Andrachne.] cxxii. eupiiorbiace^ (hutchinson). G33 



of 5 or 6 glands opposite the petals. Stamens usually 5, alternate with 

 the petals ; filaments free ; anther-cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. 

 Rudimentary ovary present. Female flowers : Sepals usually longer 

 than in the male. Ovary o-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell ; styles 

 bipartite. Capsule globose, dehiscing into 2-valved cocci. Seeds 

 curved, rugose, without a strophiole; albumen fleshy; embryo curved; 

 radicle long; cotyledons flat and broad. — Diffuse herbs or slender 

 shrubs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire, usually small. Flowers 

 axillary, pedicellate, the males fasciculate, the females solitary. 



About 25 described sjieeies, spread throughout both hemisplures. 

 Le!»vesorI)icular or reuifonn . . . . . . ]. A. aspera. 



Lenves laiiceolale 01- cUiptic-liinceolate . . . .2. A. telephioides. 



1. A. aspera, Spreng. Syst. iii. 884. Stems numerous, slender, 

 diffuse, scabrouh-puberulous, reaching a foot or more in length, 

 arising from a perennial root-stock. Leaves orbicular or subreniform, 

 often emargiuate and mucronate, ^| in. broad, membranous, glabrous 

 or scabrous-puberulons ; petiole up to 4- lin. long, scabrous-puberulous ; 

 stipules ovate, very small. Male flowers : Sepals ovate-lanceolate, | lin. 

 long, membranous, whitish, margins jagged. Petals almost equalling 

 the sepals, lanceolate. Disk-glands small, truncate, fleshy. Stamens 5 ; 

 filaments membranous. Rudimentary ovary tripartite, membranous, 

 glabrous. Female flowers : Sepals oblong-lanceolate, subacute, green, 

 1 lin. long, margin scarious. Petals very small, lanceolate. Disk- 

 glands 5, subtruncate, fleshy. Ovary glabrescent ; styles bipartite to 

 the base, slender, glabrous. Capsule globose, about 2 lin. in diam., 

 reticulate, sparingly hispid. Seeds subtriquetrous, convex on the back, 

 slightly pitted.— A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 254 ; Schweinf. Beitr. 

 Fl. Aethiop. 34 ; Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 23(5 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, iv. 1138; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 284; Schweinf. in Bull. 

 Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 29 J). A. aspera, var. mariiima, Terrac. in 

 Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, v. 98. 



wile Iiand. Nub'a : Soturbii inountiiins, Schweinfurth, 827 ! Eritren : 

 islands of Midir and Auto Keliir, Terracciano. Mount Kubc. Schiceinfiirth Sf Riva, 

 1531 ! Mount Alamkale, Schweinfurth Sf Riva, 1631 ! various localities, Schicein- 

 furth, 43, 168, 355, 35t^ 438, 1562, 1633, 1661. Aby>sinia : near AdovvM, Schimycr, 

 1112! and without precise locality, Schimper, 209! islands of Dalak and Hauakel, 

 Ehrenberg ! 



Occurs also in Egypt, Anibia, Persia, and North- West India. 



2. A. telephioides, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 1014. Stems arising from 

 a woody rootstock, slender, prostrate, narrowly sulcate, minutely 

 beaded, otherwise glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 

 subacute at both ends, 4-0 liu. long, lJ-2 lin. broad, rather rigidly 

 chartaceous, glaucous and glabrous or nearly so on both surfaces ; 

 lateral nerves about 3 on each side, very indistinct ; petiole J lin. long, 

 glabrous; stipules lanceolate, auriculate at the base, the margins jngged 

 or fringed. Male flowers 2-o in each leaf-axil, shortly pedicellate : 

 Sepals T), obovate or elliptic-obovate, scarcely h lin. long, entire, mem- 



