Cardiogyne^ morace.e (BroAvn). 523 



A climbing shrub or a bush ; leaves alternate, incouspicuously stipulate ; 

 flowers 111 dense globose beads solitary or in pairs in the axils of the leaves ; fruit 

 globose, compound, pulpy, 



DiSTRiB. Species 1, in Tropical Eastern South Africa. 



This genus is very closely related to Cudrania, and only differs from it by the 

 stamens being inflesed in bud. 



1. C. africana (Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 233); a climbing 

 shrub or bush, armed with spines; branches glabrous or puberuhjus, 

 with pale grey bark, often ending in a spine and also with axillary 

 spines; leaves alternatej inconspicuously stipulate; petiole -]— 1 in. 

 long, slender, glabrous or puberulous ; blade 1-3 in. long, |-1| in. 

 broad, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, shortly and obtusely pointed or 

 rounded and slightly notched at the apex, glabrous on both sides or 

 puberulous on the midrib beneath ; stipules ^-1 lin. long, ovate, very 

 acuminate, quickly deciduous ; flowers mingled Avith bracts in dense 

 globose pedunculate heads 3^-7 Jin. in diam. ; heads solitary or two 

 together, axillary, sessile in the female and on peduncles 2-3 lin. long 

 in the male plant, minutely and densely velvety, greyish or whitish ; 

 perianth-segments 4, imbricatcj 1-1 ^ lin. long, |— 1 lin. broad, . 

 obovate, broadly rounded at the apex, concave at the upper part 

 and gibbous on the back in the male, truncate, thickened and 

 dorsally gibbous at the apex in the female flowers; stamens 4, 

 twice as long as the perianth-segments, inflexed in bud ; filaments 

 red ; anthers yellow ; ovary obovate. compressed, 1-celled, with 1 

 pendulous ovule; style terminal, filiform; female heads in fruit 

 the size of a walnut, uneven on the surface, yellowish cream- 

 colour'' {KirJc) ; achene enclosed in the perianth, 2^ lin. long, 2 

 lin. in diam., ellipsoid, notched at the apex, smooth, whitish-brown. 

 Sam. lUsL Nat. PL Madag. L 294; Ho(j1c, Jc. PL xxv, L 2473; 

 EngL d Pranfl, Pflanzenfam. iii. i. 76 ; EngL Monogr. Afn 

 Pjlanzenfam. Moracese, 5 ; iteudle in Dyer, FL Trop. Afr, vi. ii, 24. 

 Cudraneay KirJc in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. ix. 229. 



■ Eastern Regiox : Delagna Bay ; on a hill near Lourenyo Marques, Bolus, 9783 ! 



Also iu Tropical Africa. 

 , The fruit is edible and the wood dy^s cloth yellow. In each periaiith-segment 

 there are two cavities filled with yellow granular matter. 



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II. riCUS, Linn. 

 (By J. Hutchinson.) 



Flowers monoecious or very rarely dicecious, enclosed in a variously 

 shaped fleshy or somewhat woody receptacle (fig). Male flower 



perianth 2-6-lobed or -partite ; lobes or segments imbricate, usually 

 membranous and hyaline ; stamens 1-2, or rarely 3-6, with straight 



