374 XLI. CELASTEACEiE (OLIVER). [SdhCM. 



reflexed. Stamens and ovary raised upon a short thick columnar disk. Fila- 

 ments subulate, 1 line long; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. 

 Fruit many-seeded, " the size of a goose's egg." 



Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Thomson ! 



Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Br. Welwitsch ! 



4. S. senegalensis, DC. Prod. i. 570. A glabrous shrub j the extre- 

 mities usually verruculose, with minute simple or lobed warts. Leaves (dry- 

 ing reddish-brown, paler beneath) rather coriaceous, oblong-elliptical, shortly 

 and obtusely pointed or acuminate, rounded or cuneate at base, obtusely and 

 often obscurely serrulate or subentire, shining above, 2 £-4£ in. long, l - !? m - 

 broad ; petiole channelled above, -J-i in. Flowers in axillary sessile fascicles, 

 often rather crowded ; pedicels 3-5 lines, rather slender and not thickened 

 upwards. Calyx-lobes ovate to rotundate ; the outer smaller. Petals ovate- 

 elliptical, imbricate. Filaments from the short thick disk surrounding the 

 base of the sessile ovary, subulate, at length recurved, nearly as long as the 

 style ; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally ; the lobes slightly diver- 

 gent below. Fruit in our specimen (probably immature) broadly ellipsoidal, 

 1-1* in. long.— Fl. Senegamb. i. 113. t. 27. 8 affinis, Hook. f. Fl. Nignt. 

 281. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! Sierra Leone, Afselius 1 T. Vogel ! Whitfield! 

 and others ; Bagroo river, Mann ! 

 Lower Guinea. Congo, Smith ? 



5. S. oblongifolia, t Oliv. Wholly glabrous. Leaves rather coriaceous, 

 strictly oblong or occasionally slightly broader above the middle, rather 

 abruptly narrowed into a linear obtuse acumen, base cuneate, finely serrulate, 

 rather paler beneath and midrib rather prominent, reticulation scarcely pio- 

 minent, 2-2± in. long (including the acumen of i~i in.), f-1 in - br0 . 

 Flowers in axillary fascicles of 3 or 4-8, from a very short (1-2 lines) or ob- 

 solete common peduncle ; pedicels rather stout, usually diverging, 3~a in " 

 long. Buds oblong, obtuse, 2 lines long. Calyx minute, with ovate-rotun- 

 date subequal lobes. Petals ovate-elliptical, broadly imbricate. Su,r [ 1 1 e j S 

 and ovary raised upon a thick distinct columnar disk; anthers 2-celleu, 

 elliptic-cordate and as long as the filament before expansion. Ovary taper- 

 ing into the style, which equals the stamens. Fruit not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Gaboon river, Mann ! 



6. S. pyriformis, fFalp. Rep. i. 402. A shrub or small tree, wholly 

 abrous. Leaves large, very coriaceous, oblong-elliptical (often broadly), 

 usually shortly and obtusely, often abruptly, cuspidate, more or less r° und ^ 

 or broadly cuneate at base, usually entire or undulate, 3-8 in. long, U' 4 * 



j 



in. broad ; petiole i-f in. ; midrib prominent beneath, lateral nerves an 

 reticulation subpromincnt. Flowers in axillary, several- or many-flowered, 

 sessile fascicles, equalling the petioles. Calyx-lobes rotundate, coriaceous, 

 with scarious margins ; the inner larger. Petals orbicular, coriaceous. *»*" 

 ments short, revolute, broadly dilated below, inserted upon a very short thic 

 disk surrounding the base of the ovary ; anthers 2-celled ; the cells near; 

 confluent above, broadly divergent below. The fruit is described as py 11 * 

 form and obtusely 3-gonus. — Calypso pyriformis, Don, Card. Diet, i- 629- 



