428 EUPHOIUUACE.E (Plain). [Chtytia. 



styles free or shortly connate at the base, 2-fid or 2-lobed. Capsule 

 small, subglobose, breaking up septicidally into 3 entire or 2-fid 

 valves ; septa thin, free or adnate to the columella. Seeds ovoid, 

 carunculate ; testa crustaceous^ black and shining ; albumen fleshy ; 

 cotyledons broad, flat. 



Shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate, entirej usually' small. ^ Flowers 

 small ; male pedicelled in axillary fascicles ; female ^vibb. longer pedicels and 

 often solitary. 



DiSTRiB. Species about GO, 20 of them in Tropical Africa. 



*Petals of male flowers each 1-2-glandnlar ; glands usually 

 adnate to claw, occasionally free from the petal and 

 arising from the fundus of the calyx : 

 fLeaves sessile or subsessilcj -nxrelj {ptero(/ona, impedha^ 

 pellucid-punctate : 

 Leaves with margin involute, glabrous ; ovary 

 glabrous ; 

 Twigs puberulous ; leaves 3-4 times as long as 



broad (1) ericoides. 



Twigs glabrous ; leaves less than twice as long as 



broad ., (2) nana. 



F 



Leaves with margin either flat or revolute : 

 Leaves pubescent ; ovary tomentose : 



Petals of female flower glandular at base, like 

 the male ; 



Leaves small, hardly longer than broad ... ( 3 ) tomentosa. 



Leaves medium-sized, twice as long as broad ( 4 ) margiuata. 



Petals of female flower eglandular : 



Leaf-margin quite flat (5) sericea. 



Leaf -margin more or less revolute : 



Leaves 1-3 in. long, slightly revolute ... ( 6 ) Katharinse 



Leaves J-1 in. long, usually much revolute ( 7 ) puhescens. 



Leaves glabrous ; ovary glabrous : 



Stems and twigs winged ; wings membranous, 



erose-denticulate ; leaves pellucid-punctate ( 8 ) pterogona. 



Stems and twigs cyllndric, or if fluted the 

 ridges or wings coriaceous and quite entire : 

 J Leaves opaque : 



Leaf-margin quite smooth or very faintly 

 scabrous : 

 Leaf-margin usually very markedly revo- 

 lute: 

 Leaves |-2 in. long (9) polifolia. 



Leaves J- J in. long ,.. (10) brevifolia. 



Leaf-margin usually quite or nearly flat : 

 Stems simple or eubsimple, several from 



a woody base... , (11) virgata. 



Stems copiously branching (12) laxa. 



Leaf-margin distinctly finely denticulate 

 scabrous : 



Leaf -margin more or less revolute ; 

 Leaves rather large, ^-IJ in. long: 



Leaves obovate-obl'ong, J-| in. wide... (13) africana. 



