Platylophus.| SAXIFRAGACEE (Harv.) 307 
Styles 2, diverging ; stigmata simple. Capsule conical, 2-horned, 2- 
celled, separating, from base to apex, from a free, placentiferous column. 
Seeds numerous, compressed, with a narrow, membranous wing. DC. 
Prod. 4, p. 12. Endl. Gen. 4662. 
Only one species known, a South African shrub, the ‘ Roode Elseboom” of the 
colonists. The generic name is in honour of John C. Cuno of Amsterdam, who 
described his own garden in Dutch, in 1750. 
1, C. Capensis (Linn, Sp. 569). DC. Prod. 4, p. 12. Lam. Ill. t. 371. 
Lodd. Cab. Bot. t. 826. E. & Z.! 2151. 
Has. Common in moist, woody places, throughout the colony. (Herb. D. Hk. Sd.) 
A large shrub or middle-sized tree, 10-50 feet high, glabrous in all parts. Leaves 
pinnate, 2-3-jugate, on longish, opposite petioles. Leaflets petiolulate, 2-4 inches 
long, oblongo-lanceolate, sharply serrate, coriaceous, netted-veined. Stipules broadly 
ovate, deciduous. Racemes opposite, cylindrical. 4-8 inches long, densely many- 
flowered. Flowers small, white, very numerous, with much exserted stamens, Cap- 
sules dark-brown, crowned with the divergent, hornlike styles. 
IIL PLATYLOPHUS, Don. 
Calyx free, 4- (rarely 5-) parted, persistent, with valvate estivation. 
Petals 4—5, trifid. Stamens 8-10, inserted on the outer edge of a hypo- 
gynous, fleshy, urceolate disc. Ovary free, 2-celled ; ovules 2 in each 
cell, collateral, pendulous. Styles 2; stigmata simple. Capsule turgid 
at base, compressed above, membranous, 2-celled, at length splitting ; the 
cells one-seeded. Don. in Edin. New. Phil. Journ. IX. Endl. Gen. 4653. 
A South African tree, separated by Don from Weinmannia, chiefly on account of 
its trifid petals, and imperfectly dehiscent capsule. The name is derived from 
mAatus, broad ; and Aogos, crest. Colonial name “ Witte Elseboom.” 
1. P. trifoliatus (Don.). Weinmannia trifoliata, Thunb. Prod. 77, Fl. 
Cap. 384. DC. Prod. 4, p.9. EH. & Z.! 2152. 
Has. Wate: near Tulb: Hex Rivier ; Langekloof ; and the Vanstaaden- 
berg, Z. § i Piet Rev. We Bhikote? Knysna, Dr. Pappe/ Dutoit’s Kloof, &c. 
Drege! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) : 
An umbrageous tree, 40-50 feet high, glabrous in all parts. Bark of the twigs 
smooth, dark-coloured. Leaf-pairs 2-4 inches apart ; leaves on long petioles, tri- 
foliolate ; leaflets 3-5 inches long, lanceolate, acute, denticulate, netted-veined, 
bright green. Stipules small, deciduous. Panicles opposite, on long, naked pedun- 
cles, ovate, much-branched, many-flowered. Flowers small, almost always 4-parted ; 
the petals shorter than the calyx, inserted outside the disc, but not adhering to it, 
as do the stamens. Capsule papery, inflated at base, netted, long remaining closed. 
Seeds dark-brown, oblong. Embryo straight, not much shorter than the fleshy 
albumen. 
IV. MONTINIA. 
Flowers by abortion dioecious. Calyx-tube adnate with the ovary; 
limb short, persistent, 4-cleft. Petals 4, ovate, deciduous, with imbri- 
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cate estivation, Disc (in the male fl.) fleshy, 4-angled. Stamens 4, 
alternating with the petals ; filaments short ; anthers adnate, opening 
longitudinally. Ovary inferior, imperfectly 2-celled, with parietal, 
fleshy, multovulate placente, filling the greater part of the cavit 
Style single, short ; stigma large, capitate, bipartite, the lobes deepl; 
emarginate. Capsule ligneous, crowned by the style and calyx- 
2-celled, splitting through the centre into two diverging valves. 
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