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portion; lobes not small, often foliaceous or elongated. Corolla 
tubular, often narrowly so; lobes 5 or rarely 4 or 6, lanceolate or 
ovate, short, valvate in sestivation. Stamens 5, inserted at the throat 
of the corolla or below. Disk annular, fleshy, crenulated. Ovary 
usually 5-celled, or in doubtful species 2-celled ; cells many-ovuled ; 
style clavate, usually cleft into 4-5 linear or oblong lobes. Berry 
usually 4-5-celled, pisiform ; seeds small.—Shrubs usually scandent 
with opposite petiolate sabmembranous leaves, interpetiolar stipules, and 
flowers of moderate size in axillary usually capitate cymes usually 
mvolucrate with bracts of moderate size. 
A genus of several species occurring also in Tropical America and Madagascar. 
Ovary 4—5-celled. 
Bracts involucrate. 
Common peduncles long (1-4 in.). 
Calyx-lobes linear-filiform 1, S. ferruginea. 
Calyx-lobes oval a er 2. 8. calycina. 
mmon peduncles short (not exceeding % in.). 
Calyx-lobes elliptic-lanceolate, 3-§ in. long. Leaves 
pilose 2... . . . 1. ee ee ee 8. SS. pilosa, 
Calyx-lobes linear, 3-2 in. long. Leaves sparsely 7 
pilose Soe ee ee ee ee ee 4 SL Vogels. 
Calyx-lobes lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 3-2 in. ; 
long. Leaves short-cottony . . . - . 5&. & capitellata. 
Braets not inyolucrate , se 6. S. venosa. 
Ovary 2-celled. 
Stipules 4 in. long. Flowers in axillary clusters . . . 7. S.? segregata. 
Stipules 1-1} in. long. Flowers in lateral clusters. 
ore or less pubescent. Calyx-lobes linear or lanceo- 
_ ate. Flowers clustered on the branches . . . 8. S.? cauliflora. 
Nearly glabrous, Calyx-lobes linear-filiform. Flowers 
nearthe ground . ...... . + +. 9 S.? geantha. 
oe 1, S. ferruginea, Benth. in Houk. Niger Fl. p. 397. A climbing 
Tub, with terete subferruginous pubescent-tomentose branches and 
uncles. Leaves oval, shortly acuminate, rounded, somewhat ex- 
tie OF obtusely narrowed and more or less unequal at the base, 
ong and glabrescent (except the puberulous midrib) above, ferrugin- 
len shortly tomentose beneath, 3-6 by 14-2} in. ; lateral veins 
nid on each side of the midrib; petiole 4-1 in.; stipules ovate, 
© about 3 in, long. Flowers pentamerous, 3—? in. long, shortly 
— many together in dense hemispherical pedunculate capitate 
= 7 of 2 in. diameter : peduncles axillary, 2-4 in. long ; bracts ovate 
erio neeolate, acute }-1 in. long, involucrate. Calyx tubular, the in- 
of the i rtion short, campanulate, hispid-pubescent ; the free portion 
equall; ube subglabrous ; lobes linear-filiform, pilose-pubescent, nearly 
ai the corolla-tube, acute. Corolla slender, tube. subglabrous 
outsid, ppressedly pubescent above; teeth lanceolate, short, hairy 
Ova "4 Anthers linear, inserted below the middle of the corolla, 
Syst itp, re Fruit pisiform.—Cephaelis ferruginea, G. Don, Gen, 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, G. Don! Bagroo River, Mann! 
