434 CXX. SANTALACEH (BAKER AND HILL). [ Osyris. 
Aidereso, Schweinfurth § Riva, 1421! Abyssinia: Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 281! 
Ankober, Roth! Gondar, Steudner, 1272! and without precise locality, Schimper, 
235! Petit! Somaliland: near Maid, Hildebrandt, 1539a; Gabadir Plain, Swayne! 
British East Africa: Muka, Kassner, 925! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; subtemperate region, Welwitsch, 6438! 
German South-west Africa: Hereroland, Nels; Amboland, Schinz, 293. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Kwa Msbuza, Holst, 
8932! Kinga (Livingstone) Mountains, 6200 ft., Goetze, 1269! British Central 
Africa: Nyasaland; Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 ft., Whyte, 159! Shire Highlands, 
Buchanan, 92! Kalahari Region, Fleck, 3174, 318A, 572. 
Also in Arabia and South Africa. 
3. O. parvifolia, Baker. A shrub about 4 ft. high; branchlets 
terete, angular and grooved, spreading or erect-patent, minutely 
puberulous. Leaves shortly petioled, obovate-oblong or oblong, 4-9 
lin, long, mucronate, narrowed to the base, very rigid, turning brown 
when dried, the veins (except the midrib) invisible, minutely puberulous. 
Male flowers in shortly peduncled axillary, usually 3-flowered, cymes; 
pedicels 3-3 lin. long, minutely puberulous; bracts ovate, minute. 
Perianth green, urceolate, $—3 lin. long ; lobes 3, broadly ovate. Anthers 
transversely elliptic; style minute. Female flowers and fruit un- 
known. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Domak, Efat, 2ot/, 84! 
4. O. tenuifolia, Hngl. Pil. Ost-Afr. C. 167. A much-branched 
shrub, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves thin, spreading, lanceolate, very 
shortly petioled. Peduncles axillary, solitary; bracts 2, lanceolate, 
minute. Perianth turbinate ; lobes deltoid, rather shorter than the tube. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, Volkens, 232, 1732, 
Merker ; Usambara; Kwai, Busse, 384, Albers, 123; Msulu, Alvers, 220. 
OrpER CXXI. BALANOPHOREZE. (By W. Botting Hemsley-) 
Flowers small or minute, unisexual, or very rarely hermaphrodite, 
numerous, borne in involucrate unisexual or bisexual heads, or in dense 
simple or branched unisexual or bisexual fleshy inflorescences, ote 
called spadices. Male flowers relatively large, naked or furnished wit 
a more or less perfect perianth ; lobes 3-8, equal and valvate, or uneque’ 
in length and degree of attachment to the staminal column. seer 
3-6, or more, free and of the same number and opposite to the perianth- 
lobes, or united in a column; anthers 2- or many-celled, vane 
dehiscing ; pollen globose. Female flowers usually exceedingly sm ’ 
often more than 10,000 in a head, naked or with an adnate periant : 
limb small, sometimes almost obsolete, truncate or obscurely asia 
sometimes oblique, sometimes tubular above the ovary and variousty 
lobed. Ovary cylindrical, ovoid or globose, 1-celled (in the: 5 
members of the family); style long, filiform, or stigma sessile. whl 
solitary, pendulous, developing late, described as naked or with a sing’ 
coat or reduced to the embryo-sac, anatropous or semi-anatropous. 
