partition and numerous ovules. Leaves serrate, crowded at the top of the woody stem.--Species 2. Cultivated and naturalised in the Mascarene Islands and the island of Zanzibar. They yield fibre and starch and are used as ornamental plants. [Tribe YUCCEAE.] =Yucca= L.
Perianth-segments spreading towards the tip. Stamens with thread-like filaments or with dorsifixed anthers. Ovary 3-celled with 1-8 ovules in each cell, or 1-celled. [Tribe DRACAENEAE.] 78
78. Ovary 1-celled with numerous ovules. Style short or wanting. Anthers attached at or near the base, opening laterally. Flowers polygamous, in panicles formed of spikes. Leaves all radical.--Species 1. Mascarene Islands. It yields fibre and is used as an ornamental plant. =Astelia= Banks & Soland.
Ovary 3-celled with 1-8 ovules in each cell. Anthers attached by the back. 79
79. Ovules 4-8 in each ovary-cell. Style short and thick. Perianth-segments almost free. Flowers in repeatedly branched panicles. Stem woody.--Species 2. Mascarene Islands. Used as ornamental plants. (Under Cordyline Commers.) =Cohnia= Kunth
Ovules solitary in each ovary-cell. Style long and slender. Perianth-segments evidently united. 80
80. Leaves all radical, springing from a short root-stock, cartilaginous. Flowers in racemes composed of fascicles. Ovary sessile with a large base. Fruit an achene with a membranous pericarp. Seed-coat fleshy.--Species 25. Tropical and South Africa. Many of them yield fibre and are used as ornamental plants. “Bowstring-hemp.” (Sanseverinia Petagna). =Sansevieria= Thunb.
Leaves springing from a sometimes very short woody stem, herbaceous or leathery. Fruit a berry.--Species 65. Tropical and South Africa and Canary Islands. Several species yield a resin (dragon’s blood) employed medicinally and industrially; some are used for plaiting-work or as ornamental plants. =Dracaena= Vand.
FAMILY 33. HAEMODORACEAE
Herbs. Leaves narrow, 2-ranked. Flowers in racemes or panicles, rarely solitary, hermaphrodite. Perianth yellow; segments 6, petal-like, free or shortly united at the base. Stamens 3, opposite the inner perianth-segments and attached at their base. Anthers turned inwards. Ovary 3-celled; two cells sometimes sterile. Style simple, with a simple stigma, rarely 3-parted. Fruit a loculicidal capsule. Seeds flat. Embryo small, enclosed by the base of the albumen.--Genera 4, species 6. South Africa.
1. Ovary superior, 1-3-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. 2
Ovary inferior, 3-celled. Flowers regular. 3
2. Ovary with 1 fertile cell. Flowers regular, glabrous, in racemes.--Species 1. Natal and Kaffraria. =Barberetta= Harv.
Ovary with 3 fertile cells. Flowers irregular, hairy, in panicles.--Species 2. Cape Colony. Used as ornamental plants. The roots contain a red dye-stuff. =Wachendorfia= L.
3. Ovary with 1 ovule in each cell. Flowers hairy, in panicles.--Species 2. Cape Colony. =Dilatris= Berg
Ovary with numerous ovules in each cell. Flowers glabrous, solitary.--Species 1. Cape Colony. =Pauridia= Harv.
FAMILY 34. AMARYLLIDACEAE
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth corolla-like. Stamens 6, rarely (Gethyllis) more. Anthers introrse. Ovary inferior, rarely half-inferior or (Walleria) almost superior, 3-celled, with slightly projecting axillary placentas. Ovules inverted. Embryo small, straight, lateral, enclosed by the fleshy albumen.--Genera 33, species 310. (Including HYPOXIDACEAE.) (Plate 19.)
1. Underground part of the stem a bulb or a corm, rarely a short root-stock. Leaves all radical. Flowers solitary or in umbels; inflorescence surrounded by a spathe. [Subfamily =AMARYLLIDOIDEAE=.] 2
Underground part of the stem a root-stock. Flowers in spikes, racemes or panicles, rarely solitary or in umbels, but without a spathe. 27
2. Perianth furnished with a corona, which sometimes is reduced to a narrow ring or a crown of hairs. [Tribe NARCISSEAE.] 3
Perianth without a corona. [Tribe AMARYLLIDEAE.] 8
3. Stamens inserted within the corona. Corona cup-or ring-shaped or consisting of 12 scales. [Subtribe NARCISSINAE.] 4
Stamens inserted on the edge of the cup-or funnel-shaped corona; corona rarely reduced to a crown of hairs. 6
4. Corona of 12 free scales. Perianth tubular, red. Fruit a berry.--Species 2. Central Africa (British East Africa and Angola). =Cryptostephanus= Welw.
Corona cup-or ring-shaped, undivided or lobed. Perianth bell-, funnel-, or salver-shaped, usually white or yellow. Fruit a capsule. 5
5. Perianth funnel-shaped, with a very short tube, yellow. Corona little developed, 6-or 12-lobed.--Species 1. North-West Africa. (Carregnoa Boiss.) =Tapeinanthus= Herb.
Perianth salver-or bell-shaped, with a more or less elongated tube.--Species 10. North Africa. Used as ornamental plants, in the preparation of perfumes, and in medicine; some species are poisonous. (Including Aurelia Gay and Corbularia Haw.) =Narcissus= L.
6. Perianth salver-shaped, with a cylindrical tube and linear segments, white. Corona funnel-shaped. Ovary with 2 ovules in each cell.--Species 1. West Africa. Used as an ornamental plant. [Subtribe EUCHARIDINAE.] =Hymenocallis= Salisb.
Perianth funnel-shaped. Ovary with many ovules in each cell. [Subtribe PANCRATIINAE.] 7
7. Flowers white, regular. Corona large, cup-shaped. Stigma 1.--Species 8. Northern and tropical Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants, for the preparation of starch, and in medicine. =Pancratium= L.
Flowers red, slightly irregular. Corona reduced to a crown of hairs. Stigmas 3.--Species 2. Naturalised in the West African islands St. Thomas and Princes Island. Ornamental plants. =Hippeastrum= Herb.
8. (2.) Ovules 1-6 in each cell of the ovary. Perianth-segments free or united below into a short tube. [Subtribe HAEMANTHINAE.] 9
Ovules many in each cell of the ovary. 14
9. Perianth divided nearly or quite to the ovary. Spathe consisting of two narrow bracts. 10
Perianth with a distinct tube. Spathe of two broad bracts or of more than two bracts. Anthers oblong, attached by the back. 11
10. Anthers globose, attached by the base. Ovules 1-4 in each ovary-cell. Perianth red.--Species 10. South Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. (Including Carpolyza Salisb.) =Hessea= Herb.
Anthers oblong, attached by the back. Ovules 5-6 in each ovary-cell.--Species 5. South Africa. =Strumaria= Jacq.
11. Ovules 5-6 in each ovary-cell. Perianth reddish-yellow, funnel-shaped. Spathe of more than 2 bracts. Leaves linear.--Species 3. South Africa. Used as ornamental plants. =Clivia= Lindl.
Ovules 1-4 in each ovary-cell. 12
12. Spathe consisting of 2 bracts. Pedicels long. Perianth red, salver-shaped. Fruit a capsule. Leaves linear.--Species 4. South Africa and southern Central Africa. Used for the preparation of arrow-poison, in medicine, and as ornamental plants. =Buphane= Herb.
Spathe consisting of more than 2 bracts. Pedicels short or rather short. Fruit a berry. 13
13. Filaments shorter than the anthers. Perianth-tube very short. Umbels rather few-flowered. Leaves very long and narrow, strap-shaped.--Species 1. West Africa (Congo). =Demeusea= De Wild. & Th. Dur.
Filaments as long as or longer than the anthers. Perianth-tube long. Umbels many-flowered. Leaves rather short.--Species 45. South and Central Africa. Some are poisonous or are used as ornamental or medicinal plants. (Including Choananthus Rendle) =Haemanthus= L.
14. Perianth divided nearly or quite to the ovary. 15
Perianth with a distinct tube. 19
15. Perianth divided to the ovary, white, rarely reddish. Flowers regular, middle-sized, solitary or in few-flowered umbels. [Subtribe GALANTHINAE.] 16
Perianth with a short tube, usually red. Flowers more or less irregular, in umbels. [Subtribe AMARYLLIDINAE.] 17
16. Perianth-segments spreading, whitish. Anthers deeply sagittate at the base. Flowers erect, in umbels.--Species 1. North-west Africa. =Lapiedra= Lag.
Perianth-segments converging. Anthers slightly sagittate at the base. Flowers drooping.--Species 3. North-west Africa. Used as ornamental plants and in medicine; the bulb is edible. =Leucoium= L.
17. Filaments thickened at the base. Stigma 3-lobed. Fruit obtusely angled, 3-valved.--Species 17. South Africa to Damaraland. Some are used as ornamental plants. (Imhofia Heist.) =Nerine= Herb.
Filaments thread-shaped, free. Stigma entire. 18
18. Ovules sunk in the placentas. Ovary oblong. Fruit obtusely angled, bursting irregularly. Perianth-segments oblong. Flowers drooping.--Species 1. South Africa (Cape Colony); also naturalised in the Canary Islands, Madeira, and the Azores. Used as an ornamental plant; the bulb is poisonous. =Amaryllis= L.
Ovules not sunk in the placentas. Ovary top-shaped. Fruit acutely angled, 3-valved.--Species 10. South Africa and southern Central Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Brunsvigia= Heist.
19. Flowers solitary. [Subtribe ZEPHYRANTHINAE.] 20
Flowers in umbels occasionally reduced to a single flower. [Subtribe CRININAE.] 22
20. Perianth with a short tube, funnel-shaped, yellow. Filaments long. Anthers oblong, attached at the back near the base. Scape above-ground.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). Used as an ornamental plant. =Sternbergia= Waldst. & Kit.
Perianth with a long tube. Filaments very short. Anthers linear, attached at the base. Scape underground. 21
21. Perianth salver-shaped, yellow or whitish. Stamens in a single row.--Species 9. South Africa (Cape Colony). The fruit of some is eaten or used in medicine. =Gethyllis= L.
Perianth funnel-shaped, white or reddish. Stamens in 2 rows.--Species 5. South Africa. =Apodolirion= Bak.
22. Perianth-tube perceptibly shorter than the limb. 23
Perianth about as long as or longer than the limb. 26
23. Flowers rather small, yellow or yellowish-white, almost regular. Perianth-segments lanceolate, slightly longer than or twice as long as the tube. Stigmas 3.--Species 2. South and East Africa. =Anoiganthus= Bak.
Flowers large, red, reddish-yellow, or reddish-white. Stigma 1, simple or 3-lobed. 24
24. Flowers almost regular. Perianth-segments elliptical, about twice as long as the tube. Umbels 6-9-flowered. Fruit oblong.--Species 1. South Africa (Cape Colony). Used as an ornamental plant. =Vallota= Herb.
Flowers distinctly irregular. Perianth-segments 3-4 times as long as the tube. 25
25. Umbels 2-4-flowered. Scape hollow. Perianth hairy within. Fruit globose. (See 7.) =Hippeastrum= Herb.
Umbels many-flowered; spathe of 2 bracts. Scape solid.--Species 2. South Africa to Damaraland. =Ammocharis= Herb.
26. Ovules sunk in the placentas, usually few in each ovary-cell. Stigma very small, capitate. Anthers linear. Scape solid.--Species 60. Tropical and South Africa. Some are used as ornamental or medicinal plants. (Including Stenolirion Bak.) (Plate 19.) =Crinum= L.
Ovules not sunk in the placentas, many in each ovary-cell. Stigma more or less distinctly 3-lobed or 3-parted. Anthers oblong. Scape hollow.--Species 25. South and East Africa and Angola. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Cyrtanthus= Ait.
27. (1.) Leaves fleshy, very long (1-2 m.), in a rosette at the base or the top of the stem. Very tall plants. [Subfamily =AGAVOIDEAE=.] 28
Leaves not fleshy and not very long. Smaller plants. [Subfamily =HYPOXIDOIDEAE=.] 30
28. Filaments longer than the perianth. Flowers in spikes or panicles, usually greenish or yellow. Leaves at the top of a very short stem.--Species 2. Cultivated and sometimes naturalised in North and South Africa and some tropical islands. They yield fibre, fodder, drinks, medicaments, and a substitute for soap, and are also used as hedge-or garden-plants. =Agave= L.
Filaments shorter than the perianth. 29
29. Filaments strongly thickened at the base. Flowers in panicles, white. Fruit ovoid. Leaves at the top of a short stem.--Species 1. Cultivated and sometimes naturalised in North and South Africa and some tropical islands. It yields fibre, and is used as a hedge-or garden-plant, also in medicine. (Furcraea Vent.) =Fourcroya= Schult.
Filaments slightly thickened at the base. Flowers in capitate spikes, red. Fruit oblong or club-shaped. Leaves at the base of a long stem.--Species 1. Naturalised in the island of St. Helena. An ornamental plant. =Doryanthes= Correa
30. Ovary inferior with many ovules in each cell. Perianth yellow, rarely white or red. Leaves all radical, usually hairy like the peduncle. [Tribe HYPOXIDEAE.] 31
Ovary inferior with 2 ovules in each cell or half-inferior or almost superior. Perianth blue, red, or whitish. Leaves usually radical and cauline. 32
31. Ovary beaked. Fruit a berry. Flowers solitary or in dense spikes or heads.--Species 6. Tropical and South Africa. They yield fibre and are used medicinally and as ornamental plants; some have an edible root-stock. =Curculigo= Gaertn.
Ovary not beaked. Fruit a capsule. Flowers solitary or in lax racemes or umbels.--Species 60. Southern and tropical Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. (Including Ianthe Salisb.) =Hypoxis= L.
32. Ovary almost inferior with 2 ovules in each cell. Anthers attached by the back, bursting lengthwise. Perianth with a distinct tube. Fruit 1-seeded. Flowers in panicles. Stem, leaves, and inflorescence woolly.--Species 1. South Africa (Cape Colony). [Tribe CONOSTYLIDEAE.] =Lanaria= Ait.
Ovary half-inferior or almost superior, with several or many ovules in each cell. Anthers attached at the base or near it, bursting at or towards the apex. Perianth divided nearly or quite to the ovary. Stem, leaves, and inflorescence glabrous. [Tribe CONANTHEREAE.] 33
33. Ovary half-inferior. Stamens more or less unequal. Flowers usually without bracteoles, solitary and terminal or arranged in racemes or panicles. Leaves, all or most of them, crowded at the base of the stem.--Species 7. South Africa to Damaraland. Some have edible root-stocks or are used as ornamental plants. =Cyanella= L.
Ovary almost superior. Stamens equal. Flowers blue, with bracteoles, solitary or in pairs and axillary, or arranged in panicles. Leaves scattered along the stem.--Species 5. Southern tropical Africa. Some have edible root-stocks. =Walleria= Kirk
FAMILY 35. VELLOZIACEAE
Leaves linear. Flowers solitary, terminal, without bracteoles, regular, hermaphrodite. Perianth-segments free or nearly so, petaloid, usually white. Stamens 6. Anthers attached by the base. Ovary inferior, 3-celled. Placentas projecting and peltately dilated. Ovules numerous. Style simple; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit a capsule. Seeds black, compressed. Embryo very small, enclosed by the albumen. (Under AMARYLLIDEAE.) (Plate 20.)
Genus 1. Species 25. Tropical and South Africa. (Xerophyta Juss., under Vellozia Vand.) =Barbacenia= Vand.
FAMILY 36. TACCACEAE
Herbs with a tuberous root-stock. Leaves all radical, large, stalked, twice pinnately divided. Flowers in an umbel-like inflorescence on a leafless scape, regular, hermaphrodite. Perianth greenish-brown, bell-or urn-shaped, with a short tube. Stamens 6. Filaments hooded. Anthers turned inwards. Ovary inferior, 1-celled, with parietal placentas. Ovules numerous, inverted. Style short, umbrella-shaped, 6-lobed. Fruit a berry. Seeds compressed. Embryo small, enclosed by the albumen.
Genus 1, species 2. Tropics. Used as ornamental plants and for plaiting-work; the tubers yield starch (arrowroot) and are edible when cooked. =Tacca= Forst.
FAMILY 37. DIOSCOREACEAE
Root-stock tuberous. Stem twining. Leaves alternate, net-veined, usually cordate. Flowers in racemes, inconspicuous, regular, unisexual. Stamens 6. Ovary inferior, 3-celled. Ovules 2 in each cell, superposed, inverted. Styles or style-branches 3. Embryo enclosed in a horny or cartilaginous albumen.--Genera 2, species 45. (Plate 21.)
Fruit a berry. Seeds not winged.--Species 3. North Africa. The tubers are eaten and used in medicine; the berries are poisonous. (Tamnus Juss.) =Tamus= L.
Fruit a capsule. Seeds winged.--Species 40. Tropical and South Africa. Some are cultivated for their edible tubers (yams) or used in medicine; others are poisonous. (Including Testudinaria Salisb.) (Plate 21.) =Dioscorea= L.
SUBORDER IRIDINEAE
FAMILY 38. IRIDACEAE
Herbs or undershrubs. Inflorescence terminal. Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth with 6 petaloid segments. Stamens 3, inserted opposite the outer perianth-segments. Anthers turned outwards. Ovary inferior, 3-celled, rarely (Hermodactylus) 1-celled. Style-branches usually divided or dilated. Ovules numerous, inverted. Fruit a loculicidal capsule. Embryo enclosed by the horny albumen.--Genera 39, species 600. (Plate 22.)
