208 SAXTALACE.^i: (Hill). [Ilhoiacarpos. 



Rholacarpoa is distinguislied especially in the perianth ^vith its 5 segments and in 

 the style bearing 5 stigmatic surfaces ; the segments beirg persistent on the 

 mature fruit. The sessile definitely opposite leaves also ditfer markedly from those 

 of OsT/ris in being varnished above and in having their margins slightly revolute. 



1- R. capensis (A, DC, in DC. Prodr. xiv. 635) ; leaves opposite, 

 ovate or elliptiCj cordate at the base, sessile oi- subsessile, apex acute 

 or subacute, 1-^^- i^^- lo^g? f-1 i^- broad, midrib prominent with 

 lateral veins almost at right angles to it, margins entire or remotely 

 and minutely denticulate, usually revolute, coriaceous, varnished 

 above; inflorescences small, compact, few-flowered, 6-9 lin. long; 

 bracts narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acute, partly adnate to the short 

 peduucles, keeled, 1-1^ lin. loQg, cartilaginous ; peduncles i- 1 liu. 

 long; flowers in 3-floNvered cymules, subsessile ; perianth 1^- lin, 

 lont^; segments about 1 lin. long, ovate, acute, stout, coriaceous; 



disc conspicuous, with fleshy obtuse lobe^ ; stamens exserted ; fila- 

 ments slender, ^ lin. long ; anthers ^ lin. long, attached to the 

 perianth segments by a tuft of hairs; style stout, i lin. long; fruit 

 mature (1), globose, about 4 lin. long, large, red, edible (Barchdl). 

 Santaliim capense, Sprenrf. ex A, DC, in DC. Prodr, xiv. 635, Haniil- 

 tonia capensigy Hcirv. Gen. S. Afr. PL ed. i. 298; Sond. in Flora j 

 1857, 365. 



Coast Eegion : Mossel Bay Div. : between Mossel Bay and Zoiit River, 

 Jhirrh^U, 633G 1 Uitenhage Div. ; Zwartkop River, Zajher, 6 ! near Uitenhage, 

 Burchell, 4260 ! Pappe ! near Bontjes lliver, Dreje, 2376b ! Eedhouse, Rogers, 

 3619 ! Bathurst Div. ; near Barville Park, Burchell, 4066 ! 4111 ! Albany Div. ; 

 nearGrahainstown, Biarkdl, 3577 ! Curries Kloof, MacOimn ! King Williamstown 

 Div. ; Tamaclia, Siniy 1972! East London Div, ; at East London, Galpin, 1S5S I 

 Britirili Kaffraria ; without precise locality, Cooper^ 52 ! 



V. OSYRIS, Linn. 



Flowers snbdicccious. Perianth-tuhe in tbe male flowers very 

 short and solid_, in the female entirely adnate to the ovary ; segments 

 3-4, valvate, deltoid, ^vith a tuft of hairs on the face attached to the 

 back of the anthers. Stamens 3-4, inserted at the base of the 

 segments ; filaments rather thick ; anther-cells subparallel, dehiscing 

 longitudinally. Disc flat, angled between the stamens. Ovarf/ 

 inferior ; ovules 2-4, pendulous from a short central placenta ; style 

 short or long; stigma 3-4-fid. Fruit globose, succulent, crowned 

 with the persistent perianth-segments; albumen fleshy; embryo 

 straight or rather curved. 



Glabrons shrubs ; leaves alternate, subopposite or opposite, narrow or broad ; 

 flowers small, in short aiillary panicles ; bracts solitary, minute. 



Dl:sTiUB. Species 9, spread through Southern Europe, India and the whole of 

 Africa. 



1. 0. abyssinica (Hochst in Flora, ISil, i. Intell. 22, name only) ; 

 a much-branched shru)), 6-8 ft. high, glabrous in all its parts ; leaves 

 altei-nate, subopposite or opposite, shortly petioled, oblong, 1-3 in. 



