Osi/r'uUcarpos.] cxx. santalace^ (baker and hill). 433 



nxozaml). Blstr. German East Africa : Central Uluguru, Stuhlmann, 9VJ 

 Goetze, 310. 



Var. Goetzei, Engl. Jalirb. xxx, 305. A climbing shrub 20-25 ft. high. Cymes 

 very divaricate, 3-15-fio\vereil ; bracts linear-lanceolate. 



Mozamb. X>istr. German East Africa : Kinga (Livingstone) Mountains 

 7500-8000 ft,, Ooetze, 1253. 



3. OSYRIS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 227. 



Flowers subdicecious. Perianth-tube in the male flowers very short 

 and solid, in the female entirely adnate to the ovary ; lobes 8-4, 

 deltoid, valvate, with a tuft of hairs on the face. Stamens 3-4, attached 

 to the base of the lobes ; filaments rather thick ; anther-cells sub 

 parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Disk flat, angled between the 

 stamens. Ovary inferior ; ovules 2-4, pendulous from a short central 

 placenta; style short or long; stigma 3-4-fid. Fruit globose, succu- 

 lent, crowned with the persistent perianth-lobes ; albumen fleshy ; 

 embryo straight or rather curved. — Glabrous shrUbs. Leaves alternate, 

 narrow or broad. Flowers small, axillary; bracts solitary, minute. 

 Species 9, sprend tliroiigh Southern Europe, India, and the whole of Africn. 

 Leaves oblong. 



Leaves 1-3 in. long. 



JJracts linear . . . . . . , 1. O. rir/'uUssima. 



IJracts lanceolate . . . . . . , 2. O. ahysainica. 



Leaves I in. long . , . . . . . 3. O. parvifoUa. 



Leaves lanceolate . . . . . . . 4. O. iemtifoHa. 



1. O. rigidissima, Engl. IFochiiehirgfifJ. Troj). Afr. 10!l. A shrub 

 (J ft. liigh, with thick branchlets. Leaves shortly and broadly petioled, 

 oblong, 1 J in. long, above h in. broad, very rigid, very acute, turning 

 brown when dried except the Avliite midrib. J^eduncles axillary, nearly 

 J in. long; male many-flowered ; bracts linear as long as the subglobose 

 buds. Perianth-lobes broadly ovate, under 1 lin. long. 



wile Xiand. Somaliland : near Maid, 4500 5500 ft., llihlchmndl, 1539. 



2. O. abyssinica, llochst. in Flora, J 841, i. fnteU. 22 {name only). 

 A much-branched shrub 0-8 ft. high, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves 

 shortly petioled, oblong, 1-3 in. long, mucronate, narrowed to the base, 

 rigidly coriaceous, glaucous, the veins (except the midrib) immersed 

 and almost invisible. Male flowers in shortly peduncled axillary 

 umbellate cymes; bracts minute, lanceolate; pedicels larger than the 

 flowers. Buds globose, J lin. in diam. Perianth-lobes 3, ovate. 

 Female flowers usually solitary. l>erry oblong, scarlet, the size of a 

 small pea.— A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss., ii. 230 ; A. DC. in DO. Prodr. xiv. 

 (533; Engl. Ifochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 11^9; Schinz in Hull. Herb. 

 iJoiss. iv. App. iii. 5') ; Sclnveinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii. 

 ir)2; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. D38. 0. compresm, Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxx. 30"), not of A.DC. Fusanii^H aliernifolia, R. Jir. in Salt, Aby.ss. 

 App. Ixiii. (name only). 



Nile ILand. Eritrea: near Saganeiti, ScliweinJ'nrfh ^' Sin/, 859! 07() 

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