404 EUPHOiir.iACE.^] (Hutchinson). [Dryjyetes 



Flowers produced in dense clusters on the older branches 

 which are devoid of leaves or on the trunk ; stamens 



20-25 (1) natttlensis. 



Flowers produced in the axils of the leaves on the young 

 shoots ; stamens 4-15 :- 

 Male and female flowers with pedicels 1-^ in. long ; 



male sepals 5 ; stamens 15 ... ... ... ... (2) arguta. 



IVlale flowers sessile or with a pedicel 1-lJ lin. long ; 

 female flowers in the fruiting stage with a 

 pedicel up to 4 lin. long; male sepals and 

 stamens 4 (3) Gerrardii. 



1. D. natalensis (Hutchinson); a slirub or small tree; yoiuig 

 branchlets thinly pubescent or nearly glabrous ; leaves elliptic or 

 oblong-ellipticj acute, rounded and very slightly unequal-sided at 

 the base, 3-6 in. long, 1-2 J in. broad, very coarsely and sharply 

 dentate or sometimes nearly entire or only slightly denticulate, 

 thinly and rather rigidly coriaceous, glabrous and glossy on both 

 surfaces ; lateral ner\ es 6-8 on each side, looped and branched far 

 from the margin, prominent on both surfaces ; veins lax ; petiole 

 3-4 lin. long, slightly pubescent and wrinkled ; flowers of both 

 sexes fasciculate, springing from the older branches or the trunk ; 

 male flowers crowded ; pedicels about 3 lin. long, pubescent ; sepals 

 broadly imbricate, rounded, about ^ in. long, almost membranous, 

 puberulous outside ; stamens 20-25, inserted around a fleshy 

 glabrous lobed disc; anthers l^lin. long; female flowers: pedicel 

 ^ in. long, puberulous ; sepals as in the male ; disc fleshy, much 

 crenulated, glabrous ; ovary tomentose, 3-celled ; styles 3, spreading, 

 fleshy, spathulate. Cydostemon nafalense, Harv, Tlies. Gap, ii. 64j 

 t. 200 ; Mail Arg, in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 483 : Sim, For. Fl Cape 



Col 315. 



Eastern Region: Natal; near Durban, ^^andenon,l05 \ Gcrrard, V^ I *52 ! 

 724! 862! Wood, 1161 1426! I75t}\ 



Harvey states on the authority of Sanderson that the flowers are yellow and 

 very fetid and offensive. M'Ken states on his label that '' the fruits occur on the 

 thick stems down to the roots." 



2. D. arguta (Hutchinson) ; branchlets slender, grooved or 

 angular, pubescent, fit length becoming nearly glabrous ; leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate or rarely ovate-lanceolate, long and acutely more 

 or less gradually acuminate, rounded, subcordate and slightly 

 unequal-sided at the base, 2-3^- in. long, |~li in. broad, sharply 

 dentate, chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, slightly shining ; 

 lateral nerves 7-11 on each side, looped and much branched some 

 distance from the margin, like the tertiary nerves prominent on 

 both surfaces; petiole l-l^ lin. long, shortly pubescent ; stipules 

 lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, about ^ in. long, scarious, 

 slightly ciliate, otherwise glabrous ; flowers axillary on the young 

 shoots, solitary or the males sometimes in pairs; male flowers: 

 pedicel ^J— J in. long, shortly pubescent ; sepals 5, broadly ovate. 



