CAPRIFOLIACEAE.FLOW. PL. AFR.Pl. 145.J. Fleischmann del.Viburnum rugosum Pers.AFlowering branch.BFlower.CLower part of the flower cut lengthwise.DFruit.ECross-section of fruit.
CAPRIFOLIACEAE.FLOW. PL. AFR.Pl. 145.J. Fleischmann del.Viburnum rugosum Pers.AFlowering branch.BFlower.CLower part of the flower cut lengthwise.DFruit.ECross-section of fruit.
CAPRIFOLIACEAE.
FLOW. PL. AFR.
Pl. 145.
J. Fleischmann del.
Viburnum rugosum Pers.
AFlowering branch.BFlower.CLower part of the flower cut lengthwise.DFruit.ECross-section of fruit.
VALERIANACEAE.FLOW. PL. AFR.Pl. 146.J. Fleischmann del.Valeriana capensis VahlAAboveground part of the plant.BFlower.CAnther.DFlower cut lengthwise (without the anthers).EStigma.FFruit.GSeed cut lengthwise.
VALERIANACEAE.FLOW. PL. AFR.Pl. 146.J. Fleischmann del.Valeriana capensis VahlAAboveground part of the plant.BFlower.CAnther.DFlower cut lengthwise (without the anthers).EStigma.FFruit.GSeed cut lengthwise.
VALERIANACEAE.
FLOW. PL. AFR.
Pl. 146.
J. Fleischmann del.
Valeriana capensis Vahl
AAboveground part of the plant.BFlower.CAnther.DFlower cut lengthwise (without the anthers).EStigma.FFruit.GSeed cut lengthwise.
154. Flowers 5-merous. Corolla shortly funnel-shaped. Anthers included.Style 2-cleft. Fruit opening loculicidally at the apex. Herbs. Stipules entire or toothed. Flowers in lax cymes.—Species 1. Tropical and South-east Africa. (UnderOldenlandiaPlum.)PentodonHochst.Flowers 4-merous, very rarely 5-merous, but then solitary or in pairs or style simple.155155. Fruit opening by a lid, few-seeded. Flowers 4-merous. Corolla rotate.Placentas globose, with 3-4 ovules. Undershrubs. Flowers in terminal fascicles.—Species 1. Northern East Africa (Somaliland).MitrathecaK. Schum.Fruit opening lengthwise or remaining closed.—Species 120. Some of them yield vegetables, dyes, or medicaments. (IncludingHedyotisL. andPentanopsisRendle).OldenlandiaPlum.
FAMILY 220.CAPRIFOLIACEAE
Leaves opposite. Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, united below. Petals 5, united below. Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla. Ovary inferior. Ovules axile, pendulous. Fruit a berry or a drupe. Seeds with a straight embryo and fleshy albumen.—Genera 4, species 15. North and East Africa. (Plate 145.)
1. Ovary 1-celled when fully developed. Ovule 1. Style very short, 3-parted.Anthers turned inwards. Flowers in corymbs, regular, at least the inner ones. Fruit a drupe with a 1-seeded stone. Shrubs or trees. Leaves entire, toothed, or lobed.—Species 4. North Africa.They yield timber and medicaments or serve as ornamental plants, so especially the guelder-rose (V. OpulusL.) and the laurustinus (V. tinusL.); the latter has poisonous fruits. (Plate 145.) [Tribe VIBURNEAE.]ViburnumL.Ovary 2-5-celled. Ovules 2 or more. Fruit a drupe with 3-5 stones or a several-seeded berry.22. Ovary with 1 ovule in each cell. Style very short, 3-5-parted. Anthers turned outwards. Corolla rotate. Flowers regular, in panicles or corymbs. Fruit a drupe. Leaves pinnately dissected.—Species 4.North and East Africa; one species (S. nigraL.) only naturalized. The latter yields wood, pith, oil, edible fruits, and medicaments; another species is poisonous. “Elder.” [Tribe SAMBUCEAE.]SambucusL.Ovary with 2 or more ovules in each cell. Style long. Anthers turned inwards. Flowers more or less irregular. Fruit a berry. Leaves entire, toothed, or lobed. Shrubs. [Tribe LONICEREAE.]33. Ovary 2-3-celled.—Species 6. North-west Africa. Some are used as ornamental or medicinal plants. “Honeysuckle.”LoniceraL.Ovary 5-celled. Fruit many-seeded.—Species 1. Naturalized in theAzores. An ornamental plant.LeycesteriaWall.
FAMILY 221.VALERIANACEAE
Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite or all radical, without stipules. Inflorescence cymose. Calyx not distinctly developed at the time of flowering. Petals 5, united below. Stamens 1-3, attached to the corolla-tube. Anthers turned inwards. Ovary inferior, with 3 cells, two of which are empty and sometimes rudimentary. Ovule 1, pendulous, inverted. Style simple; stigma entire or 3-parted. Seed exalbuminous; embryo straight.—Genera 4, species 35. (Plate 146.)
