494 EuriiOKDiACE.E (Prain). [Adenodine. 



d'tagn. and in Lmndea, xx. 55 and xxiv. 162 ; BaiU. Adanscnia, iii. 

 159, excl, si/n, Thinh. Paradenodine violsefolia^ MiilL Arg, in DC, 

 Prodr, XV. ii. TOSj name onJtj. P, procumbcnSj Midi, Arg. Ix. 1141, 

 €xd, sfjn. 3[ercurkdls prociimhenSy Linn. 



.ivailfible goes to show that this species is not the plant which was named by 

 Hermann (Parad. Bat., A pp. 10) MucuriaUs africana dicoccos folio Vlohe 



tricolnns. 



XXXIY. GELONIUM, Koxb. 



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Flowers dioecious, rarely moncecious ; pefaJfi 0. Male : Sepals 5, 

 rarely 6, broad, often unequal, imbricate in bud. Beceptade glan- 

 dular or if eglandular with a small extra-staminal clisc. Stamens 

 6-60 J filaments free, filiform : anthers dorsifixed low down, introrse, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary 0. Fenude : Sepals 

 5, imbricate, narrower than in the male. Blsc with a membranous 

 margin, sometimes bearing very rudimentary staminudes. Ovary 

 2-3-celled; ovules solitary in each cell ; styles 2-3, short, spreading, 

 shortly 2-fid or lacerate. Fntit globose or 3-dymous, capsular or 

 drupaceous ; endocarp woody, 3- or 2-celled or casually by abortion 

 1-celled, indehiscent or at length opening loculicidaliy or breaking 

 up into 2-3 cocci. Seed without a caruncle ; testa crustaceous with 

 a. somewhat pulpy outer coat ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. 



South Africa : cultivated sped /ri em. 



Coast Eegiox : Clanwilliam Div. ; Zeekoc Vley, 400 ft., Schlecliter, 8502 ! 

 near Zwartbosch Kraal, 400-500 it., Schlechtei^ 5174! Malmesbury Div. ; Kloof 

 near H-ipelieldj Barhmann, 1265 ! pass near Malmesbury, 900 ft., Schlechtcr, 1603 ! 

 Paarl Div. ; near Paiirl, 1000 ft., Drege (J/, annua) 1 Cape Div. ; Green Point, 

 Zeijher, 3S42, partly I IIarv€)j\ Waterfall on Devils Mountain, Ham-et/l Constantia, 

 800-1000 ft., Krauss, 1821; Oatlands Point, Woolky-Dod, 2922! Mnizenberg, 

 ScJdec'htcr, 1278! Swellemlam Div. ; Kinko River near Swellendani, Zcyher, 3842, 

 pai-tly 1 Uitenhage Div. ; Adclo, iJreye, 2346 (3/. tricocca c) I Alexandria Div. ; | 



Zuiirbevg Range, Dre[/e (M. tricocca h, partly) ! 



Central Region : Willowuiore Div. ; between the Zwartborg Range and 

 Aasvogelberg, Dref/e {M, tricocca a in Herb. Biit. Mus. and Herb. Leiden) ! Graaff 

 Reinet Div. ; Oudeberg MountainSj 3000 ft., and near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., 

 Bolus, 4291 



This species, owing to the structure of its anthers, has been considered by 

 Mixller the type of a distinct genus, Paradenodine, Bentliana has pointed out 

 that there is nothing in the character of the anthers to separate Paradenodine 

 from. Adenodine. The plant should, however, be treated as the type of a distinct 

 section, with androgynous in place of 1-sexTial dioocious intiorescences. As regards 

 its facies it differs from the other species of Adenodine and agrees with Leidena 

 ofAitHt. Mull. Arg., which it greatly resembles and for which it has often been 

 mistaken. There is no specimen of this phuit in the Linnean Herbarium, and 

 there is no foundation for the assertion of Miiller that this is the species described 

 by Linnicus as Mcrcxirialis procumhens. The first description of the specien, 

 published by Kunze in 1846, was based on specimens grown in the Leipzig Botanic 

 Garden. Kunze*s name also perpetuates a misapprehension, for the evidence 



