408 EUPHOEBiACEiE (Hutchinson). . [Fseudolachnostylis, 



diain. ; pericarp about ^ lin. thick, coarsely wrinkled when dry, 

 yellow-drab ; endocarp bony and very hard, yellow, nearly ^ lin. 

 thick; seeds ellipsoid, shining, with a yellowish strophiole at the 

 base, longitudinally striate, 3^ lin. long, 2^ lin. broad. Hutchinson 

 in Dyer, FL Troj>, Afr, vi. i. 672, and in Hooh Ic. Fit 3011- 



Eastern Region : Transvaal ; Warm Baths, Burtt-Davy, 2151 ! between 

 Thabina and Tzaneen^ on slope of a Kopje near Groot Lctaba^ Burtt-Davy, 5286 I 

 near Izaneen Estate, Burit-Davy, 5560 ! 



Occ\irs also in Tropical Africa. 



XVII. TOXICODENDRUM, Thimb. 



Flowers dioecious. Petals and disc absent. Male floxvers : Sepals 

 5-6, short, irregularly imbricate. Stamens indefinite ; filaments 

 very short, densely inF?erted on a broad receptacle ; anthers large, 

 erect, dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary absent. Female 

 flowers : Sepals 6, in two series, the outer smaller. Ovary hairy, 

 3-4-celled ; styles 3-5, connate in the lower half, the free parts 

 thick and wrinkled (densely papillose). Capsule depressed-globose, 

 hard, dehiscing into 2-valved cocci. Seeds with a shining crustaceous 

 testa ; albumen fleshy ; embrj-o straight, with broad flat cotyledons. 



A small tree or shrub ; leaves in whorls of 4, lanceolate, entire, rigidly 

 coriaceous, penninerved ; flowers axillary, males In dense pedunculate or subsessile 

 cj^mules, females sessile, 1-3 between each leaf-axil. 



DiSTKiB. Monotypic, endemic, 



Toxicodendron acvtifolium, Benth. in Joum. Linn. Soc. xvii. 214. is Xy^^i^f^^os 

 monospora, BailL (of. C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. v. i. 493). 



1. T. capense (Thunb. in Vet. Akad, Handl. Stockh. 1796, 

 I8S3 t. 7) ; a shrub or small tree with corky branches; branchlets 

 grooved or angular when dry, finely puberulous, soon becoming 

 glabrous ; leaves in whorls of 4, lanceolate^ rounded and sometimes 

 emarginate at the apex, gradually narrowed to the base, 2^-4 in. 

 1*^"& -j"H' ^^- hroad, very rigidly coriaceous, entire, at first slightly 

 puberulous on both surfaces, soon becoming glabrous ; lateral 

 nerves 8-10 on each side, rather faint ; petiole \-}, in. long, rather 

 stout and finely puberulous ; male inflorescence axillary, densely 

 cymulose, shortly pedunculate or subsessile, about one-sixth the 

 length of the leaves ; peduncle up to ^ lin, longj rather densely and 

 shortly pubescent ; pedicels about 1 lin. long, shortly pubescent ; 

 sepals 5, rounded, much shorter than the stamen^, somewhat 

 tomentulose outside ; stamens numerous, inserted on a broad 

 receptacle ; filaments very short ; anthers large, erect ; female 

 flowers sessile, 1-3 between each leaf -axil; sepals 6 in two series, 

 the outer smaller, all suborbicular and tomentulose ; ovary ovoid, 