1. Stamen 1. Corolla spurred. Calyx-limb developing into a feathery pappus crowning the fruit. Fruit 1-celled.—Species 5. North Africa.Used as ornamental plants.CentranthusDC.Stamens 2-3. Corolla not spurred, but sometimes gibbous.22. Stamens 2, more rarely 3, two of which are united. Corolla 2-lipped; tube long, with a minute gibbosity near the base. Calyx-limb toothed.Branches of the inflorescence thickened.—Species 4. North-westAfrica.FediaMoenchStamens 3, free. Corolla not 2-lipped.33. Calyx-limb rolled inwards at the time of flowering, developing afterwards into a pappus of feathery bristles. Fruit 1-celled. Corolla-tube usually gibbous. Perennial herbs or undershrubs. Leaves divided.—Species5. North-west, East, and South Africa. Used as medicinal or ornamental plants. (Plate 146.)ValerianaL.Calyx-limb entire or toothed. Corolla-tube without a distinct gibbosity.Annual herbs.—Species 20. North and South Africa and northernEast Africa. Some species, especiallyV. olitoriaPoll., are used as salad. “Cornsalad.”ValerianellaHaller
FAMILY 222.DIPSACACEAE
Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite, without stipules. Flowers in heads; each flower with an epicalyx embracing the ovary. Petals 4-5, united below. Stamens 2-4. Anthers turned inwards. Ovary inferior, 1-celled. Ovule 1, pendulous, inverted. Style simple; stigma entire or 2-parted. Fruit enclosed by the epicalyx, dry, indehiscent. Seed albuminous; embryo straight.—Genera 7, species 50. (Plate 147.)
1. Involucral bracts in many rows, imbricate, usually stiff and smaller than the scales of the receptacle. Calyx-teeth numerous. Corolla-lobes 4.Stigma entire.—Species 15. (Plate 147.)CephalariaSchrad.Involucral bracts in 1-3 rows.22. Involucral bracts united. Epicalyx with 8 pits near the apex. Calyx-teeth5. Stigma entire.—Species 2. North-west Africa. (UnderScabiosaL.)PycnocomonHoffmsg. & LinkInvolucral bracts free.3
DIPSACACEAE.FLOW. PL. AFR.Pl. 147.J. Fleischmann del.Cephalaria rigida (Spreng.) Schrad.AFlowering blanch.BFlower with epicalyx and bract.CLower part of the flower cut lengthwise.
DIPSACACEAE.FLOW. PL. AFR.Pl. 147.J. Fleischmann del.Cephalaria rigida (Spreng.) Schrad.AFlowering blanch.BFlower with epicalyx and bract.CLower part of the flower cut lengthwise.
DIPSACACEAE.
FLOW. PL. AFR.
Pl. 147.
J. Fleischmann del.
Cephalaria rigida (Spreng.) Schrad.
AFlowering blanch.BFlower with epicalyx and bract.CLower part of the flower cut lengthwise.
CUCURBITACEAE.FLOW. PL. AFR.Pl. 148.J. Fleischmann del.Momordica Charantia L.AFlowering branch.BMale flower cut lengthwise.CSepal.DAnther.EFemale flower cut lengthwise.FStaminode.GCross-section of ovary.HFruit.ISeed. (Hfrom Curtis’ Botanical Magazine, plate 2455.)
CUCURBITACEAE.FLOW. PL. AFR.Pl. 148.J. Fleischmann del.Momordica Charantia L.AFlowering branch.BMale flower cut lengthwise.CSepal.DAnther.EFemale flower cut lengthwise.FStaminode.GCross-section of ovary.HFruit.ISeed. (Hfrom Curtis’ Botanical Magazine, plate 2455.)
CUCURBITACEAE.
FLOW. PL. AFR.
Pl. 148.
J. Fleischmann del.
Momordica Charantia L.
AFlowering branch.BMale flower cut lengthwise.CSepal.DAnther.EFemale flower cut lengthwise.FStaminode.GCross-section of ovary.HFruit.ISeed. (Hfrom Curtis’ Botanical Magazine, plate 2455.)
