310 CIX. EUPIIORTITACEJ;. 



Ovary hairy, 3-celled ; cells 1-ovuled ; styles 3, Ioug;, filiform, 

 densely papillose. Capsule 3-coccous, enclosed in the en- 

 larged, persistent calyx. — Ilarv. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 

 p. 29 ; Baill. Eaph. p. 494 ; DC. I. c.p. 925 (Leptorhachis). 



llalf-lierbaceous, voluble plants, with alternate, petioled and stipuled, 

 cordate, penninerved leaves and racemose inilorescence, terminal or opposite 

 tlie leaves. — 1 or 2 species, natives of Eastern district and Natal. They 

 have the habit of Tragia^ but differ in the male flowers. 



IG. STILLINGIA, Gard. 



riowers monoecious. — Male: Calyx cup-shaped, crenulate 

 or shortly 2-3-fid. Stamens 2-3, exserted ; filaments more or 

 less connate at base. — Female: Calyx 3-toothed. Ovary 

 sessile, 3-celled ; cells 1-ovuled ; style thick, with 3 refiexed 

 branches. Capsule 3-coccous, nude.' — Undl. Gen. 5780 ; Baill. 

 Enpli. p. 509. Spirostachys, Sond. in Linn, xxiii. p. 107. Scle- 

 rocroton, Hochst. in Flora, 1845,^. 85 ; DC. I. c.p. 1155. 



Tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs, with milky juice ; alternate, 

 stipuled, entire or serrulate leaves, and terminal, racemose or spiked inflo- 

 rescence, the males occupying the upper part of the spike, the females 1 or 

 2, on longish pedicels near the base. — 2 or 3 species, at Natal. 



Series 2. Biotulate. (Gren. 17-23.) 



17. CYCLOSTEMON, Blume. 



^lo^Yers dioecious.— Male : Calyx 4-5-parted; the sepals 

 unequal, concave, imbricate in bud. Stamens very many; 

 filaments slender, free, inserted round a broad, convex disk ; 

 anthers oblong. — Female : Calyx as in the male, persistent. 

 Disk fleshy, surrounding the ovary. Ovary depressed, vel- 

 vety, 3- (or 2-)celled; ovules in pairs; style 3-parted (or 2- 

 parted), the branches thick, spreading, flattened and capitate 

 at the apex. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent, 3- (or 2-) celled.— ^w^/. 

 Gen. n. 5837 ; Baill. Eupl. p. 561. t. 23./. 22-25 ; Rarv. Thes. 

 t. 200 ; DC. I. c. p. 480. 



Nearly glabrous trees, natives of tropical Asia, with entire or toothed, 

 penninerved, shining leaves, and axillary or lateral inflorescence, both sexes 

 in tufts. — C. Natalense, Ilarv., our only species, differs from the Indian 

 species in having a trilocular ovary. Its yellow flowers are very fetid. 



18. HYJENANCHE, Lamb. 



Flowers dioecious.— Male : Calyx 5-8-parted, imbricate in 

 bud. Stamens 8-30 ; filaments short, free ; anthers ovoid, 

 extrorse. — Female : Calyx 3-5-7- or multi-parted ; sepals im- 

 bricate, deciduous. Ovary 3-4- celled ; cells 2-ovuled ; style 

 3-4-parted, branches reflexed. Capsule woody, 3-4-cellcd. — 

 Endl. Gen. n. 5870 ; Baill. I.e. 505. t. 23. f. 29-39 ; DC. I.e. p. 

 479. ^ ^ 



