Toxicodendrum.'] euphoebiacE-E (Hutchinson). 409 



tomentulose ; styles 3 to 5, connate in the lower half, free portions 

 thick and densely papillose ; capsule usually 4-celIedj depressed- 

 globose, 8-lobed, about | in. long, scarcely 1 in. in diam. ; exocarp 

 crustaceous ; endocarp bony, about ^ lin. thick ; seeds black and 



shining, 5 lin. Ion;?. 



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figs. D.-F. ; Sim, For. FL Gaj^e Col, 326. Jniroplta glohosa^ 



Gsertn. Fruct ii. 122, L 109, fig. 3. Hysenancl 

 Desc)\ CinclL 1797, 52, L 10: A. Jms. Tent Fh 



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figs. 29-39; Mull Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 480. 



troton foliis crassis, veno^sis, eic.^ Bitrm. Bar. PL Af\ 



Coast KKGroN : Vaurhynsflorp Div. ; Gift Berg, Thimhcrg, Dregc 6 and $ ! 

 7^eijlier, 1527 ! Fry&r in MacOican, Ihrl. Aiidr.-Afr,, 1529 ! Wind Hoek, 

 Schlcchter, 8072 ! Clanwilliam Div. ; on the mountains, Scott Elliot ! near Claa- 



nor 



Harvey states that the pounded capsules (nuts) are used to poison the carcases 

 of lambs whose bodies are need as bait in destroying hyicnas, hence the generic 

 name IlymnancM applied by Lambert. 



The Gift (poison) Berg is po called on account of the prevalence of this shrub 

 upon it. According to Dr. E. P. Phillips, "It is stated that animals drinking 

 water which has collected beneath these bushes and into which some leaves have 

 fallen die from the effects." 



XVIIL HYMENOCARDIA, Wall. 



Flowers dioecious, apetalous. Disc 0. Male floicers: Calyx- 

 segments or lobes 4-5, rarely 6, imbricate. Stamens usually 5, 

 opposite the calyx-segments ; filaments rarely exceeding the calyx, 

 connate at the base into a very short column or free ; anthers large, 

 at first reflexed, usually adorned with a conspicuous yellow or 

 golden-coloured gland on the back, cells distinct, parallel, dehiscing 

 longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary as long as the filaments, bifid 

 or entire. Female Jlowers : Sejjals distinct, narrow, caducous. 

 Ocary 2-celled, compressed in the opposite plane to that of the 

 septum ; styles 2, free from the base, long, subterete or flattened in 

 the same plane as the ovary, undivided, papillose or glabrous; 

 ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule flat, of 2 compressed very broadly 

 ^'Jnged cocci, separating from a central axis ; pericarp crustaceous, 

 i^eticulate ; endocarp membranous. Seeds usually solitary in each 

 coccus, compressed ; testa thin ; albumen not copious ; cotyledons 

 ttin, broad and flat ; radicle long. 



Trees or tall shrubs ; leaves alternate, petiolate, membranous or coriaceous, 

 entire, penninerved ; male inflorescence a catkin-like spike, female shortly 

 '^cemose, 



DrsTRiB. Species 8, cue in India, the remainder Tropical African. 



