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Drogitetia.] URTICACE^ (Brown). 561 



t£- Zeyh. ex Kraussin Flora, 1845, 88, and Beiir, FL Cap- nnd XuiaL 

 151. P. ca_pensis, Brege in Linnsea, xx. 214, not of Thunherg. 



South Africa : without locality or name of collector, a specimen named by 

 Weddell in Herb, Kew ! 



Coast Region: Knjsna Div. ; Blauwkrantz Pass, Zitzikama, 500 ft., Gafpin, 

 4580 I Ilumansdorp Div. ; between Kromme River and Uitenhage, Zcf/her, BS66 I 



5. D. Burchellii (N. E. Br.); a herb 1-2 ft. high ; stem subterete, 

 4-groovedj pubescent and slightly harsh to the touch, brownish 

 when dried; leaves opposite; petioles 1-15 lin. long; blades i-l^ 

 in. long, ^—1 in. broad, ovate, acute, broadly cimeate at the base 

 and with 5-10 rather small obtuse teeth on each margin, and 

 the terminal tooth not or scarcely longer than broad, pubescent and 

 green on botli sides; stipules spreading, l^"^^ lin. long, very 

 bi'oadly ovate, with a subulate point, membranous, whitish-brown 

 with a dark midrib ; nodes of the short branches and of the upper 

 part of the stems bearing bisexual involucres, lower nodes of stems 

 bearing female involucres ; bisexual involucres 1^ lin, in diam., con- 

 taining about 12-14 male and' 3 female flowers, about 12-toothed, 

 and the teeth with a subulate tip ^-^ lin. long, ciliate with long 

 spreading hairs ; male perianth with the ovate tip acuminate into a 

 subulate ciliate point ^ lin. long, like the involucral teeth and 

 longer than them ; female involucre about f lin. long ; achenes of 

 the bisexual involucres fused into a mass about | lin. long and 1 lin. 

 or more broad ; achenes of the female involucres ^ lin. long, ovoid, 

 keeled, very minutely pitted, brown. 



Coast Region : Bathurst Div. ; near Barville Park, BurcheUj 4034 ! 



Order CXXIIL MYRICACEiE. 



(By J. HuTcnijysoN.) 



Flowers unisexual, arranged in bracteate spikes. Perianth 0; the 

 female with a few hypogynous scales (hradeole^) around the base of 

 the ovary. Male flowers subtended by a solitary bract ; stamens 

 2- 00, usually 4-8 ; filaments short, more or less connate ; anthers 

 erect, ovoid or broadly oblong, with 2 parallel longitudinally dehis- 

 cing cells, rarely accompanied by a small subulate rudimentary 

 ovary. Female flower subtended by a solitary variously shaped 

 bract and with a whorl of small perianth-like hypogynous scales. 

 Ovary sessile, 1-celIed; style short, with two spreading or ascending 

 often flattened branches; ovule 1, erect from the base of the cell, 

 orthotropous. Drupe small, globose or ovoid, usually strongly 

 warted, the warts often at length covered with a white waxy sub- 

 stance ; endocarp hard. Seed erect ; testa membranous ; albumen ; 

 embryo straight, with plano-convex fleshy cotyledons and a short 

 radicle. 



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