16 X. BIXACER. 
6. DOVYALIS, E. Mey. 
Flowers dicwcious. Male: Sepals 5-8, tomentose, scarcely 
imbricate. Petals none. Stamens 12-20 or many, inserted on 
a fleshy, glandular disk ; filaments filiform ; anthers didymous, 
short. Female: Ovary seated on a lobed, fleshy disk, with 
2-6 or more, strongly inflexed placentz ; ovules solitary or 
few, pendulous; styles as many as the placente, spreading. 
Berry indehiscent, pulpy within, few-seeded. Seeds glabrous 
or woolly.— Fl. Cap.i. p. 69. Also Aberia, Fl. Cap. i. p. 70, 
and i. (Suppl.) p. 584. 
Shrubs or small trees, often spiny. Leaves simple, entire or toothed, 
alternate. Flowers axillary, small; the males tufted, females solitary. 
There are two sections or subgenera, viz. :— 
1. Dovyatis, E. M. Seeds glabrous. (2 species.) 
2. ABERIA, Hochst. Seeds woolly. (4 species.) 
In the ‘ Flora’ Iretained Adberia as distinct from Dovyalis, but the recent 
discovery of two new species with intermediate characters, has induced me 
to unite them. One of these, the “‘ Kei apple” (Aberia Caffra, Hook. f. 
and Harv.), has 6 (or probably more) styles and placentee. There is abso- 
lutely no difference whatever in abit between the species of the two sub- 
genera. 
7. KIGGELARIA, Linn. 
Flowers dicecious. Calyx 5-parted, deciduous ; sepals val- 
vate in bud. Petals 5, imbricate, leathery, each with a fleshy 
gland at its base inside. Male: Stamens 10, crowded in the 
base of the calyx; filaments short; anthers hard and dry, 2- 
celled, opening by terminal pores. Female: Ovary sessile, 
with 2-5 parietal placentz ; styles 2-5, short; ovules many. 
Capsule globose, pubescent, leathery, several-seeded, bursting 
imperfectly into 2-5 valves.— Fl. Cap. i. p. 71. 
Endemic shrubs or small trees. Leaves simple, entire or denticulate. 
Male flowers in axillary cymes ; female solitary.—3 species. 
Suporper 2, Homarinem.* (Gen. 8.) 
8. HOMALIUM, Jacq. 
Flowers bisexual. Calyx persistent, with a conical tube 
and multipartite (10-80-cleft) limb; segments in two rows, 
the inner ones largest. A gland opposite the base of each 
of the outer segments. Stamens perigynous, alternating with 
the glands singly or in parcels of 2 or 3; filaments filiform ; 
anthers didymous, opening longitudinally. Ovary half-infe- 
rior, 1-celled, with 38-5 parietal placente ; styles 3-5, subulate, 
* This Suborder is usually regarded as a distinct Order, and placed in 
Calyciflore. I retain it here on account of the very intimate relationship 
between Homalium, Scolopia, and Trimeria. 