1. Flowers solitary, terminal, sometimes surrounded by several axillary flowers, each flower with a spathe. Perianth regular; inner and outer segments nearly equal. Leaves not exactly 2-ranked. Stem short or almost wanting. [Subfamily =CROCOIDEAE=.] 2
Flowers in various inflorescences, rarely spathes solitary, but 2-or more-flowered or (if 1-flowered) the outer perianth-segments very different from the inner ones. Leaves 2-ranked, folded one above the other, rarely (Geosiris) reduced to scales. Stem distinctly developed. 5
2. Stem underground, very short. Perianth-tube very long. 3
Stem partly above ground. Perianth-tube short or moderately long. 4
3. Style-branches undivided, stigmatose inside. Perianth red or violet, rarely white with red streaks.--Species 6. South Africa (Cape Colony). =Syringodea= Hook. fil.
Style-branches many-lobed or many-parted, stigmatose at the top.--Species 3; one of them only cultivated. North-West Africa. Used as ornamental plants; the tubers are edible. The cultivated species (C. sativus L.) yields the saffron, which is used as a condiment and for dyeing. =Crocus= L.
4. Leaves crowded at the top of the very short stem. Perianth with a rather long tube, yellow or violet. Filaments united into a tube. Style-branches dilated above, petal-like.--Species 3. South Africa (Cape Colony). Used as ornamental plants. =Galaxia= Thunb.
Leaves scattered along the stem or crowded at its base. Filaments free, rarely united, but then perianth with a very short tube. Style-branches not petal-like.--Species 50. South and North Africa and mountains of Central Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. (Trichonema Ker). =Romulea= Maratti
5. (1.) Spathes 1-flowered, in spikes. Style-branches well developed, generally alternate with the anthers, thread-shaped or thickened at the top, more rarely dilated and almost petal-like, but undivided. Flower usually more or less irregular. Stem leafy. [Subfamily =IXIOIDEAE=.] 6
Spathes 2-or more-flowered, rarely 1-flowered, but then style-branches either reduced to short teeth, or opposite the anthers, petal-like, and 2-lobed. Flowers regular, but the inner perianth-segments often very different from the outer ones. [Subfamily =IRIDOIDEAE=.] 23
6. Style-branches 2-parted. [Tribe WATSONIEAE.] 7
Style-branches undivided. 10
7. Flowers small. Perianth with a short tube, red or blue. Ovules 2 in each ovary-cell.--Species 2. South Africa (Cape Colony). =Micranthus= Pers.
Flowers large or rather large. Perianth with a long or rather long tube. Ovules many in each ovary-cell. 8
8. Perianth-tube straight or nearly so. Filaments short, inserted at the throat of the perianth.--Species 40. South and Central Africa. Some have edible tubers or serve as ornamental plants. (Plate 22.) =Lapeyrousia= Pourr.
Perianth-tube curved. Filaments long, inserted below the throat of the perianth. 9
9. Spathes short, scarious. Perianth yellowish, with unequal segments.--Species 2. South Africa. Used as ornamental plants. =Freesia= Klatt
Spathes rather long, rigid. Perianth red or white, with almost equal segments.--Species 15. South Africa, Madagascar, and Mascarenes. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Watsonia= Mill.
10. (6.) Flowers distinctly irregular. [Tribe GLADIOLEAE.] 11
Flowers regular or almost so. Filaments and style straight. [Tribe IXIEAE.] 18
11. Perianth curved. 12
Perianth straight. 13
12. Perianth-tube longer than the limb, filiform below, cylindrical above. Stamens inserted in the basal part of the tube. Spathes small.--Species 20. South and Central Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. (Including Anisanthus Sweet). =Antholyza= L.
Perianth-tube as long as or shorter than the limb, funnel-shaped.--Species 120. Some of them have edible bulbs, others are used in medicine or as ornamental plants. =Gladiolus= L.
13. Leaves folded, usually hairy. Perianth with a long tube.--Species 30. South Africa and Island of Socotra. Several species have edible bulbs or are used as ornamental plants. =Babiana= Ker
Leaves flat, glabrous. 14
14. Perianth-segments almost free, thinly acuminate, yellowish-green. Ovules 2-3 in each ovary-cell. Inflorescence paniculate.--Species 1. South Africa (Cape Colony). =Melasphaerula= Ker
Perianth-segments evidently united below, obtuse or shortly mucronate. Ovules usually numerous. 15
15. Perianth-tube funnel-shaped (distinctly widened above). Style-branches filiform. Spathe-bracts lacerated. 16
Perianth-tube more or less cylindrical (slightly or not widened above). Style-branches usually dilated. Spathe-bracts entire or toothed. 17
16. Perianth 2-lipped, with a long or rather long tube, yellow or violet. Style-branches short.--Species 3. South Africa (Cape Colony). Used as ornamental plants. =Synnotia= Sweet
Perianth regular, with a short or rather short tube, yellow, red or variegated. Style-branches long.--Species 3. South Africa (Cape Colony). Used as ornamental plants. The bulbs are edible. =Sparaxis= Ker
17. Spathe-bracts long, green, entire. Inflorescence spicate. Perianth nearly always with a long tube.--Species 20. South and Central Africa. Used as ornamental plants. =Acidanthera= Hochst.
Spathe-bracts short, brown, toothed at the top. Inflorescence spicate or paniculate. Perianth with a short or rather short tube.--Species 35. South and Central Africa. Many of them are used as ornamental plants; some yield edible bulbs or a substitute for saffron. (Including Crocosmia Planch., Montbretia DC., and Tritonixia Klatt). =Tritonia= Ker
18. (10.) Style-branches club-shaped. 19
Style-branches linear or subulate. 20
19. Stigmas notched. Flowers white or yellow. Spathe-bracts lacerated. Leaves short.--Species 2. South Africa (Cape Colony). =Streptanthera= Sweet
Stigmas entire. Flowers white or red. Spathe-bracts entire. Leaves long.--Species 2. South and East Africa. Used as ornamental plants. =Dierama= C. Koch
20. Style-branches linear, slightly dilated, short. Outer spathe-bract brown.--Species 20. South Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. (Including Morphixia Ker). =Ixia= L.
Style-branches subulate. Spathe-bracts green or brown at the tip. 21
21. Style long, with short branches.--Species 35. South Africa, southern Central Africa, and Madagascar. Some are used as ornamental or medicinal plants. =Geissorrhiza= Ker
Style short, with long branches. 22
22. Underground part of the stem a root-stock. Perianth red. Filaments as long as or longer than the anthers.--Species 2. South Africa. Used as ornamental plants. =Schizostylis= Backh. & Harv.
Underground part of the stem a corm. Filaments short.--Species 35. South Africa and mountains of Central Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Hesperantha= Ker
23. (5.) Style-branches undivided, very short or thread-shaped or somewhat broadened at the top, but not petal-like, nearly always alternate with the stamens. 24
Style-branches more or less divided or petal-like, opposite the stamens. Perianth with a short tube or without a tube. Fruit not enclosed by the spathe. 32
24. Perianth with a distinct tube. Filaments free. Style-branches very short. Fruit, wholly or for the greater part, enclosed by the spathe. [Tribe ARISTEAE, Subtribe ARISTINAE.] 25
Perianth divided nearly or quite to the ovary. Style-branches usually long. Fruit not enclosed by the spathe. [Tribe SISYRINCHIEAE.] 30
25. Perianth-segments very unequal, the inner much larger than the outer, blueish, the outer black; tube short. Spathes 2-3-flowered, solitary or in corymbs.--Species 1. South Africa (Cape Colony). =Cleanthe= Salisb.
Perianth-segments almost equal. 26
26. Stem and leaves without green colour. Leaves short, scale-like. Flowers in umbel-like cymes. Perianth white, with a short tube.--Species 1. Madagascar. =Geosiris= Baill.
Stem and leaves green. Leaves long, linear or sword-shaped. Perianth blue, rarely yellowish or whitish. 27
27. Spathes 3-or more-flowered, solitary or in spikes, racemes or corymbs. Herbs. Perianth with a short tube.--Species 30. Southern and tropical Africa. Some are used as ornamental or medicinal plants. =Aristea= Ait.
Spathes 1-2-flowered. Undershrubs. 28
28. Perianth with a short tube and clawed segments, blue. Filaments long. Spathes in heads.--Species 1. South Africa (Cape Colony). =Klattia= Bak.
Perianth with a long tube. Filaments short. 29
29. Perianth blue, glabrous, with a cylindrical tube. Filaments awl-shaped. Anthers small. Spathes solitary or in corymbs.--Species 2. South Africa (Cape Colony). Used as ornamental plants. (Under Aristea Ait.) =Nivenia= Vent.
Perianth greenish-yellow, hairy outside, with a funnel-shaped tube. Filaments flat. Anthers large. Spathes surrounded by empty bracts and arranged in heads.--Species 1. South Africa (Cape Colony). Used as an ornamental plant; the stem contains sugar. =Witsenia= Thunb.
30. Filaments united into a tube. Perianth blue.--Species 1. Naturalised in the Mascarene Islands. An ornamental plant. [Subtribe SISYRICHINAE.] =Sisyrinchium= L.
Filaments free or nearly so. Perianth yellow or red. [Subtribe LIBERTINAE]. 31
31. Stem leafy. Spathes in lax corymbs. Perianth orange-coloured. Style filiform, with club-shaped, erect or spreading stigmas.--Species 1. Naturalised in the Mascarene Islands. An ornamental and medicinal plant. =Belamcanda= Adans.
Stem leafless. Spathes solitary or in heads. Perianth pale yellow. Style very short, with thread-shaped, recurved stigmas.--Species 6. South Africa. =Bobartia= Ker
32. (23.) Stigmas at the tip of the style-branches. Inner and outer perianth-segments almost equal. Filaments united. Underground part of the stem a bulb. [Tribe TIGRIDIEAE, subtribe CIPURINAE.] 33
Stigmas on the underside of the dilated style-branches. Inner and outer perianth-segments unequal. [Tribe MORAEEAE.] 36
33. Style-branches simple or one of them forked. 34
Style-branches divided. Perianth-segments usually crisped. 35
34. Perianth white, divided to the ovary.--Species 1. South-east Africa (Natal). =Keitia= Regel
Perianth yellow or brownish-red, with a short tube.--Species 12. South Africa; one species also naturalised in St. Helena. Used as ornamental plants. =Homeria= Vent.
35. Perianth yellow, divided to the ovary, twisting up in fading. Style-branches cylindrical, glabrous.--Species 2. South Africa (Cape Colony). =Hexaglottis= Vent.
Perianth greenish brownish or red, with a short tube. Style-branches dilated, fringed on the margin.--Species 8. South Africa and southern West Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Ferraria= L.
36. Style-branches broadened, but not petal-like. Perianth blue; segments free, the inner with the edges rolled inwards and the tip recurved. Filaments free. Scape flattened.--Species 1. Angola and islands of equatorial West Africa. Used as an ornamental plant. [Subtribe MARICINAE.] =Marica= Ker
Style-branches winged, petal-like. [Subtribe IRIDINAE.] 37
37. Perianth-segments free, not bearded. Filaments usually united.--Species 60. Southern and tropical Africa. Several species have edible root-stocks, others are poisonous, many are used as ornamental plants. (Including Dietes Salisb. and Vieusseuxia Delaroche). =Moraea= L.
Perianth-segments united at the base. Filaments free. 38
38. Ovary 1-celled with parietal placentas. Inner perianth-segments linear, acuminate.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). =Hermodactylus= Adans.
Ovary 3-celled, with axile placentas.--Species 15. North Africa. Many of them are used as ornamental plants, some are poisonous; the root-stock of several species (orris-root) is edible and yields tanning materials, perfumes, and medicaments. =Iris= L.
ORDER SCITAMINEAE
FAMILY 39. MUSACEAE
Tall herbaceous plants. Leaves with a large, oblong or ovate, penni-nerved blade. Flowers subtended by large bracts and arranged in usually spicate rows or cymes, irregular. Perianth corolla-like. Fertile stamens 5, rarely 6. Filaments free. Anthers 2-celled. Ovary inferior, 3-celled. Style free from the stamens, 3-6-lobed. Seeds with a straight embryo and mealy albumen.--Genera 4, species 25. (Under SCITAMINEAE.) (Plate 23.)
1. Leaves spirally arranged. Partial inflorescences consisting of 1-2 rows of flowers. Flowers monoecious or polygamous. Sepals and two of the petals united below. Fruit berry-like. Seeds without an aril.--Species 15, growing wild in the tropics, besides 4 (especially M. paradisiaca L.) which are cultivated in various regions. They yield fibre (Manila hemp), tanning and dyeing materials, vegetables, and edible fruits (bananas and plantains), from which also starch, sugar, vinegar, and alcoholic liquor are made. Some species are used as ornamental plants. [Subfamily =MUSOIDEAE=.] =Musa= L.
Leaves 2-ranked. Partial inflorescences cymose. Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals free or the lateral ones united with the petals. Fruit capsular. [Subfamily =STRELITZIOIDEAE=.] 2
2. Odd sepal posterior. Petals united at the base. Ovules solitary in each ovary-cell. Fruit opening septicidally. Seeds without an aril.--Species 1. Naturalised on the Canary Islands. An ornamental plant; the root-stock is edible. [Tribe HELICONIEAE.] =Heliconia= L.
Odd sepal anterior. Petals free, at least one of them. Ovules many in each ovary-cell. Fruit opening loculicidally. Seeds with an aril. [Tribe STRELITZIEAE.] 3
3. Petals very unequal, the two lateral ones elongated, connate on one side, provided with a wing-like appendage on the other, the third petal very short. Stamens 5. Aril yellow. Inflorescence few-flowered. Stem moderately tall.--Species 4. South Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. (Plate 23.) =Strelitzia= L.
Petals subequal, free, without an appendage. Stamens 6. Aril blue. Inflorescence many-flowered. Stem very tall. Species 1 (R. madagascariensis Sonn., traveller’s tree). Madagascar and Mascarene Islands. The leaves are used in house-building; their sheaths retain much water; the sap also furnishes a drink. The seeds are edible and yield a fat. =Ravenala= Adans.
FAMILY 40. ZINGIBERACEAE
Herbs. Stem simple, springing from a root-stock. Leaves stalked or provided with a sheath, oblong or lanceolate. Flowers in spikes racemes heads or panicles, more or less irregular, hermaphrodite, very rarely dioecious. Perianth consisting of a calyx and a corolla. Sepals united below. Petals subequal, united below. Fertile stamen 1. Anther 2-celled, opening by longitudinal slits. Staminodes 1-3, petal-like, at least one of them (the lip). Ovary inferior, more or less completely 3-celled. Ovules numerous. Style enclosed in a groove of the filament. Stigma funnel-shaped. Fruit a capsule or a berry. Seed with a straight embryo and mealy albumen.--Genera 11, species 120. Tropical and South-east Africa. (Under SCITAMINEAE.) (Plate 24.)
1. Leaves spirally arranged; sheath at first closed, articulated with the petiole. Filaments petal-like. Lateral staminodes wanting. Epigynous glands none. Stem and leaves not aromatic.--Species 35. Central Africa. Some of them are used as ornamental or medicinal plants and in the preparation of rubber. (Including Cadalvena Fenzl). [Subfamily =COSTOIDEAE=.] =Costus= L.
Leaves two-ranked; sheath split open, not articulated with the petiole. Epigynous glands present, often style-like. Stem and leaves aromatic. [Subfamily =ZINGIBEROIDEAE=.] 2
2. Lateral staminodes petal-like, but sometimes adnate to the lip, which then appears 3-lobed. [Tribe HEDYCHIEAE.] 3
Lateral staminodes linear, tooth-like, or wanting; in the latter case lip not distinctly 3-lobed. [Tribe ZINGIBEREAE.] 5
3. Connective spurred. Lateral staminodes adnate below to the filament of the fertile stamen.--Species 1 (C. longa L.). Cultivated and sometimes naturalised in the tropics. The root-stock yields starch, condiments, medicaments, perfumes, and dyeing-materials (turmeric); the leaves are used for plaiting-work. =Curcuma= L.
Connective not spurred. Lateral staminodes free from the filament of the fertile stamen. 4
4. Connective with a crest-like appendage. Filament short. Lateral staminodes broad.--Species 15. Central and South-east Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Kaempfera= L.
Connective without an appendage. Filament long. Lateral staminodes narrow. Inflorescence terminating the leafy stem.--Species 3, two of them natives of Madagascar, the third naturalised in the tropics. Ornamental plants; the tubers yield condiments, perfumes, and medicaments. =Hedychium= Koen.
5. Connective with a distinct appendage. Flowering stem separated from the leafy stem. 6
Connective without a distinct appendage. 8
6. Connective with a grooved beak. Lip 3-lobed.--Species 2. Cultivated and sometimes naturalised in the tropics. The root-stock is used as a condiment, especially for the preparation of liquors, and in medicine. “Ginger.” =Zingiber= L.
Connective with an oblong or 3-lobed, not grooved appendage. Lip not distinctly 3-lobed. 7
7. Connective with an entire, oblong appendage. Filament adnate to the base of the lip. Inflorescence lax.--Species 2. West Africa (Cameroons) and Madagascar. =Aulotandra= Gagnepain
Connective with a 3-lobed appendage. Filament free from the lip. Inflorescence dense.--Species 50. Tropics. The fruits (grains of paradise) of several species (especially A. melegueta Roscoe) are used as a condiment and for the preparation of perfumes and medicaments; others serve as ornamental plants. (Under Amomum L.) (Plate 24.) =Aframomum= K. Schum.
8. Filament long. Lip not distinctly clawed. Inflorescence terminating the leafy stem.--Species 3. Naturalised in the tropical regions. Ornamental plants. =Alpinia= L.
Filament short. Lip clawed. 9
9. Lip entire, rhomboidical, adnate to the filament at the base. Epigynous glands lobed. Flowering stem separated from the leafy stem. Inflorescence very dense, almost head-like, surrounded by a coloured involucre.--Species 1. Madagascar and neighbouring islands. Used as an ornamental plant, the fruit as a condiment. (Nicolaia Horan., under Amomum L.) =Phaeomeria= Lindl.
