The flowering plants of Africa: An analytical key to the genera of African phanerogramsThonner, Franz
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The flowering plants of Africa: An analytical key to the genera of African phanerograms
Thonner, Franz
Angiosperms -- Africa; Plants -- Africa
662. Corolla with valvate or folded aestivation. 663
Corolla with imbricate or contorted aestivation. 665
663. Stamens free from the corolla. Herbs. _Lightfootia_, =224.
Campanulaceae=.
Stamens attached to the corolla. 664
664. Corolla almost entire, somewhat irregular. Trees. _Humbertia_,
=202. Convolvulaceae=.
Corolla lobed, rarely almost entire, but then herbs or undershrubs.
=207. Solanaceae.=
665. Corolla with contorted aestivation. Style stigmatose beneath the
thickened and sometimes 2-lobed apex. =200. Apocynaceae.=
Corolla with imbricate, not contorted aestivation. Style (or styles)
stigmatose at the apex or between the apical lobes. 666
666. Styles 2, free or united at the base. Disc wanting. Corolla
regular Seeds albuminous; embryo straight. Herbs or undershrubs. =203.
Hydrophyllaceae.=
Style 1, undivided. 667
667. Seeds winged, exalbuminous. Fruit a loculicidal capsule. Stigmas
2. Corolla slightly irregular. Shrubs. =209. Bignoniaceae.=
Seeds not winged, albuminous. 668
668. Seeds with straight embryo. Fruit a capsule opening
lengthwise. Stigma 1. Corolla slightly irregular; tube short. =208.
Scrophulariaceae.=
Seeds with curved embryo. Fruit a capsule opening by a lid, or a berry.
Anthers opening by two longitudinal slits. =207. Solanaceae.=
669. (604.) Ovule 1 in each ovary-cell 670
Ovules 2 or more in each ovary-cell. 685
670. Stamens as many as and alternate with the divisions of the
corolla, or fewer. 671
Stamens as many as and opposite the divisions of the corolla, or more.
679
671. Flowers unisexual, regular. Corolla divided almost to the base.
Disc wanting. Fruit a drupe. Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate. _Ilex_,
=128. Aquifoliaceae=.
Flowers hermaphrodite, rarely polygamous. 672
672. Anthers opening by an apical pore. Stamens 5. Ovary 3-celled.
Flowers irregular. =120. Polygalaceae.=
Anthers opening by two longitudinal slits sometimes confluent at the
apex; in the latter case ovary 4-celled. 673
673. Stamens free from the corolla or scarcely adhering to it, 4.
Flowers regular. =189. Ericaceae.=
Stamens evidently attached to the corolla-tube. 674
674. Corolla scarious, 4-lobed, regular. Stamens 4. Disc wanting.
Stigma 1. Ovules pendulous or laterally affixed. Fruit opening by a
lid. _Plantago_, =218. Plantaginaceae=.
Corolla not scarious. 675
675. Corolla with valvate or folded aestivation, regular. Stamens 5.
Leaves alternate. =202. Convolvulaceae.=
Corolla with imbricate or contorted aestivation. 676
676. Stamens as many as the divisions of the corolla. Ovules with the
micropyle directed upwards. Leaves, all or the upper ones, alternate,
undivided. Inflorescences cymose, usually one-sided and coiled when
young. =204. Borraginaceae.=
Stamens fewer than the divisions of the corolla, rarely the same
number, but then ovules with the micropyle directed downwards and
leaves opposite or whorled. 677
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