Notobuxus^ EUPHORBiACE^ (Hutcliinson). .J 7 7 



coriaceous^ obtuse, about 1| lin. long, rather densely pubescent 

 within the margin ; ovary ov^oid, glabrous ; styles spreadingj with 

 a stigmatic groove inside ; capsule about 5 lin. long ; seeds very 

 black and shining, ^ lin. long. Sim, For. FL Cape Col 320, /. cxlv. 

 fig^ ii. ; Hutcliinson in Keto Bulletin, 1912, 55. 



Eastern Region : Transkei ; Manubi forest, Kentani district, Miss Perjler, 

 1258! and without precise locality, Worsdelll Pondoland ; West Gate, Port 

 St. John, 750 ft., Galpin, 3471 ! Egossa, Sim, 2424 ! 2427 ! Natal ; Iiianda, 

 Wood, 374! 13571 Durban, Schlechter, 2797 1 Tong:\at, Cooper, 3465! Gevrard, 

 20 ! The Bluff, near Durban, Wood, 5790 ! 11946 ! and without precise locality, 

 Mrs. Saunders I 



VI. ANDROSTACHYS, Prain. 



Floicers dia^cious. Petals and disc absent. Male floicers : Calyx 

 composed of 2-5 l:>ract-like free spirally arranged sepals. Stamens 

 very many, spirally arranged on a prolonged axis ; lowest filaments 

 "Very short and recurved, the remaining anthers sessile ; aiitbers 

 elongated, more or less applied to the axis ; cells distinct, adnate to 

 the connectivCj dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary absent. 

 Female flowers : Calyx 5-partite ; segments ovate, acuminate, 

 imbricate. Ovary 3-4-celIed, densely pilose ; styles connate into a 

 pilose column ; stigmas 3, spreading ; ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule 

 breaking up into three or four 2-valved cocci; endocarp crustaceous. 

 Seeds compressed, ovate; albumen fleshy; cotyledons flat, much 

 broader than the radicle. 



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A tall erect tree ; branchlets more or less silky -hairy, angular and articulated ; 

 leaves opposite, decussate, long-p etiolate, coriaceous, more or less ailky beneath ; 

 stipules large, coriaceous, connate, interpetiolar and intrapetiolar, forming a 

 sheath enclosing the flowers and young leaves ; flowers axillary on silkj -hairy 

 peduncles, male 3-nate, female solitary in each leaf -axil ; male peduncles usually 

 naore or less connate, the lateral rather shorter than the central. 



BisTuiB. A solitary species extending into the tropical part of Portuguese East 

 Africa. 



1. A. Johnsonii (Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 439); a tall 

 hard-wooded tree, providing valuable timber, branchlets angular 

 and articulated ; leaves opposite, decussate, ovate, obtuse, rounded 

 orsubcordate at the base, l]:-2 in. long, 1-1 1^ in. broad, entire, 

 rigidly coriaceous, glabrous above, more or less densely woolly-hairy 

 below ; stipular sheath f in. long, silky-pubescent outside ; petioles 

 l-h in. long, silky-hairy ; flowers yellow ; peduncles ^-J in. long ; 

 Daale flowers : sepals petaloid, lanceolate, with retuse or 2-lobed tips, 

 long-pilose outside ; staminal axis |-1 in. long ; female flowers : 

 calyx-segments \ in. long, silky ; capsule depressed, | in. long ; seeds 

 iin. long, 1 in. broad; testa brown and shining. Prain in Keic 

 Sullttin. 1909. '>01 ^rlfl /?//.<? . nmn9\2. 307-8 : Hutchinson in Dt/er, 



