332 CVII. PEOTEACEiE. 



9. SPATALLA, Salisb. 



Elowers bisexual, capitate ; heads 4-1 -flowered, involucred, 

 spiked or racemose, each subtended by a bract ; involucre 4- 

 leaved, not changed in fruit ; receptacle nude. Calyx subirre- 

 gular, 4-fid, quite deciduous ; the apices concave, antheriferous, 

 the inner segment mostly largest. Ilypogynous scales 4, 

 subulate. Style filiform, deciduous ; stigma oblique, dilated, 

 concave or subconvex. Nut on a short stipe, ventricose. — 

 DC. Frod. xiv. p. 306. 



Heath-like shrubs, with fiUform, undivided leaves. Flowers purplish. 



10. FAUBEA, Harv. 



Flowers bisexual, regular, spiked. Calyx clavate-tubular, 

 equal, cleft below by the bursting forth of the style, 1- 

 labiate, reflexed, at length quite deciduous ; the apices long, 

 cohering, concave, antheriferous. Hypogynous scales 4, free, 

 membranous, acute. Ovary sessile, densely silky ; style fili- 

 form, straight, glabrous ; stigma subclavate, 4-furrowed, obtuse, 

 obscurely nodulose at base. Nut sessile, ovate, clothed with 

 long, straight hairs, tailed by the (at length deciduous) style. 

 —DC. Prod. xiY.p. 344. 



Shrubs or small trees, with simple, quite entire, vertical leaves, and sub- 

 sessile, densely-flowered, terminal spikes. — 2 species, natives of the Natal 

 country. 



11. BRABEIUM, Linn. 



Flowers polygamous (commonly male, with a barren pistil), 

 regular, spiked. Calyx 4-leaved, regular, deciduous. Stamens 

 4, with short filaments, attached to the base of the perianth 

 segments. Hypogynous scales connate in a tube. Ovary ses- 

 sile ; style filiform ; stigma vertical, clavate. Drupe dry, sub- 

 globose or elliptical, subcompressed, villous, with a bony stone. 

 —DC. Frod. xiv. p. 344. 



A tree, with whorled, simple, serrate leaves, and axiUary, spiked ra- 

 cemes of white, sweet-scented flowers. Colonial name, " Wild Castanjes," 

 or CaflFre Chestnut. — Native of the Western districts. 



Oeder CYIII. SANTALACEiE. 



Perianth-tube adhering to the ovary ; limb superior, 4-5- 

 rarely 3-fid ; the lobes valvate in bud. Stamens 4-5, opposite 

 the lobes of the perianth, inserted at their base. Ovary infe- 

 rior, 1-celled ; ovules 2-4 ; pendulous from near the apex of a 

 central, cord-like placenta ; style simple ; stigma often lobed. 

 Fruit nut- like or drupaceous. Seed solitary, with fleshy albu- 