3. Scales of the receptacle stiff and pointed. Calyx-teeth usually 4. Stem prickly or bristly.—Species 5. North and East Africa. Several species are used in the manufacture of cloth and in medicine. “Teasel.”DipsacusL.Scales of the receptacle herbaceous or replaced by hairs. Stem glabrous or hairy, rarely bristly.44. Scales of the receptacle nearly as large as the flowers. Epicalyx with 8 longitudinal furrows. Calyx-teeth 5. Stigma entire.—Species 2.North-west Africa and Cameroons. They yield dyes and medicaments.(UnderScabiosaL.)SuccisaCoult.Scales of the receptacle much smaller than the flowers or replaced by hairs.55. Calyx-teeth 4-6. Stigma 2-parted. Epicalyx with 8 longitudinal furrows or ribs and a saucer-shaped limb. Receptacle scaly.—Species18. Some of them are used as ornamental or medicinal plants.ScabiosaL.Calyx-teeth 8-24.66. Calyx-teeth 8. Epicalyx without distinct furrows or ribs, and with a narrow, toothed limb. Receptacle hairy.—Species 2. North-westAfrica. Used as ornamental or medicinal plants. (UnderScabiosaL.)KnautiaCoult.Calyx-teeth 12-24. Epicalyx with 8 longitudinal furrows and a saucer-shaped limb.—Species 6. North Africa and Abyssinia. (UnderScabiosaL.)PterocephalusVaill.
ORDER CAMPANULATAE
SUBORDER CUCURBITINEAE
FAMILY 223.CUCURBITACEAE
Nearly always prostrate or climbing and tendril-bearing plants. Leaves broad, usually with pedate nervation. Flowers unisexual or polygamous, regular or nearly so, 5-merous. Calyx of united sepals. Stamens 4-5, four of them united in pairs, rarely all united or all free. Anthers usually opening outwards. Ovary inferior. Ovules inverted. Style undivided or cleft. Fruit berry-like, but sometimes dehiscent, more rarely dry and indehiscent. Seeds with a leathery or woody testa and a straight embryo, without albumen.—Genera 42, species 270. (Plate 148.)
1. Filaments all united into a column. [Tribe SICYOIDEAE.]2Filaments free or united at the base or in pairs.52. Anthers 2-3, horizontal, straight or slightly curved. Staminal column very short. Male flowers in panicles, yellowish. Tendrils 2-cleft.—Species1. East Africa. (UnderGerrardanthusHarv.)CyclantheropsisHarmsAnthers 3-5, erect and much curved or twisted.33. Flowers usually dioecious, the female with staminodes. Ovules numerous, horizontal. Herbs. Tendrils simple or 2-cleft. Female flowers solitary.—Species30. Central and South Africa. Some species have edible fruits or serve as ornamental or medicinal plants. (CephalandraSchrad.)CocciniaWight & Arn.Flowers monoecious, the female without staminodes. Ovule 1, pendulous.Tendrils 3-5-cleft. Male flowers in racemes or panicles.44. Female flowers solitary or in pairs. Anthers free. Fruit large, fleshy.Shrubs. Flowers whitish.—Species 1 (S. eduleSwartz). Cultivated and sometimes naturalized in North Africa, the island of St. Thomas, and the Mascarenes. The stem yields fibres, the roots and fruits are edible and contain starch.SechiumP. BrowneFemale flowers crowded in heads. Fruit small, with a leathery rind.Herbs. Flowers greenish.—Species 1. Central Africa; also cultivated in the Mascarene Islands. Yields starch and medicaments.SicyosL.5. Stamens 5, one of them sterile; filaments free; anthers more or less cohering, 2-celled. Petals unequal, undivided. Ovary incompletely3-celled; ovules few in each cell, pendulous. Styles 3; stigmas 2-lobed.Fruit 3-valved at the apex. Seeds winged. Shrubs. Tendrils2-cleft. Flowers dioecious, the male in racemes, the female solitary.—Species4. Central and South Africa. Used medicinally. (IncludingAtherantheraMast.) [Tribe FEVILLEAE.]GerrardanthusHarv.Stamens 4-5, united in pairs, hence apparently only 2-3, rarely stamens5, free and all fertile.66. Anther-cells straight or slightly curved, rarely shortly inflexed at the base or apex. [Tribe MELOTHRIEAE.]7Anther-cells much curved or twisted, U- or S-shaped. [Tribe CUCURBITEAE.]197. Anther-cells (pollen-sacs) 4. Flowers large, rose-coloured, the male without a rudimentary pistil. Calyx-segments toothed. Petals ciliate.Ovary oblong, 3-5-celled. Ovules numerous. Style 1. Fruit very large. Leaves compound. Tendrils 2-cleft.