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214 i;ALA>'orilORACE^ (Wright). \Sarcoi)hjtc. 



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L Wehdamanm, Stead. Nouicncl ed. 2, i. 801. I. Weinmanni, Harv. 

 Gen. S. Afr. PI ed. I 300. L Wiedemaniu, Griff, in Trans, Linn, 

 Soc. xix. 339, 



Coast Region : Uitenliage Div. ; Addo, Drege. Albany Div. ; near Grahams- 

 town, on roots of Acacia horrida, 1800 ft., MacOimn, 1204 ! Schonlandl 



Cextkal Region: Somerset Div. ; near Little Fish River and Great Fish 

 River, 2000-3000 ft., Drege ; at the foot of Bosch Berg, on roots of Acacia 

 korrida, Willd., 3000 ft., MacOwan, Herb. A2istr,-Afr., 1800 ! between Zuurberg 

 Range and Klein Bruiutjes Hoogte, 2000-2500 ft., Drege I 



ExsTEKN Region -. Transkei; Kentani, 1200 ft., Miss Pegk'i\ Si6 I 



Miss Pegler has noted on her specimen, " horrible odour ; deep red." 



The tropical Afiican plant is separated as S, Piriei, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 

 1914, 252. 



IT. MYSTROPETALON, Harv. 



Flowers monoecious. Male flower : Verianth 2-lipped, anterior lip 

 of one segment, posterior of two. Stamens 2, inserted on tlie 

 posterior perianth-segments ; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing longitudin- 

 ally ; pollen-grains cubical, pentagonal or rarely hexagonal, some- 

 times fluted at the angles. Female fluicer, opening before the male : 

 Periantli small, urceolate or tubular, 3-lobed. Stami nodes 2 and 

 very small, or none. Disc thick, cushion-like. Ovary inferior, 

 ovoid or elliptical, 1- or 3-celled ; ovules 3, pendulous ; style 

 columnar ; stigma discoid or 3-lobed. Fruit globose ; pericarp 



crustaceous. Seed solitary ; embryo small, apical j albumen copious 



Fleshy parasitic herbs springing from an irregular nodular rhizome ; leaves scale- 

 likej fleshy ; flowers in dense spikes, protcrogynous, male above, female below, 

 bracteate and 2-bracteolate. 



DiSTUiR. Species 3 in extratropical South Africa. 



Bract of male flower oblong (1) Thomii. 



Bract of male flower spathulate : 



Perianth of female flower tubular, 3-fid ... (2) Polemanni. 



Perianth of female flower subglobose or campanulate, 



multifld ... (3) SoUyi. 



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1. M. Thomii (Harv. Gen. S. Afr, PL ed. i. 419) ; a fleshy plaut, 

 about 5 in. high ; leaves scale-Uke, oblong, obtuse, 1 in, long, 1 lin- 

 wide ; spike oblong, 2-4 in. long, f-lj in. in diam. ; bract oblong, 

 obtuse, densely hairy outside, 3 lin. long ; bracteoles two-thirds as 

 long as the bract, oblong, hairy on the midrib outside ; perianth 

 red above, yellow below, nearly twice as long as the bract; anterior 

 segment spathulate, obtuse, posterior segments slightly longer than 

 the anterior, slightly concave ; anthers oblong ; pollen-grains cubical 

 with fluted angles; female flower: bract oblong, obtuse, densely 

 hairy outside in the upper part and on the midrib; bracteoles 

 shorter than the bract in flower, but nearly twice as long as it in 

 fruit, induplicate, acute, ciliate on the midrib ; perianth subglobose 



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