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378 EUPiiORBTACE.^ (Hutcliinson). [AndrostacJiys. 



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Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 741, 1049. Weihea{f) sulpeltata, Sim, For. Ft. 

 Pud. E. Afr. 06. t. Ixi. A. 



Eastrrx Region : rortuguefie East Africa ; Inhaiubaue, O'Neill ! Lebomlx) 

 Mountains^ Sim I Swaziland : Ubombo, Wurncrj 7009 1 



Occurs also in Tropical South East Africa. 



VII. BRIDELIA5 Willrl 



Flowers inoiuecious or rarely Jiiiecious. Petah present. Male 

 flower : Sepals 5, valvate. Petals 5, usually small and scale-likej 

 clawed or spathulate, the limb often toothed. Disc entire or 

 sinuately lubed. Stamens 5 ; filaments connate in their lower part 

 into a column in the centre of the flower, the upper parts of the 

 filaments free and spreading ; anther-cells parallel, dehiscing longi- 

 tudinally. Rudimentary ovarfj inserted at the apex of the staminal 

 column, entire or divided. Female flower : Sepals often narrower 

 than thooe of the male. Disc double, the outer annular ; the inner 

 often cupular and embracing the ovary. Ovary 2- (rarely 3-) celled; 

 styles distinct or shortly connate at the base, bilobed or subentire ; 

 ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit a small berry or drupe ; exoearp 

 fleshy or pulpy; endocarp crustaceous or hardened into 2 (or by 

 abortion 1) pyrenes. Seeds often solitary in each pyrene ; albumen 

 usually fleshy, deeply excavated on the inner face ; cotyledons broad 

 and thin. 



Shrubs or trees with alternate petiolate entire leaves ; tertiary nerves mostly 

 parallel ; flowers small, in axillary glomeruleS; rarely in spicate clusters, the male 

 numerous and 8ubsessile, the female fewer or solitiiry, sometimes dirftinctly 

 pedicellate ; bracts small and scaly ; berries or drupes ovoid or globose, small, 

 smooth. 



DiSTRiB. About 41 species, mostly from Tropical Asia, ranging through the 

 Malay Archipelago to New Caledonia and Australia ; a few in Madagascar, 16 in 

 Tropical Africa, 6 of which occur in South Africa. 



Fruits 2-celled ; leaves densely and softly pubescent on 

 both surfaces or below only : 



Leaves permanently hairy above ; sepals of the 



male flowers densely pubescent outside ... (1) mollis. 



Leaves glabrous above from the beginning ; sepaL 



of the male flowers glabrous (-2) angoleasis. 



Fruits 2-celled ; leaves glabrous : 



Lateral nerves of the leaves not extended to the 

 margin to form a marginal nerve, more or less 

 reticulate (3) cathartioa. 



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Lateral nerves of the leaves extended to the margin 



and forming a marginal nerve (4) Schlecliteri 



Fruits 1-celled ; leaves glabrous or hairy : 



Leaves rvisty -pubescent below ; veins usually promi- 

 nent on the lower surface ... /.. ... (5) ferruginea. 



Leaves glabrous or minutely pubemlous belmv ; veins 



scarcely prominent (6) micrantha. 



