Peddiea.] TiiYMEL.EACE.E (Wright). 81 



CJ. 301, /. 153, /7. 2. P. Drcgel and P. Hari-eyl, Mclsa, In 1)0. 

 Prodr. xiv. 528. Cijatliodiscm umbellatus, IIoidisL in Flora, 1842, 

 240. Oestrum iimheUatiua, E. Meyer in Drege, Zicei Pjl, Documented 

 154, 159. PsUolena umhellata, Presl, Bof, Bemerl:. 102 j Walj), 

 Ann, i. 58D. 



Coast Regiox : Komglia Div. ; Gwenkala River and ueai* Konl^ha, ISOO- 

 ^2n00 ft., Flanagan, 693! 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; margin of woods, Upper Moodies, Barbcrtou, 

 4500 ft., Galpin, 962! Woodbush, Grcnfell, 10! Relunann, 5918! Potatobosch, 

 4750 ft., Burtt'Davij, 1195 ! 



Eastern Region : Transkei ; Kentani, 1000 ft., Miss Peykr, 401 ! Pondolaud ; 

 between TJmteutu River and Umziiikulu River, under 500 ft., Dnyc, near Fort 

 Donald, Siniy 239:1! Griqualand East; Zuurberg Range, 4500 ft., T}}Son, 2807! 

 Xatal ; Durban, Prddk I Plant, 141 Cooper, 1229! Drege \ Kranss, 427! Wood, 

 1013 ! Inanda, Wood, 5S0 ! Pieterinaritzburg, CorduJccs, 31 ! Dumisa, liudatis, 652 ! 

 Kettlefontein, Cooper, 1210! Howick, Mrs, Hntton, 10! Xgoma Forest, Vryheid, 

 'S7m, 2939! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 327! Sandtrson, ^01! 532! 

 Cooper, 3092 ! ZuUiland ; Uuilalazi, Xgoya Forest, Sim, 2940 ! Qudeni Forrat, 

 6000 ft., Wood, 7902! Swaziland; Forbes Reef, Bartt-Dary^ 2798! and without 

 precise locality, Miss Stcvart ! 



The floral differences upon which ^leisner founded his two species are probably 

 due to sexual variation, and not to constant specific characters. The bracts near 

 the base of the peduncle are caducous. 



Order CXIX. PEN-^ACE^E 



(By E. L. Stephkxs.) 



Flowers regular, liermaphrodite. Perianth inferior, persistent, 

 accrescent, 4-lobed ; tube cylindrical ; lobes equal, \aIvateor redupli- 

 <'ate-valvate in Lud. Stamens four, inserted in the throat of the 

 perianth and alternating with its lobes ; filaments usually not 

 longer than the anthers ; anthers basifixed or rarely versatile ; 

 <^ells 2, introrse, adnate to the connective and often shorter than it, 

 ttiargin of the valves membranous. Ovary free, 4-celled, cells 

 opposite the lobes of calyx, without a central column ; style terete 

 and terminated by a 4-lobed capitate stigma ; or with 4 wings or 

 -angles alternating witli the cells, topped by 4 oblong cruciform lobes, 

 and with foui* minute eushion-like stigmatic surfaces in the angles 

 between the lobes below the apex of the style; or rarely terete 

 with 4 ridges at the base and 4 upright cruciform lobes at the apex, 

 aud 4 minute cushion-like stigmatic surfaces in the angles betM-een 

 the lobes. Ovules anatropous, 2 or 4 in each cell, basal, erect ; or 

 4 in each cell, inserted half-way down on an axile placenta, 2 erect 

 and 2 pendulous. Capsule loculicidal. Seeds by abortion 1-2 in 

 each cell, erect or more rarely pendulous, according to the position 

 of the ovules, exalbuminous; testa smooth, glossy, sometimes puncti- 

 ■culate ; tegumen membranous ; hilum furrowed at the base ; funicle 



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