516 EUPiior.BiACE.i: (Prain). [Saj)iitm. 



petiole slender, 2-4 lin. long, slightly channelled above ; stipules 

 ovate-triangularj acute^ usually soon deciduous ; spikes terminal on 

 leafy twigs, 2— i J in. long, with many male flowers above and 1-3 basal 

 female flowers ; male bracts orbicular-ovate, finely toothed, several- 

 flowered, glandular at the base ; female bracts 1-flow^ered; pedicels of 

 male fluwers longer than the bracts ; of female flowers about -^ in. 

 long, in fruit | in. long ; male calyx unequally 2-3-fid^ lobes obtuse ; 

 stamens 2, less often 3 ; female calyx deeply 3-partite, sometimes 



with intercalary glandular lacinul?e in the sinuses; ovary glabrous, 

 not hornedj 2-celled, rarely 3-celled ; styles 2, very rarely 3, connate 

 below J capsule coriaceous, hardly dehiscent, usually markedly 

 didymous, sometimes by abortion 1-coccous, J in. across ; seeds sub- 

 globose, pale brown. Pax in BoIeL Sac. Urot, x. 161 ; Hieru in Cat. 

 Afr, PL Welw. iv. 9SG ; S, Moore in Journ, Linn. Soc, Bof, xl. 204 ; 

 Prain in Dyer, FL Trap, Afr. vi. i. 1016. S. ahi/ssimctiifny Benih. 

 Ix, S. Kersiingii, Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xliii. 85. S. elUj)ticumy Pax 

 in Engl. Pflanzenr. Enpltorh. Hqjjjoman. 253. Sderocroton ellijificiis, 

 Ilochst, in Floray 1845, 85; Sond. in Linnsea, xxiii. 107; Bailh 



Eind. Gen. EapJiorh, 523, t. 8, Jig. 17, SiilUngia eUiptiea, BaUL 

 Adansoniay iii. 162. Excoecaria indica, Mi'dh Arg. in Linnseay xxxii. 

 123, and in DC, Prodr. xv. ii. 121Q, partly ; only the African plaid. 

 E. manniana, Mull, Arg. in Flora, 1864, 433, and in DC. Prodr. 

 XV. ii. 1217. E, reticulata, Sim, For, FL Cape CoL 320, as to descrip- 

 tion partly and icliolly as to t. 140, fig. 2 ; and in For. FL Port. 

 E. Afr. lO'd, partly -^ not of Midi. Arg. Tragia elliptica, HochsL ex 

 Mull. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1216; Pax in EngL Pfianzenr. 

 Enpliorh. Hippoman. 253. 



Eastern Eegion: Pondolnnd ; St. Johns, Sim, 2422, partly! Port St. John, 

 above Tiger Flat, 100 it.,\Galphi, 2856! Natal; luanda, Wood, 95i ! Fairfield, 

 Rudathy 117 ! and without precise loealitVj Gueinzius, 175 ! Ki'aaaSj 269 I GerranI, 

 84 ! Gen-ard & Me Ken ! 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



Order CXXII. ULMACE^ 



(By N. E. Browx.) 

 Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual. Perianth 4-o-partite 



slightly imbricate, persistent. Stamens 4-5, free, opposite^ the 

 perianth-segments, absent from the female flower ; anthers dorsifixed, 

 erect or reflexed in bud. Ovary free, rudimentary or abortive^ in 

 the male flowers, often surrounded at the base with a ring of hairs, 

 1-celled ; stigmas 2, terminal, subulate or stoutly filiform ; ovule 

 solitary, pendulous. Fruit fleshy, with a hard endocarp or *' stone. 

 Seed pendulous, with a thin testa, ' albuminous or exalbuminous ; 

 embryo curved ; cotyledons flat or folded. 



