512 _ _RHIZOPHOREZ (Sond.) [Quisqualis. 
Has. On rivers in the districts of Uitenhage, Albany, and in Caffraria, Z. g Z.! 
Drege. Oct.—Feb. (Herb. Sd.) 
Tree, 20-50 feet high. Branches terete, young ones puberulous. Leaves 3 inches 
long, 8 lines broad, glaucous above, pale-green, at length reddish beneath ; petioles 
2 lines long. Flowers polygamous. Male-flowers capitate-racemose. Female ones 
racemose ; racemes 3-6-flowered, on a 4-6 lines long peduncle ; pedicles 2 lines long. 
Fruit 7-9 lines long, 6-7 lines wide, or in some specimens smaller and suborbicular. 
III. POIVREA, Comm. 
Timb of the calyx infundibuliform, 5-lobed, deciduous. Petals 5. 
Stamens 10, protruded. Ovary 2-3-ovuled. Style filiform, protruded, 
acute. Fruit oval or oblong, or 5-winged. Seed solitary, pendulous, 
5-angled. Cotyledons convolute. Endl. Gen. n. 6086, 
Usually climbing shrubs. ‘Leaves opposite or alternate, quite entire. Spikes 
axillary and terminal. Bracteoles solitary under the flowers. Name in honour of 
N. Poivre, Intendant of the Mauritius. ; 
1. P. bracteosa (Hochst. ! in pl. Krauss.) ; unarmed ; branches gla- 
brous; leaves opposite or ternate, shortly petiolate, ovate or ovate-ob- 
long, acute at both ends or obtuse at the base, glabrous ; spikes on 
axillary branches, nodding ; bracts large, pedicellate, oval, as long or 
longer than the calyx, green ; calyx 5-toothed ; petals oblong, puberu- 
lous outwards ; stamens exserted ; fruit wingless. Codonocroton triphyl- 
lum, E. Meyer. in herb. Drege. 
Has. Between Omtata and Omsamwubo, 1-2000ft., Drege / Common, near Port 
Natal, Krauss. / Gueinzius, 103. Oct. (Herb. Sd., D.) 
Fruit 8-10 feet high. Petioles 2 lines long, puberulous above. Leaves 23-3 
inches long, 1-14 inch broad, veined, paler beneath, acutish or with a short, obtuse 
acumen. Racemes terminating the lateral (and terminal ’) branches, about 1 inch 
long. Bracts foliaceous, ovate, acute. Pedicels 1 line long, as well as the oblong 
ovary and calyx minutely puberulous. Calyx campanulate, with 5 acute, 1 line 
long teeth. Petals unguiculate, oblong, reddish, pubescent outwards, 4 lines long. 
Stamens exserted, glabrous ; anthers elliptic. Ovary 1-celled. Fruit oval or slightly 
— indistinctly 5-angled, glabrous, 1-seeded. Called “Hiccup-nut” in the 
ony. 
IV. QUISQUALIS, Rumph. 
Tube of the caly« slender, produced much beyond the ovary, deci- 
duous ; limb 5-lobed. Petals 5, oblong or roundish, obtuse, longer 
than the calyx-teeth, imbricate in estivation. Stamens 10, inserted 
within the throat of the calyx, those opposite the petals longest. 
Ovary 4-ovuled. Style filiform, exserted, its base adhering to the 
calyx-tube. Drupe dry, 5-furrowed and 5-ribbed, one seeded. Seed 
pendulous, 5-angled. Cotyledons plano-convex. Endl. Gen. No. 6089. 
Shrubs, natives chiefly of the tropics of Asia and Africa. Branches often twining. 
Leaves opposite or alternate, entire. Spikes axillary or terminal, bracteate. ‘The 
name is compounded of quis, who, and A hat kind: ‘sts did 
not know what SO5aiks of tk sf emia ; the older botanists 
_1. Q. parviflora (Gerr. Mss.) ; twigs, petioles and young leaves 
pid with patent, rusty pubescence ; leaves on short petioles, mem- 
branous, reticulated, oval-oblong, acuminate, glabrescent above, pubes- 
cent on the nerves and margins beneath ; bracts oblongo-lanceolate, 
a ; calyx-tube uncial, its lobes deltoid, acute; petals subrotund, 
ispidulous on the inner surface ; anthers globose, subsessile. 
