212 SAXTALACE.^. (Hill). [GruhUa. 



1 



almost winged angles ; branches and branclilets covei'ed with short 

 adpressed hairs • leaves 1-2^ in. long, 1-7 lin. broad, linear, narrowly 

 elliptic-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or subacute, narrowing 

 at base into the petiole, varnished, glabrous but tuberculate above, 

 silky-pubescent beneath, margins more or less revolute ; petioles 

 1.1-3 lin. long, densely covered with adpressed hairs; flowers in 

 ovoid axillary strobili of 15-20 flowers, ripening to a syncarpium ; 

 bracts at the base foliaeeous, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, about 

 1 lin. long, pubescent; perianth-segments ovate, acute, f lin. long, 

 with short scarcely projecting hairs on the back ; stamens with 

 incurved" filaments \ hn. long ; style about ,V hn. long, surrounded 

 by a dense tuft of disc-hairs ; syncarpium globose-ovoid, bright red 

 when ripe (Marhdl), 3-4 lin. long, nuts coA'cred with the large 

 adnate crustaceous disc, one-seeded. Soud, in Haw, & Soruh tL 



Cap. ii. 327; Maduth, Fl. S. Afr. i. 1G2, t Ti D, Jig. 81 -B. 



Taxns tomentosa, Thunh. Fl Cap, ed. Srhult. 517. Oplnra strida,^ 

 Lara. EncijcL iv. 505, and 111. /. 293, «o/ of Bnrm, ; Dn\je, Zwet 

 PJl. Docnmente^ 77, 110. Strohlocarj^vs diversif alius, Klutzscli in 

 Lrunmt, xiii. 381. G. latifolia^ Sfhiizl. Ic, Fain. Naf.fasc. 13, 108, 

 fifjs, 1 and 21. 



South Africa ; without locality, Fovhcs I Thorn, 174 ! 



Coast Rkgion : Tulbagh Div. ; between New Kloof and ElaiiJs Kloof, 1000- 

 2000 ft., I)re(j€, a! CVipe Div. ; ridge beyond Smitswiiikel Vley, Wolkg-Dodj 

 2676 ! KLxasjpgers Berg, WoIInf-Dod, 240^1 Simons Bay, Wi-ight ! near Simons- 

 town, ScMtcJitcr, 1093! Stelleiiboscli Div.; Lowrys Pass, IGOO ft., Bohf.% 7319! 

 Zci/hevl Caledon Div, ; Baviaans Kloof, near Genadendal, Burclidl, 11\1 ! Gena- 

 dendal, Drer/r, hi Bolns^ 7424! Swellendam Div.; on mountains, Boirie\ near 

 SwoIIeudam, Bolas ! ridges near the lower part of the Zondereinde River, Znj^ter, 

 2650 ! Rivensdale Div. ; raardeburg, Malr hi Ilevh. Galphi, 5328 ! Garcia,s Pass, 

 Biirrhelt, 6946 ! 7157 ! Galpin, 4557 ! BhlVlps, 317 ; George Div. ; Cradock Beig, 

 BurcheJL 5954 I 



OiiDEE CXX. A. BALANOPHORACE-ffi. 



(By C. H. AVpjgttt.) 



Flowers smallj unisexual in the South African genera. 3Iale 

 flowers'. Perianth regular or 2-lipped ; lo^)es '3-4, valvate. Stamens 

 2-3; filaments short; anthers either 2-celled and bursting hy 

 longitudinal slits, or several-celled and bursting by terminal pores; 

 pollen-grains cubical or globose. Female flowern : Verianlli sub- 

 globose or tubular and 3- to many-lubed, or absent. D/.vc sometimes 

 large and cushion-like. Ovary inferior, 1- (or at length 3-) celled; 

 style long or absent; stigma discoid or 3-lobed; ovules 1-3, pendulous, 

 naked or with a single coat. Fruits indehiscent, separate (My-'^fro- 

 petalon)j or united into syncarpia (Sarcopliytc). Seed with fleshy 

 albumen ; embryo central or apical. 



Herbs parasitic on the roois of trees or shrtibs, usually brightly coloured ; 

 rooLstock tuberous ; leaves reduceil and seale-like : inflorescence monoecious '^^^ 



