CleistanfJiKs.] EUPiioiiBiACE^ (Hutchinson). 383 



fairly slender, up to | in. long, puberulous ; buds clavate-ellipsoid, 

 obtuse, about 2 lin. long ; sepals linear or oblong-linear, obtuse, 

 2 lin. long, minutely puberulous ; petals small, about I the length 

 of the sepals, subspathulate ; disc thick, undulate, gla})rous ; anthers 

 li lin. long; rudimentary ovary small, tripartite; female flowers 

 similar to the male ; ovary subglobose, black, glabrous ; styles 3, 

 somewhat slender, bifid, glabrous ; ripe fruits not seen. Securinega 

 ScJdecJiteri, Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xxviil. 18. 



■ Eastern Regiox : Delagoa Bay ; Lorenzo Marques, Schkckter^ 11524 ! 



This is nndoiibtedly a species of Clcutanthin^, and very closely allied to 

 C. HoUziiy Pas, but distinguished by its much smaller leaves. 



IX. LACHNOSTYLIS, Tmcz. 



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Flowers dioecious. Petals present. Male flower: Sepah 5, 

 imbricate, subequal. Petals 5, slightly larger than the sepals. 

 DiSc-glands thick^ villous. Stamens 5; filaments connate for half 

 their length, spreading in the upper part around a villous tripartite 

 rudimentary ovary ; anther-cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. 



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Pisc annular, 



thick, villous. Ovary ovoid-glubose, 3-celled, tonientose ; styles 

 short, recurved-spreading, shortly bifid ; ovules 2 in each ovary-cell. 

 Capsule breaking up into 2-valved cocci; pericarp thick and crus- 

 taceous. Seeds subglobose, smooth ; albumen scanty ; cotyledons 

 broad, much contorted-plicate. 



A much-branched shrub ; leaves rather small, alternate, coriaceous, entire ; 

 flowers fasciculate in the leaf -axils, the male s^hortlypediceHate, the female fewer 

 than the male or Bubsolitary, long pedicellate. 



DiSTRiB. Species 1, endemic. 



1. L. capensis (Turcz. in Bull Soc. Nat. Mosc. xix. ii. 503); a 

 shrub, about 7 ft. high, much branched ; branches twiggy, tomentose 

 or pubescent when young,, at length glabrous and covered with 

 numerous conspicuous lenticels; leaves oblanceolate, somewhat 

 rounded and mucronate at the apex, gradually narrowed to the base, 

 ' -2 in. long, ^-^ in. broad, rather rigidly coriaceous, with entire 

 cartilaginous margins, rather closely and conspicuously reticulate 

 on both surfaces especially above, puberulous on both surfaces when 

 young, at length glabrous ; lateral nerves 5-7 on each side, spreading, 

 looped and branched near the margin, conspicuous on both surfaces ; 

 petiole about 1 J lin. long, often slightly pubescent ; stipules lanceolate, 

 membranous, scarcely 1 lin. long, sparingly pubescent or glabrous ; 

 flowers dioecious, in axillary fascicles, shortly pedicellate ; pedicels 

 woolly-tomentose ; male flower : sepals 5, ovate-elliptic, obtuse, 

 woolly-pubescent, concave on the inside, 1^ lin. long, 1 lin. broad; 

 petals obovate^ narrowed to the base, slightly larger than the 