—Species 2. Tropics.They yield edible oily seeds and medicaments. (IncludingAmpelosicyosThouars). [SubtribeTELFAIRIINAE.]TelfairiaHook.Anther-cells 2, rarely (Melothria) 4, but then flowers small, white or yellow, the male with a rudimentary pistil, fruit small, and leaves simple.88. Disc at the base of the style distinctly developed. [SubtribeMELOTHRIINAE.]9Disc at the base of the style indistinct or wanting. [SubtribeANGURIINAE.]109. Calyx with a cylindrical tube and long, awl-shaped segments. Anthers sessile, attached by the back. Male flowers solitary or 2-3 together, female solitary.—Species 3. Central Africa.OreosyceHook. fil.Calyx with a campanulate tube and short segments. Anthers attachedby the base.—Species 30. Tropical and South Africa. They yield vegetables and medicaments, or serve as ornamental plants. (IncludingMukiaArn.,PilogyneSchrad., andZehneriaEndl.)MelothriaL.10. Stamens inserted at the throat of the calyx.11Stamens inserted in the calyx-tube. Climbing or prostrate herbs.1211. Stem erect, woody, tree-like. Leaves more or less deeply divided. Flowers monoecious, the male in panicles, without a pistil. Stigma 1, 3-lobed.—Species1. Island of Socotra.DendrosicyosBalf. fil.Stem prostrate or climbing, herbaceous. Stigmas 3.—Species 30. Central and South Africa, one species also cultivated in North Africa and theMascarene Islands. Some species yield edible fruits and medicaments, or serve as ornamental plants. (Plate 148.)MomordicaL.12. Anther-cells inflexed at the apex. Connective broad. Flowers small, yellow, monoecious, the male with a rudimentary pistil. Stigmas 3.—Species2. West Africa. They yield edible fruits, oily seeds, and medicaments.(IncludingCladosicyosHook., underZehneriaEndl.)CucumeropsisNaud.Anther-cells straight, slightly curved, or inflexed at the base.1313. Calyx-tube long, cylindrical. Flowers dioecious, the male in panicles, the female in racemes. Ovules numerous. Stigmas 2, 2-cleft.—Species1. Madagascar.TrochomeriopsisCogn.Calyx-tube short, campanulate. Flowers nearly always monoecious.1414. Male flowers solitary or in fascicles or heads. Stamens with a lengthened or broadened connective.15Male flowers in racemes.1615. Stigma 1, lobed. Ovules few in each ovary-cell. Staminodes of the female flowers minute or wanting. Flowers small, yellowish-green.Fruit opening by a lid.—Species 20. Tropical and South Africa.CorallocarpusWelw.Stigmas 3-5. Ovules numerous. Staminodes hair-like or strap-shaped.—Species30. Some of them (especially the cucumber,C. sativusL., and the melon,C. MeloL.) yield edible fruits, oily seeds, and medicaments, or serve as ornamental plants.CucumisL.16. Leaf-stalk with a small, fringed, stipule-like leaf at the base. Calyx-segments awl-shaped. Male flowers without a rudimentary pistil, female without staminodes. Connective not prolonged. Ovules 2-3 in each cell.—Species 2. Central and South-west Africa. (CtenolepisHook.)BlastaniaKotschy & Peyr.Leaf-stalk without a stipule-like leaf at its base.1717. Stem short. Flowers appearing before the leaves, the male with a rudimentary pistil, the female with linear staminodes. Calyx-segments narrow. Connective narrow, not prolonged. Stigmas 3. Ovules numerous. Leaves lobed.—Species 1. South Africa.PisospermaSond. & Harv.Stem long. Flowers appearing with the leaves.1818. Staminodes in the female flowers thread-like, curved. Connective not prolonged at the apex. Male flowers without a rudimentary pistil.Stigmas 1-2. Ovules numerous. Calyx-segments broad. Fruit bottle-shaped.Seeds globose. Leaves toothed or lobed.—Species 3. SouthAfrica to Ngamiland.ToxantheraHook.Staminodes in the female flowers small or wanting. Connective prolonged at the apex, very rarely not prolonged, but then fruit oblong, without a beak, and leaves deeply divided. Ovules usually few.—Species15. Central and South Africa. Some are used as ornamental or medicinal plants. (IncludingConiandraSchrad. andRhynchocarpaSchrad.)KedrostisMedik.19. (6.) Ovules solitary in each ovary-cell, erect. Style surrounded at the base by a disc. Staminodes present in the female flowers. Anthers cohering. Petals undivided.