Osyridicarpos.| CXX. SANTALACEH (BAKER AND HILL). 433 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Central Uluguru, Stuhlmann, 919 
Goetze, 310. 
Var. Getzei, Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 305. A climbing shrub 20-25 ft. high. Cymes 
very divaricate, 3—15-flowered ; bracts linear-lanceolate. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kinga (Livingstone) Mountains 
7500-8000 ft., Goetze, 1253. 
3. OSYRIS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 227. 
Flowers subdiecious. Perianth-tube in the male flowers very short 
and solid, in the female entirely adnate to the ovary; lobes 3-4, 
deltoid, valvate, with a tuft of hairson theface. Stamens 3-4, attached 
to the base of the lobes; filaments rather thick; anther-cells sub 
parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Disk flat, angled between the 
stamens. Ovary inferior; ovules 2-4, pendulous from a short central 
placenta; style short or long; stigma 3-4-fid. Fruit ‘globose, succu- 
lent, crowned with the persistent perianth-Iobes; albumen fleshy ; 
embryo straight or rather curved.—Glabrous shrubs. Leaves alternate, 
narrow or broad. Flowers small, axillary ; bracts solitary, minute. 
Species 9, spread through Southern Europe, India, and the whole of Africa. 
Leaves oblong. 
Leaves 1-3 in. Jong. 
Bracts linear : : 4 2 ° . 1. O. rigidissima. 
Bracts lanceolate. : ‘ “ g . 2. O. abyssinica. 
Leaves } in. long. s : - : . 3. O. parvifolia. 
Leaves lanceolate ‘ Fa : : 2 - 4. O. tenuifolia, 
1. O. rigidissima, Hngl. /ochyebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 199. A shrub 
4 ft. high, with thick branchlets. ‘Leaves shortly and broadly petioled, 
oblong, 13 in. long, above 4 in. broad, very rigid, very acute, turning 
brown when dried except the white midrib. Peduncles axillary, nearly 
3 in. long; male many-flowered ; bracts linear as long as the subglobose 
buds. Perianth-lobes broadly ovate, under 1 lin. long. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: near Maid, 4500-5500 ft., Hildebrandt, 1539. 
2. O. abyssinica, //ochst. in Flora, 1841, i. dntell. 22 (nume only). 
A much-branched shrub 6-8 ft. high, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves 
shortly petioled, oblong, 1-3 in. long, mucronate, narrowed to the base, 
rigidly coriaceous, glaucous, the veins (except the midrib) immersed 
and almost invisible. Male flowers in shortly peduncled axillary 
umbellate cymes; bracts minute, lanceolate; pedicels larger than the 
flowers. Buds _ globose, 4 lin. in diam. -Perianth-lobes 3, ovate. 
Female flowers usually solitary. Berry oblong, scarlet, the size of a 
small pea.—A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss., ii. 236; A,DC. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 
$33; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 199; Schinz in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss, iv. App. iii, 55; Schweinf. in Bull, Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii. 
152; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 938. 0. compressa, Engl. Jahrb. 
Xxx. 305, not of A.DC. /usanus alternifolia, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. 
App. Ixiii. (name only). 
Nile Land. Eritrea: near Saganeiti, Schweinfurth § Riva, 859! 976 
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