Hydnora. | CYTINACE (Hill), 487 
subacute, apices inflexed, connivent, margins 4—} in. thick, furnished 
with ciliate ramenta, a large snow-white spongy body is present on 
the inner side of each segment ; staminal column inserted below the 
middle of the perianth-tube forming a very short subcylindrie ring ; 
anthers numerous 2-celled, with the cells opening extrorsely and 
introrsely ; ovary slightly broader than the perianth-tube ; stigma 
short, cushion-like ; fruit 3—4 in, in diam., thick, fleshy, subtrilobed. 
Thunb. Nov. Gen. Pl. 24, and Fl. Cap. ed: Schultes, 499; F. Meyer 
in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Our. xvi. 2, 775, t. 58; R. Br. in Trans. 
Linn, Soc, xix. 234, 245, tt. 27-30; Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 3° sér. 
xiv. 173, t. 8, figs. 5-10 ; Chatin, Anat. t. 92 bis ; Griff. in Trans. Linn. 
Soe, xix. 319 ; Hook. f. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 109; Marloth in Trans. 
S. Afr. Phil. Soe, xvi. 465, with fig. H. Acharii, Hook. f. Le. 
Aphyteia Hydnora, Acharius, Diss, de Planta Aphyteia, 1776, 10, 
with plate, and in Linn. Amen. Acad. viii. 315 ; Syst. Veg. ed. xiv. 
609 ; Gaertn. De Fruct. ii. 262, t. 137, fig. 3; Lam. Illustr. t. 568 ; 
Tratt. Archiv, ii. 145, t. 190. 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, Ludwig, Zeyher, 1511! 
Coast Rraton: Robertson Div.; Karoo near Kokmans Kloof, Mund! Karoo, 
on roots of Huphorbia and Cotyledon, Thunberg~ 
CentRaL Reaton; Jansenville Div. ; Zwartruggens, parasitic on roots of 
Euphorbia, MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr., 1724! 
‘* Planta Aphyteia,” mentioned in DC. Prodr. xvii. 109, is the title of the 
dissertation by Acharius, and is not used by him as a plant name. 
Marloth (/.c.) draws attention to a white spongy body on the inner face of 
each perianth-segment, which is eaten by a beetle (Dermestes vrulpinus), the 
insect responsible for the pollination of the flower. The white body on decaying 
emits an offensive odour of putrefaction, 
2. H. triceps (Drége & E. Meyer in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 
xvi, 2, 779, t. 59); rhizome stout, 4-angled, angles crested with 
obtuse tubercles; flower shortly pedunculate ; perianth fleshy, 
3-angled above; tube 3-4 in. long, 1-1} in. across, broadening 
above across the segments to 3-4 in, in diam., broadly clavate with 
impressed apex ; segments 3, dilated, broadly oblong, connate above 
leaving apertures only near the base, margins naked; staminal 
column inserted near apex of the tube; anthers numerous, opening 
extrorsely only ; stigma obscurely trilobed ; ovary and fruit as in 
H. africana, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soe. xix. 245; Harv. Thes. 
Cap. ii. tt. 187-188. 
Western Recion: Little Namaqualand ; between Silverfontein, Koperberg 
and Kaus, 2000 ft., Drege; Modderfontein, Whitehead ; near Ookiep, on roots of 
Euphorbia, Hofmeyer ! 
Orper CXV. PIPERACEZE. 
(By C. H. Wriant.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual, Perianth absent in the 
Tropical African genera, Stamens 2-6, rarely more, hypogynous ; 
filaments usually free; anthers erect, often articulated on the 