—Species 1. West Africa and CanaryIslands. (IncludingTrianospermaMart.) [SubtribeABOBRINAE.]CayaponiaManso.Ovules 2 or more in each ovary-cell or upon each placenta, horizontal, rarely ovary 1-celled with 2 ovules, one erect, the other pendulous.2020. Petals slit at the edge, free or nearly so. Calyx-tube long. Stem climbing.Leaves cleft or compound. Tendrils 2-3-cleft. Male flowers in racemes. [SubtribeTRICHOSANTHINAE.]21Petals not slit.2221. Stamens combined into 3, projecting beyond the calyx-tube. Male flowers with a rudimentary pistil. Fruit snake-shaped. Leaves 3-7-lobed.Tendrils 3-cleft. Flowers white.—Species 1. Cultivated and naturalized in Madagascar and the neighbouring islands. Used as a vegetable or as an ornamental or medicinal plant. “Snake-gourd.”TrichosanthesL.Stamens 5, free, seated in the calyx-tube. Male flowers without a rudimentary pistil. Fruit pear-shaped. Leaves ternately compound.Tendrils 2-cleft.—Species 1. Madagascar.DelognaeaCogn.22. Corolla distinctly campanulate, lobed or cleft. Ovules numerous. Flowers large or medium-sized, the male without a rudimentary pistil. Leaves entire, toothed, or lobed. [SubtribeCUCURBITINAE.]23Corolla more or less rotate. [SubtribeCUCUMERINAE.]2623. Calyx-segments pinnately dissected. Female flowers without staminodes.Style long, inserted on the disc. Stigmas 3, 3-5-lobed. Fruit dry.Tendrils simple.—Species 4. Tropics. (RaphidiocystisHook.)RhaphidiocystisHook.Calyx-segments undivided. Female flowers provided with staminodes.2424. Flowers monoecious. Style short and thick. Stigmas 3-5, 2-lobed.Tendrils 2- or more-cleft.—Species 4. Cultivated and sometimes naturalized. They yield edible fruits, oil, and medicaments, and serveas ornamental plants. “Pumpkin.”CucurbitaL.Flowers dioecious. Style long. Stigma 1, 3-lobed or 3-partite. Tendrils simple or 2-cleft.2525. Anthers cohering. Staminodes of the female flowers from subulate to oblong. Fruit small. (See 3.)CocciniaWight & Arn.Anthers free. Staminodes of the female flowers conical or globose. Fruit rather large.—Species 6. Central Africa. (IncludingStaphylosyceHook.)PhysedraHook.26. (22.) Calyx-tube of the male flowers long, cylinder- or funnel-shaped.27Calyx-tube of the male flowers short, top- or bell-shaped.3227. Anthers connate. Female flowers without Staminodes. Flowers large, white or yellow.28Anthers free or loosely cohering. Female flowers provided with staminodes.2928. Flowers monoecious. Anthers folded lengthwise. Ovary oblong. Leaf-stalk without glands at the apex.—Species 20. Tropical and SouthAfrica. (PeponiaNaud.)PeponiumNaud.Flowers dioecious. Anthers twisted transversely. Ovary globose.—Species9. Tropics. Used medicinally.AdenopusBenth.29. Flowers small or medium-sized, yellow or red. Anthers cohering. Rudimentary pistil of the male flowers conical. Stigma 1, 3-lobed. Seeds flattened. Root tuberous.—Species 15. Tropical and South Africa.Some species have edible roots also used in medicine. (IncludingHeterosicyosWelw.)TrochomeriaHook.Flowers large. Rudimentary pistil of the male flowers gland-like or wanting. Stigmas 3. Climbing herbs.3030. Flowers monoecious, white, solitary. Style very short. Stigmas 2-lobed.Fruit with a woody rind. Seeds flattened. Leaves undivided; stalk with 2 glands at the apex. Tendrils 2-cleft.—Species 1 (L. vulgarisSer., bottle-gourd). Tropics; also cultivated and naturalized in extratropical countries. It yields edible fruits, also used for making bottles and other utensils, and serves as an ornamental and medicinal plant.LagenariaSer.Flowers dioecious. Tendrils simple.3131. Male flowers in racemes. Leaves undivided.—Species 5. West Africa.CogniauxiaBaill.Male flowers solitary or in clusters. Corolla yellow. Stamens with a broad connective. Staminodes bearded at the base. Stigmas heart-shaped.Fruit fleshy. Seeds nearly globose. Leaves lobed; stalk without glands.—Species 4. Central Africa. (EuryandraHook.)EureiandraHook.32. (26.) Anthers connate. Flowers dioecious, the male in clusters and without a rudimentary pistil, the female without staminodes. Leaves undivided.33Anthers free or loosely cohering; in the latter case flowers monoecious.3433. Stem herbaceous, without tendrils. Leaves linear. Anthers with a scale at the base.—Species 1. Abyssinia.EulenburgiaPaxStem woody, climbing, bearing tendrils. Leaves broad.