Chcctacme.] ulmace.4' (Brown). 521 



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female flowers; anthers erect in bud. Ovary sessile, erect, rudimen- 

 tary in the male flowers, 1-ceIled, with 1 pendulous ovule ; styles 2, 

 terminal, not oblique, filiform, long and densely hairy-stigmatose. 

 Fruit globose, at first fleshy, becoming dry and hard, '^ath a bony 

 endocarp. Seed globose, with a thin membranous testa, exalbu- 

 mmous ; embryo curved, with unequal thick fleshy ;cotyledons, the 

 larger enveloping the smaller. 



Trees or shrubs, spiny, without .stinging hairs ; leaves alternate, stipulate ; 

 stipules connate and sheathing the bud, deciduous as the bud expands; inah 

 nowei-B in small axillary cymes or clusters, female solitaiy, axillary. 



DrsTRiB. Species 2, one in Tropical aud Suuth Africa, the other in 3Iadagascar. 



1. C, aristata (Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. 3me ser. x. 341) ; a slirub 

 or tree 9-35 ft. high^ more or less armed with spines ; young branches 

 varying from glabrous to 2:)ubescent^ usually more or less zigzag ; 

 leaves alternatej stipulate ; petiole 1-4 lin. long} blade ^-3 in, long, 

 ii-1^ in. broad, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolute or elli|>tic, obtuse or 

 acute, tipped with a bristle 1-4 lin. long, entire or more or le--> 

 toothed, even on the same branch, glabrous on both sides or thinly 

 puberulous beneath ; stipules connate into a sheath including the 

 terminal bud, 3-11 lin. long, glabrous or puberulous, brown, quickly 

 deciduous; spines axillary, solitary or in pairs, 2-14 lin. long; 

 male flowers in axillary clusters or cymes :^-li in. in diam. ; 

 bracts |-| lin. long, ovate, obtuse, glabrous or pubescent, ciliate ; 

 pedicels i-2^ lin. long, jointed close under the flower, glabrous 

 or puberulous ; perianth-segments 1 lin. long, deeply boat-sliaped 

 with the margins folded inwards, glabrous to pubescent, green ; 

 stamens 5, included in the concavity of the perianth-segments ; 

 ovary rudimentary, sometimes with 2 short style-arms at the apex, 

 pubescent; female flower solitary, axillary; pedicel 1-1^ lin. long, 

 pubescent (or perhaps sometimes glaijrous?), with 1 minute ovate 

 pubescent bract ; perianth-segments | lin. long, ^ lin. broad, flattish, 



ovate, obtuse, puberulous ; ovar}' erect, sessile, subglobose or ovoid, 

 glabrous or puberulous; styles 2, terminal, 6-8 lin. long, filiform, 

 diverging-erect, hair}^; fruit globose, about i in. in diam., at first 

 fleshy, flesh becoming dry and hard and adhering to the hard stone 

 or endocarp. Planch, in DC, Prodr. xvii. 210 ; Sim, For. FL Cape 

 Col 305, /. IGO, Jiff, 1. C nUida, PlancK it Harv., and C. Mcyeri.H^^rv. 

 Thes. Cap. I 16, L2b. C serrata, EfVfJ. in Noflzhl Komgl Hot. Gart. 

 Berlin, iii. 24; Bendle in Dyer, FL Trap, Afr, vl ii. 14. Celt is 

 ^ppendiculata, E, Meyer, C aristata, E. Meyer, and C. suhdentata, 

 F. Meyer in Drege Zwei Pfl. Documente, 171. 



Coast Region: Fitenhage Div. ; forest near Van Stadens Kiver, Burchell, 

 ^^6fj ! Galgebosch and Enoii, Dn'ge ! and without precise locality, Zei/her, 675 ! 

 Albanj- Tflv. ; between Blue Kraiitz and Kowie Poort, Burchell, 3667 I Stocken- 

 ^trom Div. ; Ga^pin, 1736 I 



Easteex Rkgion : Pondoland ; St. Johns Eiver, Drege ! woods near coast, 

 ^ei/rich, 119, Baclimann, 432. 433. Natal; Inanda, Wood, 6981 near Durl>an, 

 IVood in MacOwan it Bolus Herh. Norm, Austr.-Afr. 13661 and without precise 

 locality, Gei-rard, 270! 276! 547! 1182! Gueinziusl 



AUo in Tropical Africa. 



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