Lip more or less distinctly 3-lobed, free from the filament. 10
10. Fruit indehiscent. Seeds without an aril. Corolla-tube slightly exceeding the calyx. Stigma small. Inflorescence springing from the base of the leafy stem, lax, paniculate.--Species 1 (E. Cardamomum White et Maton). Cultivated in the tropics and naturalised in the Mascarene Islands. The fruits (cardamoms) are used as a condiment and for the preparation of perfumes and medicaments. =Elettaria= Maton
Fruit dehiscent. Seeds with an aril. Calyx closed in bud. Inflorescence usually terminal.--Species 15. Central Africa. (Ethanium Salisb.) =Renealmia= L. f.
FAMILY 41. CANNACEAE
Herbs. Leaves large, penninerved. Inflorescence spicate or formed of cymes. Flowers irregular and asymmetrical, hermaphrodite. Sepals free. Petals united below. Fertile stamen single, 1-celled, the barren half leaf-like. Staminodes leaf-like. Ovary inferior, 3-celled, with numerous inverted ovules. Style and stigma simple. Fruit capsular. Seeds albuminous; embryo straight. (Under SCITAMINEAE.)
Genus 1, species 5. Cultivated and sometimes naturalised in various regions. They yield starch, vegetables, medicaments, and dyeing materials, and are also used as ornamental plants. “Indian shot.” =Canna= L.
FAMILY 42. MARANTACEAE
Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves stalked, with a swelling in the upper part of the stalk, penninerved. Inflorescence spicate, capitate, or paniculate. Flowers irregular and asymmetrical, hermaphrodite. Sepals free. Petals united below. Fertile stamen single, 1-celled. Staminodes 2-4, petal-like. Ovary inferior, 1-or 3-celled. Ovules solitary in each cell, inverted. Style simple; stigma entire or lobed. Seeds with a mealy albumen and a curved embryo.--Genera 12, species 60. Tropics. (Under SCITAMINEAE.) (Plate 25.)
1. Ovary 1-celled. [Tribe MARANTEAE.] 2
Ovary 3-celled, but the ovules of 2 cells sometimes abortive. [Tribe PHRYNIEAE.] 3
2. Corolla-tube very short. Staminodes 3, one of them with two filiform appendages. Fruit indehiscent. Bracts enclosing one pair of flowers each.--Species 7. Central Africa. Used as ornamental plants. =Thalia= L.
Corolla-tube long. Staminodes 4. Fruit dehiscent. Bracts enclosing 3 pairs of flowers each.--Species 1 (M. arundinacea L.) Cultivated and sometimes naturalised in the tropics. The root-stock contains starch (arrow-root). =Maranta= L.
3. Staminodes 2. Fruit winged. Inflorescence spike-like, springing from the root-stock. Bracts enclosing one pair of flowers each.--Species 1. West Africa. The fruits are edible and contain sugar. =Thaumatococcus= Benth.
Staminodes 4, rarely 3. 4
4. Bracts approximated in one row, enclosing two pairs of flowers each. Ovary with 1 fertile and 2 sterile cells.--Species 1. Madagascar. (Under Myrosma Benth. or Phrynium Willd.) =Ctenophrynium= K. Schum.
Bracts in two opposite rows. 5
5. Flower-pairs with small, thickened, almost gland-like scales inserted above the bracts and the 2-keeled bracteoles which usually accompany the bracts. 6
Flower-pairs without gland-like scales above the bracts and bracteoles. 8
6. Ovary and fruit smooth, the latter fleshy. Leaves having the larger half all on the same side. Herbs with a simple stem. Inflorescence panicle-, very rarely spike-like.--Species 13. West Africa. Some have edible fruits. (Under Phrynium Willd. or Phyllodes Lour.) =Sarcophrynium= K. Schum.
Ovary and fruit covered with pointed protuberances, the latter dry. Leaves having the larger half some on the right, some on the left side. Undershrubs or climbing herbs with a branched stem. Inflorescence spike-like. 7
7. Fruit dehiscent, covered with small protuberances. Seeds with an aril. Flower-pairs without a bracteole.--Species 1. West Africa. (Under Trachyphrynium Benth.) =Hybophrynium= K. Schum.
Fruit indehiscent, covered with large protuberances. Seeds without an aril. Flower-pairs with a bracteole.--Species 6. West Africa. =Trachyphrynium= Benth.
8. Inflorescence springing from the root-stock and separated from the 1-leafed stem, spike-like. Inner staminodes, at least one of them, equalling the outer.--Species 1. Equatorial West Africa. (Under Calathea Mey.) =Afrocalathea= K. Schum.
Inflorescence terminating the leafy, sometimes very short stem or its branches. 9
9. Inner staminodes larger than the outer, the hooded one without a strap-shaped appendage. Bracts enclosing 2-4 sessile pairs of flowers each. Inflorescence head-like. Stem branched.--Species 1. Equatorial West Africa (Gaboon). =Ataenidia= Gagnepain
Inner staminodes smaller than the outer. 10
10. Sepals very unequal. Fruit dry, indehiscent, with adnate seeds. Inflorescence consisting of 2-3 spikes. Bracts enclosing one pair of flowers each, persistent.--Species 1. Equatorial Africa. Used in the preparation of salt. (Under Clinogyne Benth. or Donax Lour.) =Halopegia= K. Schum.
Sepals subequal. Bracts usually enclosing 2-4 pairs of flowers each. 11
11. Inflorescence head-like. Bracts persistent.--Species 2. West Africa. (Under Calathea Mey.) =Phrynium= Willd.
Inflorescence raceme-or panicle-like. Bracts deciduous.--Species 25. West Africa, Upper Nile, and Island of Réunion. Some species yield starch or fibre. (Donax Lour., including Marantochloa Griseb.) (Plate 25.) =Clinogyne= Salisb.
ORDER MICROSPERMAE
SUBORDER BURMANNIINEAE
FAMILY 43. BURMANNIACEAE
Herbs. Leaves narrow or scale-like. Flowers solitary or in cymose, usually spike-like inflorescences, regular or nearly so, hermaphrodite or polygamous. Perianth-segments 3 or 6, petaloid, united below. Stamens 3, opposite the inner perianth-segments, or 6. Ovary inferior, 1-or 3-celled. Ovules numerous, inverted. Style 3-or 6-cleft. Fruit dry, dehiscing by slits or irregularly. Seeds albuminous; testa loose.--Genera 4, species 15. Tropical and South Africa.
1. Anthers erect, opening transversely, 3. Style long, with 3 stigmas. [Tribe BURMANNIEAE.] 2
Anthers recurved, opening lengthwise. Style short. [Tribe THISMIEAE.] 3
2. Ovary 1-celled.--Species 3. Central Africa. =Gymnosiphon= Blume
Ovary 3-celled.--Species 10. Tropical and South Africa. =Burmannia= L.
3. Corolla regular. Stamens 3; connective without an appendage. Stigma 3-parted.--Species 1. West Africa (Cameroons). =Oxygyne= Schlecht.
Corolla irregular. Stamens 6; connective with an appendage. Stigma 6-toothed.--Species 2. West Africa (Cameroons). (Under Thismia Griff.) =Afrothismia= (Engl.) Schlecht.
SUBORDER GYNANDRAE
FAMILY 44. ORCHIDACEAE
Leaves with longitudinal nerves. Inflorescence of the racemose type. Flowers irregular. Perianth more or less corolla-like or distinguished into calyx and corolla, one of the petals or segments (the lip) distinctly differing from the others. Receptacle usually continued beyond the ovary and forming the column upon which the stigma and the anther are inserted. Fertile stamen 1, belonging to the outer whorl. Staminodes sometimes present. Ovary inferior, 1-celled, with numerous parietal ovules. Stigmas or stigma-lobes 3, one of them rudimentary or transformed into the rostellum, to which the pollen-masses adhere. Seeds very small, exalbuminous; embryo imperfectly developed.--Genera 96, species 1600. (Plate 26.)
1. Pollen-masses with basal, stalk-like appendages, which adhere to the sticky, gland-like appendages of the rostellum. Root thickened into tubers. [Tribe OPHRYDEAE.] 2
Pollen-masses with apical appendages or without appendages. 37
2. Anther reflected, forming an angle with the column. Lip with 2 spurs or without a spur, but sometimes saccate or bearing appendages on the back. 3
Anther erect, having the same direction as the column, rarely slightly reflected, but then lip with one spur. 14
3. Lip partly adnate to the column, usually bearing on its upper face a large appendage. Petals broad, converging and usually cohering with the middle sepal into a hood. [Subtribe CORYCIINAE.] 4
Lip free from the column, inserted at its base, rarely shortly adnate to it, but then petals not distinctly converging into a hood. [Subtribe SATYRIINAE.] 7
4. Lateral sepals united nearly to the apex.--Species 10. South Africa. =Corycium= Swartz
Lateral sepals free. 5
5. Lateral sepals spurred or saccate.--Species 30. Southern and tropical Africa. =Disperis= Swartz
Lateral sepals flat. 6
6. Column short. Lip broad at the base. Connective dilated.--Species 15. South Africa. (Including Ommatodium Lindl.) =Pterygodium= Swartz
Column long. Lip clawed. Connective not dilated.--Species 8. South Africa (Cape Colony). =Ceratandra= Eckl.
7. Lip posticous (uppermost), produced behind into a pair of descending spurs or sacs.--Species 90. Tropical and South Africa. Some are used in medicine. (Including Aviceps Lindl. and Satyridium Lindl.) =Satyrium= Swartz
Lip usually anticous, not spurred, but sometimes with a sac-like cavity. 8
8. Odd sepal spurred or gibbous. 9
Odd sepal neither spurred nor gibbous. 13
9. Lip more or less saccate at the base. 10
Lip flat. 11
10. Lip very small, adnate to the column. Stem rather rigid. Leaves in the middle of the stem.--Species 9. South Africa and mountains of the tropics. =Brownleea= Harv.
Lip rather large, free from the column. Stem very flexible. Leaves at the base of the stem.--Species 6. South Africa (Cape Colony). (Under Disa Berg). =Schizodium= Lindl.
11. Rostellum with 2 distinct glands, to which the pollen-masses are attached; side-lobes exceeding the middle-lobe.--Species 110. Southern and tropical Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. (Including Penthea Lindl.) =Disa= Berg
Rostellum with one gland; sides-lobes, if present, not exceeding the middle-lobe. 12
12. Stigma 2-parted. Rostellum with 3 narrow, subequal lobes.--Species 10. South Africa to Nyasaland. (Under Disa Berg). =Herschelia= Lindl.
Stigma entire. Rostellum more or less hood-shaped, large.--Species 15. South Africa. (Under Disa Berg). =Monadenia= Lindl.
13. Petals much narrower than the odd sepal, kneed. Lip kidney-shaped. Stigma not extended in two branches.--Species 1. South Africa (Cape Colony). (Under Disa Berg). =Forficaria= Lindl.
Petals and sepals subequal. Stigma with 2 erect, linear branches.--Species 2. South Africa (Cape Colony). =Pachites= Lindl.
14. (2.) Stigma extended into two, usually elongated processes. [Subtribe HABENARIINAE.] 15
Stigma not extended into processes, rather flat. Column very short. 21
15. Stigmatic processes short, adnate to the lip. Rostellum small, not prolonged into anther-channels. Column very short.--Species 10. Tropics. (Under Habenaria L. or Platanthera Rich.) =Peristylus= Blume
Stigmatic processes free 16
16. Column long, curved. Rostellum not prolonged into anther-channels. Perianth subglobose.--Species 1. Mascarene Islands. =Acrostylia= Frapp.
Column short 17
17. Rostellum or stigmatic processes 2-cleft. Base of the anther not enclosed by a channel, but prolonged into solid processes.--Species 7. Central Africa. (Under =Habenaria= Willd.) =Roeperocharis= Reichb.
Rostellum and stigmatic processes entire, the former prolonged at the base into two lateral anther-channels. 18
18. Anther reflected. Stigma broad. 19
Anther erect. Stigma more or less slender. 20
19. Middle-lobe of the rostellum exceeding the side-lobes. Lip linear, entire, with a long spur. Petals broad.--Species 1. Southern West Africa. (Under Habenaria Willd.) =Barlaea= Reichb. fil.
Middle-lobe of the rostellum equalling the side-lobes. Lip oblong or broader, usually lobed.--Species 40. Tropical and South-east Africa. (Cynosorchis Thouars, including Amphorchis Thouars, Hemiperis Frapp., and Camilleugenia Frapp.) =Cynorchis= Thouars
20. Stigmatic processes diverging at a right angle. Spur short.--Species 1. North-west Africa. (Tinea Biv.) =Neotinea= Reichb. fil.
Stigmatic processes nearly parallel.--Species 210. (Including Bonatea Willd., Platycoryne Reichb., and Podandria Rolfe). =Habenaria= Willd.
21. (14.) Glands of the rostellum enclosed in 1-2 pouches proceeding from the rostellum and persisting when the glands are removed. [Subtribe SERAPIADINAE.] 22
Glands of the rostellum enclosed by the processes of the anther or naked, rarely covered by a thin pellicle proceeding from the rostellum and carried away with the glands upon removal. [Subtribe GYMNADENIINAE.] 27
22. Glands enclosed in 2 separate pouches. Lip not spurred, usually convex, gibbous and hairy.--Species 10. North Africa. The tubers yield medicaments (salep) and mucilage. =Ophrys= L.
Glands enclosed in a common pouch. 23
23. Glands 2, free. Lip spurred.--Species 20. North Africa. The tubers yield medicaments (salep) and mucilage. =Orchis= L.
Glands united into one. 24
24. Connective distinctly elongated. Rostellum laterally compressed. Lip not spurred; middle-lobe entire.--Species 4. North-west Africa. They yield medicaments and mucilage. =Serapias= L.
Connective not or scarcely elongated. Rostellum conical at the apex. Lip spurred, rarely without a spur, but then with a 2-cleft middle-lobe. 25
25. Lip with a long spur and two protuberances at the base, equally 3-lobed, flat in the bud.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). It yields medicaments and mucilage. (Under Orchis L.) =Anacamptis= Rich.
Lip with a short spur or without a spur, with unequal lobes, bent inwards or rolled up in the bud. 26
26. Middle-lobe of the lip very long, strap-shaped, spirally coiled in the bud.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). (Under Aceras R. Br. or Orchis L.) =Himantoglossum= Spreng.
Middle-lobe of the lip moderately long, 2-cleft, bent over the anther in the bud.--Species 2. North Africa. (Including Barlia Parl.) =Aceras= R. Br.
27. (21.) Glands of the rostellum transversely connate. Rostellum narrow. Stigmatic surface small. Basal appendages of the pollen-masses short. Column short. Lip with a short spur.--Species 40. Tropical and South Africa. (Including Bucculina Lindl., Deroemeria Reichb. fil., Monotris Lindl., Saccidium Lindl., Scopularia Lindl., and Tryphia Lindl.) =Holothrix= L. C. Rich.
Glands of the rostellum free. 28
28. Glands large, surrounded by a thin membrane, which proceeds from the rostellum and is removed together with the glands. Lip with a very short spur. Flowers very small.--Species 1. Island of Réunion. =Herminium= L.
Glands naked, rarely enclosed by processes of the anther, but then small. 29
29. Petals clawed; blade deeply concave, fringed. Lip fringed, not spurred.--Species 4. South Africa. (Including Hallackia Harv.) =Huttonaea= Harv.
Petals not clawed, flat or slightly concave. 30
30. Rostellum forming a narrow fold between the anther-cells. 31
Rostellum broad, triangular, placed below the anther-cells. 33
31. Column short. Stigmatic surfaces convex. Lip shortly or not spurred. Flowers yellow or white.--Species 5. South Africa and southern East Africa. (Schizochilus Sond.) =Gymnadenia= R. Br.
Column long. Stigmatic surfaces concave. 32
32. Petals partly adnate to the column. Lip not spurred. Sepals and petals subequal.--Species 1. South Africa. (Under Brachycorythis Lindl.) =Neobolusia= Schlecht.
Petals inserted below the column.--Species 25. Tropical and South Africa. (Including Schwartzkopffia Kraenzl., under Platanthera Rich.) =Brachycorythis= Lindl.
33. Lip with a spur. 34
Lip without a spur. 36
34. Lip 3-lobed, the side-lobes inflexed, covering the mouth of the spur.--Species 3. Madagascar. =Bicornella= Lindl.
Lip 3-lobed, with erect or spreading side-lobes, or undivided. 35
35. Lip fringed. Anther-cells approximate and parallel.--Species 2. South Africa. =Bartholina= R. Br.
Lip entire or crenate. Anther-cells divergent.--Species 20. The tubers yield medicaments (salep) and mucilage. (Including Gennaria Parl., under Habenaria Willd.) =Platanthera= L. C. Rich.
36. Lip 3-lobed. Column with 2 basal staminodes. Basal appendages of the pollen-masses very short.--Species 3. South Africa and southern East Africa. =Stenoglottis= Lindl.
Lip undivided. Column without distinct staminodes.--Species 2. Madagascar and Mascarenes. Arnottia A. Rich.
37. (1.) Pollen-masses soft, granular. Anthers usually persistent and withering. Inflorescence terminal. Leaves rolled up in the bud, with overlapping edges. Usually terrestrial herbs. [Tribe NEOTTIEAE.] 38 Pollen-masses firm, waxy. Anthers usually deciduous. Inflorescence lateral, more rarely terminal, but then leaves folded lengthwise in the bud. 55
38. Anther erect and greatly exceeding the rostellum, or inclined and incumbent upon the rostellum. Pollen-masses granular or powdery. Rostellum not distinctly notched after the removal of the pollen-masses, or not distinctly cohering with them. 39
Anther about equalling the rostellum, erect, rarely incumbent, but then pollen-masses divided into a number of large angular sections. Rostellum usually distinctly notched after the removal of the pollen-masses. 47
39. Lip distinctly articulated into 2-3 portions placed one behind the other. Anther erect. [Subtribe CEPHALANTHERINAE.] 40
Lip not distinctly articulated, embracing the column. Anther more or less incumbent. 42
40. Lip produced into a spur. Leaves replaced by scales. Plants of a violet colour.--Species 2. North-west Africa (Algeria). =Limodorum= L. C. Rich.
