Cyathogjjne.'] cxxii. EUPiioiiBiACEiE (hutciiinson). 653 



23. CYATHOGYNE, Mull. Arg. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. 



iii. 28G. 



Flowers dioecious. Petals absent. Male flowers : Calyx 5- (rarely (>-) 

 partite ; lobes imbricate, membranous. Disk-glands distinct. Stamens 

 5, opposite the sepals ; filaments free ; anther-cells parallel, attached at 

 the top, pendulous in bud, in the mature flower spreading almost at 

 right angles, dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary large, 

 cyathiform, membranous, entire, or broadly 3-lobed. Female flowers : 

 Calyx less deeply divided than in the male. Disk annular, crenulate. 

 Ovary 3-celled ; styles 3, distinct, thick, very shortly bifid ; ovules 2 in 

 each cell. Capsule trilobed, soon dehiscing into 2-valved cocci ; pericarp 

 thin. Seeds rounded on the back, many-striate, shining. — Erect herbs ; 

 stems mostly unbranched, arising from a perennial rhizome. Leaves 

 alternate, entire or toothed ; stipules ovate, subulate or setaceous, 

 caducous. Kacemes axillary, simple or sparingly branched; male 

 flowers nearly sessile, females pedicellate. 



Species 5, endeniic. 



Leaves ^-1 in. \o\\^, 2-5 liii. broad. 



Leaves spatiuilate or oblanceolate ; m:ile dislv-glaiuls 



glabrous or nearly so . . . . . . 1. C. s path id i folia. 



Leaves elliptic or lanceolate ; male disk-glands pilose . 2. C. Biissei. 

 Leaves l^-S in. long, 1-5 in. broad. 



Calyx-lobes 6 . , . . . . . . 3. C Dewevrei. 



Calyx-lobe.s 5. 



Leaves entire or ne.'irly so . . . . . 4. C. riridis. 



Leaves repand-dentate in the upper two-tliirds . 5. C. Freussii, 



1. C. spathulifolia. Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xxxiii. 281. Sten)S 

 simple or subsimple, erect, about 15 in. long, arising from a woody root- 

 stock, crisped-pubescent when young. Leaves produced on very short 

 lateral branchlets, spathulate or oblanceolate, emarginate, J-j in. long, 

 2-4 lin. broad, thin and entire or nearly so, glabrescent except on the 

 midrib, which is slightly pubescent below ; lateral nerves :)-4 on each 

 side, very faint or nearly invisible ; petiole very short ; stipules subu- 

 late from a broad base, about J lin. long, slightly pubescent. Racemes 

 often geminate, produced on very short arrested leafy branchlets ; axis 

 4-6 lin. long, flattened, crisped-pubescent ; bracts very acute from an 

 ovate base, J lin. long, membranous, slightly pubescent ; pedicels 

 scarcely f lin. long, pubescent. Calyx-lobes 5, ovate-obtuse, ciliate, 

 membranous. Disk-glands large and fleshy, contiguous and connate 

 at the base, glabrous or nearly so. Rudimentary ovary large, funnel- 

 shaped, fleshy, glabrous. Female flowers not known. 



lHozazub. Blstr. Gennan East Africa: Nyasa expedition, without locality, 

 Qoetze, 401 ! 



2. C. Busseiy Pax in Engl, Jahrh. xxxiii. 280. Stems as ifi 

 P. spathulifolia. Leaves elliptic or lanceolate, deeply emarginate, 



