Dicranolepis. CXVIII, THYMELEZACEE (PEARSON). 245 
20. D. cerasifera, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 272. A shrub with 
slender branches, puberulous when young, later glabrous, Leaves very 
variable, ovate, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, more or less oblique, long- 
acuminate, subacute, shortly petioled, glabrous above, with few or many 
adpressed hairs beneath, 1-24 in. long, }-1 in. broad. Flowers (not 
seen) in pairs or rarely solitary, pubescent. Drupe smaller than a 
cherry, in colour resembling a pomegranate (Schweinfurth). 
Nile Land. Niamniam: by the Diamvonu stream, Schweinfurth, 3136! 
21. D. Thonneri, De Wild. & Dur. in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot 
Belg. xxxviii. 114. Shrub about 16 ft. high, with branches pubescent, 
later glabrous. Leaves shortly petioled, oblong or ovate-oblong, oblique, 
long-acuminate, very acute, glabrous above, paler beneath, pilose with 
long hairs, especially on the nerves, 1-24 in. long, $-3 in. broad; vena- 
tion very prominent beneath; petiole bearing a few long hairs, about 
% lin. long. Flowersin fascicles of 1-3, subsessile. Calyx-tube terete, 
bearing white hairs, 1-4 in. long; lobes ovate-oblong, pilose, about } in. 
long. Petals white, bifid to the base; lobes entire, ovate, acute, about 
3 as long as the calyx-lobes. 
South Central, Congo Region: Boyangi, Sept. 5, 1896, Thonner, 
7. SYNAPTOLEPIS, Oliver. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, 5-merous. Calyx-tube cylindric, somewhat 
dilated around the ovary and near the throat, not articulated. Calyx- 
lobes spreading. Corolla forming a short erect entire or obscurely 
5-lobed ring at the base of the calyx-lobes. Stamens 10, inserted in 2 
separated whorls at the upper end of the calyx-tube, those of the upper 
(outer) whorl being opposite the calyx-lobes and not or only slightly 
exceeding the corolla-ring. Ovary shortly stalked, surrounded at the 
base by very minute or obsolete laciniate hypogynous scales; style long 
and slender, bearing at the apex a cylindric or capitate stigma. Fruit 
dry, oblong-ovate, enclosed in the persistent more or Jess fleshy base of 
the calyx-tube. Albumen 0; embryo with fleshy cotyledons.—Erect or 
climbing shrubs with alternate, membranous or subcoriaceous leaves. 
Flowers in terminal dense cymes or solitary or fascicled in the leaf-axils, 
sessile or shortly stalked. 
Species 5, in Tropical and South Africa, 
Calyx-tube gradually widening towards the top, 
Inflorescence terminal. 
Leaves ovate. ° . . . . - dL. S. loagiflora. 
Leaves not ovate > . > . : . 2. 8, alternifolia 
Inflorescence axillary. 
Leaves ovate. 
Inflorescence branched . ° : : 3. S. pachyphylla. 
Flowers in fascicles - - Z ° 6. S. macrocarpa, 
Leaves not ovate ‘ n ‘ . . 4. S. retusa. 
