Desplatsia.~\ xxvu. tiliace.e (masters). 267 



rows to the inner angle of each cell of the ovary. Fruit oblong, obtuse, 3-4 

 in. long, 2-3 in. wide, indehiscent, coriaceous, brownish and smooth ex- 

 ternally, with a thick fibrous mesoearp. Seeds numerous, oblong, witiged. 

 Upper Guinea. Gaboon, Mann ! River Muni, Mann ! 



11. GLYPHiEA, Hook. f. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 237. 



Sepals 5. Petals 5, glandless. Stamens numerous, all fertile. Anthers 

 linear, adnate, 2-celled, dehiscing by terminal pores and surmounted by a 

 small crest prolonged from the connective. Ovary 8-10-celled, with numerous 

 ovules iu each cell. Style short. Stigma obtuse. Fruit oblong, fusiform, 

 sulcate, indehiscent ; mesoearp fibrous ; endocarp pitted to receive the nu- 

 merous roundish, compressed seeds. Albumen fleshy ; cotyledons cordate, 

 roundish. — Shrubs. Leaves oblong, finely toothed. Cymes terminal or 

 lateral. Flowers conspicuous, yellow. 



A genus, confined, so far as is at present known, to tropical Africa. 



Leaves thin, slightly pilose. 



Fruiting pedicels slender 1.0. grewioides. 



Leaves thick, tomentose. 



Fruiting pedicels thick, woody 2. G. tomentosa. 



1. G. grewioides, Ilook.f. Fl. Nigrit. p. 238. t. 22. A loosely-branch- 

 ing, slightly pilose shrub, 8-12 ft. high. Branches sometimes sarmentose. 

 Leafstalks 1-1 \ in. long. Leaves thin, subcordate, ovate or oblong, acumi- 

 nate, irregularly toothed, 3-nerved, smooth above, sparingly stellate-pilose 

 below. Flowers in terminal cymes. Pedicels longer than the flowers, the 

 latter f-li in. diam. Sepals oblong, downy. Petals obtuse, bright yellow. 

 Anthers entire or sometimes with 2 basal points. Fruitstalk 1-2 in. long, 

 slender. Fruit oblong acute or fusiform, sulcate, coriaceous, 1-2 in. long, 

 i in. diam. — Greicia lateriflora, Don, Gen. Syst. i. p. 549. Olyphaa 

 Monteiroi, Hook. f. Bot, Mag. t. 5610. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, T. Vogel ! Mann ! Sierra Leone, Barter ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch 1 



Very variable as to the size and shape of the leaves and also as to the size of the flowers. 



The presence of two small processes at the base of the anther-lobes, relied on to distin- 

 guish Q. Monteiroi, is too inconstant for specific purposes, the divergence of the lower 

 ends of the anther-lobes being probably dependent on order of development, etc. At any 

 rate, on the same specimen and in the same flower, stamens may be seen in which the 

 anthers are 2-apiculate, and others hi which they are confluent with the filament. The size 

 of the flowers is so variable as to form no distinctive character. Dr. Welwitsch states that 

 the shrub flowers two or three times in each year. 



2. G. tomentosa, Mast. A shrub ; young shoots densely covered with 

 rusty stellate tomentum. Leafstalks about an inch in length. Stipules 

 subulate. Leaves subcoriaceous, slightly oblique at the base, oblong, acu- 

 minate, irregularly dentate, 3-costate, villose above, stellate-tomentose below, 

 2-4 in. long, 1-2 in. wide. Flowers large, showy, 1-2 in. across, arranged 

 in terminaf many-flowered cymes. Sepals linear-oblong. Anthers slightly 



