Sjnrostachjs:] EUPHOKBIACE.-e (Prain). 513 



above; stipules minute, lanceolate, caducous ; spikes lateral, appear 

 ing before the leaves, sessile, densely imbricately spirally bractcate, 

 ^-f in, long, with many male flowers above and usually 1-3 ba^^al 

 female flowers; male bracts obtuse, eglandular, 1 -flowered ; male 

 pedicels obsolete ; female pedicels short, in fruit reaching l-\ in. in 

 length ; male calyx 5- (less often 4-) sect ; lobes obovate-spathulate, 

 obtuse; anthers 3, extrorse, at the apex of the stamina! tube; 

 female calyx 5-sect ; lobes triangular-ovate ; ovary glabrous ; 

 styles 3, rarely 2, connate below in a short column; capsule 

 3-dymous, rarely 2-dymous, ^ in. across ; valves thinly crustaceous ; 

 seeds globose. W(d;p. Ann, iii. 360; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Evphorh.- 

 Sippoman. 155; Pram in Dijer, FL Trap. Afr, vi. i. 1006. 



S. sijnandray Pax, Lc. SitUingia africana^ BailL fyiuL Gen. 

 Euphorh, 522, and in Adansonla^va, 163. E.vcoecaria africana^ MnlL 

 Arg. in Linn sea, xxxii. 123, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1215; Siniy 



t 100 B. E. 



Ho 



AA 



S37, jjarily I not of Linn, E. ^ynandra. Pax in Engl. Jahrh, xliii. 

 223, Mapronnea africana, Midi, Arg, in DO, Prodr. xv. ii. 1191, 



mainly; H/'trn in Cat Afr. PL Weltv. i. 985, mainly. Sapiura 

 ^fricanuniy 0. Kunlze, Bcv. Gen. PI. iii. ii. 293, Excaicariopsis 

 Dinteriy Pax In Engl. Jalirh. xlv, 239. E. synandra, Pax I.e. 



1350-2:) 

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Eastekx Ekgiox : Fatal; Umgeni River, 100 ft., Wood, o917 ! without precise 

 locality, G it einzi m \ Gerrard, 747! Cooper, 3404! Delagoa Bay; near liouren^o 

 ^larques, Bohi.% 9782 ! Sim ; Umbehisi, Sim. 



Also in Tropicnl Africa. 



XLI. SAPIUM, R Br. 



Ploivers mona^cious, rarely dioecious; petals 0; disc 0. Male: 

 Calyx usually 3-lobed, valvate, subvalvate or open in bud. Stamens 

 2-3 ; filaments free ; anthers dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary 

 (^vary 0. Female: Calyx 2-3dobed. Ocary 3-eelled, rarely 2-celled ; 

 ovules solitary in each cell ; styles 3, rarely 2, free or slightly 

 connate below, entire. Capsule 3-coccous, rarely 2-coccous: cocci 

 2-valved, rarely sublndehiseent. Seeds glol>ose or narrow-oblong, 

 ecarunculate in all S. African species; albumen fleshy; cotyledons 

 broad, flat. 



Trees or sliruLs, everywhere glabrous ; leaves alternate ; spikes terminal, 

 androgynous with numerous male flowers above and a few ba^al female flowers. 



DisTRiB. About 100 species, widely spread in all tropical regions. 



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