Lip not distinctly spurred. Leaves perfectly developed. 41
41. Lip saccate at the base; the terminal portion oblong and enclosed by the connivent sepals.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). =Cephalanthera= L. C. Rich.
Lip concave, but not saccate at the base; the terminal portion broad and projecting between the spreading sepals.--Species 4. North-west Africa and northern East Africa. (Helleborine Hill). =Epipactis= L. C. Rich.
42. Sepals and petals united below. Leafless herbs. [Subtribe GASTRODIINAE.] 43
Sepals and petals free. 44
43. Sepals and petals united high up, very unequal. Lip ovate, with 2 gibbosities at the base. Column short. Anther incumbent. Root-stock branched. Flowers large, in few-flowered spikes.--Species 1. West Africa (Cameroons). =Gastrodia= R. Br.
Sepals and petals united at the base only, subequal. Lip spatulate, not gibbous. Column long. Anther suberect. Rootstock tuberous, spindle-shaped. Flowers very small, in many-flowered racemes.--Species 1. West Africa (Cameroons). =Auxopus= Schlecht.
44. Stem climbing. Seed-coat crusty or winged. [Subtribe VANILLINAE.] 45
Stem erect. Seed-coat membranous, not winged. [Subtribe POGONIINAE.] 46
45. Lip adnate to the column. Fruit fleshy. Seeds not winged. Usually leafy plants.--Species 15. Tropics. Two of the species (especially V. planifolia Andr.) are cultivated for their fruits, which are used as condiments and for the preparation of perfumes. Some species are used as ornamental plants. =Vanilla= Swartz
Lip not adnate to the column. Fruit dry. Seeds winged. Leafless plants.--Species 1. Comoro Islands. =Galeola= Lour.
46. Lip spurred or saccate. Column short. Leaves wanting.--Species 1. West Africa (Cameroons). (Under Epipogon Gmel.) =Galera= Blume
Lip neither spurred nor saccate. Column long. Leaves stalked, usually separated from the flowering stem.--Species 10. Tropics to Transvaal. (Including Apostellis Thouars, under Pogonia Juss.) =Nervilia= Gaud.
47. (38.) Pollen-masses divided into a moderate number of rather large, angular segments. Leaves not folded lengthwise. [Subtribe PHYSURINAE.] 48
Pollen-masses not divided into several large segments. 53
48. Pollen-masses connected with the glands of the rostellum by a strap-shaped stalk detached from the tissue of the rostellum. 49
Pollen-masses or their appendages adhering directly to the glands of the rostellum. 50
49. Column with 2 narrow, erect arms. Sepals usually united to the middle. Lip with two protuberances at the base and with a two-lobed blade.--Species 4. West Africa, Madagascar, Comoro Islands. =Cheirostylis= Blume
Column without erect arms, but sometimes auricled. Sepals free.--Species 9. Tropical and South-east Africa. (Including Monochilus Blume). =Zeuxine= Lindl.
50. Lip similar to the other petals, oblong, slightly concave. Stigmas free, erect, one on each side of the rather long rostellum.--Species 2. Madagascar and Mascarene Islands. =Gymnochilus= Blume
Lip distinctly differing from the other petals. 51
51. Column long. Sepals connivent into a tube at the base. Lip with an oblong blade.--Species 6. Comoro Islands, Seychelles, Natal, West Africa. =Platylepis= A. Rich.
Column short. 52
52. Stigma with a papillose protuberance on each side. Lip tubercled at the base, with a distinctly limited broad blade.--Species 3. Mascarenes, Seychelles, Comoro Islands, and Cameroons. =Hetaeria= Blume
Stigma simple. Lip not tubercled, but sometimes hairy at the base; blade not distinctly separated, undivided, bent back at the tip.--Species 3. Mascarene Islands and Madeira. Used as ornamental plants. =Goodyera= R. Br.
53. (47.) Leaves firm, folded lengthwise. Flowers in panicles. Lip narrow below, broadened above. Pollen-masses affixed to a slender stalk arising from the rostellum; gland peltate.--Species 2. Tropics. (Corymbis Lindl.) [Subtribe TROPIDIINAE.] =Corymborchis= Thouars
Leaves soft, not folded, sometimes scale-like. Flowers in spikes. 54
54. Sepals and petals united into a long tube. Lip uppermost, with 2 lateral appendages. Column elongated, two-winged.--Species 1. West Africa. [Subtribe CRANICHIDINAE.] =Manniella= Reichb. fil.
Sepals and petals free or almost so, suberect. Lip below. Inflorescence one-sided.--Species 2. North-west Africa (Algeria). [Subtribe SPIRANTHINAE.] =Spiranthes= L. C. Rich.
55. (37.) Inflorescence terminal. Leaves folded lengthwise before expansion. 56
Inflorescence lateral. 65
56. Pollen-masses 8, without an appendage. Lip saccate at the base. Leaves jointed at the upper end of the sheath. Inflorescence head-like.--Species 1. Madagascar and Seychelles. [Tribe GLOMEREAE.] =Agrostophyllum= Blume
Pollen-masses 2-4. 57
57. Column extended below into a foot forming with the base of the perianth a chin or spur. Pollen-masses attached to a short, sometimes scarcely perceptible stalk arising from the rostellum. Mostly epiphytic plants. [Tribe POLYSTACHYEAE.] 58
Column not extended into a foot. Pollen-masses without appendages. Sepals and petals usually bent backwards. [Tribe LIPARIDEAE.] 61
58. Lip spurred, 3-lobed. Pollen-masses 2, grooved. Leaves not jointed, linear. Joints of the stem swollen.--Species 6. South Africa. (Under Eulophia R. Br.) =Acrolophia= Pfitz.
Lip not spurred. Leaves usually jointed. 59
59. Lip undivided. Chin weakly developed. Column short and thick. Stem slender.--Species 1. German East Africa. =Neobenthamia= Rolfe
Lip 3-lobed. 60
60. Lateral sepals forming with the column a weakly developed chin. Side-lobes of the lip embracing the column. Column slender. Stem slightly thickened.--Species 6. Tropical and South-east Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Ansellia= Lindl.
Lateral sepals forming with the column a strongly developed chin. Side-lobes of the lip small. Column short and broad. Stem usually thickened into pseudo bulbs.--Species 120. Tropical and South Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. (Including Epiphora Lindl.) =Polystachya= Lindl.
61. Anther erect. Leaves not jointed. 62
Anther inclined to horizontal. 63
62. Anther adnate to the rostellum; cells widely diverging, opening laterally. Column long.--Species 1. West Africa. =Orestia= Ridl.
Anther deciduous, opening inwards. Column short. Lip uppermost.--Species 4. West Africa and Comoro Islands. =Microstylis= Nutt.
63. Leaves not jointed. Lip more or less distinctly clawed. Column slender.--Species 30. Tropical and South Africa. =Liparis= L. C. Rich.
Leaves jointed between sheath and blade. Lip not distinctly clawed. 64
64. Stem with pseudobulbs. Leaf-blade horizontally flattened.--Species 1. Mascarene Islands. (Cestichis Thouars, under Liparis Rich.) =Stichorchis= Thouars
Stem without pseudobulbs. Leaf-blade placed vertically, fleshy. Lip uppermost, concave at the base.--Species 1. Tropics. =Oberonia= Lindl.
65. (55.) Leaves with convolute praefoliation (i.e. rolled lengthwise in the bud, one edge overlapping the other). Stem not swollen, or several joints of the stem equally thickened. Mostly terrestrial herbs. 66 Leaves with conduplicate praefoliation (i.e. folded together along the midrib in the bud, their edges being applied to each other without overlapping). Mostly epiphytic herbs. 73
66. Pollen-masses 2-4, without appendages, attached to the glands of the rostellum by a stalk produced from the latter. Leaves usually jointed. [Tribe CYRTOPODIEAE.] 67
Pollen-masses 8, appendaged, without a stalk produced from the rostellum. Leaves usually continuous. [Tribe PHAIEAE.] 71
67. Lip produced into a spur or pouch at the base. 68
Lip without a spur or pouch. 69
68. Sepals narrower and less coloured than the petals, usually reflected. Petals erect or spreading.--Species 90. Tropical and South Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Lissochilus= R. Br.
Sepals and petals equal or nearly so, spreading.--Species 130. Tropical and South Africa. Some species yield medicaments (salep) and mucilage or serve as ornamental plants. (Including Cyrtopera Lindl. and Orthochilus Hochst.) =Eulophia= R. Br.
69. Column with 2 basal lobes projecting upon the base of the lip.--Species 4. East Africa. =Pteroglossaspis= Reichb. fil.
Column without appendages. 70
70. Lip and lateral sepals inserted on the foot of the column, the former with a narrow, the latter with a broad base.--Species 1. Madagascar. =Eulophiella= Rolfe
Lip inserted on the foot of the column, the lateral sepals on the margin of the ovary, both with a narrow base.--Species 1. Madagascar and Mascarene Islands. The pseudobulbs yield mucilage. =Cyrtopodium= R. Br.
71. Leaves jointed at the upper end of the sheath. Inflorescence 2-3-flowered. Lip slightly saccate. Column rather long, with short, roundish wings. Pollen-masses affixed to a single appendage.--Species 2. West Africa. Used as ornamental plants. (Under Pachystoma Reichb. fil.) =Ancistrochilus= Rolfe
Leaves not jointed. Inflorescence usually many-flowered. Lip clasping the column or adnate to it, usually spurred. 72
72. Lip adnate to the column; blade spreading, 3-4-lobed. Column short.--Species 9. Tropical and South Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Calanthe= R. Br.
Lip free, clasping the column or broadly concave at the base. Column slender.--Species 7. Madagascar and neighbouring islands, West Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants or yield dye-stuffs. =Phaius= Lour.
73. (65.) Leafy stems with indeterminate apical growth; side-shoots weakly developed or wanting. Inflorescences or solitary flowers axillary. Epiphytes without pseudobulbs. Lip continuous with the base of the column. [Tribe SARCANTHEAE, subtribe AERIDINAE.] 74 Leafy stems with determinate apical growth; annual shoots arising laterally at their base and forming a sympodium. Mostly epiphytes with pseudobulbs. Lip more or less distinctly articulated with the foot of the column. 86
74. Lip not spurred. Sepals and petals long and narrow, spreading. Pollen-masses without an appendage. Leaves broad.--Species 2. Island of Réunion. =Bonniera= Cord.
Lip spurred. 75
75. Lateral sepals inserted on the foot of the column, forming a chin. Lip entire, smooth, shortly spurred.--Species 10. Madagascar and neighbouring islands, Cameroons. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Aeranthus= Lindl.
Lateral sepals inserted on the apex of the ovary. Column not prolonged into a foot. 76
76. Pollen-masses upon a single, sometimes 2-cleft or almost imperceptible stalk. 77
Pollen-masses with 2 stalks, which are entirely distinct or united by the gland only. 81
77. Stalk of the pollen-masses 2-cleft.--Species 10. Madagascar and the neighbouring islands, West Africa. (Including Ancistrorhynchus Finet, Dicranotaenia Finet, and Monixus Finet, under Angrecum Thouars). =Aerangis= Reichb. fil.
Stalk of the pollen-masses simple. 78
78. Stalk of the pollen-masses broadened above or throughout, sometimes almost imperceptible. Lip with a long and thin spur.--Species 120. Tropical and South Africa. Some are used as ornamental or medicinal plants. (Including Lepervenchea Cord., Radinocion Ridl., and Rhaphidorhynchus Finet). =Angrecum= Thouars
Stalk of the pollen-masses thread-like. 79
79. Lip hood-shaped, entire, covering the column. Sepals and petals connivent.--Species 1. West Africa (Cameroons). (Under Angrecum Thou. or Saccolabium Blume). =Calyptrochilus= Kraenzl.
Lip not covering the column. 80
80. Lip directed upwards. Flowers fleshy, rather small.--Species 4. Madagascar and neighbouring islands, Equatorial East Africa. Used as ornamental plants. (Under Saccolabium Blume). =Acampe= Lindl.
Lip directed downwards.--Species 3. Madagascar and neighbouring islands, West Africa. Used as ornamental plants. =Saccolabium= Blume
81. Pollen-masses affixed to the surface of two oblong scales. Lip entire, with a long spur.--Species 20. Madagascar and neighbouring islands, West Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. (Under Angrecum Thou.) =Macroplectrum= Pfitz.
Pollen-masses affixed to thin, not scale-like, but sometimes very short stalks. 82
82. Gland of the rostellum covered by scales. Petals 2-4-lobed. Lip with a long spur, a clawed 3-5-lobed middle-lobe, and incurved sickle-shaped side-lobes.--Species 1. Madagascar and Mascarenes. =Cryptopus= Lindl.
Gland of the rostellum without scales. 83
83. Lip with a short, conical spur; side-lobes embracing the column.--Species 9. Madagascar and neighbouring islands. (Aeonia Lindl.) =Oeonia= Lindl.
Lip with a long, thread-or club-shaped spur. 84
84. Sepals unequal, the lateral much longer than the middle one, united with the petals above. Lip deeply 3-cleft. Stem climbing.--Species 1. German East Africa. =Angrecopsis= Kraenzl.
Sepals and petals subequal, free. 85
85. Sepals and petals erect. Lip entire. Pollen-masses with very short stalks.--Species 1. Island of Réunion. (Pectinaria Cord., under Angrecum Thou., Macroplectrum Pfitz. or Mystacidium Lindl.) =Ctenorchis= K. Schum.
Sepals and petals spreading. 86
86. Column bent backwards. Stalks of the pollen-masses attached to a common gland.--Species 70. Tropical and South Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. (Plate 26.) =Listrostachys= Reichb. fil.
Column straight. Stalks of the pollen-masses usually attached to two separate glands.--Species 40. Tropical and South Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. (Including Gussonia A. Rich.) =Mystacidium= Lindl.
87. (73.) Pollen-masses 2, grooved, with a large transverse appendage at the base, attached to the gland of the rostellum by a broad stalk. Lip usually large. Pseudobulbs formed by several internodes, rarely by a single one or wanting. [Tribe CYMBIDIEAE.] 88
Pollen-masses 4, rarely 2, without an appendage and usually without a stalk. Lip usually small. Pseudobulbs formed by a single internode, bearing one or two leaves. 92
88. Lip distinctly spurred. 89
Lip not distinctly spurred. 90
89. Pollen-masses grooved. Stem with a pseudobulb.--Species 5. Madagascar and Mascarenes. (Under Eulophia R. Br.) =Eulophiopsis= Pfitz.
Pollen-masses not grooved. Stem without pseudobulbs.--Species 1. Madagascar. =Lemurorchis= Kraenzl.
90. Pollen-masses attached to two processes of the stalk. Stem slender, without pseudobulbs, many-leaved.--Species 1. Madagascar. Used as an ornamental plant. =Grammatophyllum= Blume
Pollen-masses attached to a common stalk without processes. Stem with more or less distinct pseudobulbs. 91
91. Pseudobulbs enveloped by the sheaths of the leaves inserted below and upon them.--Species 4. Madagascar. Used as ornamental plants. =Cymbidium= Swartz Pseudobulbs bearing leaves at the top only, hence not enveloped by sheaths. Lateral sepals forming with the foot of the column a distinct chin.--Species 2. Madagascar. Used as ornamental plants. =Grammangis= Reichb. fil.
92. Pollen-masses attached to a scale-like stalk. Lip spurred, 3-lobed.--Species 2. West Africa. Used as ornamental plants. (Under Eulophia R. Br.) [Tribe MAXILLARIEAE.] =Eulophidium= Pfitz.
Pollen-masses without a stalk, rarely with a linear stalk. Lip small, not distinctly spurred, usually entire. [Tribe BOLBOPHYLLEAE.] 93
93. Pollen-masses with a stalk. Lateral sepals somewhat longer than the dorsal one. Flowers in racemes. Stem creeping.--Species 3. West Africa. (Under Bolbophyllum Thou. or Polystachya Lindl.) =Genyorchis= Schlecht.
Pollen-masses without a stalk. 94
94. Lateral sepals much longer than the dorsal one, free at the base, united towards the tip. Inflorescence almost umbel-like.--Species 1. Madagascar, Mascarenes, East Africa. Used as an ornamental plant. (Under Bolbophyllum Thou.) =Cirrhopetalum= Lindl.
Lateral sepals shorter or somewhat longer than the dorsal one or equalling it, free or almost so. Flowers in spikes or racemes, rarely solitary. 95
95. Lateral sepals much shorter than the dorsal one. Inflorescence with a dilated, almost leaf-like rachis.--Species 40. Tropical and South-East Africa. Some species are used as ornamental plants. =Megaclinium= Lindl.
Lateral sepals about as long as or longer than the dorsal one. Inflorescence with a cylindrical rachis.--Species 90. Tropical and South-East Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. (Bulbophyllum Thou.) =Bolbophyllum= Thouars
CLASS V. DICOTYLEDONEAE
SUBCLASS ARCHICHLAMYDEAE
(APETALAE AND CHORIPETALAE)
ORDER VERTICILLATAE
FAMILY 45. CASUARINACEAE
Trees or shrubs. Leaves scale-like, whorled, united into a sheath. Flowers unisexual, the male in spikes, the female in heads. Perianth of the male flowers consisting of two scales, in the female absent. Stamen 1. Anther opening by two longitudinal slits. Ovary 1-celled. Ovules 2, ascending, straight. Style very short, with 2 thread-shaped stigmas. Fruit dry, indehiscent, enclosed by woody bracteoles. Seed 1, without albumen. Embryo straight; radicle superior.
