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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    I. BANUNCULACE^. loured, imbricate, soon falling. Petals none. Carpels very- many in a tuft, dry, 1-seeded, -with hairy^tails.—FI. Gap. \.p.Z\ Tlies. Cap. t. 7. Herbs. Leaves from the rootstock, stalked, lobed or cut, sometimes very much divided. Peduncles simple or branched, 1- or few-flowered. Flowers wliite or rosy, conspicuous.—3 South Afidcan species: A. Capensis, from Table Mountain to Swellendam; A. Caffra, in the Eastern districts and Cafiraria ; A. Fanninii, n. sp., at the Dargle Farm, Natal. 4. KNOWLTONIA, Salisb. Involucre none. Sepals 5, green, imbricate, falling. Petals 5-15, whitish yellowish or greenish, flat, with naked claws. Carpels many in a tuft, 1-seeded, when ripe fleshy; style falling off.—FI. Gap. i. p. 4. Herbs, with very acrid juice. Leaves from the rootstock, stalked, 3- parted or twice 3-partcd ; leaflet stalked, toothed or cut. Flowers in branching cymes or umbels, dull-coloured.—An endemic genus, consisting of 5, perhaps 6 {K. Iracleata, mss., n. sp.) species, dispersed tlmough the colony. 5. RANUNCULUS, Hall. Sepals 3-5, green or yellowish, imbricate, falling. Petals 5-10, flat, yellow or white, with a mimxte fleshy scale or pit near the base on the inside. Carpels many, tufted, 1-seeded, dry in Iruit, pointed or beaked.—Fl. Cap. i. p. 5. Herbs. Stems weak, leafy. Leaves stalked, deejfly cut, lobed or mul- tifid in our species.—6 South African species, dispersed: 5 with yellow flowers are terrestrial; 1 (i2. aqualilis), with white flowers, grows in ponds and rivers. Order II. ANONACEiE. Flowers bisexual. Sepals 3, valvate. Petals G, in two rows. Stamens ]nany, hypogynous ; filaments thickened up- wards ; anthers fixed. Carpels several, separate or cohering. —Trees or shrubs. Lea.ves simple, en-tire, alternate, without stipules. Flowers leathery, lateral, on short stalks. Carpels separate, on short pedicels. Petals imbricate. Ovules many 1. Hvaria. Petals valvate. Ovifles 1-2, erect 2. Popowia. Carpels confluent into a many-seeded fruit 3. Anona. 1. UVARIA, Linn. Petals 6, imbricate in t-wo rows, plano-convex. Stamens very many, compressed, with a prolonged connec-tive. Torus little-raised, hairy. Carpels oblong, furrowed on the inner face; style continuous ; ovxdes many, in two rows. Berries many- or 1-seeded.—Fl. Cap. i. p. 8.