CXIV. RAFFLESIACE.E. 349 



Stamens united in a central column, definite (8-12) ; antliors 

 2-celled, splitting lengthwise, extrorse, linear. Abortive ovary 

 many-celled, the cells opening into the base of the calyx ; 

 styles several, crowning the staminal column. — Female : No 

 stamens. Ovary interior, 1-celled, with numerous (8-16) 

 parietal, prominent placentas ; ovules very many ; style single ; 

 stigma capitate, radiate-lobed. Embryo undivided, exalbumi- 

 nous. — E. Br. in Linn. Trans, xix. p. 245 ; Hook. Ic. Fl. t, 33G ; 

 Bndl. Gen. TIZ. 



Somewhat succulent, coloured parasites on roots, with scale-like, imbri- 

 cated leaves, and axillary, sessile flowers. — C. dioicus, the only Cape species, 

 occurs on the roots of Eriocephalus about the sides of Table Mountain, 

 Capetown. 



Ordee CXV. PIPERACE^. 



Flowers bisexual or unisexual, nude (without calyx), sessile 

 on a fleshy rachis, each subtended by a bract. Stamens 2, 3, 

 or many, ranged on one side or all round the ovary ; anthers 

 ovate, extrorse, 2- or 1-celled, adnate. Ovary sessile, solitary, 

 1-celled ; ovule solitary, erect, basifixed ; stigma sessile, ter- 

 minal or oblique, simple or 3-4-lobed. Fruit fleshy, 1-seeded ; 

 embryo minute, enclosed in a special cavity of the copious 

 albumen.-rShrubs or herbs, often succulent, with jointed 

 stems, opposite or rarely alternate leaves and spiked flowers. 

 The common Pepper is a familiar example of the Order. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. 



A slender, jouited, climbing shrub ; stigmas 2, lance- 

 olate !• COCCOBRTON. 



Small, succulent herbs, of shady places ; stigma single, 



subglobose 3. Peperomia. 



Flowers dioecious ; stigmas 3-5, short, sessile ; a slender 



climbing shrub 2. Cubeba. 



1. COCCOBRYON, Kl. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, in dense spikes. Bracts stipitate, 

 peltate, with an orbicular, membrano-coriaceous, glabrous limb. 

 Stamens 2, lateral, a third (sometimes wanting) above. Ovary 

 sessile, ovate ; style short, persistent ; stigmas 2, lanceolate, 

 thickish, recurved. Berry sessile, globose, pulpy, crowned 

 with the style. — Endl. Gen. Suj)pl. iv. p. 16 ; 3Iiq. Pip. 343. 



A half-climbing forked shrub, with swollen joints ; ovate leaves, on long 

 petioles, and peduucled spikes, opposite the upper leaf. — Eastern frontier 

 and Natal. 



2. CUBEBA, Miq. 



Flowers dicccious, iu spikes, sessile. — Male: (On smaller 



