EUPIIORBIACE^E 



489 



Cotyledons rotund or rhomboid, oblique, sometimes emarginate, 

 undulated or twisted, and frequently very unequal at the base, 

 palmately trinerved, with sometimes irregular secondary nerves, 

 reticulate, pubescent, and somewhat sca- 

 brous above, glabrous below except on the 

 nerves. 



Stem terete or slightly angled on two 

 sides, soft, densely covered with long and 

 short spreading pubescence ; 1st inter- 

 node 1-5-3 cm. long ; 2nd shorter. 



Leaves opposite and alternate, cauline, 

 stipulate, petiolate. 



Nos. 1 and 2. Palmately three- to 



five-nerved, and coarsely serrate-dentate 



or lobed, with obtuse teeth ending in a 



minute mucro ; lamina more or less 



triangular with a cordate base, pubescent 



above and on the nerves beneath, and 



having two short, cylindrical glands in 



the basal sinus ; petiole terete, channelled 



above, hirsute, 8 mm. long ; stipules contiguous, small, subulate, 



acute, patent, pubescent. 



No. 3. Alternate, deeply trilobate, palmately five-nerved, cordate 



at the base, pubescent above and on the nerves beneath ; lateral 



lobes oblong, oblique, obtuse, mucronate, distantly serrate along the 



posterior margin, with one to two teeth towards the apex on the 



anterior margin, irregularly penninerved ; terminal lobe subelliptic, 



obtuse, mucronate, penninerved with two to three serratures on each 



side. 



FIG. 645. 



Dalechampia capensis. 

 Half nat. size. 



URTICACE.E. 



Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. iii. 341. 



Fruit and Seed. The ovary is superior or more or less 

 inferior in a few genera, and always consists of a single carpel, 

 which is one-celled and one-ovuled, or the ovule is rarely 

 accompanied by another, the growth of which however is soon 

 arrested. It is inserted on a basal or nearly basal placenta, 

 is erect or ascending, and orthotropous, very slightly amphi- 

 tropous ; sometimes it is inserted at or near the apex, and is 