Genus 1, species 2. Spontaneous in Madagascar and the neighbouring islands, cultivated in other tropical countries. The wood (beaf-wood) and the bark are used, the latter for tanning and dyeing and in medicine. =Casuarina= Rumph.
ORDER PIPERALES
FAMILY 46. PIPERACEAE
Flowers in spikes. Perianth none. Stamens 2-6. Ovary 1-celled. Ovule 1, basal, straight. Fruit a berry. Seed with a copious albumen and a small embryo.--Genera 3, species 80. Tropical and South Africa. (Plate 27.)
1. Stigma 1, sometimes penicillate. Flowers hermaphrodite. Leaves exstipulate. Herbs.--Species 65. Tropical and South Africa. Some yield vegetables or condiments or are used in medicine. =Peperomia= Ruiz & Pav.
Stigmas 2-5. Leaves stipulate or sheathing at the base. Usually shrubs. 2
2. Flowers hermaphrodite. Spikes axillary, arranged in an umbel. Stipules united into a sheath. Shrubs.--Species 1. Tropics. Yields edible fruits containing an aromatic oil and is also used in medicine. (Under Piper L.) =Heckeria= Kunth
Flowers unisexual or polygamous. Spikes leaf-opposed.--Species 17, two of them only in cultivation. Tropical and South Africa. Some species yield spices (pepper) or are used in medicine. (Including Coccobryon Klotzsch and Cubeba Miq.) (Plate 27.) =Piper= L.
ORDER SALICALES
FAMILY 47. SALICACEAE
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire toothed or lobed, stipulate. Flowers in spikes or catkins, dioecious, without a perianth. Disc cup-shaped or reduced to scales. Stamens 2 or more. Anthers opening by two longitudinal slits. Ovary 1-celled, with two or more parietal placentas. Ovules inverted. Stigmas 2-4, sessile or nearly so. Fruit capsular. Seeds with a basal tuft of hairs, without albumen; embryo straight.--Genera 2, species 20. (Plate 28.)
Disc cup-or urn-shaped. Stamens 4-30. Bracts jagged. Leaves, at least those of the uppermost branches, broad (ovate or broader). Buds terminal and lateral, covered by several scales.--Species 6. North and East Africa. They yield timber, dyes, and medicaments. “Poplar.” =Populus= L.
Disc reduced to one or several scales or teeth sometimes cohering at the base. Bracts entire. Leaves narrow or rather broad (linear to ovate). Buds lateral, covered by a single scale.--Species 15, two of them only naturalized. They yield timber, plaiting-, stuffing-, and tanning-materials, and medicaments. “Willow.” (Plate 28.) =Salix= L.
ORDER MYRICALES
FAMILY 48. MYRICACEAE
Trees, shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves undivided, without stipules. Flowers in simple or compound spikes, unisexual, without a perianth, but usually with 2-6 bracteoles. Stamens 2-12, usually 4. Anthers opening by two longitudinal slits. Ovary 1-celled. Ovule 1, erect, straight. Styles 2, united at the base, thread-shaped, stigmatose on the inside. Fruit a drupe. Seed with a thin coat and a straight embryo, without albumen. (Plate 29.)
Genus 1, species 25. Tropical and South Africa, Canary Islands, Azores. They yield bark for tanning, wax, and edible fruits, and are also used in medicine. =Myrica= L.
ORDER JUGLANDALES
FAMILY 49. JUGLANDACEAE
Trees. Leaves alternate, unequally pinnate, without stipules. Flowers in spikes or catkins, monoecious, with bracteoles which are adnate to the ovary in the female flowers. Perianth 3-4-parted. Stamens numerous. Anthers opening by two longitudinal slits. Ovary inferior, 1-celled. Ovule 1, basal, straight. Styles 2, united at the base, stigmatose lengthwise. Fruit a drupe with an incompletely septate stone. Seed lobed, with a thin coat, without albumen.
Genus 1, species 2. Cultivated in North Africa. They yield timber, tans and dyes, edible fruits (walnuts), oil, sugar, and medicaments. =Juglans= L.
ORDER FAGALES
FAMILY 50. BETULACEAE
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, undivided, stipulate. Flowers monoecious, in spikes or catkins, with a perianth of bract-like segments or without a perianth. Stamens 4. Ovary 2-celled at the base. Ovules solitary in each cell, descending, inverted. Styles 2. Fruit a nut. Seed 1, exalbuminous, with a membranous coat.--Genera 2, species 2. Extra-tropical regions. (Under CUPULIFERAE.)
Male flowers without a perianth, with 2-parted filaments and hairy anthers. Female flowers with a small perianth and a jagged involucre free from the bract but adnate to the fruit. Fruit large. Female spikes bud-shaped, solitary. Leaves folded at the mid-rib in the bud.--Species 1 (C. Avellana L., hazel). Cultivated and naturalized in North-west Africa. Fruits edible. [Tribe CORYLEAE.] =Corylus= Tourn.
Male flowers with a 4-parted perianth, simple filaments, and glabrous anthers. Female flowers without a perianth, enclosed by a 5-parted involucre formed by the connate bracts and bracteoles. Fruit small. Female spikes cone-shaped, at length woody, arranged in racemes. Leaves folded along the side-nerves in the bud.--Species 1 (A. glutinosa L., alder). North-west Africa, also naturalized in South Africa. Yields timber and bark for tanning. [Tribe BETULEAE.] =Alnus= Tourn.
FAMILY 51. FAGACEAE
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, undivided lobed or pinnately cleft, stipulate. Flowers in spikes or catkins, monoecious. Perianth-segments 4-7, bract-like, more or less united. Stamens 4-20. Ovary inferior, 3-6-celled at the base. Ovules 2 in each cell, descending, inverted. Styles 3-6. Fruit a nut surrounded by a cup-shaped involucre. Seeds without albumen.--Genera 2, species 9. Extra-tropical regions. (Under CUPULIFERAE.)
Male flowers in fascicles arranged in erect spikes. Female flowers in clusters of 3, surrounded by an involucre. Filaments long. Styles 6, thread-shaped. Fruit enclosed in a prickly involucre. Leaves serrate.--Species 1 (C. vulgaris Lam., chestnut). North-west Africa. Yields timber, bark for tanning, and edible fruits from which starch and oil are prepared. =Castanea= Tourn.
Male flowers in simple, pendulous catkins. Female flowers each surrounded by an involucre. Filaments short. Styles 3, rarely 4-5, flattened. Fruit seated in a scaly, cup-shaped involucre.--Species 8. North-west Africa; one species also introduced into South Africa. They yield timber, cork, tanning and dyeing materials, chemical and medicinal drugs, starch, and fodder; some have edible fruits. “Oak.” =Quercus= L.
ORDER URTICALES
FAMILY 52. ULMACEAE
Trees or shrubs. Juice not milky. Leaves simple, stipulate. Flowers axillary, solitary or in cymes. Perianth simple, with 3-8 segments. Stamens as many as and opposite the perianth-segments, rarely more, straight in the bud. Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, 1-celled, very rarely (Ulmus) 2-celled. Ovule 1, pendulous, inverted. Styles or stigmas 1-2. Fruit a nut or a drupe. Seed with a membranous coat and with scanty albumen or without albumen.--Genera 5, species 35. (Under URTICACEAE.) (Plate 30.)
1. Stamens twice or thrice as many as the perianth-segments. Stigma 1. Flowers dioecious. Perianth much enlarged in fruit. Leaves opposite. Species 1. Abyssinia. [Subfamily =BARBEYOIDEAE=.] =Barbeya= Schweinf.
Stamens as many as the perianth-segments. Stigmas 2. Flowers monoecious polygamous or hermaphrodite. Leaves alternate. 2
2. Fruit a compressed, winged nut. Embryo straight; cotyledons flat. Flower-clusters in the axils of scale-like bracts.--Species 1 (U. campestris L., elm). North-west Africa. Yields timber, bast, tanning and dyeing materials, and medicaments. [Subfamily =ULMOIDEAE=.] =Ulmus= L.
Fruit a more or less globular drupe. Embryo curved; cotyledons folded or rolled inwards. Flower-clusters or solitary flowers usually in the axils of the leaves. [Subfamily =CELTIDOIDEAE=.] 3
3. Stipules united. Leaves entire, penninerved. Spiny shrubs. Flowers unisexual. Perianth-segments of the male flowers valvate in the bud. Embryo with narrow cotyledons.--Species 4. Tropical and South Africa. =Chaetacme= Planch. & Harv.
Stipules free. Leaves usually 3-nerved. Spineless shrubs or trees. Flowers usually polygamous. Perianth-segments imbricate in bud, at least at the apex. 4
4. Embryo with narrow cotyledons. Perianth-segments imbricate at the apex only. Flowers almost sessile.--Species 10. Tropical and South Africa. Some species yield timber, fibre, tanning and dyeing materials, and medicaments. (Sponia Commers.) (Plate 30.) =Trema= Lour.
Embryo with broad cotyledons. Perianth-segments imbricate. Stigmas feathery. Upper flowers upon long stalks.--Species 20. Some of them yield timber, bast, tanning and dyeing materials, oil, medicaments, and edible fruits. “Nettle-tree.” =Celtis= L.
FAMILY 53. MORACEAE
Juice usually milky. Leaves stipulate. Flowers unisexual. Perianth simple or wanting. Stamens as many as and opposite the perianth-segments or fewer, 1-6. Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary 1-celled. Ovule 1, pendulous, inverted or curved, rarely erect and straight. Styles 1-2.--Genera 26, species 260. (Under URTICACEAE or ULMACEAE.) (Plate 31.)
1. Stamens of the male flowers bent inwards in the bud, subsequently bent backwards. Ovule pendulous. Leaves folded in bud. Stipules not leaving a stem-clasping scar. [Subfamily =MOROIDEAE=.] 2
Stamens of the male flowers straight from the beginning. 14
2. Flowers in lax cymes consisting of one female flower and several male ones. Perianth with a distinct tube. Stamens 4. Style 2-cleft. Trees. Leaves undivided.--Species 1. Madagascar. [Tribe FATOUEAE.] =Bleekrodia= Blume
Flowers arranged in spike-raceme-or head-like inflorescences or collected upon flattened receptacles. 3
3. Flowers on flattened and more or less expanded receptacles, rarely in spike-like inflorescences; in the latter case, as usually, male and female flowers in the same inflorescence. Stamens 1-4, usually 2. [Tribe DORSTENIEAE.] 4
Flowers in spike-, raceme-or head-like, unisexual inflorescences (containing only male or only female flowers), rarely female flowers solitary. Stamens 4. Trees or shrubs. 7
4. Flowers in false spikes containing male and female flowers or male ones only. Perianth 4-partite. Stamens 4. Trees. Leaves undivided.--Species 1. East Africa. =Sloetiopsis= Engl.
Flowers on flattened receptacles. 5
5. Inflorescences unisexual, the lateral containing many male flowers, the middle one a single female flower. Receptacle covered on the outside by imbricate bracts. Male flowers with a 3-4-partite perianth and 3-4 stamens. Female flowers without a perianth. Trees or shrubs. Leaves undivided.--Species 2. Central Africa. =Mesogyne= Engl.
Inflorescences bisexual, containing many male flowers and one or several female ones, usually provided with bracts on the margin only. Perianth 2-lobed or wanting. Stamens 2, rarely 1 or 3. 6
6. Receptacles top-shaped, subsequently cupular, bearing many male flowers and a single central female flower. Pericarp membranous. Shrubs. Leaves undivided.--Species 5. Central Africa. =Trymatococcus= Poepp. & Endl.
Receptacles expanded, often divided into linear segments, bearing many male flowers and several female ones. Pericarp crusty within, fleshy outside. Herbs or low shrubs.--Species 50. Tropics. Some are poisonous or used medicinally. (Plate 31.) =Dorstenia= L.
7. Female flowers solitary, axillary; male flowers in spike-like inflorescences. Perianth 4-toothed. Trees. Leaves undivided.--Species 1. Island of Réunion. Used medicinally. [Tribe STREBLEAE.] =Maillardia= Frapp. & Duchartre
Female flowers in spike-or head-like inflorescences. 8
8. Female flowers in head-like, but sometimes elongated (oblong) inflorescences, the male in spike-, raceme-or head-like ones. Style simple, with a thread-shaped stigma, rarely with an abortive side-branch. Trees. [Tribe BROUSSONETIEAE.] 9
Female and male flowers in spike-like inflorescences. Perianth of the female flowers divided to the base. Style 2-parted, with thread-shaped, equal or subequal stigmas. [Tribe MOREAE.] 12
9. Male flowers in head-like inflorescences. Perianth of the female flowers 4-lobed. Spinous plants.--Species 1. East Africa and Madagascar. It yields a dye-wood and edible fruits. (Under Plecospermum Trecul) =Cardiogyne= Bur.
Male flowers in spike-or raceme-like inflorescences. 10
10. Male flowers in lax, raceme-like inflorescences. Spinous plants. Leaves entire. Perianth of the female flowers deeply 4-cleft, persistent and enclosing the fruit.--Species 1. Cultivated in North Africa. The wood is used for joiners’ work, the leaves as food for silkworms. =Maclura= Nutt.
Male flowers in dense, spike-like inflorescences. Spineless plants. 11
11. Perianth of the female flowers deeply 4-cleft or 4-parted. Fruit wholly, or for the greatest part, enclosed by the perianth. Leaves undivided.--Species 2. Central Africa. They yield timber. =Chlorophora= Gaud.
Perianth of the female flowers shortly toothed. Fruit overtopping the perianth. Leaves usually lobed.--Species 1 (B. papyrifera Vent., paper-mulberry). Cultivated in North Africa. Used for making paper; the fruit is edible. =Broussonetia= Vent.
12. Stipules united. Leaves entire, with numerous transverse nerves. Ovary subglobose. Seed with leaf-like, folded cotyledons. Shrubs.--Species 2. Madagascar. =Pachytrophe= Bur.
Stipules free. 13
13. Leaves entire, penninerved, leathery. Ovary compressed. Seed without albumen; embryo with thick cotyledons. Trees.--Species 2. Madagascar. =Ampalis= Boj.
Leaves toothed, 3-nerved at the base. Ovary ovoid or subglobose. Seed with copious albumen.--Species 3. Cultivated and naturalized in various regions. They yield timber, food for silkworms, edible fruits (mulberries), dyes, and medicaments. =Morus= L.
14. (1.) Ovule erect, straight. Trees. Leaves folded in the bud. Stipules leaving an annular scar. [Subfamily =CONOCEPHALOIDEAE=.] 15
Ovule pendulous, curved or inverted. Woody plants with the leaves rolled inwards in the bud, or herbaceous plants. 16
15. Leaves divided into 11-15 segments. Male flowers in false heads arranged in cymes; perianth with a distinct tube. Stamen 1. Female flowers upon a flattened, ovate receptacle. Style long.--Species 1 (M. Smithii R. Br.). West Africa to the Upper Nile. Yields timber (cork-wood) and edible fruits. The aerial roots contain much water. =Musanga= R. Br.
Leaves undivided, 3-lobed, or 5-7-parted. Male flowers in false spikes or heads arranged in cymes; perianth divided quite or nearly to the base. Stamens 2-4. Female flowers in globose or subglobose false heads. Style short.--Species 8. Central Africa. Some species yield timber or edible fruits. =Myrianthus= Beauv.
16. Flowers in cymes arranged in spikes or panicles. Fruit dry. Herbs. Leaves palmately lobed or dissected. Stipules free. [Subfamily =CANNABOIDEAE=.] 17
Flowers upon a globe-, club-, disc-, or cup-shaped receptacle. Herbs with undivided, lanceolate, penninerved leaves, or more frequently shrubs or trees. Leaves undivided or lobed, coiled in the bud. Stipules usually united and leaving a stem-clasping scar. [Subfamily =ARTOCARPOIDEAE=.] 18
17. Stem twining. Leaves opposite, lobed or the upper ones undivided. Female flowers in catkins. Embryo spirally twisted, with narrow cotyledons.--Species 1 (H. Lupulus L., hop). Cultivated in the extratropical regions. It is used for making beer, as a vegetable and a fibre-plant, and in medicine. =Humulus= L.
Stem erect. Leaves opposite below, alternate above, dissected. Female flowers in panicles. Embryo curved, with broad cotyledons.--Species 1 (C. sativa L., hemp). Cultivated in various regions. It yields fibre, oil, and an intoxicating drug (hashish). =Cannabis= Tourn.
18. Flowers enclosed within a pouch-shaped, usually bisexual receptacle provided at the top with a small opening surrounded by bracts. Embryo curved. Shrubs or trees.--Species 160. Some of them yield timber, bast-fibres, bark for clothing, india-rubber, shellac, vegetables, medicaments, and edible fruits (especially the figs, from F. carica L.) which are also used for making brandy and a substitute for coffee. Some species are poisonous or serve as ornamental plants. [Tribe FICEAE.] =Ficus= L.
Flowers collected on a globe-, club-, disc-, or cup-shaped receptacle. 19
19. Receptacles more or less cup-shaped, containing many male flowers and a single central female one. Stamen 1. Embryo straight. [Tribe BROSIMEAE.] 20
Receptacles of two kinds, some containing only male flowers, the others only female or many female intermixed with several male. Shrubs or trees. 22
20. Perianth distinctly developed. Ovary free. Herbs or undershrubs.--Species 3. Equatorial West Africa. (Including Cyatanthus Engl.) =Scyphosyce= Baill.
