A Flowering branch. B Flower cut lengthwise. C Cross-section of ovary.
HAMAMELIDACEAE.
FLOW. PL. AFR.
Pl. 64.
J. Fleischmann del.
Trichocladus ellipticus Eckl. and Zeyh.
A Flowering branch. B Flower cut lengthwise (the petals cut off excepting one). C Cross-section of ovary.
4. Anthers sagittate. Petals sessile or with a glandless claw. Ovary 2-celled with 2 ovules in each cell. Fruit consisting of 2 dehiscing parts.
Flowers in spikes. 5
Anthers cordate. Petals clawed, the claw with 2 glands. 6
5. Petals with the claws united into a tube. Sepals, anthers, and ovary hairy. Ovary almost superior. Bracteoles 2.—Species 3. Cape
Colony. Lonchostoma Wickstr.
Petals sessile, free. Flowers glabrous. Sepals very short. Ovary almost inferior. Styles free. Bracteoles 4-8.—Species 3. Cape Colony. Linconia L.
6. Ovary 1-celled. Ovule 1. Style and stigma simple. Glands at the base of the petals crest-like. Flowers hairy. Fruit indehiscent. 7
Ovary 2-celled. Styles 2, or a single style with 2 stigmas. Glands at the base of the petals tubercle- or pouch-like. 8
7. Sepals short and broad, triangular. Stamens curved inwards, shorter than the petals; anthers shortly cleft. Flowers solitary, axillary, spicately arranged. Bracteoles thread-shaped.—Species 1. Cape Colony.
(Under Berzelia Brongn.) Mniothamnea Oliv.
Sepals awl-shaped. Stamens curved outwards, longer than the petals; anthers deeply cleft. Flowers in heads. Bracteoles club- or spoon-shaped.—Species
9. South Africa. Berzelia Brongn.
8. Fruit one-seeded, usually indehiscent. 9
Fruit consisting of two dehiscent, usually one-seeded parts. Flowers in heads. 10
9. Receptacle obconical. Sepals united beyond the ovary. Petals short, with a very short, 2-tubercled claw. Stamens shorter than the petals, equal. Anthers adnate, shortly cleft. Style short and thick, kneed.—Species
8. South Africa. (Under Brunia L.) Pseudobaeckea Nied.
Receptacle cylindrical. Sepals free above the ovary. Petals long, with
a long claw bearing a 2-lobed pouch. Stamens longer than the petals, unequal, the anterior longer. Anthers versatile, deeply cleft. Style long or rather long, almost straight. Ovules 2 in each cell. Flowers in heads.—Species 4. South Africa. Brunia L.
10. Style 1, short and thick; stigmas 2, obliquely terminal, slightly thickened.
Anthers pointed at the apex. Receptacle rather long. Sepals united beyond the ovary. Petals oblong, shortly clawed, 2-tubercled at the base. Bracteoles thread-shaped.—Species 9. South Africa. Staavia Thunb.
Styles 2, free or more or less cohering, but then long and thread-shaped; stigmas simple, terminal. Anthers rounded at the apex. 11
11. Sepals united beyond the ovary, triangular. Petals oblong, with a short claw bearing two tubercles at the base. Styles free, kneed above.
Bracts broad, shorter than the flowers. Bracteoles linear.—Species 8.
South Africa. (Under Berardia Sond.) (Plate 63.) Raspalia Brongn.
Sepals free above the ovary, linear. Petals strap-shaped, with a long claw bearing two tubercles in the upper part. Styles more or less cohering, long, almost straight. Bracts narrow, longer than the flowers. Bracteoles spatulate or sickle-shaped.—Species 5. South Africa. (Berardia
Brongn.) Diberara Baill.