384: EUPiiOUBiACE^ (Hutcliinson). [Lachnostylis, 



sepals, striately nervedj nearly glabrous; disc-glands 5, large, 

 woolly-pubescent ; stamens 5 ; filaments connate into a column 

 for half their lenc:th, glabrous; column 1 lin. long, the free part 



l\ lin. long; anthers ^ lin. long; rudimentary ovary tripartite, 

 segments bilobed, villous ; female flower : pedicels up to f in. long, 

 tomentulose; sepals as in the male but nearly glabrous; petals 

 narrower than in the male ; disc thick^ annular, villous ; ovary 

 ovoid-globosCj IJ lin. in diam.j tomentose ; style spreading, f lin. 

 I(mg, recurved at the tip ; capsule trilobed, about 4 lin. in diam^., 

 rather densely pubescent; seeds (immature?) wrinkled. Sond. ^n 



Lhmsea, xxiii, 132; Baill Ehid, Gen, Euph 663; Sim, For. FL 

 Cape Col, 313^ /.'^xlii. ftg..i. Chnjtia hirta, Linn, f. Supple 432; 

 Vald, Symb. ii.' llTl ; ThnnK Prodr. 53 ; FI. Cap. ed. SchulL 272. 

 Clutla acuminata, Thmdj. Prodr. 53 ; Fl. Gap. ed. Scladt. 272, excl 

 syn. LachiostyUs minor ^ Sond. in Linnsea, xxiii. 132. Lach^osiylis 

 Jurla, 3IulL Arg. in DO. Prodr. xv. ii. 224, inch vars. gemma, 

 acuminata and minor, MiilL Arg. 



South Afktca: without precise locality, Jlallach, 11 ! 



CoASi: Region : Swelleudam Div. ; dry hills near Ereede River, Barchelly 7478 . 

 George Div. ; Kaimans Gat, Alexatider {Prior) ! Mossel Bay Div. ; Mossel Bay, 

 Thunberg I Knysna Div. ; Kaatjes Kraal, Burchell, 5213 1 Plettenberg Bay, 

 Pappel Kny^naFoTefit,McNaur/htoninff€rb,GaJpln,2o93\ Bowie \ Humansdorp 

 Div. ; Diep Valley near Humansdorp, Bolus, 2396 ! between Twee Fontein and 

 Essenbosch, Burchell, 4823 ! Uitenhage Div. ; between Galgebosch and Melk 

 River, Burchdl, 4758! Yanstadens River, MaeOwan, 1942! Mrs. Paterson, 1996! 

 Zwartkops River, Alexander {Prior) ! Krakakamma and Uitenhage, Zet/her ; and 

 without precise locality, Zeylier, 783 I Port Elizabeth Div. ; near Port Elizabeth, 

 Burchell, 4364! Elands River, Zeyher, 3618! Znurbraak, Schlechter, 2123 1 

 and without precise localityj Ecldon & Zeylier, 105, 3 ! 34, 2, 1 I 



X. HEYWOODIA, Sim. 



Flotvers dioecious. Petals present. Male flower: Sepals 3, 

 unequal, imbricate. Petals 5, about twice the size of the sepals, 

 strongly imbricatej menibranoua, slightly clawed, entire. Vise 0. 

 Stamens 5, inserted in the middle of the flower; filaments very 

 short, connate at the base ; anthers 2-celled, cells parallel, dehiscing 

 longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary absent. Yoniig female flotcers 

 not known. Capsules in axillary fascicles of 3-4, pedicellate, 

 breaking up into 2-valved cocci; exocarp wrinkled and yellow 

 when dry, rather thin, connected with the central axis by 6-7 

 strands of fibres between the septa ; eudocarp somewhat thicker, 

 firmly crustaceous. Seeds about 4 lin. long, smooth. 



A large glabrous tree with alternate petiolate entire shining leaves and l''^^^ 

 venation, male flowers small, in dense axillary glomerules ; female in axillar} 

 fa:5cicles of 3-4:, pedicellate. 



DisxBiB. Monotj7>ic, endemic. 



