Oralis.] XXXII. QERANIACEJE (oliver). 297 



more ; leaflets obcorclate-cuneate, with rounded lobes. Stipules minute, ad- 

 nate to the base of the petiole or obsolete. Peduncles axillary, 1-4-flowered, 

 shorter or longer than the leaves. Flowers yellow. Capsule subcylindrical, 

 pubescent, pointed, 5-8 times longer than the'sepals. — 0. procumbens, Steud. ; 

 Rich. EL Abyss, i. 123 (a small-leaved form). 0. radicosa, Eich. 1. c. 



Var. 0. slricta (0. slricta, Linn. ; DC. Prod. i. 692). Erect or ascending. Stipules ob- 

 solete. Pedicels usually ascending in fruit. 



Upper Guinea. Camaroons aud Fernando Po, 7000-9000 ft., Mann ! Prince's Is- 

 land, Dr. Welwitsch I 

 Nile Land. Usui. Speke and Grant ! Abyssinia, Schimper ! Roth ! 

 Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 

 Mozamb. Distr. Moramballa, Dr. Kirk ! 

 A weed of cultivation and waste ground, in nearly all warm countries. 



7. O. (§ Biophytum) sensitiva, Linn.; DO. Prod. i. 690. Either 

 acaidescent or with an erect, usually unbranched, herbaceous or wiry stem, a 

 few inches to a foot in height. Leaves spreading in a terminal rosette or 

 crown, abruptly pinnate ; rachis usually pubescent or hispidulous ; leaflets in 

 6-14 sessile pairs, the upper pairs often larger, obliquely quadrate-rotundate 

 rhomboid-oblong or the lower subdeltoid, base more or less truncate, more or 

 less coriaceous, glabrous, the oblique or diagonal midrib and lateral veins often 

 prominent beneath. Flowers in sessile, crowded or pedunculate, bracteate 

 heads. Peduncles rarely much exceeding the leaves. Flowers on very short 

 pedicels, exceeding or equalling the subulate bracteoles, yellow or red. Sepals 

 h'near-lanceolate, attenuated to a fine point, 5-7-nerved, exceeding the cap- 

 sule. Styles varying in relative length, probably with other dimorphic con- 

 ditions, shorter or longer (to twice as long) than the ovary, sparsely hairy, 

 undivided.— Biophytum Petersianum, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 

 81. t. 15. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia ! Niger and Quorra, T. Vogel ! Irving! Barter! Ca- 

 maroons, Mann ! 



Nile Land. Unyoro, Speke and Grant! White Nile, Murie ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola, prov. Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



Mozamb. Distr. Quillimane, Dr. Kirk I Querimba aud Zanzibar (Klotzsch, I. a). 



Also in tropical Asia. 



Klotzsch describes his plant as with 2-fid styles ; but from what I have seen of these in 

 our specimens from the same country, I believe that this splitting takes place with matu- 

 ration, and that the fission is continuous with the line of Ioculicidal dehiscence. 



8. O. (§ Biophytum) abyssinica, Steud.; Eich. Ft. Abyss, i. 122. 

 *ery similar to the above in habit, perhaps usually more slender and the 

 leaves more membranous. Peduncles usually equalling, or falling but little 

 8 Jort of, the leaves. Sepals linear-lanceolate, strongly 3-nerved, falling short 

 of or nearly equalling the ripe capsule. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 



**ower Guinea. Angola, prov. Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



°- (Biophytum) n. sp.l In habit similar to the above. Leaflets in numerous (about 1 t> 