Perianth not distinctly developed. Ovary immersed in and adnate to the receptacle. Trees. 21
21. Receptacles covered with peltate bracts on their whole surface. Male flowers with, female without bracts.--Species 2. West Africa (Congo). =Bosqueiopsis= De Wild. & Dur.
Receptacles bearing bracts on the margin only. Female flowers with, male without bracts.--Species 6. Tropics. Some yield timber and dye-stuffs. =Bosqueia= Thouars
22. Male flowers on a discoid or concave receptacle bearing numerous bracts on the edge or the whole surface; female flowers on a similar receptacle or solitary. [Tribe OLMEDIEAE.] 23
Male flowers on a globular or club-shaped receptacle bearing bracts at the base only and between the flowers, or destitute of bracts; female flowers on a more or less globular receptacle. [Tribe ARTOCARPEAE.] 24
23. Male inflorescences many-flowered, discoid; female 1-flowered. Male flowers with, female without a perianth.--Species 3. Central Africa. Poisonous, used medicinally, and yielding timber and fibre. =Antiaris= Leschen.
Male and female inflorescences many-flowered, more or less concave. Male flowers without, female with a perianth.--Species 2. Cultivated in the tropics. Yielding india-rubber. =Castilloa= Cerv.
24. Inflorescences without bracts at the base. Flowers monoecious. Stamen 1.--Species 2. Cultivated in the tropics. They yield timber, bark used for making cloth, bast-fibres, mucilage, starch, edible fruits, and medicaments. “Breadfruit tree.” =Artocarpus= Forst.
Inflorescences with some bracts at the base. Flowers dioecious. Stamens 1-5. 25
25. Female flowers surrounded each by two rows of very unequal bracts or perianth-segments, not intermixed with male flowers.--Species 1. Equatorial West Africa (Cameroons). =Acanthotreculia= Engl.
Female flowers surrounded by subequal bracts and intermixed with some male flowers.--Species 9. Tropics. Some species have edible seeds from which also oil and meal are prepared. =Treculia= Decne.
FAMILY 54. URTICACEAE
Juice not milky. Leaves usually stipulate. Flowers unisexual, rarely (Parietaria) polygamous. Perianth simple, with 1-5 segments, sometimes wanting in the female flowers. Stamens in the male flowers as many as perianth-segments. Filaments broadened at the base, bent inwards in the bud. Anthers attached by the back, opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary 1-celled. Ovule 1, erect or ascending, straight. Style 1 or 0. Fruit indehiscent. Seed with a thin coat and a straight embryo, usually albuminous.--Genera 20, species 150. (Plate 32.)
1. Stamen 1. Perianth of the male flowers entire or divided in 2-3 segments, of the female entire 4-toothed or wanting. Stigma linear. Herbs or undershrubs, rarely shrubs. Hairs not stinging. Stipules free. [Tribe FORSKOHLEAE.] 2
Stamens 2-5. 4
2. Flower-clusters without an involucre and not surrounded by woolly hairs. Female flowers with a perianth.--Species 4. South and East Africa. (Didymodoxa E. Mey.) =Australina= Gaudich.
Flower-clusters with an involucre and usually surrounded by woolly hairs. Female flowers without a perianth. 3
3. Involucral bracts free or united at the base only. Stem rough. Herbs undershrubs or shrubs.--Species 5. =Forskohlea= L.
Involucral bracts united high up. Stem smooth. Herbs or undershrubs.--Species 5. Tropical and South Africa. =Droguetia= Gaudich.
4. Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, entire. Plants without stinging hairs. Female flowers in glomerules surrounded by an involucre; perianth 4-cleft. [Tribe PARIETARIEAE.] 5
Stipules present, very rarely rudimentary, but then leaves toothed. 6
5. Stem herbaceous. Flowers polygamous. Stigma spatulate and recurved.--Species 8. Some are used in medicine. “Pellitory.” =Parietaria= Tourn.
Stem woody. Flowers unisexual. Stigma linear.--Species 1. Canary Islands. =Gesnouinia= Gaudich.
6. Plants with stinging hairs, very rarely (Fleurya) almost glabrous, and then stigma linear-oblong and shortly papillose and perianth of the female flowers 3-4-partite. Perianth-segments of the female flowers 4, rarely 1-3. Embryo with orbicular cotyledons. [Tribe UREREAE.] 7
Plants without stinging hairs. 12
7. Fruit straight. Stigma penicillate. Leaves opposite. Herbs.--Species 10. They yield material for spinning and paper-making and are used as pot-herbs and in medicine. “Nettle.” =Urtica= Gaudich.
Fruit oblique. Leaves alternate. 8
8. Stigma more or less capitate. Perianth surrounding the fruit fleshy. Shrubs or trees, rarely undershrubs.--Species 20. Tropical and South-East Africa. =Urera= Gaudich.
Stigma linear or oblong. 9
9. Perianth of the female flowers reduced to a single, sometimes 2-parted, large segment, more rarely consisting of 2 unequal segments. Herbs with punctiform cystoliths.--Species 3. Tropics. =Girardinia= Gaudich.
Perianth of the female flowers with 4 segments, of which 1-2 are sometimes rudimentary. 10
10. Cystoliths linear. Annual herbs. Fruit gibbous, as long as or longer than the perianth.--Species 7. South and Central Africa. They yield fibre and fish-poison. (Plate 32.) =Fleurya= Gaudich.
Cystoliths punctiform. Perennial herbs or woody plants. 11
11. Fruit as long as or longer than the perianth, smooth.--Species 3. Central Africa. (Urticastrum Heist.) =Laportea= Gaudich.
Fruit much shorter than the membranous perianth. Shrubs.--Species 6. Madagascar, Mascarenes, East Africa. =Obetia= Gaudich.
12. (6.) Stigma penicillate. Perianth of the female flowers 3-partite, rarely 4-5-partite or rudimentary, free from the ovary. Embryo with orbicular or ovate cotyledons. Cystoliths linear. Herbs or undershrubs, rarely shrubs; in this case leaves penninerved. Stipules connate. [Tribe PROCRIDEAE.] 13
Stigma filiform, rarely capitate and somewhat hairy, but then shrubs with 3-nerved leaves and perianth shortly toothed and adnate to the ovary. Perianth of the female flowers 2-4-toothed, entire, or wanting. Embryo with elliptical or oblong cotyledons. Cystoliths usually punctiform. Mostly woody plants. [Tribe BOEHMERIEAE.] 16
13. Leaves opposite, but sometimes the pairs consisting of unequal leaves. Herbs. 14
Leaves alternate or subopposite, i.e., one leaf of each pair very small, stipule-like. 15
14. Flowers on a disc-or bell-shaped receptacle.--Species 1. Abyssinia. =Lecanthus= Wedd.
Flowers in glomerules arranged in panicles.--Species 35. Tropics. Some are used as vegetables or textile plants. (Adicea Rafin.) =Pilea= Lindl.
15. Flowers on an expanded receptacle. Perianth-segments of the female flowers linear or lanceolate. Herbs. Leaves unequal-sided.--Species 15. Tropics. =Elatostema= Forst.
Flowers in glomerules or heads without an involucre. Perianth-segments ovate. Shrubs or undershrubs.--Species 3. Tropics. =Procris= Juss.
16. Female flowers without a perianth. Stigma filiform. Shrubs. Leaves alternate. Flowers in axillary glomerules.--Species 1. Naturalized on the Island of Mauritius. =Phenax= Wedd.
Female flowers with a perianth. 17
17. Perianth of the female flowers free or almost free from the ovary, dry or membranous in fruit. Stipules free or nearly so. Stigma filiform. 18
Perianth of the female flowers adnate to the ovary, more or less succulent in fruit. Stipules evidently united. Leaves alternate. Shrubs or trees. 19
18. Stigma persistent. Perianth surrounding the fruit neither winged nor ribbed. Leaves toothed.--Species 7. Tropical and South Africa. Two of them (especially B. nivea Hook. & Arn., ramie or Chinese grasscloth plant) are cultivated as textile plants. =Boehmeria= Jaqu.
Stigma deciduous. Perianth surrounding the fruit usually winged or ribbed. Leaves usually entire.--Species 10. Tropical and South Africa. =Pouzolzia= Gaudich.
19. Stigma filiform, deciduous.--Species 3. Madagascar and Mascarenes. =Pipturus= Wedd.
Stigma capitate, more or less penicillate.--Species 1. Abyssinia. =Debregeasia= Gaudich.
ORDER PROTEALES
FAMILY 55. PROTEACEAE
Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, rarely (Brabeium) whorled. Stipules none. Flowers in heads, spikes, or racemes. Perianth with 4 petaloid, valvate segments, usually surrounded by excrescences of the receptacle. Stamens 4, opposite the perianth-segments. Anthers opening inwards. Ovary superior, 1-celled. Ovule 1, ascending and inverted, more rarely pendulous and straight, very rarely ovules 2. Style simple, with a small stigma. Fruit a one-seeded nut or drupe. Seed exalbuminous.--Genera 13, species 400. Southern and tropical Africa. (Plate 33.)
1. Stamens inserted at the base of the perianth-segments; anthers stalked. Perianth regular, divided to the base. Flowers unisexual or polygamous. [Tribe PERSOONIEAE.] 2
Stamens inserted on the middle or the upper part of the perianth-segments; anthers usually sessile. Perianth more or less deeply divided, but rarely to the base. [Tribe PROTEEAE.] 3
2. Receptacle with a short cupular excrescence at the base. Ovule pendulous. Fruit a drupe. Flowers in fascicles arranged in racemes. Leaves whorled, undivided.--Species 1. South Africa. The fruits are edible and used as a substitute for coffee. =Brabeium= L.
Receptacle with 4 scale-like excrescences at the base. Flowers in spikes arranged in racemes. Leaves alternate, 2-lobed.--Species 1. Madagascar. The wood is used for torches, the seeds yield oil. =Dilobeia= Thouars
3. Flowers unisexual, regular. 4
Flowers hermaphrodite. 5
4. Male flowers in spikes or racemes, female in heads. Bracts narrow.--Species 3. South Africa. =Aulax= Berg
Male and female flowers in heads. Bracts broad.--Species 75. South Africa. Some species yield timber or medicaments; the silvery-haired leaves of the silver-tree (L. argenteum R. Br.) also form an article of commerce. =Leucadendron= Herm.
5. Flowers regular or almost so, disposed in heads which are sometimes reduced to a single flower. Perianth-segments united below, free and recurved above. 6
Flowers distinctly irregular. Perianth-segments more or less united, except the hindmost, which is separated from the others. 11
6. Leaves, at least the inferior, more or less divided. 7
Leaves all undivided. 8
7. Heads arranged in sometimes very short spikes, 4-flowered. Ovary glabrous or almost so. Fruit sessile.--Species 15. South Africa. (Nivenia R. Br.) =Paranomus= Salisb. & Knight
Heads solitary or arranged in corymbs or heads, usually many-flowered. Ovary hairy, usually woolly or hispid. Fruit short-stalked.--Species 70. South Africa. =Serruria= Salisb.
8. Heads solitary, 4-or more-flowered. Fruit sessile.--Species 20. South Africa. (Including Orothamnus Eckl.) =Mimetes= Salisb.
Heads arranged in spikes, racemes, or umbels, 1-6-flowered. Fruit with a short stalk. 9
9. Flowers somewhat irregular. Stigma lateral, or very oblique, or seated in the centre of a disc-like expansion of the style-apex. Heads in lax spikes or racemes.--Species 25. South Africa. =Spatalla= Salisb.
Flowers regular. Stigma terminal or nearly so, conical or club-shaped. 10
10. Style more or less lateral, not constricted at the base. Perianth-tube 4-angled. Inflorescence cylindrical.--Species 5. South Africa. =Spatallopsis= Phillips
Style terminal, constricted at the base. Perianth-tube short, not 4-angled. Inflorescence globose.--Species 12. South Africa. =Sorocephalus= R. Br.
11. (5.) Anterior perianth-segments separating above. Anthers oblong or ovate. Style deciduous. Fruit glabrous. Flowers in sometimes oblong heads, usually yellow.--Species 40. South and East Africa. Some species yield timber and bark for tanning. (Plate 33.) =Leucospermum= R. Br.
Anterior perianth-segments united almost to the top into a lip. Anthers linear. Style persistent. Fruit covered with dense hairs. 12
12. Flowers in spikes or racemes. Anthers obtuse.--Species 15. Tropical and South-east Africa. Some species yield timber. =Faurea= Harv.
Flowers in heads. Anthers usually with a prolonged connective.--Species 130. South and Central Africa. Some species yield timber, bark for tanning, or medicaments. (Leucadendron L.) =Protea= L.
ORDER SANTALALES
SUBORDER SANTALINEAE
FAMILY 56. SANTALACEAE
Terrestrial plants, sometimes parasitic on roots. Leaves undivided, exstipulate, sometimes scale-like. Flowers regular. Perianth simple. Stamens 3-6, as many as and inserted on the perianth-segments, equalling them or shorter. Anthers stalked, 2-celled. Ovary inferior, rarely almost superior, 1-celled. Ovule 1, basal, or ovules 2-5, pendulous from the apex of a central or subparietal placenta. Style simple or wanting. Fruit indehiscent. Seeds without a testa, with copious fleshy albumen; radicle of the embryo superior.--Genera 6, Species 140. (Plate 34.)
1. Ovary superior. Ovule 1. Style absent; stigma 2-lobed. Stalk of the fruit fleshy. Shrubs or trees.--Species 1. Madagascar. Used medicinally. [Tribe ANTHOBOLEAE.] =Exocarpus= Labill.
Ovary inferior. Ovules 2-5. Style present. 2
2. Perianth-tube above the ovary coated by a disc on the inside, or wanting. Placenta thick, straight. Ovules recurved. Stigma 3-4-parted or 4-5-lobed. Fruit a drupe. Shrubs. [Tribe OSYRIDEAE.] 3
Perianth-tube above the ovary not coated by a disc on the inside. Placenta thin, usually flexuous. Ovules straight. Stigma entire or obscurely 2-3-lobed. [Tribe THESIEAE.] 4
3. Leaves, at least most of them, opposite. Flowers in panicles which are sometimes composed of false umbels, 4-6-merous, hermaphrodite or polygamous. Stigma 4-5-lobed. Embryo with very short cotyledons.--Species 2. South Africa. They yield timber and tanning material. (Rhoiocarpus A. DC.) =Colpoon= Berg
Leaves alternate. Flowers in false umbels, which are often arranged in racemes, or the female and hermaphrodite solitary, 3-4-merous, dioecious or polygamous. Stigma 3-4-partite. Embryo with long cotyledons.--Species 8. North and East Africa to Natal. Some species yield fragrant wood (African sandalwood), tanning and dyeing materials, and medicaments. (Plate 34.) =Osyris= L.
4. Flowers dioecious. Perianth-tube above the ovary very shortly campanulate; segments usually with a tuft of hairs in the male flowers. Anther-halves elliptical. Style short.--Species 6. South Africa. =Thesidium= Sond.
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth-tube above the ovary campanulate or cylindrical; segments with tufts or rows of hairs. Anther-halves usually oblong. Style long or rather short. 5
5. Fruit a drupe. Flowers axillary, solitary or in glomerules. Undershrubs.--Species 7. East and South Africa. =Osyridicarpus= A. DC.
Fruit a nut.--Species 120. =Thesium= L.
FAMILY 57. OPILIACEAE
Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, entire. Flowers in spikes, racemes or umbels, regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx (or calyx-like excrescence of the receptacle) entire or obscurely 4-5-toothed. Petals (or perianth-segments) 4-5, free. Stamens equal in number and opposite to them, free or adnate at the base. Disc present. Ovary superior or nearly so, 1-celled, with a thick central placenta. Ovule 1, pendulous from the apex of the placenta, with no coat. Style simple. Fruit succulent. Seed without a testa; albumen abundant; embryo large, with superior radicle.--Genera 2, species 15. (Under OLACINEAE.) (Plate 35.)
Axis of the inflorescence with cushion-shaped swellings at the base of the pedicels. Flowers in short racemes or umbels. Receptacle broad, cupular. Disc lobed. Petals with inflected tips. Filaments short. Anthers broad.--Species 5. Central Africa. =Rhopalopilia= Pierre
Axis of the inflorescence without swellings. Flowers in racemes. Receptacle small.--Species 10. Central Africa to Delagoa Bay. (Groutia Guill. & Perr., including Urobotrya Stapf). (Plate 35.) =Opilia= Roxb.
FAMILY 58. GRUBBIACEAE
Shrubs. Leaves opposite, narrow, entire, leathery. Inflorescences axillary, cymose. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Perianth 4-partite, with sepaloid, valvate segments. Stamens 8, almost free from the perianth. Anthers 2-celled. Ovary inferior, 1-celled or at first incompletely 2-celled. Ovules 2, pendulous from a central or subparietal placenta, straight, with no coat. Style simple; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit a drupe. Seed 1, with a thin testa and fleshy albumen; embryo straight, with inferior radicle. (Under SANTALACEAE or HAMAMELIDACEAE.)
Genus 1, species 4. South Africa (Cape Colony). =Grubbia= Berg
FAMILY 59. OLACACEAE
Shrubs or trees, rarely undershrubs. Leaves entire. Flowers regular. Calyx usually small. Petals or corolla-lobes 3-6, nearly always valvate in bud. Anthers opening by 2 longitudinal slits. Ovary superior or nearly so, rarely half-inferior or almost inferior, 1-celled, usually septate at the base, rarely 2-5-celled to the top. Ovules 1-5, pendulous from the apex of a usually free placenta, inverted. Style simple. Fruit indehiscent. Seed 1, with a small embryo and abundant albumen.--Genera 11, species 70. Tropical and South Africa. (Plate 36.)
