238 OXVIII, THYMELHZACEH (PEARSON). [Znglerodaphne. 
_ 1. BE. leiosiphon, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 274. A much- 
branched shrub 3-5 ft. high (Hildebrandt) ; branches slender, glabrous. 
Leaves opposite, ovate or elliptic, acute or subacute, rounded or trun- 
cate, rarely subcordate, at the base, membranous, distinctly nerved, 
glabrous, shortly petioled, }$—14 in. long, $-? in. broad. Flowers 
white (Scott-Zlliot), in ebracteate fascicles of 4—8, terminal on short 
leafy axillary branches, shortly pedicelled, 4-merous. Calyx-tube with 
a few long silky hairs on the outside, otherwise glabrous, about 4 in. 
long; lobes oblong, obtuse, about 24 lin. long. Petal-segments 8, 
triangular-oblong, with one or two irregular serrations, glabrous, 
glandular, more than } as long as the calyx-lobes. Ovary shortly 
stalked, densely hirsute with long erect white hairs.—Engl. Pfl. 
Ost-Afr. C. 284. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Nairobi, Linton, 24! Ukamba, 4000 ft., 
Scott-Elliot, 2356! Hildebrandt, 27511 crater south of Lake Naivasha, 7000- 
8000 ft., Zomson! Kikuyu, and on the road to Eldama Ravine, 4000-6000 ft., 
Whyte! 
Also in South Africa, 
E. leiosiphon appears to be identical with Meisner’s Gnidia subcordata (Linnea, 
xiv. 430; DC. Prodr. xiv. 586), of which I have not seen an authentic specimen. 
6. DICRANOLEPIS, Planch.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 198. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, 5-merous. Calyx-tube cylindric, usually 
elongate, dilated at the base, continuous; lobes spreading or reflexed. 
Petals opposite the calyx-lobes, bipartite or divided to the base; seg- 
ments entire or irregularly incised. Stamens 10, in 2 approximated 
whorls in the throat of the calyx-tube, more or less exserted ; filaments 
slender; anthers with broad connective. Ovary stalked, 1-celled, 
1-ovuled, glabrous or hairy; hypogynous dise cup-shaped, thin, fleshy 
or leathery, closely surrounding the stalk and lower portion of the 
ovary; style slender; stigma clavate, capitate or discoid. Fruit 
spherical or somewhat elongate, closely invested by the persistent, more 
or less fleshy base of the calyx-tube; pericarp thick, woody or coria- 
ceous. Seed exalbuminous; testa thin, more or less fused with the peri- 
carp; cotyledons large—Small trees or shrubs with alternate, usually 
oblong, caudate-acuminate leaves. Flowers solitary or in pairs in the 
leaf-axils. 
Species about 25, in Tropical and South Africa. 
The disc appears to be always entire in the young flower. As the ovary swells it 
splits into an irregular number of lobes or segments. 
Stigma capitate or discoid. 
Petals distinctly longer than the calyx-lobes. 
Petal-segments incised. 
Flowers 2 in. long. . ‘ : . 1. D. pulcherrima. 
Flowers less than 1 in, long : : . 2. D. thomensis. 
Petal-segments entire. . “ ‘ : . 8. D. grandiflora. 
