956 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEH (PRAIN). [ Pycnocoma. 
ovules in each cell solitary ; cells each with two dorsal protuberances; 
styles 3, usually considerably connate in a column below; stigmas ter- 
minal, capitate or subcapitate, very slightly dilated. Capsule 3-dymous, 
rarely indehiscent, usually breaking up into three 2-valved cocci, each 
valve with a horn or wing on the back. Seeds without a caruncle, 
globose; albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, flat,—Stemless or short- 
stemmed shrubs, rarely small trees. Leaves large or very large, usually 
in terminal clusters, much narrowed to the base and sessile or shortly 
petioled, penninerved. Flowers in axillary racemes from the upper 
axils; pedicels 1-3 to a bract, usually very long ; racemes rarely spike- 
like, with short-pedicelled flowers; flowers male except the terminal 
which is female. 
Species 11, all endemic. 
Bracts concave, ovate, acending. 
Racemes dense, spike-like; male pedicels shorter 
than the calyx ; fruit where known indehiscent. 
Female sepals like male bracts; styles free 
almost tothe base . 3 . - ~ lL. PR: dentata. 
Female sepals unlike male bracts; styles united 
in their lower half . g 2. P. littoralis. 
Racemes open, Jax; male pedicels slender, much 
longer than the bracts ; fruit 3-coccous, cocci 
2-valved. 
Bracts obtuse, densely adpressed-silky without. 
Rhachis of racemes bracteate and floriferous 
to the base; leaves trapeziform, faintly to 
distinctly 3-lobed . : ; . . 3. BP. Thonneri. 
Rhachis of racemes with a distinct naked 
peduncle; leaves oblanceolate-oblong. 
Rhachis and peduncle rather densely pubes- 
cent, 
Racemes 6 in. long or longer; horns of 
fruit faleate, much longer than deep 4. 
Racewmes 4 in. long or less”. i SUE 
Rhachis and peduncle glabrescent or glab- 
rous ; racemes 6 in. long or longer ; horns 
of fruit triangular not longerthan deep 6. 
Bracts acute, loosely patently villous without . 7. 
Bracts flat, spreading or reflexed. 
Bracts trapezoid-spathulate, margins ciliate, but 
elsewhere glabrous, even without; leaves ob- ns 
lanceolate-oblong . A ; ; ‘ . 8. P. Thollonit. 
Bracts lanceolate, pubescent without. 
Styles united for more than half their extent. 
Leaves oblanceolate, narrowed from far beyond ee 
the middle to the base or to a short petiole 9. P. angustifolia. 
Leaves ovate-oblong, contracted from the : 
middle only toa distinct or long petiole . 10. P. minor. 
Styles united for less than half their length; 
leaves oblanceolate-oblong . 3 : _ 1h. P. macrantha. 
. cornuta. 
. brachystachya. 
hy 
. macrophylla. 
. Chevalieri. 
a Ba 
1. P. dentata, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 983. get 
small tree, 10-15 ft. high; branches slender, virgate, woodys 
