SUBCLASS METACHLAMYDEAE
(SYMPETALAE)
ORDER ERICALES
[FAMILY 188.] CLETHRACEAE
Low trees. Leaves alternate, undivided. Flowers in terminal racemes or panicles, without bracteoles, regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx 5-parted, imbricate in bud, persistent. Petals 5, free, hypogynous, deciduous. Stamens 10, hypogynous. Anthers turned inwards, shortly beaked at the base, opening by
UMBELLIFERAE.
FLOW. PL. AFR.
Pl. 119.
J. Fleischmann del.