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4. LINOCIERA, Sw.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 678. 
Calyx small, campanulate, deeply 4-lobed. Petals 4, linear-oblong, 
induplicate-valvate, nearly free. Stamens 2, inserted at the base of 
the petals; filaments very short. Ovary 2-celled; style very short; 
stigma capitate, entire or emarginate; ovules 2 in a cell, pendulous 
from the apex of the dissepiment. Fruit drupaceous; pericarp bony 
or crustaceous. Seeds usually solitary, pendulous, albuminous or ex- 
albuminous ; testa thin or moderately thick ; cotyledons flat or fleshy ; 
radicle superior.—Trees or erect shrubs. Leaves simple, opposite, entire. 
Flowers small, usually panicled.— Wayepea, Aubl. Pl. Guin. i. 81. 
Species 40, spread through the tropics of both hemispheres, 1 each in Natal and 
Bourbon. 
Corolla-tube very short. 
Flowers in terminal panicles . : ; : 
Flowers both in lateral and terminal panicles . 
Flowers all in lateral panicles. 
. L. urophylla, 
. L. Mannit. 
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Rhachis of panicle glabrous 3. L. nilotica. 
Rhachis of panicle pubescent. 
Leaves oblanceolate-oblong 4. L. angolensis, 
Leaves oblong 5. L. Johnsoni. 
Flowers in axillary clusters Ge 6. L. congesta. 
Corolla-tube half as long as the lobes . 7. L. Welwitschii. 
1. L. urophylla, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 373. A tall tree, 
glabrous in all its parts, with smooth grey bark. Leaves distinctly 
petioled, lanceolate, 2—3 in. long, $—2 in. broad, conspicuously acuminate, 
narrowed gradually to the base, entire, subcoriaceous, shining on the 
upper surface, opaque beneath ; veins few, conspicuous on the under- 
side of the leaf. Panicles lax, terminal. Calyx subcampanulate, nearly 
entire, $ lin. long. Petals ovate or oblong, twice as long as the calyx, 
Spreading. Anthers sessile. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Upper Kondeland; Usenga Moun- 
tains, at Umalila, 6500 ft., Goetze, 1364. 
L. gilgiana, Volkens, from Mount Kilimanjaro, mentioned by Gilg in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxx. 374, has also a terminal inflorescence, but has not further been 
described. 
2. L. Mannii, Solereder in Bot. Centralb. xlvi. (1891) 17. A small 
tree, with glabrous branchlets. Leaves simple. opposite, oblong, sub- 
acute, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 2—4 in. long, cuneate at the base ; 
petiole very short. Panicles very abundant, lateral and terminal, 1-2 
in. long ; rhachises pubescent ; bracts oblong-navicular, minute, persis- 
tent; pedicels very short. Calyx pubescent, 4 lin. long; tube very 
Short ; segments ovate. Petals 4 in. long. Style very short.— 
Mayepea Mannii, Knob). in Eng]. Jahrb. xvii. 529. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near the Scarcies River, Scott-Elliot, 4717 ' 
Lower Guinea. (Gaboon: banksof the Gaboon River, Mann, 949! 
3. L. nilotica, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 106, t. 117. A 
tall tree, with a trunk 6-8 ft. in girth; branchlets glabrous, whitish. 