—Species 3.West Africa. They yield oily seeds.DimorphochlamysHook.34. Anthers cohering; cells horse-shoe-shaped. Flowers monoecious, the male in umbels and with a rudimentary pistil, the female solitary and without staminodes. Stigma subcapitate. Herbs. Leaves lobed, with a stipule-like leaf at the base. Tendrils simple. Flowers white. Fruit small.—Species1. West Africa. (UnderBryoniaL.)DactyliandraHook. fil.Anthers free, at least when fully developed.3535. Stamens inserted at the throat of the calyx.36Stamens inserted in the tube of the calyx.3936. Calyx without scales at the base. Flowers dioecious, yellow or green, the male solitary or in clusters, the female solitary, with 5 staminodes.Ovary globose. Placentas and stigmas 5. Fruits large. Leafless, nearly erect, spiny shrubs.—Species 1. German South-west Africa and Angola. Yields edible fruits and seeds and medicaments.AcanthosicyosWelw.Calyx with 2-3 scales at the base. Ovary bottle-shaped. Placentas and stigmas 1-3. Climbing or prostrate herbs.3737. Ovules 2. Stigma 1, capitate. Flowers large, yellow, monoecious, the male 2-3 together at the base of the leaf-blade, without a rudimentary pistil, the female solitary or in pairs, without staminodes. Fruits small.Leaves slightly lobed. Tendrils simple.—Species 3. Central Africa.(RaphanocarpusHook.)RhaphanocarpusHook.Ovules 3 or more. Stigmas 3.3838. Ovules few. Fruit constricted between the seeds.—Species 1. EastAfrica. (RaphanistrocarpusBaill.)RhaphanistrocarpusBaill.Ovules numerous. (See 11.)MomordicaL.39. Male flowers in racemes.40Male flowers solitary or in clusters, yellow.4340. Female flowers in racemes or clusters, small. Ovules few. Male flowers without a rudimentary pistil. Fruit more or less globular. Tendrils simple.—Species 4. North Africa. Poisonous and used medicinally.BryoniaL.Female flowers solitary. Ovules numerous.4141. Flowers dioecious large, white, the male without a rudimentary pistil.Stigma 1, 3-lobed. Fruit large, globose. Leafstalk with two glands at the apex. Tendrils 2-cleft, rarely simple.—Species 1. Tropical andSouth Africa.SphaerosicyosHook.Flowers monoecious. Stigmas 3, 2-lobed. Leaf-stalk without glands.4242. Tendrils cleft. Leaves lobed. Fruit dry, opening by a lid.—Species 7.Tropical and South Africa; one species also cultivated in North Africa.They are used as vegetables and medicinal plants; some have edible, others poisonous fruits; the fibres of the fruit are employed for making sponges, hats, and various utensils; the seeds are oily.LuffaL.Tendrils absent. Leaves undivided. Flowers yellow, the male withouta rudimentary pistil. Fruit fleshy, ejecting the seeds when ripe.—Species1. North Africa. A poisonous and medicinal plant. “Squirting cucumber.”EcballiumA. Rich.43. Male flowers without a rudimentary pistil. Ovules few. Stem climbing.Tendrils two-cleft. Flowers in clusters, small, yellowish-green, monoecious.Fruit small, globular.—Species 1. Tropics. Used as an ornamental and medicinal plant.BryonopsisArn.Male flowers with a rudimentary pistil. Ovules numerous.4444. Connective of the stamens with a 2-cleft appendage at the apex. Tendrils simple, rarely wanting. (See 15.)CucumisL.Connective of the stamens not prolonged at the apex. Tendrils 2-3-cleft.Stem prostrate. Leaves lobed or divided. Flowers large, monoecious.4545. Calyx-segments leaf-like, serrate, recurved. Flowers solitary.—Species 1(B. hispidaCogn.). Cultivated in various regions. The fruits are eaten and used in medicine.BenincasaSavi.Calyx-segments awl-shaped, entire.—Species 4. They yield edible fruits (chiefly fromC. vulgarisNeck., water-melon), edible oily seeds, and medicaments; some are poisonous. (ColocynthisL.)CitrullusNeck.
SUBORDER CAMPANULINEAE
FAMILY 224.CAMPANULACEAE
Leaves entire toothed or lobed, without stipules. Petals usually united below. Stamens as many as the petals. Anthers turned inwards. Ovary inferior or half-inferior, rarely (Lightfootia) superior, 2-10-celled, rarely (Merciera) 1-celled. Ovules inverted, numerous and axile, rarely few and apical or basal. Style simple. Fruit a capsule, rarely a nut or (Canarina) a berry. Seeds with fleshy albumen; embryo straight.—Genera 26, species 400. (IncludingLOBELIACEAEandSPHENOCLEACEAE.) (Plate 149.)
