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very short or half as long or almost as long as the anthers and very 
slender ; anthers oblong to lanceolate, usually acute, minutely 2-lobed 
and dehiscing to the base. Disc 0. Ovary entire, glabrous or hairy, 
1- (rarely 2-) celled ; placentas 2, parietal, very much projecting and some- 
times uniting at the top and base, rarely fusing into a complete septum ; 
style columnar, short or almost suppressed ; stigma reaching to the base 
of the anthers, rarely lower down, capitate, clavate or subsubulate, with 
an annular thickening, rarely with a ring of hairs at the base, entire or 
more or less 2-lobed, not or very shortly exceeding the calyx (never by 
more than one calyx-length) ; ovules 4-seriate, 3-4 in each row. Fruit 
a globose or pear-shaped, rarely cylindric-oblong berry, usually not 
much over 1 in. in diam. Seeds not very numerous, embedded in a 
juicy pulp, ovoid, compressed or irregularly flattened ; albumen bony ; 
cotyledons foliaceous, very thin; radicle short.—Glabrous shrubs 
with usually slender branches, usually climbing with flagelliform, 
hook-branched tendrils springing from the branch-forks, rarely dwarf 
shrubs throwing up fresh shoots yearly. Leaves opposite, small or 
middle-sized (rarely attaining 6 in. in length), coriaceous, closely or 
remotely nerved; axillary stipules 0; axillary glands 0 or obscure. 
Flowers small, rarely up to 1 in. long in the mature bud, in axillary or 
axillary and terminal more or less loose cymes or compact clusters. 
15 species, endemic, except 1 in Trinidad (indigenous ?). 
*CHAMXECLITANDRA.—Dwarf shrubs, throwing up fresh erect shoots yearly, up to 
13 ft. high. Leaves small, oblong-lanceolate, glaucous, Cymes axillary or terminal, 
subsessile or on short small-leaved lateral branches. Corolla-tube cylindric, 4-6 lin. 
long. 
“Only species. bs > - ‘ : . 1. C. henriquesiana. 
**CYLINDROPSIS.—Climbing shrubs. Leaves not glaucous, elliptic to oblong; 
secondary nerves rather distant, faint. Cymes axillary (or sometimes with some 
additional terminal (?) ones), reduced to small sessile clusters (in the African species), 
rarely lax. Flowers not quite 3 lin. long in the mature bud (in the African species), 
rarely up to 43 lin. long. Corolla-tube more or less cylindric, usually longer than 
the lobes. Style filiform ; stigma subulate from an annulate base.— Cylindropsis, 
Pierre. 
Quite glabrous ; corolla-tube cylindric to beyond the 
middle, more or less abruptly inflated below the 
mouth; ovary puberulous in the upper part . 2. C. parvifolia. 
More or less hairy on the young branches ; corolla- 
tube widest at or near the middle, cylindric 
below or gradually narrowed to both ends ; ovary 
quite glabrous. 
Flowers yellow; sepals submembranous, pale, 
glabrous or almost so except on the ciliate 
margins : ; . dj . 
Flowers white; sepals firm, scarious, brown, 
pubescent . ‘ ‘ ; is . 4 C. alba. 
3. C. togolana, 
***EUCLITANDRA.—Climbing shrubs. Leaves very rarely glaucous, elliptic or 
oblong, rarely lanceolate, very closely nerved. Cymes axillary, much contracted or 
reduced to sessile clusters. Flowers usually 4-12 lin. (rarely 3 lin.) long in the 
mature bud. Corolla-tube more or less cylindric, usually very slender, longer or 
