Helims.] XT.II. RHAMNE^! (hemsley). 385 



Mozamb. Distr. Lower valley of the river Shire, Dr. Metier ! 

 Also common in extratropical S. Africa. 



2. H. mystacinus, Hcmsl. A climbing shrub with simple, spirally 

 twisted tendrils. Branches slender, angular, divaricate, densely silky pubes- 

 cent or nearly glabrous. Leaves petiolate, ovate elliptical or oblong, 1^-3 

 in. long, obtuse, mucronulate, subcordate or obtuse at the base, entire, gla- 

 brous above, densely silky-hirsute beneath. Flowers densely, often rusty, 

 hirsute or villous, in simple axillary or terminal umbels, on long peduncles 

 equalling or exceeding the leaves ; 'pedicels at length J-J in. Fruit more or 

 less tuberculate and pubescent, spherical. Calyx-lobes subpersistent. — If. 

 JM*M,Bich. Fl. Abyss, i. 139. Rhamnns mydacinus, Ait.; Hort. Kew. 

 V 266. 



Wile *"&nd. Abyssinia, Schimper ! and others. 



m synonymy of the two species has been misunderstood, Richard having taken Wille- 

 * m tcandens for this species, hence the name he adopted must be suppressed, as it be- 

 to °gs more properly to H. ovatus. 



8. LASIODISCUS, Hook. f. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 381. 



Calyx-tnbe obconical ; limb 5-lobed ; lobes reflexed, keeled inside. Petals 

 jj lln ear-obovate, concave. Stamens 5, inserted below the margin of the 

 ^equalling the petals; filaments filiform or slightly dilated; anthers 

 JW, 2-celled. Disk large, tumid, densely villous, covering the broad top 

 the ovary, obscurely angled. Ovary 3-celled, half inferior; cells 1- 

 2 St y!es 3, short, connate to the middle ; stigmas recurved. Fruit 

 J seen -.— A suberect shrub with opposite leaves and interpetiolar stipules. 



° Wers ln axillary compound cymes. 

 &*?%* is limited to a single species, endemic in W. tropical Africa, and is closely 

 Cswu fe » diff «ing principally in its hall-inferior ovary, recurved calyx-lobes, and 



■ w °Ueu disk covering the top of the ovary. 



5 |*\ L -Mannii, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 381. A 

 a " ,[ half -climbing shrub, 10-12 ft. high. Branches terete when young, 

 lairs T the P etio,es a nd flowers, clotbed with rigid, ferruginous, stngose 

 acum'; , Ves lar S e > opposite, shortly petiolate, ovate-oblong, acute, very 

 oCT ' narrowetl and obliquelv subcordate at the base, 6-12 in. long, 

 chart* Sen ' ate ' nie muranous. Stipules free, erect, lanceolate, acute, striate, 

 Order - ^' * in - or more i n len gtb, deciduous. Flowers large for the 

 C; m 4 5°mpoiui<I, axillary, few-flowered cymes. Peduncles about hall as 

 bracteli e leaves - Bracts 2, at the base of the cyme, large, ovate, acute ; 

 01es similar but smaller ; pedicels subumbellate. 

 PPeP Gni nca. Prince's Island, Mann ! 



°RDER XLIII. AMPELIDEJE (by Mr. J. G. Baker). 



i e \ regular ' hermaphrodite or unisexual. Calyx small, entire or 4-5- 

 VOL , ?etals 4 " 5 > va lvate, free or often permanently coherent at the edges, 



