304 CVIII. SANTALACER. 
celled anthers. Disk spread thinly over the tube, inconspicuous. 
Style elongate, obtuse or sub-3-lobed. Drupe ellipsoid, 
crowned by the (finally deciduous) limb of calyx.—DC. Prod. 
xiv. p. 635; Thes. Cap. t. 199. 
Slender shrubs, scrambling or half-climbing through larger shrubs ; the 
branches pendulous. Leaves alternate, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate. 
Flowers axillary, 1-3 together.—1 Eastern district and Natal species, 
another in Abyssinia. 
4. THESIUM, Linn. 
Flowers bisexual. Calyx prolonged above the ovary, the 
free part salver-, funnel-, or bell-shaped; 5-(rarely 4-)lobed, 
persistent or at length deciduous; lobes mostly with a tuft of 
hairs, rarely glabrous. Stamens at the base of each lobe; 
filaments linear. Disk mostly indistinct. Style reaching the 
stamens or much shorter; stigma obtuse or capitate. Nut 
ellipsoid, dry, mostly crowned by the persistent limb of calyx, 
nerve-ribbed.—DC. Prod. xiv. p. 637. 
Herbs or small shrubs, widely dispersed in the Hastern hemisphere. 
Leaves alternate, mostly narrow and glabrous, rarely expanded. Flowers 
commonly cymose, sometimes capitate, spiked panicled or dispersed.—62 
species at the Cape, from various parts of the colony. 
5. THESIDIUM, Sond. 
Flowers diwcious. Calyx above the ovary bell-shaped or 
subrotate, 4-(rarely 5-)fid, glabrous, except a tuft of hairs in 
the male flowers towards the anthers. Males: Stamens at 
base of each lobe; filaments slender. Females: Style short ; 
stigma obscurely 3-lobed. Nut as in Lhesium— DC. Prod. 
xiv. p. 673. 
Annuals or small undershrubs. Leaves alternate, minute, often scale- 
like. Flowers axillary, sessile or subsessile, mostly solitary, in lax spikes. 
—6 species, dispersed. ; 
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Orper CIX. EUPHORBIACEZ. 
Flowers unisexual. Calyx free, 4—6-cleft or -parted, valvate 
or imbricate, rarely 2- or many-leaved or 0. Petals usually 0, 
when present alternating with the calyx-lobes, short and scale- 
like or well developed.—Male flowers: Stamens definite or 
indefinite, free or monadelphous; anthers 2-celled.—Female 
flowers: Ovary sessile or stipitate, 2-3- or many-celled, the 
margins of the valves inflexed and adnate to a central column ; 
ovules solitary or in pairs, pendulous; styles as many as the 
carpels, free or variously united or obsolete ; stigmas united 
or distinct. Fruit (very rarely fleshy) of 2-3 or more (usually 