1. Ovary superior, 1-celled, sometimes septate at the base. Ovules 2-3, with no coat. 2
Ovary superior, 1-celled with 4-5 ovules, or completely or nearly completely 3-4-celled, or more or less inferior. Ovules with 1-2 coats. 5
2. Filaments united into a long tube. Stamens 4-5, as many as and opposite the divisions of the corolla. Disc 4-5-lobed. Calyx enlarged in fruit. Flowers in racemes or panicles. [Tribe APTANDREAE.] 3
Filaments free or nearly so. [Tribe OLACEAE.] 4
3. Flowers 4-merous, unisexual. Ovules 2. Calyx cupular, not splitting at the time of maturity.--Species 1. West Africa. =Aptandra= Miers
Flowers 5-merous. Ovules 3. Calyx splitting into 3 segments at the time of maturity.--Species 2. Equatorial West Africa. They yield timber and oily seeds which are also used in medicine. =Ongokea= Pierre
4. Ovules 2. Stamens 5-10. Calyx not enlarged in fruit.--Species 6. West Africa. =Ptychopetalum= Benth.
Ovules 3. Stamens 6-12, of which 3-6 are fertile. Calyx enlarged in fruit.--Species 40. Tropics. Some species yield timber. (Plate 36.) =Olax= L.
5. Stamens as many as and opposite the petals, 4-6, free or nearly so. [Tribe ANACOLOSEAE.] 6
Stamens 2-4 times as many as the petals. Ovary superior, completely or almost completely 3-4-celled. 9
6. Ovary superior, septate at the base, with 4-5 ovules. Flowers 5-merous, in panicles.--Species 1. Island of Mauritius. =Stolidia= Baill.
Ovary inferior or half-inferior. Flowers in axillary spikes, racemes or fascicles. 7
7. Flowers 6-merous. Calyx entire or toothed. Ovary very incompletely 2-celled. Ovules 2.--Species 1. Madagascar. =Anacolosa= Blume
Flowers 4-5-merous. Ovary completely or almost completely 3-4-celled. Ovules 3-4. 8
8. Flowers 4-merous. Calyx shortly toothed. Ovary 4-celled. Fruit a drupe.--Species 2. Equatorial West Africa. =Strombosiopsis= Engl.
Flowers 5-merous. Calyx deeply divided. Ovary 3-celled. Fruit a berry.--Species 7. Central Africa. (Including Lavalleopsis Van Tiegh.) =Strombosia= Blume
9. Stamens 3-4 times as many as the petals, 12-20. Calyx entire, not enlarged in fruit. Juice resinous.--Species 1. Equatorial West Africa. Yields timber and edible oily seeds. [Tribe COULEAE.] =Coula= Baill.
Stamens twice as many as the petals, 8-12. Calyx 4-6-toothed. Juice not resinous. 10
10. Anthers globose. Ovary incompletely 3-celled. Style short. Petals 5-6. Calyx much enlarged in fruit. Leaves with milky juice.--Species 3. West Africa. [Tribe HEISTERIEAE.] =Heisteria= Jaqu.
Anthers linear. Ovary almost completely 3-4-celled. Style as long as the ovary. Petals 4-5. Calyx not enlarged in fruit. Leaves with watery juice.--Species 3. Tropical and South-East Africa. They yield fragrant wood, bark for tanning, edible fruits, and oily seeds, and are also used in medicine. [Tribe XIMENIEAE.] =Ximenia= Plum.
FAMILY 60. OCTOKNEMATACEAE
Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, undivided, without stipules. Flowers in axillary racemes. Petals 5, valvate in bud. Stamens 5, opposite the petals; filaments short. Disc obscure. Ovary inferior, 1-celled, with a free filiform placenta and 3 pendulous ovules. Style divided into 3-5 two-or three-cleft lobes. Fruit woody, surrounded by the fleshy receptacle. Seeds with a thin coat; embryo minute, situated at the apex of the 8-furrowed albumen. (Under OLACACEAE.)
Genus 1, species 3. Equatorial West Africa. =Octoknema= Pierre
SUBORDER LORANTHINEAE
FAMILY 61. LORANTHACEAE
Shrubs, parasitic upon trees. Leaves undivided, exstipulate, sometimes scale-like. Perianth simple, with 2-6 valvate segments, often surrounded at the base by a calyx-like outgrowth of the receptacle. Stamens as many as and opposite the perianth-segments and inserted on them. Ovary inferior, with 1-4 indistinctly developed ovules. Style and stigma simple. Fruit succulent. Seeds albuminous.--Genera, 4, species 300. (Plate 37.)
1. Receptacle with a calyx-like outgrowth surrounding the base of the perianth. Flowers usually hermaphrodite. Anthers usually stalked and opening by two longitudinal slits. Style more or less filiform. Leaves well-developed.--Species 250. Tropical and South Africa. Some are used medicinally. (Plate 37). [Subfamily =LORANTHOIDEAE=.] =LORANTHUS= L.
Receptacle without a calyx-like outgrowth. Flowers unisexual. Anthers sessile. [Subfamily =VISCOIDEAE=.] 2
2. Anthers adnate to the perianth; cells several or many, opening by pores. Placenta basal. Flowers in clusters of 3 or more.--Species 50. Some of them yield bird-lime or are used medicinally. “Mistletoe.” [Tribe VISCEAE.] =Viscum= L.
Anthers seated on the perianth, but not adnate to it; cells 1-2, opening by longitudinal or transverse slits. Placenta central. Leaves scale-like. 3
3. Anthers 1-celled, opening by a transverse slit. Perianth of the male flowers 2-5-parted, of the female 2-parted. Flowers dioecious, solitary.--Species 1. North-West Africa. [Tribe ARCEUTHOBIEAE.] =Arceuthobium= Marsch. Bieb.
Anthers 2-celled, opening by 2 longitudinal slits. Perianth 3-parted. Flowers monoecious, disposed in rows.--Species 5. Madagascar and neighbouring islands. (Bifaria Van Tiegh.) [Tribe PHORADENDREAE.] =Korthalsella= Van Tiegh.
SUBORDER BALANOPHORINEAE
FAMILY 62. BALANOPHORACEAE
Succulent herbs without green colour, parasitic on roots, upon which their root-stock is seated. Leaves reduced to scales. Flowers in spadix-like spikes or heads, red, unisexual. Perianth in the male flowers of 3-6 segments, in the female 3-lobed or wanting. Stamens as many as and opposite the perianth-segments, sometimes one of them abortive. Ovary inferior or naked, 1-celled. Ovules 1-3, pendulous from a central placenta or from the apex of the cell or adnate to the wall of the ovary, without coats. Style simple, sometimes very short; stigma entire or lobed. Fruit a drupe. Seed without a testa; albumen copious; embryo small, apical, undivided.--Genera 4, species 6. Tropical and South Africa.
1. Fertile stamens 2. Female flowers with a 3-lobed perianth. Ovules 3. Stigma 3-lobed, borne on a long filiform style. Spadices oblong, solitary.--Species 2. South Africa. [Subfamily =MYSTROPETALOIDEAE=.] =Mystropetalon= Harv.
Fertile stamens 3 or more. Female flowers without a perianth, but the base of the style sometimes surrounded by a tubular outgrowth of the receptacle. Stigma entire or sessile. 2
2. Stamens free. Anthers globose, many-celled. Ovules 3. Stigma sessile. Spadices panicled. Root-stock not resinous.--Species 1. South and East Africa. [Subfamily =SARCOPHYTOIDEAE=.] =Sarcophyte= Sparrm.
Stamens united. Anthers 2-4-celled. Ovule 1. Style and stigma simple. Spadices solitary. Root-stock resinous. [Subfamily =BALANOPHOROIDEAE=.] 3
3. Anthers 3-6, linear, 4-celled. Ovary linear. Ovule adnate to the wall of the ovary. Perianth-segments of the male flowers linear. Spadices hemispherical.--Species 2. Tropics. [Tribe LANGSDORFFIEAE.] =Thonningia= Vahl
Anthers numerous, 2-celled. Ovule free, pendulous.--Species 1. Comoro Islands. [Tribe BALANOPHOREAE.] =Balanophora= Forst.
ORDER ARISTOLOCHIALES
FAMILY 63. ARISTOLOCHIACEAE
Leaves alternate, entire or lobed. Flowers axillary, solitary or in clusters, irregular, hermaphrodite. Perianth simple, corolla-like, with a distinct tube. Stamens 5-24, adnate to the style. Anthers opening outwards or laterally by longitudinal slits. Ovary inferior, 4-6-celled. Ovules several or many in each cell, pendulous descending or horizontal, inverted. Style or stigma 6-lobed. Fruit capsular. Seeds with a small embryo and copious albumen. (Plate 38.)
Genus 1, species 30. Some are used medicinally. =Aristolochia= L.
FAMILY 64. RAFFLESIACEAE
Parasitic herbs, partly immersed in the tissue of the plants upon which they grow. Leaves reduced to scales. Flowers terminal, solitary or in racemes, regular, unisexual. Perianth-segments 4 or more. Stamens 8 or more; filaments united into a column. Ovary inferior, 1-celled with 4 or more parietal placentas, or several-celled with axile placentas. Ovules numerous. Style simple; stigmas situated beneath its thickened apex. Fruit a berry. Seeds minute, with a hard testa, oily albumen, and undivided embryo.--Genera 2, Species 4. (CYTINACEAE.)
Ovary 1-celled, with usually 4 slightly projecting parietal placentas. Ovules inverted. Anthers affixed beneath the thickened apex of the staminal column, opening by transverse slits. Perianth-segments free. Flowers solitary.--Species 1. Southern West Africa (Angola). (Under Apodanthes Poiteau). [Tribe APODANTHEAE.] =Pilostyles= Guill.
Ovary more or less completely 6-or more-celled; placentas parietal, but much projecting, sometimes uniting in the middle. Ovules straight. Anthers laterally affixed to the thickened apex of the staminal column, opening by longitudinal slits. Perianth-segments united below. Flowers in spikes, racemes, or panicles.--Species 3. North and South Africa and Madagascar. They have edible fruits and are used medicinally. [Tribe CYTINEAE.] =Cytinus= L.
FAMILY 65. HYDNORACEAE
Fleshy, herbaceous, leafless root-parasites with a creeping root-stock. Flowers solitary, regular, hermaphrodite. Perianth simple, fleshy, tubular, with 3-4 (very rarely 5) valvate segments. Stamens as many as and alternate with the perianth-segments, inserted in the tube; filaments united; anther-cells numerous, linear, opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary inferior, 1-celled, with many placentas hanging down from the top of the cell. Stigma sessile. Fruit succulent. Seeds with a hard testa, copious albumen, and undivided embryo. (Under CYTINACEAE).
Genus 1, species 8. Tropical and South Africa. Some are edible or used for tanning. =Hydnora= Thunb.
ORDER POLYGONALES
FAMILY 66. POLYGONACEAE
Leaves alternate, undivided or pinnately cleft, provided at the base with a stem-clasping sheath. Flowers regular. Perianth-segments 3-6. Stamens 4-50. Ovary superior, 1-celled. Ovule 1. Styles 2-4, free or united at the base. Fruit a nut. Seed with an abundant, mealy albumen and a usually lateral embryo.--Genera 9, species 120. (Plate 39.)
1. Stamens as many as perianth-segments, 6, rarely 4; occasionally fewer than perianth-segments, and then stamens 4-5 and perianth-segments 5-6 in the male, 6 in the female flowers; in this case stem herbaceous and flowers monoecious. [Subfamily =RUMICOIDEAE=, Tribe RUMICEAE.] 2
Stamens more than perianth-segments, rarely equal in number, but then 5. Herbs or undershrubs with hermaphrodite or polygamous flowers, or shrubs. 3
2. Perianth at the time of maturity firm, tubular, tightly clasping the fruit. Flowers unisexual. Annual herbs.--Species 2. North and South Africa, also naturalized in the Mascarene Islands. =Emex= Neck.
Perianth at the time of maturity more or less membranous, not tubular and not clasping the fruit very tightly.--Species 45. Some are used as vegetables, for tanning and dyeing, or in medicine. “Dock.” =Rumex= L.
3. Seed with ruminate albumen. Shrubs with 5, 7-10, or 20-50 stamens. [Subfamily =COCCOLOBOIDEAE=.] 4
Seed with homogeneous albumen. Herbs or undershrubs, more rarely shrubs with 6 or 12-18 stamens. [Subfamily =POLYGONOIDEAE=.] 5
4. Flowers unisexual. Perianth-segments 4 or 6, the outer deciduous. Stamens 20-50. Erect shrubs or trees.--Species 1. West Africa. [Tribe TRIPLARIDEAE.] =Symmeria= Benth.
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth-segments 5, united at the base into a tube becoming two-winged in fruit. Stamens 5-10. Mostly climbing, tendril-bearing plants.--Species 3. West Africa. [Tribe COCCOLOBEAE.] =Brunnichia= Banks
5. Stem woody, shrubby. Leaves small. Stamens 6 or 12-18. Filaments united at the base. [Tribe ATRAPHAXIDEAE.] 6
Stem herbaceous or woody at the base only. Stamens 8, more rarely 5-7. Filaments free, but sometimes inserted on a ring-shaped disc. [Tribe POLYGONEAE.] 7
6. Perianth-segments 4, the inner much enlarged in fruit. Stamens 6, the outer with a callosity at the base. Stigmas 2. Fruit glabrous. Embryo lateral. Leaves ovate or orbicular.--Species 1. Egypt. =Atraphaxis= L.
Perianth-segments 5-6, not enlarged in fruit. Stamens 12-18, with a hairy appendage at the base. Stigmas 4. Fruit bristly. Embryo axile. Leaves linear or subulate.--Species 1. North Africa. =Calligonum= L.
7. Perianth-segments of the hermaphrodite and female flowers united below into a narrow tube. Flowers polygamous.--Species 17. Central and South Africa. Some are used as vegetables and for making bread. (Including Raphanopsis Welw.) (Plate 39.) Oxygonum Burch.
Perianth-segments not united below into a narrow tube. 8
8. Seed with broad, folded cotyledons. Perianth shorter than the fruit. Leaves cordate.--Species 1 (F. esculentum Moench, buckwheat). Cultivated as a cereal or fodder-plant. (Under Polygonum L.) =Fagopyrum= Gaertn.
Seed with narrow, not folded cotyledons.--Species 50. Some are poisonous, others serve as ornamental, medicinal, or fodder-plants, or yield tanning and dyeing materials. =Polygonum= L.
ORDER CENTROSPERMAE
SUBORDER CHENOPODIINEAE
FAMILY 67. CHENOPODIACEAE
Stem erect, ascending, or prostrate. Leaves exstipulate, sometimes wanting. Flowers inconspicuous, greenish. Perianth simple, of 1-5 imbricate segments, herbaceous or membranous, persistent, rarely wanting. Stamens as many as and opposite the perianth-segments or fewer, inserted on the receptacle or the base of the perianth. Anthers attached by the back, opening inwards or laterally by longitudinal slits, curved inwards in the bud. Ovary superior, rarely (Beta) half-inferior, 1-celled. Ovule 1, on a basal funicle, curved. Stigmas 2-5. Fruit dehiscing by a lid or indehiscent. Seed with a curved, peripheral embryo.--Genera 26, species 120. (SALSOLACEAE.) (Plate 40.)
1. Embryo spiral. Albumen wanting or separated in two parts by the embryo. 2
Embryo more or less ring-or horseshoe-shaped or folded together. Albumen wholly or partly enclosed by the embryo, rarely wanting. 11
2. Bracteoles small, scale-like. Perianth herbaceous or fleshy. Stigmas thread-shaped, papillose all round. Leaves glabrous, fleshy.--Species 10. Some are used as vegetables or for making soda. (Including Chenopodina Moq., Lerchia Hall., Schanginia C. A. Mey., Schoberia C. A. Mey., and Sevada Moq.) [Tribe SUAEDEAE.] =Suaeda= Forsk.
Bracteoles equalling or exceeding the perianth. Perianth usually membranous. Stigmas papillose on the inside. Leaves usually hairy. [Tribe SALSOLEAE.] 3
3. Seed horizontal. Disc usually inconspicuous. [Subtribe SODINAE.] 4
Seed vertical. Disc usually lobed. [Subtribe ANABASINAE.] 6
4. Perianth 5-lobed, hardening to the top and wingless in the fruit. Filaments flattened. Disc inconspicuous. Embryo in a conical spiral. Shrubs with continuous branches and alternate leaves.--Species 2. North Africa to the Sahara. (Plate 40.) =Traganum= Del.
Perianth 4-5-parted or of 4-5 free segments, not hardening or at the base only and furnished with a horizontal wing in the fruit. 5
5. Branches jointed. Leaves scale-like, opposite, connate in pairs. Shrubs. Perianth-segments free. Anthers blunt. Disc lobed, enlarged in the fruit. Embryo in a flat spiral.--Species 2. North Africa. =Haloxylon= Bunge
Branches continuous. Disc usually inconspicuous.--Species 20. Some of them are used as vegetables or in medicine or furnish soda. “Saltwort.” (Including Caroxylon Thunb.) =Salsola= L.
6. Perianth of 2 inner and 3 outer segments of which two are in front and one behind. Fruiting perianth winged, not hardened. Seed compressed dorsally. Flowers solitary, more rarely in clusters, and then branches jointed and leaves opposite. 7
Perianth of 3 inner and 2 outer segments of which one is in front and one behind. Fruiting perianth more or less hardened. Seed compressed laterally. Branches continuous. 8
7. Branches jointed. Leaves opposite, sometimes reduced to scales. Filaments awl-shaped. Style short.--Species 5. North Africa and Nubia. Some yield soda or are used medicinally. =Anabasis= L.
Branches continuous. Leaves alternate. Spinous shrubs. Flowers solitary. Filaments flattened; connective pointed. Style long. Pericarp membranous.--Species 1. North Africa. =Noaea= Moq.