1. Anthers connate. Flowers more or less irregular, solitary or in racemes or panicles. [SubfamilyLOBELIOIDEAE.]2Anthers free, rarely (Jasione) cohering at the base, but then flowers regular and in heads.72. Petals free. Flowers nearly regular, small, greenish-yellow, in many-flowered terminal and lateral racemes.—Species 2. Madagascar.DialypetalumBenth.Petals united below.33. Corolla-tube slit down to the base or nearly so, at least on one side. Stamens free from the corolla or nearly so.4Corolla-tube not or but shortly slit.64. Fruit linear. All anthers hairy at the apex.—Species 1. South Africa.(UnderLobeliaL.)GrammatothecaPreslFruit roundish.55. Anthers and stigmas ripe at the same time. All anthers hairy at the apex.Odd sepal in front.—Species 12. South and East Africa and ComoroIslands. Some are used as ornamental plants. (IncludingDobrowskyaPresl andParastranthusDon, underLobeliaL.)MonopsisSalisb.Anthers ripe before the stigmas. Odd sepal usually behind.—Species 120.Southern and tropical Africa, Madeira, and Azores. Some are poisonous or are used as ornamental or medicinal plants. (IncludingIsolobusA.DC. andMetzleriaPresl)LobeliaL.6. Filaments adnate to the corolla on one side to beyond the middle. Corolla white.—Species 1. Naturalized in the Island of Réunion. A poisonous and medicinal plant.IsotomaLindl.Filaments free from the corolla or shortly adnate to it. Corolla blue or white.—Species 10. South and North-west Africa. (IncludingEnchysiaPresl)LaurentiaNeck.7. (1.) Flowers distinctly irregular. Ovary 2-celled. Fruit opening loculicidally and septicidally.—Species 30. South and Central Africa. Several species have edible tubers. [SubfamilyCYPHIOIDEAE.]CyphiaBergFlowers regular or nearly so. [SubfamilyCAMPANULOIDEAE.]88. Corolla imbricate in the bud. Style very short, without collecting hairs.Ovary 2-celled; placentas thick, suspended from the top of the partition.Fruit opening by a lid. Flowers in spikes, small, greenish or yellowish.—Species1. Tropics and Egypt. [Tribe SPHENOCLEEAE.]SphenocleaGaertn.Corolla valvate in the bud. Style with hairs or viscid glands for collecting the pollen. [Tribe CAMPANULEAE.]99. Carpels 5, as many as the sepals or stamens, and alternating with them.10Carpels as many as the sepals or stamens, but opposite to them, or fewer.1110. Corolla rotate or broadly campanulate, deeply cleft, yellow or red. Filaments broadened at the base. Fruit opening laterally by many transverse slits. Large herbs or undershrubs. Leaves elliptical. Flowers large, in panicles.—Species 2. Madeira. Used as ornamental plants.MusschiaDumort.Corolla tubular or narrowly campanulate. Filaments not broadened.Fruit opening loculicidally by 5 apical valves. Seeds few. Small herbs. Leaves linear. Flowers small, solitary or in clusters.—Species4. South Africa.MicrocodonA. DC.11. Filaments adnate to the corolla halfway or higher up. Fruit opening by an apical lid.12Filaments free from the corolla or nearly so.1312. Ovules 2 in each ovary-cell, suspended from the top of the cell. Flowers blue, in raceme- or panicle-like cymose inflorescences. Leaves linear.Herbs or undershrubs.SiphocodonTurcz.Ovules many in each cell, attached to the inner angle. Flowers red, in heads. Leaves ovate. Shrubs.—Species 1. South Africa.RhigiophyllumHochst.13. Anthers cohering at the base. Petals free or nearly so. Ovary 2-celled.Fruit opening loculicidally at the top. Flowers in heads surrounded by an involucre.—Species 4. North Africa.JasioneL.Anthers free.1414. Ovules 4, basal. Ovary 1-celled, sometimes incompletely 2-celled. Corolla tubular-funnel-shaped. Fruit dry, indehiscent, 1-, rarely 2-4-seeded.Undershrubs. Flowers solitary, axillary.—Species 4. South Africa.MercieraA. DC.Ovules axile, usually numerous. Ovary 2-10-celled.1515. Fruit a roundish berry. Flowers solitary, terminal, large, nearly always6-merous. Corolla bell-shaped, yellow or red. Filaments broadened at the base. Leaves opposite, the lower whorled.—Species 3. EastAfrica and Canary Islands. They yield edible roots and fruits and serve as ornamental plants.CanarinaL.Fruit a capsule, rarely a nut. Flowers usually 5-merous.1616. Fruit narrow, opening by an apical lid and sometimes also by lateral slits, more rarely remaining closed. Ovary 2-celled.17Fruit opening by apical valves or by lateral valves, slits, or pores.1817. Flowers in terminal heads. Corolla tubular. Ovary ovoid.—Species1. South Africa. (LeptocodonSond.)TreicheliaVatkeFlowers terminal and solitary, or in lateral glomerules. Ovary oblong.—Species15. South Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants.RoëllaL.18. Fruit opening by lateral, but sometimes nearly apical valves, slits, or pores.19Fruit opening loculicidally at the apex, usually broad.2219. Fruit narrow, opening by pores or slits.20Fruit broad, opening by valves.2120. Fruit opening by long slits. Ovary 2-celled. Corolla funnel-shaped or narrowly bell-shaped.