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sile or stipitate, 3-celled ; style short, 3-fid ; ovules solitary. 

 Capsule 3-lobed ; lobes inflated, membranous, veiny, loculici- 

 dallj opening.— jPZ. Cap. i. p. 237. 



Much-branched, half-herbaceous climbers. Leaves 2-ternate or decom- 

 pound, the common petiole bearing tendrils. Flowers in axillary racemes 

 or panicles, — C. Halicacaba, Linn., a common tropical weed, is found at 

 Natal. 



2. ERYTHROPHYSA, E. Mey. 



Plowers perfect, irregular. Calyx campanulate, oblique, 

 coloured, 5-lobed, the lobes obtuse, unequal. Petals 4 (the 

 place of the fifth vacant), inserted under the margin of a fleshy, 

 cup-like disk, on long, linear, pilose claws ; limb oblong, ob- 

 tuse, hooded at base, and furnished with a short, petaloid, 

 toothed and crested, but beardless scale. Stamens 8, ascend- 

 ing, inserted together under a fleshy gland, on that side of the 

 flower where the fifth petal is deficient ; filaments hairy ; an- 

 thers oblong, 2-celled. Ovary shortly stipitate, 3-angled, 

 tapering into a short 3-angled style, 3-celled ; ovules in pairs, 

 one above the other. Fruit inflated, of 3 membranous, dor- 

 sally-winged, valveless carpels, connate by their inner faces. 

 Seed solitary, globose, exalbuminous. — Fl. Cap. i.p. 237. 



U. undulata, E. Mey., the only species, is a rigid, glabrous shrub, with 

 imparip innate leaves on winged petioles, and racemose red flowers. It 

 grows in Namaqualand. 



3. SCHMIDELIA, Linn. 



Flowers irregular, polygamo-dioecious. Sepals 4, in oppo- 

 site pairs, hooded, membranous, imbricate, the outer small. 

 Petals small or 0, glabrous or bearded. Disk unilateral, either 

 lobed or swelling in glands opposite the petals. Stamens 

 more or less excentric, short. Ovary excentric, 2-celled, 

 compressed or 2-parted ; style 2-3-lobed or partite ; ovules 

 solitary. Fruit of 1-2 ovoid or globose, leathery or fleshy car- 

 pels.— ^^. Cap. i.p. 238. 



Trees or shrubs, chiefly tropical. Leaves rarely 1-, commonly 3-foliate. 

 Flowers small, in axillai'y racemes. — 5 South African species, in the Eastern 

 district and at Natal. 



4. HIPPOBROMUS, E. and Z. 



Flowers regular, polygamous. Sepals 5, persistent, rounded, 

 concave, unequal, imbricate. Petals 5, obovate, glabrous, 

 ciliate-fringed, without scale. Disk annular. Stamens 8, 

 central, exserted ; filaments glabrous. Ovary subglobose, 3- 

 celled, silky ; style short ; stigma 3-fid ; ovules mostly solitary. 

 Fruit globose, leathery, 3-celled, iudehiscent. — Fl. Cap. i. 

 p. 241. 



