Flu(jgm?[ euphorbiacE-t: (Hutchinson). 40 



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1. ^o, ana neiui. newevr. l\)o ] JJe 



Th & Hel. Durandy Syll. FL Congoh 483. F, ohovaia,var. luxurians-^ 



Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Iv. Mem. viii. 55. F, aenev f^i s , 

 Klotzscli in Peters^ Beise 3Iossamh, Bot. lOG. PhyllantJius viroms, 

 Boxb. ex WtUd, Sp. PL iv. 578. P. luciihus, Hort, ex Willd. Eanm. 

 PL Hort, Bot. BeroL 329. P. angulatus, Schnm. d: Thonn, Btisl'r, 

 Chiin. PL 415. P. dioicus, Schum. ct Thonn. Lc. 416. P, pohjgamiu^, 

 SocltsL ex A. Bkh. Tent FL Abyss, ii. 256. Xylophylla ohovata, 

 WiUd. Enum. PL HorL Bot. BeroL 329. Sertirinega abyssinlca, 

 A. Bich, Lc\ ; Sclnremf. Beltr. FJ. Aethiop, 38. S. ohovata, MiilL 

 Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 449; Beidh. FI. Austral, vi. 115. 

 Acidoton ohovatus^ 0. Kuntze, Bev. Gen. PL ii. 592. 



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South Africa : without precise locality, Lahuale in Ihvh. Paris \ 

 Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; , Barberton, Galpin, 686 ! Komati Poort 

 Schkchter, 11796! 11797! Potgieters Rust, Mhs Lcendertz, 1244! Swaziland, 



Bnrtt-Davy, 106.2 ! Bremmerdorp, ridge above M'Katlialaage Spruit, Burtt'Dacy^ 



3017 ! 



Eastern Pegiox : Natal ; near Durban, Gerrard^ 215;) ! Zululand ; GinginhlovUj 

 Hitygarth in Iltrh. HW7, 12578 ! 



Occurs a];^o iu India, and widely spread in Tmpical Africa. 



XTY. DRYPETES, Vahl. 



Floivers ditjecious. Petals absent. 3Iale flowers : Buds mostly 

 globose. SejKils 4 or 5, broad, imbricate, usually coriaceous. 

 Stamens 3- oo, inserted around the base of a central flat concave or 

 rarely cupular disc ; filaments free ; anthers erect, often large, cells 

 parallel and dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary not 



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middle of the disc. Female flowers : Calyx as in the male. Disc 

 ^ypogynous, annular or cupular. Ovary 1-4-celled; styles short or 

 absent ; stigmas thick, flattened, bifid or undivided and more or less 

 reniform; ovules 2 in each cell. Frnits globose, ellipsoid or ovoid, 

 indehiscent; pericarp thick, woody, 1-4-celled. Seeds solitary by 

 aT>ortion ; albumen fleshy ; embryo straight ; cotyledons flat and 

 broad. 



Trees or shiaibs ; leaves alternate, coriaceous or chartaceous, entii'e or toothed ; 

 stipules caducous, rarely persi-tent ; male and female flowers fasciculate in the 

 axils of the leaves, or produced on the older branches or the stem, usually 

 pedicellate. 



DisTRiB. Species over 70, chiefly iu the Old-M'orld Tropics^ a few in the West 

 Indies and South America. The reasons for uniting Dnjpetes, Yahl (1807) with 

 C^ychstemon, Blunie (1825) have been fully discussed by the writer in Dyer's 

 Flora of Trop. Afr. vi. i. 674. 



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