The genera of South African plants : arranged according to the natural system / by William Henry Harvey.

  • William H. Harvey
Date:
1868
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Credit: The genera of South African plants : arranged according to the natural system / by William Henry Harvey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and stamen 0. Ovary subsessile, erect, 2-ovuled; style short, booked. Legume sessile, mostly 2-jointed ; joints compressed, the lower often sterile, the upper 1-seeded, separating.—FI. Cap. ii. p. 227. Weed-like herbs or undershrubs, frequently viscid-pubescent, common in hot countries. Leaves pinnately 3-foholed. Flowers in dense terminal or axillary spikes, or solitary or hi pairs.—S. setosa, our only species, grows at the Aapjes river. 43. DESMODIUM, DC. Calyx 5-parted or deeply 2-lipped, the upper lip 2-fid, lower 3-fid. Standard roundish ; ivdngs oblong, longer than the straight, obtuse keel. Stamens diadelphons. Ovary sessile, many-ovulcd. Legume several-jointed, the joints compressed, 1-seeded, membranous or rigid, separating at maturity. Seeds compressed, reniform.—FI. Cap. ii. p. 227. Herbs or Imlf-shrubs, common in warm countries. Leaves pinnately .“l-rolioled or 1-folioled. Kacoines terminal, slender or dense ; ilowers small, purple or white.—5 South African species, natives of CnlTraria and Natal. 44. ANARTHROSYNE, E. Mey. Same as Desmodium, but—Legume compressed, linear-sub- fidcatc, jointed, but not spontaneously separating into 1-seedcd fragments.—FI. Cap. ii. p. 229. Tropical and subtropical plants, with the habit of Desmodium. A. rohista, E. M., a tall, robust plant, 3 feet high, softly toracntose, is found near Natal. 45. ALYSICARPUS, Neck. Calyx persistent, glumaceous, dee])ly 4-parted, the upper segment emarginate or 2-fid. Corolla papilionaceous, small, scarcely longer than the calyx. Stamens diadelphous. Le- gume terete or subcompressod, several-jointed, the joints equal-sided, separating.—FI. Cap. \\. p. 230. Small weed-like plante of hot countries. Leaves 1-folioled, 2-stipuled ; stipidos and bracts dry. Flowers racemose, pedicelled, in pairs, [jurple, inconspicuous.—2 South African species (endemic), found in Natal and Zululand. 46. REQUIENIA, DC. Calyx bell-shaped, 5-fid, the segments acute, the lowest longest. Standard obovate ; keel obtuse, 2-petalous. Stamens monadelphous, the tube cleft above. Ovary sessile, 1-ovuled; style short, incurved. Legume oval, compressed, mucronate, 1-seeded.—FI. Cap. ii. p. 230. Tomentose-canescent half-shrubs of doubtful aflinity. Leaves alternate, 1-folioled; leaflets obcordate, closely penninerved, mucronate. Stipules free. Flowers very small, subsessile, solitary or clustered.—R. .spheero- sperma, DC., our only species, is found in Transvaal.
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