434 cxx. SANTALACE^ (baker AND hill). [Osyris. 



Aidereso, SchioeinfuHh Sf Rica, 1421 ! Abyssinia: Mount Slioloda, ScUmper, 281 ! 

 Ankober, Roth ! Gondar, Sieudner, 1272 ! and without precise locality, Schimper, 

 235! Petit! Somaliland : near Maid, .ffiWeira^i^/^, 1539a ; Gabadir Plain, 5«mj/Me / 

 British East Africa: Mulca, Kdssner, 925 ! 



Ziower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; subtemperate region, Welwitsch, 6438! 

 Gorman South-west Africa : Hereroland, Nets ; Amboland, ScJiinz, 293. 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Kwa Msliuza, Hutsf, 

 8932! Kinga (Livingstone) Mountains, 6200 ft., Goetze, 1269! British Central 

 Africa: Nyasaland ; Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 ft , }Fhi/t€,159l Shire Highlands, 

 Buchanan, 92 ! Kalahari Region, Fleck, 317a, 318a, 572. 



Also in Arabia and South Africa. 



S. O. parvifolia, Baher. A shrub about 4 ft. high ; branchlets 

 terete, angular and grooved, spreading or erect-patent, minutely 

 puberulous. Leaves shortly petioled, obovate-oblong or oblong, 4-5 

 lin. long, mucronate, narrowed to the base, very rigid, turning brown 

 when dried, the veins (except the midrib) invisible, minutely puberulous. 

 Male flowers in shortly peduncled axillary, usually o-flowered, cymes ; 

 pedicels i-| lin. long, minutely puberulous ; bracts ovate, minute. 

 Perianth green, urceolate. J-| lin. long ; lobes 3, broadly ovate. Anthers 

 transversely elliptic ; style minute. Female flowers and fruit un- 

 known. 



Srile Ziand. Abyssinia: Donialc, Kfat, TPo/A, 84 ! 



4. O. tenuifolia, ^nr//. 7'//. Ost-Afr. C. 1G7. A much-branched 

 shrub, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves thin, spreading, lanceolate, very 

 shortly petioled. Peduncles axillary, .solitary ; bracts 2, lanceolate, 

 minute. Perianth turbinate ; lobes deltoid, rather shorter than the tube. 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, Volkens, 232, 1732, 

 Merker; Usambara; Kwai, Bu/ise, 384, Alhers^ 123; Msulu, Albers, 220. 



Order CXXL BALANOPHORE^. (By W. Betting Hemsley.) 



Flowers small or minute, unisexual, or very rarely hermaphrodite, 

 numerous, borne in involucrate unisexual or bisexual heads, or in dense 

 simple or branched unisexual or bisexual fleshy inflorescences, often 

 called spadices. Male flowers relatively large, naked or furnished with 

 a more or less perfect perianth ; lobes 3-8, equal and valvate, or unequal 

 in length and degree of attachment to the stamiual column. Stamens 

 3-6, or more, free and of the same number and opposite to the perianth- 

 lobes, or united in a column ; anthers 2- or many-celled, variously 

 dehiscing ; pollen globose. Female flowers usually exceedingly small, 

 often more than 10,()(M) in a head, naked or witli an adnate perianth ; 

 limb small, son\etimes almost obsolete, truncate or obscurely toothed, 

 sometimes oblique, sometimes tubular above the ovary and variously 

 lobed. Ovary cylindrical, ovoid or globose, 1 -celled (in the African 

 members of the family) ; style long, filiform, or stigma sessile. Ovule 

 .solitary, pendulous, developing late, described as naked or with a single 

 coat or reduced to the embryo-sac, anatropous or semi-anatropoue. 



