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

  • William H. Harvey
Date:
1868
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

    188/556
    LVII. LOASACEJ15. larged in fruit, persistent. Petals 10, deciduous, inserted at the summit of the calyx-tube, 5 outer roundish, concave, 5 inner smaller, ligulate, angularly bent. Stamens indefinite, those of the outer row barren, with cordate bases. Ovary turbinate, 3-celled; cells 1-ovuled; styles 3, erect, subconnate. —FI. Cap. ii. p. 502. The only species is K. spathulata, Br. (Fissenia Capensis, Endl.; Tlies. Cap. t. 98), a robust, bristly unclcrshrub, witli alternate, petioled, 5-7- lobed, toothed leaves, and ratlicr lai'ge yellow flowers, disposed in scorpioid, terminal, bracteate cymes. It is a native of Namaqualand, the mouth of the Q-ariep, etc., and extends thence northwards through tropical Africa to Arabia. Order LVIIL PASSIFLORE^. Flowers bisexual or unisexual. Calyx monophyllous, free, tubular or rotate ; limb 3-4-5-cleft or parted. Petals as many as the calyciiie lobes, often herbaceous on the outside, con- tinuous with the apex of the calyx-tube, or inserted much within the tube, persistent, sej)arate or (rarely) united in a bell-shaped corolla. Corona various, exterior to the fertile stamens. Stamens as many or twice as many as the caly- cine lobes, free or monadel])hous; anthers versatile or fixed. Ovary mostly stipitate, 1-celled; ovules many or few, on pa- rietal placentas ; styles as many as the placentas; stigmas thickened. Fruit a berry or capsule. Seeds on long cords, mostly arillate, with a furrowed and ridged seed-coat, albumi- nous.—Climbing (rarely erect) shrubs or herbs. Flowers bisexual. Calyx 3-parted. Petals 3, hnlf-herbaceous. Co- rona double, the outer fringed 1. Tetpiiostemma. Flowers monoecious or dicEcious. Dioecious. Corolla 0 or polypctalous. Calyx 5-fid. Disk with 5 conspicuous glands . 2. Modkcca. Calyx 5-partcd. Disk without glands ... 3. OriiiooAULON. Monoecious. Calyx 3—5-partcd. Corolla monope- talous, 3-5-lobed, herbaceous. A vine-like climber. Capsule slender, pod-like 4*. Ceeatiosictos. A suberect, low herb. Capsule ovoid ... 5. Aciiaeia. 1. TRYPHOSTEMMA, Harv. Flowers hermaphrodite. Tube of the perianth short, obco- nical; limb 6-parted, in 2 rows, the 3 inner segments unequal, 2 of them larger, herbaceous, and white-edged, the third linear and petaloid. Corona perigynous, annular, double, the outer fringed, the inner entire or crenulate, bearing the stamens. Stamens 5, within the rim of the inner corona; filaments subulate ; anthers erect, sagittate, 2-celled. Ovary
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3