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on the inner face. Fruit 4-lobed, of 4 nut-like carpels.— 7. 
Cap. 1. p. 572. 
Water plants, with opposite or whorled leaves, the submerged ones pec- 
tinate-parted. Flowers in terminal leafy spikes, or axillary.— MM. spicatum, 
Linn., a widely-distributed species, occurs in several South African rivers. 
Orpver XLIX. BALANOPHOREZ. 
Flowers unisexual, in dense heads spikes or panicles.— 
Male: Perianth 3-parted, valvate in bud, or 0. Stamens 1-3, 
opposite the segments of the perianth—Female: Perianth 
epigynous 3-lobed or obsolete. Ovary inferior, 1-celled ; ovule 
solitary, pendulous ; styles filiform, 1-2 or 0. Fruit dry or suc- 
culent, indehiscent, the seed filling the cavity. Embryo very * 
minute, in fleshy or friable albumen.—Fleshy, fungous-like 
root-parasites of hot countries. Leaves represented by fleshy, 
coloured scales. Flowers either bracteate, involucred, or 
naked. 
Flowers monecious, in dense bracteate spikes . . 1. MysTRopEraLon. 
Flowers dicecious, the males panicled ; females con- 
crete, im globose heads . . .... =. . . 2. SARCOPHYTE. 
1. MYSTROPETALON, Harv. 
Flowers moncecious, in dense bracteate spikes.—Male: Pe- 
rianth 3-parted, 2-labiate, the segments with long claws and 
spathulate limbs, valvate in bud, the 2 posterior connate. 
Stamens 2, opposite to and inserted on the posterior segments, 
conniving ; anthers 2-celled, extrorse, opening longitudinally ; 
pollen cubical—Female : Perianth epigynous, tubular, 3- 
toothed. Ovary seated in a cup-like, fleshy disk or recep- 
tacle, l-ovuled; style filiform, exserted, deciduous; stigma 
capitate, 3-lobed. Fruit subtended by the unchanged recep- 
tacle, with a thin, juicy epicarp, and a crustaceous endocarp, 
1-seeded. Embryo very minute, in the base of easily-friable 
albumen.— Fl. Cap. i. p. 573. 
Stem simple, fleshy, densely imbricated with linear-spathulate scales, 
ending in a dense spike of flowers. Female flowers in the lower, males in 
the upper part of the spike. Bracts 3 under each flower, 1 anterior, 2 lateral. 
Bracts orange. Flowers bright red.—2 species: M. Polemanni, from How- 
hoek Pass ; M. Thomii, from Caledon Baths. 
2. SARCOPHYTE, Sparm. 
Flowers dicecious.— Male flower panicled ; perianth 3-lobed, 
valvate in bud. Stamens 3, opposite the lobes ; filaments free ; 
anthers multilocular.— Female flowers in globose heads, densely 
crowded. Perianth 0. Ovary seated on a subglobose common 
