CIX. EUPnOKBTACE^. 339 



Small glabrous herbs, with simple, alternate, narrow, minutcly-stipuled 

 leaves and axillary flowers. — 2 species. 



12. PLUKENETIA, Linn. 



Flowers monopcious. — Male : Calyx 4-5-parted, yalvate in 

 bud. Disk of 4-5 p^lands, alternate with the sepals. Stamens 

 8-10 ; filaments more or less connate at base, on a raised re- 

 ceptacle, free above. A rudimentary pistil. — Female : Calyx 

 4-5-parted, imbricate. Ovary 3-4- celled; cells 1-ovuled ; style 

 thick, short; stiy^ma 3-4-lobed. Capsule 3-4-celled. — Sond. 

 in Linn. I. c. p. 110. Sajorium, Baill. I. c. p. 480. f. 21./ 3-4. 

 Plukenetia and Anabsena, Endl. 5784-5785 ; DC. I.e. p. 768. 



Twining imdershrubs, with alternate, petioled, stipiiled, penninerved, 

 netted, toothed leaves, and axUIary, racemose flowers. — P. Africana, Sond., 

 found at Magalisberg. 



13. DALECHAMPIA, Plum. 



Flowers monoecious, the male and female together, within a 

 2-leaved involucre. — Male : Calyx 4-5-parted, valvate in bud. 

 Stamens indefinite ; filaments united in a long or short column. 

 — Female: Calyx 6-parted in 2 rows, imbricate in bud, or 

 5-parted, quincuncial ; sepals narrow, entire or laciniated, 

 often enlarging and growing rigid. Ovary 3- angled, 3-cellcd ; 

 cells 1-ovuled ; style simple, oblong-clavate ; stigma capitate. 

 Capsule 3-celled, in the persistent calyx. — Endl. Gen. n. 57G8 ; 

 £aill. I.e. p. 485. t. S.f. 16-13 and ^.4./. 1-5 ; DC. I.e. p. 1234. 



Twining or climbing undershrubs, with long-petioled, alternate, entire or 

 3-5-lobed or -parted leaves and axillary peduncles, the involucral leaves be- 

 coming membranous and veiny. — D. Capensis, Zey., common in the Eastern 

 district and at Natal. 



14. CLAOXYLON, A. Juss. 

 Flowers dioecious. — Male : Calyx 3-4 -parted, valvate in 

 bud. Stamens very many, on a hemispherical torus ; fila- 

 ments free; anther-cells distinct, erect on the apex of the 

 filament. — Female : Calyx as the male. Disk of 3, fleshy, 

 coloured glands, alternate with the sepals. Ovary 3-angled, 

 3-celled ; style 3-parted, the arms reflexed, plumose within. 

 Capsule S-celled.—jEndl. Gen. 5790 ; BaiU. I c. p. 491. t. 20. 

 f. 20-24; DC I.e. p. 775. 



Tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs, with red colouring matter in 

 the veins of the leaves, etc.— C. Capense, Baill. {Acalypha, Drege, n. 4G36) 

 is our only species. 



15. CTENOMERIA, Harv. 



Flowers monoecious. — Male: Calyx 5-parted; segments 



veiny, valvate in bud. Stamens 50-60, on a prominent torus ; 



filaments free, capillary ; anthers linear, rigid, basifixed.— 



Female : Calyx 6-7-parted ; the segments pectinate-pinnatifid. 



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