OrpDER CXXVI. WELWITSCHIACEZ. 
(By H. H. W. Pearson.) 
Flowers unisexual or pseudobisexual. Male meee Pree 
ower : Envelope of 2 imbricating whorls ;. ove! whorl of 2 lat 
ti ‘ 
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anthers somewhat 3-lo ed when sold ok 3-celled, dehiscing by 3 
thes single sae cai into a tubular micro en sharp rply 
bent near the middle, expanding at the tip into an exserted glandular- 
papillose stigmatiform disc. Female flower : Envelope bottle-shaped, 
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micropylar tube irregularly labiate or fimbriate, but not expanded 
8 the ape e tened, closely invested by d en- 
the win. e 
ope; endosperm starchy, wedge-shaped below, retuse above, 
sSpporaee the withered nucellar cap (perisperm) ; radicle erect ; 
dt 2, rarely 3, narrow-linear; suspensor long, coiled, 
persistent 
Genus » Species 1, confined to the coast region of South West 
Dis ; 
Africa, from about iba 8. in Ang ola (south 2 gmail to the tropic of 
Capricorn, in Great Masonguadand 
WELWITSCHIA,* Hook. f. (Lumboa Welw.). 
Characters as for the family. 
1. W. Bainesii (Carr. Conif. ed. ii. 783 (1867) ); fact pety 
(hypocotyl) woody, covered by thick corrugated cork, sometim 
fused with other individuals, when injured exuding a = copious gummy 
secretion congealing in alcohol, broadly obconic or turbinate, con- 
* Name conserved according to International rie 
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