Leaves alternate, undivided, usually stipulate. Flowers in racemes or panicles, rarely solitary, hermaphrodite. Sepals free or nearly so, imbricate in bud. Petals free, with imbricate or contorted aestivation. Stamens hypogynous or nearly so. Anthers adnate, 2-celled, usually opening by apical pores. Receptacle usually prolonged into a gynophore. Carpels almost free, but with a common style, or united. Style undivided or cleft. Ovules with a ventral raphe. Embryo of the seeds rather large.—Genera 7, species 150. Tropical and South Africa. (Plate 97.)

1. Fertile stamens 5. Petals usually white or red. Seeds albuminous.
Herbs or undershrubs. 2
Fertile stamens 10 or more; no staminodes. Petals usually yellow.
Seeds exalbuminous. Shrubs or trees. 4
2. Anthers opening by apical pores. Staminodes absent. Ovary 3-celled with 1 pendulous ovule in each cell. Leaves glandular. Flowers in racemes.—Species 2. South Africa (Cape Colony). Roridula L.
Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. Staminodes present. Ovary 1-celled or 3-celled at the base, with numerous parietal ovules. [Tribe
LUXEMBOURGIEAE.] 3
3. Staminodes in one row, 5, petal-like, adnate below to the fertile stamens.
Flowers in cymes.—Species 2. West Africa. Vausagesia Baill.
Staminodes in two rows, the 5 inner petal-like, free, but twisted into a tube, the outer numerous, thread-shaped. Flowers usually solitary.—Species
2. Tropical and South Africa. Used medicinally. Sauvagesia L.
4. Ovary 1, one-celled or two-celled at the base, with numerous basal ovules.
Style 2-cleft. Stamens numerous, in 3-5 indistinct rows. Sepals enlarged and wing-like in fruit. Fruit a woody capsule.—Species 1
(L. alata Banks). Central Africa. Yields timber, oily seeds, and medicaments. (Tribe LOPHIREAE.) Lophira Banks
Ovaries 3-15, free, with one ovule in each and with a common style.
Stamens in 2-3 rows. Sepals not wing-like. Fruit a drupe or consisting of several drupes. [Tribe OURATEEAE.] 5
5. Stamens numerous, in 3 rows. Filaments as long as or longer than the anthers.—Species 80. Tropical and South Africa. Some species yield timber or dye-stuffs. (Plate 97.) Ochna L.
Stamens 10, in 2 rows. Filaments shorter than the anthers or wanting. 6
6. Anthers borne upon distinct filaments, oblong, smooth, opening by longitudinal slits or by apical pores which later on are prolonged into slits.
Ovules, seeds, and embryo curved. Flowers in few-flowered clusters.—Species
3. East Africa. Brackenridgea A. Gray
Anthers subsessile, linear, wrinkled or warty, opening by apical pores.
Flowers in many-flowered panicles or racemes.—Species 60. Tropics.
(Gomphia Schreb.) Ouratea Aubl.

[FAMILY 148.] THEACEAE

Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, undivided, without stipules. Sepals 5, free or united at the base, imbricate in bud. Petals 5, free or united below, with imbricate or contorted aestivation. Stamens 10 or more, rarely (Thomassetia) 5. Ovary superior or almost so, 2-5-celled, with 2 or more ovules in each cell. Fruit a capsule or a nut. Albumen scanty or wanting.—Genera 6, species 12. Tropics and Canary Islands. (TERNSTROEMIACEAE.) (Plate 98.)

1. Flowers in cymes or panicles. Fruit a capsule. [Tribe ASTEROPEIEAE.] 2
Flowers solitary or in pairs in the axils of the leaves. 4
2. Fertile stamens 5, alternating with staminodes which are united in
5 bundles. Ovary 5-celled. Flowers in long-stalked, axillary clusters.—Species
1. Seychelles. Thomassetia L.
Fertile stamens 10 or more. Flowers in panicles. 3
3. Stamens 10-15, united at the base. Anthers versatile, turned inwards.
Ovary 3-celled. Sepals enlarged and wing-like in fruit. Low trees or climbing shrubs.—Species 6. Madagascar. (Including Rhodoclada
Bak.) Asteropeia Thouars
Stamens numerous. Ovary 5-celled. Fruit with 5 wing-like ribs. Tall trees. Inflorescence terminal, scantily branched.—Species 1. Madagascar.
Yields timber. Nesogordonia Baill.
4. Anthers versatile, turned outwards. Stamens numerous, the outer ones united at the base. Ovules 4-6 in each ovary-cell. Fruit a capsule.
Seeds wingless, exalbuminous; embryo straight.—Species 2. Cultivated and occasionally naturalized in the tropics. One of them (Th. sinensis L.) is the tea-plant, the other (Th. japonica L., camellia) is an ornamental plant and yields wood and oily seeds. (Including Camellia
L.) [Tribe THEEAE.] Thea L.
Anthers adnate. Fruit a nut. Seeds albuminous; embryo curved.
[Tribe TERNSTROEMIEAE.] 5
5. Ovules 2-3 in each cell, axile, descending. Styles 3. Fruit, half-inferior.—Species
1. Canary Islands. It has edible fruits and is used in medicine and as an ornamental plant. (Plate 98.) Visnea L. f.
Ovules many in each cell, attached to a pendulous placenta. Style 1, simple.—Species 1. West Africa. Adinandra Jacks.

[FAMILY 149.] GUTTIFERAE

Leaves opposite, rarely whorled, undivided. Flowers regular. Petals with imbricate or contorted aestivation. Stamens numerous, hypogynous. Ovary superior. Seeds exalbuminous.—Genera 16, species 180. (Including CLUSIACEAE and HYPERICINEAE.) (Plate 99.)

1. Ovary-cells and styles numerous (17-24). Ovules 2 in each cell, one ascending, the other pendulous. Filaments free. Shrubs.—Species 1.
Seychelles. Medusagyne Bak.
Ovary-cells 1-12. Styles 1-5. 2

OCHNACEAE.