CXIV. RAFFLESIACE®. 3849 
Stamens united in a central column, definite (8-12) ; anthers 
2-celled, splitting lengthwise, extrorse, lmear. Abortive ovary 
many-celled, the cells opening into the base of the calyx; 
styles several, crowning the staminal column.—Female: No 
stamens. Ovary inferior, 1-celled, with numerous (8-16) 
parietal, prominent placentas ; ovules very many ; style single ; 
stigma capitate, radiate-lobed. Embryo undivided, exalbumi- 
nous.—. Br. in Linn. Trans. xix. p. 245; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 336 ; 
Endl. Gen. 723. 
Somewhat succulent, coloured parasites on roots, with scale-like, imbri- 
cated leaves, and axillary, sessile flowers.— C. dioicus, the only Cape species, 
oecurs on the roots of Hriocephalus about the sides of Table Mountain, 
Capetown. 
Orper CXV. PIPERACE. 
Flowers bisexual or unisexual, nude (without calyx), sessile 
on a fleshy rachis, each subtended by a bract. Stamens 2, 3, 
or many, ranged on one side or all round the ovary ; anthers 
ovate, extrorse, 2- or 1-celled, adnate. Ovary sessile, solitary, 
1-celled; ovule solitary, erect, basifixed ; stigma sessile, ter- 
minal or oblique, simple or 8-4-lobed. Fruit fleshy, 1-seeded ; 
embryo minute, enclosed in a special cavity of the copious 
albumen.—Shrubs or herbs, often succulent, with jointed 
stems, opposite or rarely alternate leaves and spiked flowers. 
The common Pepper is a familiar example of the Order. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. 
A slender, jointed, climbing shrub; stigmas 2, lance- 
Bbere tat te s. igi rete acs sl Seiy af as ee ciel et) ot ay Pe COCOOBRYOND 
Small, succulent herbs, of shady places ; stigma single, 
Bn eLODOSOM eta) i Hiiiie, ook eile, ue Bote in st kto. ER PRROMTAS 
Flowers dicecious ; stigmas 3-5, short, sessile ; a slender 
climbing shrub. . . ..... =... . « 2 CUBEBA, 
1. COCCOBRYON, KI. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, in dense spikes. Bracts stipitate, 
peltate, with an orbicular, membrano-coriaceous, glabrous limb. 
Stamens 2, lateral, a third (sometimes wanting) above. Ovary 
sessile, ovate; style short, persistent ; stigmas 2, lanceolate, 
thickish, recurved. Berry sessile, globose, pulpy, crowned 
with the style-—Endl. Gen. Suppl. iv. p. 16; Mig. Pip. 343. 
A half-climbing forked shrub, with swollen joints ; ovate leaves, on long 
petioles, and peduncled spikes, opposite the upper leaf.—Eastern frontier 
and Natal. 
2. CUBEBA, Miq. 
Flowers dicecious, in spikes, sessile—Male: (On smaller 
