] IX. CAPPABIDACE^ (OLIVER). 87 



tube urceolate, 4-gonous ; segments oblong, obtuse, ciliate, reflexed. Corolla 

 0. Corona multifid. Stamens about 30. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous. 

 Fruit | in. diam. 



J"*>'SATOhifitrth states that a tree, entirely agreeing withthis description (from Forskal, 

 H. Mfjft. Arab. 104), is abundant in the Soturba district of Nubia (Fl. v. Soturba, 13). 

 m name, however, is omitted in the enumeration of Nile Land plants appended to his Fl. 

 f fh° P Ai He describes the fruit as nesn .v and drupaceous, in size and form similar to that 

 ot the Almond. Forskal gathered his plant in Yemen, so that it may be expected on the 

 western shores of the Red Sea. 



10. M. Currori, Hook. f. Fl. Nigrit. 218. Branches glabrous, punc- 

 tate. Leaves simple, rather coriaceous, oblong oval-oblong or oblanceo- 

 late, obtuse, mucronate, 1-1| in. long, 4-6 lines broad ; petioles $-£ in. 

 Flowers in the axils of the upper leaves or corymbose. "Calyx-tube longer 

 than the acute lobes. Corona petaloid, sub-2-partite." Ovary ovoid, nar- 

 rowed above into a short point. Fruit not seen. 



Lower Guinea. Elephant's Bay, W. tropical Africa, Curror ! 

 . material is too imperfect for satisfactory description. The character of the free 

 margin of the disk (corona) must remain uncertain. The form of the ovary, however, distin- 

 guishes it. I u rj r , Welwitsch's Angola Herbarium there is a Marua in fruit only, which in 

 nawt and foliage closely resembles the fragment of M. Currori in Herb. Kew ; but the 

 Jf n* e ^ 1Ddrica] - to ''ul*ose, 2-3 in. long, and I can hardly suppose the ovoid ovary of 

 , tn rrori could acquire such a form. Dr. Welwitsch's specimens therefore probably be- 

 lon g to a distinct species. 



M <*rua crassifoHa, Fenzl (Schweinf. et Asch. Enum.), I do not know. 1 presume it to 

 a mere manuscript name, probably applied to one of Kotschy's Nubian plants. 

 n-crasdfolia, V." Herb. Schweinfurth, from the shores of the Red Sea, I take to be 



5 - COURBONIA, A. Brongn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 969. 



Sepals 3, sometimes 4 or 2, connate at the base in a very short, cylindrical 



0r cam panulate tube, valvate in activation. Disk with a short, toothed, free 



?wgin surrounding the mouth of the calyx-tube. Petals 0. Stamens mde- 



J, e> "Werted upon a columnar torus which equals or exceeds the calyx-tube ; 



» aments free, filiform ; anthers ovoid or oblong, shortly apiculate. Ovary 



usilorm, on a long, slender gynophore, 2-celled or exceptionally 3-cellcd, 



ff ! n g to the meeting of the placentary plates ; ovules 2 on each placenta, 



tnctly parietal or inserted upon the spurious dissepiment. Fruit (seen only 



° °! le s P (, cies) globose, coriaceous, indehiscent, 1- or few-seeded ; seeds large, 



xa 't)nminous ; cotyledons verv thick, wavv on the inner face ; radicle deeply 



ciutled; testa papery, apparently abounding in barred cells.— Shrubs, with 



m erous, simple, glabrous, glaucous or "laucescent, entire, shortly petiolate, 



°p or Ie ss coriaceous leaves. Flowers numerous, axillary, of moderate size. 



^'ytanthemum, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 167. t. 29. 



»or < n2 ned - t0 tro P ical Africa. The genus appears sufficiently distinct from Mania in its 



seedg ly tnmero »s calyx, in the form of the ovary, which tapers to each end, and in the 



22 ° Vate or elli ptical, obscurely 3-5-nerved at the base, obtuse or 



C, Cr8 ? te - Petioles 2-3 1^ I. C. decumbent. 



™ wal or liuear-oval, acute, on petioles of 1 line or less . . . • 2- & oirgala. 