—Species 20. South Africa.PrismatocarpusL’Hér.Fruit opening by short slits or pores. Ovary 3-celled. Corolla wheel-shaped or broadly bell-shaped.—Species 4. North Africa. They serve as ornamental plants; the root is edible. “Venus’s looking-glass.”SpeculariaHeist.21. Corolla tubular. Ovary 2-3-celled. Style projecting far beyond the corolla. Flowers in panicles.—Species 1. North-west Africa. Used as an ornamental plant; the root is edible.TracheliumL.Corolla bell- or funnel-shaped. Ovary 3-5-celled. Style not or slightly projecting beyond the corolla.—Species 25. North Africa and northernCentral Africa. Several species are used as vegetables or as medicinalor ornamental plants.CampanulaL.22. Stigma-lobes 2-10, narrow.23Stigma-lobes 2-3, broad, sometimes very small.2423. Petals free or nearly so, narrow.—Species 50. Southern and tropicalAfrica. (Plate 149.)LightfootiaL’Hér.Petals obviously united below, or broad.—Species 80. Some of them serve as ornamental plants. (IncludingCervicinaDel.)WahlenbergiaSchrad.24. Petals free or nearly so, narrow, blue. Herbs.—Species 6. Central andSouth-west Africa.CephalostigmaA. DC.Petals obviously united below.2525. Corolla bell-shaped, deeply cleft, yellow. Style equalling the corolla.Fruit opening at the top and laterally. Seeds numerous. Stem woody.Species 1. Mascarene Islands. (UnderWahlenbergiaSchrad.)HeterochaeniaA. DC.Corolla narrowly funnel-shaped, shortly lobed. Style much exceeding the corolla. Fruit opening at the top only. Seeds about ten. Stem herbaceous.—Species 1. Morocco. (UnderTracheliumL.)FeeriaBuser
FAMILY 225.GOODENIACEAE
Shrubs or trees. Juice not milky. Leaves alternate, undivided, without stipules. Flowers in axillary cymes, irregular, hermaphrodite. Calyx truncate or 5-toothed. Corolla 5-lobed, slit open behind, with folded aestivation. Stamens 5, alternating with the corolla-lobes, free from the corolla. Anthers free, turned inwards. Ovary inferior, 2-celled. Ovules solitary in each cell, erect. Style simple. Stigma capitate, surrounded by a fringed cup. Fruit a drupe. Seeds with fleshy albumen; embryo straight.
Genus 1, species 2. Tropical and South Africa. They yield wood for carpenters’ work, pith used in the manufacture of paper, vegetables, and medicaments.ScaevolaL.
FAMILY 226.COMPOSITAE
Leaves simple and exstipulate, but sometimes dissected or provided with stipule-like auricles. Flowers seated upon a dilated or elevated receptacle and arranged in sometimes spike-like or one-flowered heads which are surrounded by an involucre. Heads either containing only hermaphrodite flowers, several of which are sometimes sterile (male), or consisting of hermaphrodite or male central (disc-) flowers and female or neuter marginal (ray-) flowers, more rarely heads unisexual or reduced to a single flower. Calyx-limb (pappus) formed of sometimes connate scales or hairs, fully developed only in fruit, or wanting. Corolla of united petals, in the hermaphrodite and male flowers 3-5-lobed with valvate aestivation, regular (tube-, funnel-, or bell-shaped) or 2-lipped or 1-lipped (strap-shaped), in the female flowers sometimes wanting. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes and alternate with them, inserted in the corolla-tube. Anthers connate, rarely free, opening inwards by
CAMPANULACEAE.FLOW. PL. AFR.Pl. 149.J. Fleischmann del.Lightfootia subulata L’Hér.AFlowering branch.BFlower cut lengthwise.CFruit.DSeed.
CAMPANULACEAE.FLOW. PL. AFR.Pl. 149.J. Fleischmann del.Lightfootia subulata L’Hér.AFlowering branch.BFlower cut lengthwise.CFruit.DSeed.
CAMPANULACEAE.
FLOW. PL. AFR.
Pl. 149.
J. Fleischmann del.
Lightfootia subulata L’Hér.
AFlowering branch.BFlower cut lengthwise.CFruit.DSeed.
COMPOSITAE.FLOW. PL. AFR.Pl. 150.J. Fleischmann del.Vernonia Baumii O. Hoffm.AFlowering branch.BFlower.CFlower cut lengthwise and pappus-bristle.DAnther from front and back.
COMPOSITAE.FLOW. PL. AFR.Pl. 150.J. Fleischmann del.Vernonia Baumii O. Hoffm.AFlowering branch.BFlower.CFlower cut lengthwise and pappus-bristle.DAnther from front and back.
COMPOSITAE.
FLOW. PL. AFR.
Pl. 150.
J. Fleischmann del.
Vernonia Baumii O. Hoffm.
AFlowering branch.BFlower.CFlower cut lengthwise and pappus-bristle.DAnther from front and back.
two longitudinal slits. Ovary inferior, 1-celled. Ovule 1, erect, inverted. Style of the fertile hermaphrodite flowers cleft into two branches, which bear stigmatic papillae on the inner face or the margins, and hairs on the outer face, on both sides, or at the top; style of the sterile flowers usually entire. Fruit indehiscent, mostly dry. Seed solitary, with a thin coat usually adnate to the pericarp, exalbuminous. Embryo straight; radicle short, inferior.—Genera 327, species 4200. (IncludingAMBROSIACEAE.) (Plate 150.)