8. Perianth-segments united at the base, wingless in the fruit, but one of them sometimes produced into a prickle. Style long. Shrubs. 9
Perianth-segments free, winged in the fruit, at least some of them. Style short. Disc lobed. Leaves alternate. Flowers in clusters. 10
9. Leaves opposite. Flowers in pairs, hermaphrodite. Disc indistinct.--Species 1. Sahara. =Nucularia= Battand.
Leaves alternate. Flowers in clusters, polygamous. Disc lobed.--Species 2. North Africa and Northern Central Africa. =Cornulaca= Del.
10. Inner perianth-segments not winged in the fruit. Stamens with a 2-lobed connective. Shrubs.--Species 1. North Africa. (Under Halogeton C. A. Mey.) =Agathophora= Fenzl
Inner and outer perianth-segments winged in the fruit. Stamens with a blunt connective. Herbs.--Species 1. North-West Africa (Algeria). Used as a vegetable or for making soda. =Halogeton= C. A. Mey.
11. (1.) Branches more or less distinctly jointed. Leaves little developed, glabrous. Flowers in clusters, usually of 3, arising in the axils of scale-like bracts or apparently sunk in hollows of the rachis and collected in cone-shaped inflorescences. Stamens 1-2. [Tribe SALICORNIEAE.] 12
Branches continuous. Leaves well developed, usually hairy. Flowers solitary or in clusters, more rarely in spike-like inflorescences. Stamens 3-5, more rarely 1-2. 16
12. Bracts and upper leaves alternate. 13
Bracts and upper leaves opposite. 14
13. Perianth slightly flattened from the side, 4-5-toothed, surrounded by a wing-like border. Stamens 2. Ovule with a short funicle. Micropyle of the ovule and radicle of the embryo inferior. Low shrubs.--Species 1. North-West Africa (Algeria). =Kalidium= Moq.
Perianth flattened from the back, 3-toothed, without a wing-like border. Ovule with a long funicle. Micropyle and radicle superior or ascending.--Species 2. North Africa to Nubia. Yield soda. =Halopeplis= Bunge
14. Bracts free, peltate, deciduous. Perianth 3-parted. Stamen 1, inserted in front. Ovule on a long, curved, almost ring-shaped funicle. Micropyle and radicle superior. Shrubs.--Species 1. North Africa to Eritrea. Yields soda. =Halocnemum= Marsch. Bieb.
Bracts united, persistent; flower-clusters apparently sunk in hollows of the branch-joints. Perianth 3-4-toothed or-cleft. Stamen 1, inserted behind, or stamens 2. Ovule on a short funicle. Micropyle and radicle inferior. 15
15. Seed smooth or tubercled; embryo curved; albumen abundant, lateral. Stamens 2. Stigmas 2. Shrubs.--Species 3. North and Central Africa. They yield soda and are used in medicine. =Arthrocnemum= Moq.
Seed hairy; embryo folded together; albumen scanty and central or wanting.--Species 4. Sea-coasts. They yield soda and are used in medicine. =Salicornia= L.
16. Flowers unisexual, sometimes intermixed with a few hermaphrodite, of two kinds, the male and hermaphrodite with a 3-5-parted perianth and without bracteoles, the female without a perianth, but with 2 sometimes united or 2-parted bracteoles. Stamens 3-5. Leaves glabrous, mealy or cottony, usually hastate. [Tribe ATRIPLICEAE.] 17
Flowers hermaphrodite, sometimes intermixed with similar unisexual ones, all with 4-5 perianth-segments. 19
17. Bracteoles small, narrow, free, unchanged in the fruiting stage, not enclosing the fruit. Flowers monoecious. Stamens 5. Shrubs.--Species 2. South Africa and St. Helena. =Exomis= Fenzl
Bracteoles large, broad, usually united and hardening, completely enclosing the fruit. 18
18. Bracteoles united nearly to the top, hardened in the fruit and sometimes prolonged into 2-4 prickles. Flowers dioecious. Stigmas 4-5. Stem and leaves glabrous. Herbs.--Species 1 (S. oleracea L., spinach). Cultivated in the extra-tropical regions. It serves as a vegetable; the seeds are sometimes used for making bread. =Spinacia= L.
Bracteoles free and herbaceous, or more or less united, but not nearly to the top, and at length hardened. Stigmas 2-3. Stem and leaves clothed, when young, with bladdery hairs, afterwards mostly with a close minute whitish pubescence.--Species 20. Some are used as vegetables, for making soda, in medicine, or as ornamental plants. “Orache.” (Including Obione Gaertn.) =Atripex= L.
19. Ovary half-inferior. Perianth-segments connivent in the fruit. Fruit dehiscing by a lid. Herbs with a fleshy taproot. Bracteoles usually present.--Species 3. North Africa and Cape Verde Islands; one of them (B. vulgaris L., beet) also cultivated in South Africa and Madagascar. The latter species yields sugar, vegetables, fodder, and a substitute for coffee and tobacco. [Tribe BETEAE.] =Beta= L.
Ovary superior. Fruit indehiscent, rarely dehiscing by a lid, but then perianth-segments spreading in the fruit. 20
20. Flowers with bracteoles, solitary. Perianth membranous, unchanged in the fruit; segments erect. Stigmas 2. Ovule on a long funicle. Pericarp membranous. Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves subulate, rigid, pungent.--Species 1. North-West Africa (Algeria). [Tribe POLYCNEMEAE.] =Polycnemum= L.
Flowers without bracteoles. 21
21. Perianth 4-5-lobed, membranous. Leaves narrow, clothed with thin hairs. [Tribe CAMPHOROSMEAE.] 22
Perianth 5-parted, rarely 4-parted or 5-lobed, more or less herbaceous. Leaves usually broad and clothed with bladdery hairs. 25
22. Perianth unequally 4-toothed, scarcely changed in the fruit. Stamens 4. Seed erect. Embryo horseshoe-shaped. Flowers in spikes. Undershrubs.--Species 1. North Africa. Used medicinally. =Camphorosma= L.
Perianth 5-toothed, 5-lobed, or 5-cleft. Stamens 5. Seed nearly always horizontal. Embryo ring-shaped. Flowers solitary or in clusters, in the axils of the leaves. 23
23. Fruiting perianth unchanged and unappendaged. Undershrubs.--Species 3. North and South Africa. =Chenolea= Thunb.
Fruiting perianth winged, gibbous, or prickly. 24
24. Fruiting perianth gibbous or prickly.--Species 2. North Africa. (Echinopsilon Moq., under Chenolea Thunb. or Kochia Roth). =Bassia= All.
Fruiting perianth with one or several wings.--Species 3. South Africa to Hereroland and North Africa to Nubia. =Kochia= Roth
25. Fruit not enclosed in the perianth, dehiscing with a lid. Perianth-segments spreading, linear-oblong. Stamens 5, much shorter than the perianth. Stigmas 2, short. Leaves elliptical or lanceolate, entire, glabrous. Undershrubs.--Species 1. North-West Africa (Algeria). =Oreobliton= Durieu & Moq.
Fruit wholly or partly enclosed in the perianth, indehiscent. Leaves usually broad, toothed, and mealy or glandular-hairy.--Species 25. Some of them yield edible seeds, dyes, and medicaments, or are used as vegetables or ornamental plants; several are poisonous. “Goosefoot.” (Including Blitum L. and Roubieva Moq.) [Tribe CHENOPODIEAE.] =Chenopodium= L.
FAMILY 68. AMARANTACEAE
Leaves without stipules. Perianth more or less dry, simple, of 1-5 imbricate segments. Stamens as many as and opposite the perianth-segments or fewer. Anthers attached by the back, opening inwards by two longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, 1-celled. Ovules erect or suspended from a basal funicle, curved. Fruit dehiscing by a lid or indehiscent. Embryo surrounding the mealy albumen.--Genera 32, species 200. (Plate 41.)
1. Anthers 1-celled. Ovule 1. Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite. Inflorescences head-or shortly spike-shaped. [Subfamily =GOMPHRENCIDEAE=, tribe GOMPHRENEAE.] 2
Anthers 2-celled. [Subfamily =AMARANTOIDEAE=.] 4
2. Stigma 1, capitate. Fertile stamens alternating with staminodes.--Species 7. Some are used as ornamental plants, others are noxious weeds. (Including Telanthera R. Br.) [Subtribe FROEHLICHINAE.] =Alternanthera= Forsk.
Stigmas 2-4, subulate. [Subtribe GOMPHRENINAE.] 3
3. Filaments entire.--Species 1. Central Africa. (Philoxerus R. Br.) =Iresine= L.
Filaments fringed, toothed, or 3-parted.--Species 1. Tropical and South East Africa. A weed, sometimes used as an ornamental plant. =Gomphrena= L.
4. Ovule 1. [Tribe AMARANTEAE.] 5
Ovules 2 or more, very rarely ovule 1, erect; in this case filaments united below into a membranous tube and flowers hermaphrodite. [Tribe CELOSIEAE.] 32
5. Ovule erect. Radicle of the embryo descending. Filaments free or united in a ring at the base. Flowers unisexual, polygamous, or hermaphrodite but intermixed with sterile ones. Leaves alternate. [Subtribe AMARANTINAE.] 6
Ovule pendulous. Radicle of the embryo ascending. [Subtribe ACHYRANTHINAE.] 9
6. Perianth spreading. Filaments united at the base. Stigmas 3. Fruit a berry. Shrubs. Flowers polygamous, in spikes or racemes.--Species 1. Canary Islands. =Bosia= L.
Perianth erect. Herbs or undershrubs. 7
7. Flowers unisexual or polygamous; no sterile ones. Filaments free.--Species 20. Some of them have edible seeds or are used as vegetables, in medicine or as ornamental plants. (Including Albersia Kunth, Amblogyna Rafin., and Euxolus Rafin.) =Amarantus= L.
Flowers hermaphrodite. Partial inflorescences consisting of one fertile and two sterile flowers. 8
8. Sterile flowers comb-shaped. Filaments free. Style short; stigma 2-lobed.--Species 1. Tropical and North Africa. Used as a vegetable. =Digera= Forsk.
Sterile flowers wing-shaped. Filaments united at the base. Style long; stigmas 2.--Species 1. Northern East Africa (Somaliland). =Pleuropterantha= Franch.
9. Flowers solitary in the axil of each bract. 10
Flowers in clusters of two or more; usually some of them sterile. 20
10. Spurious staminodes (sterile processes) interposed between the fertile stamens. 11
Spurious staminodes wanting. 18
11. Perianth densely covered with silky or woolly hairs. 12
Perianth glabrous or scantily hairy. 15
12. Perianth-segments firmly leathery, silky-hairy, 3-nerved. Shrubs. Leaves alternate, fleshy.--Species 1. South Africa to Damaraland. (Under Sericocoma Fenzl). =Calicorema= Hook. fil.
Perianth-segments more or less membranous. 13
13. Branches jointed. Leaves very small, opposite, ovate, acuminate. Undershrubs.--Species 1. Southern West Africa (Hereroland). =Arthraerua= Schinz
Branches continuous. 14
14. Perianth-segments silky, more or less thickened and hardened at the base, 1-nerved. Flowers small. Ovary hairy. Stigma capitate.--Species 8. Southern and Central Africa. =Sericocoma= Fenzl
Perianth-segments woolly, not thickened. Flowers very small, in dense spikes.--Species 10. Some are used as vegetables or as ornamental plants. (Ouret Adans.) =Aerva= Forsk.
15. Spurious staminodes minute, narrow, acute, unappendaged. Perianth-segments brownish-red, stiff-leathery, large, oblong, 3-nerved. Inflorescence head-like, ovoid. Leaves usually alternate. Undershrubs.--Species 1. Southern West Africa (Angola and Congo). =Mechowia= Schinz
Spurious staminodes more or less quadrate, fringed or appendaged. Leaves opposite. 16
16. Spurious staminodes fringed below the top. Perianth-segments erect, oblong, blunt, thickened below. Flowers erect, spicate. Leaves small, sessile, linear-oblong. Herbs.--Species 1. Southern East Africa. (Under Pandiaka Hook. fil.) =Argyrostachys= Lopr.
Spurious staminodes fringed at the top or prolonged into appendages. Perianth-segments pointed. Flowers usually bent downwards. 17
17. Perianth-segments red or yellow, elliptical, hardened at the base, faintly 1-5-nerved. Shrubs or undershrubs.--Species 7. Central Africa to Transvaal. =Centema= Hook. fil.
Perianth-segments white, green or brown, lanceolate, stiff-leathery, usually 3-ribbed.--Species 30. Some of them yield a substitute for soap or are used in medicine. (Including Achyropsis Moq. and Pandiaka Moq.) (Plate 41.) =Achyranthes= L.
18. (10.) Stamens 1-2. Perianth-segments 3-5, membranous, woolly, 1-nerved. Herbs.--Species 1. Tropics. =Nothosaerua= Wight
Stamens 4-5. 19
19. Outer perianth-segments densely clothed with silky hairs, faintly 3-nerved. Style slender. Shrubs.--Species 2. Northern East Africa (Somaliland). =Chionothrix= Hook. fil.
Outer perianth-segments glabrous or scantily hairy, with 3 strong ribs. Flowers greenish.--Species 15. Central and South East Africa. (Including Psilostachys Hochst.) =Psilotrichum= Blume
20. (9.) Spurious staminodes interposed between the stamens. 21
Spurious staminodes none. 26
21. Spurious staminodes small, entire. Ovary hairy. Either perianth clothed with long silky hairs or leaves alternate. 22
Spurious staminodes usually quadrate and fringed, more rarely narrow, but then perianth not clothed with long silky hairs and leaves (as nearly always) opposite. 23
22. Ovary with a horn-like appendage.--Species 6. South and Central Africa. (Under Sericocoma Fenzl). =Cyphocarpa= Lopr.
Ovary without a horn. (See 14.) =Sericocoma= Fenzl
23. Partial inflorescences consisting of 3 fertile flowers without sterile ones. Perianth hairy. Erect shrubs.--Species 4. South and Central Africa. (Under Sericocoma Fenzl or Cyphocarpa Lopr.) =Sericocomopsis= Schinz
Partial inflorescences consisting of fertile and sterile flowers, or of 2 fertile ones only. 24
24. Stem woody, climbing. Leaves ovate. Sterile flowers reduced to long tufts of hairs. Perianth glabrous. Spurious staminodes narrow, entire or toothed.--Species 2. Equatorial regions (Uganda and Cameroons). =Sericostachys= Gilg & Lopr.
Stem herbaceous or woody at the base only, erect or ascending. Sterile flowers usually reduced to spines. Spurious staminodes usually broad and fringed. 25
25. Perianth-segments thickened and hardening at the base, yellow or red. (See 17.) =Centema= Hook. fil.
Perianth-segments not hardening.--Species 15. Tropical and South Africa. Some are used in medicine. (Desmochaeta DC.) =Cyathula= Lour.
26. (20.) Partial inflorescences consisting of 2 fertile flowers without sterile ones, and arranged in globose heads. Perianth white, with silky hairs. Ovary hairy. Shrubs.--Species 1. German South-West Africa. (Under Marcellia Baill., Sericocomopsis Schinz, or Sericocoma Fenzl). =Leucosphaera= Gilg
Partial inflorescences consisting of fertile and sterile flowers, the latter sometimes reduced to bristles or spines. 27
27. Perianth-segments thickened and hardened at the base, yellow or red. Ovary glabrous. (See 17.) =Centema= Hook. fil.
Perianth-segments not hardening. 28
28. Sterile flowers consisting of hooked spines.--Species 6. Tropical and South Africa. =Pupalia= Juss.
Sterile flowers consisting of not hooked spines, bristles, or hairs. 29
29. Partial inflorescences consisting of 2 fertile and 2 sterile flowers, the latter reduced to bristles or spines. Ovary hairy. Herbs or undershrubs.--Species 10. Southern West Africa to Namaland. (Under Sericocoma Fenzl). =Marcellia= Baill.
Partial inflorescences consisting of 1-3 fertile and 4-6 sterile flowers. Ovary glabrous. 30
30. Partial inflorescences consisting of 1-3 fertile and 4-6 sterile flowers, the latter reduced to branched spines. Collective inflorescence interrupted below. Style very short. Herbs.--Species 2. South Africa and German South-West Africa. (Under Marcellia Baill. or Sericocoma Fenzl). =Sericorema= Lopr.
Partial inflorescences consisting of 3 fertile and 6 sterile flowers, the latter reduced to long simple spines or bristles. Style thread-shaped. 31
31. Sterile flowers elongating in the fruit into yellow spines. Herbs.--Species 1. German East Africa. (Under Marcellia Baill.) =Kentrosphaera= Volk.
Sterile flowers elongating in the fruit into yellow or brown, rather soft bristles. Shrubs.--Species 3. East Africa. (Under Marcellia Baill.) =Dasysphaera= Volk.
32. (4.) Perianth-segments spreading. Style short, with 2-4 stigmas. Fruit succulent, baccate. Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves ovate.--Species 1. Tropics. =Deeringia= R. Br.
Perianth-segments erect. Fruit dry. 33
33. Fruit opening lengthwise. Style very short, with 2-3 stigmas. Filaments united at the base only. Leaves narrow. Shrubs.--Species 1. Madagascar. =Henonia= Moq.
Fruit opening by a lid. Herbs or undershrubs. 34
34. Spurious staminodes longer than the stamens, 2-lobed. Style short. Leaves narrow.--Species 10. South Africa and southern Central Africa. =Hermbstaedtia= Reichb.
Spurious staminodes shorter than the stamens or wanting.--Species 30. Tropical and South Africa. Some are used as vegetables or as textile, ornamental, medicinal, or fodder-plants. (Including Lestiboudesia Thou.) =Celosia= L.
SUBORDER PHYTOLACCINEAE
FAMILY 69. NYCTAGINACEAE