248 OXVIIL THYMELHACES (PEARSON). — [Craterosiphon. 
8. CRATEROSIPHON, Engl. & Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 275. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, 5-merous. Calyx-tube coloured, thickened, 
very narrowly funnel-shaped, glabrous, somewhat dilated above the 
middle, continuous. Petals 0. Stamens 10, inserted below the middle 
of the calyx-tube, deeply included ; filaments of the whorl opposite the 
calyx-lobes, twice as long as the anthers, those of the whorl alter- 
nating with the calyx-lobes, shorter than the anthers. Ovary sessile, 
1-celled; style short, apical; disc short, cup-shaped, membranous.— 
Climbing shrub with opposite, subopposite or alternate, stiff leathery, 
parallel-nerved, oval leaves. Flowers very long, in 3—-5-flowered axillary 
clusters, subsessile, greenish-yellow, with numerous small bracteoles 
at‘ the base, . 
Species 2, endemic, 
Leaves narrowed at the base . ‘ . . ‘ e i. C. seandens. 
Leaves rounded at the base . ° . : é . 2 C. Soyausir. 
1. C. scandens, “Engl. & Gilg in Engl. Jahrb, xix. 275. A 
climbing shrub, perfectly glabrous. Leaves opposite, subopposite or 
alternate, in 2 rows, shortly petioled, distant, oblong-oval, entire, 
narrowed at the base, long-acuminate and obtuse at the apex, sub- 
coriaceous, 23-34 in. long, 14-14 in. broad, with spreading, parallel, 
distinct nerves. Flowers “ greenish-yellow,” in fascicles of 3—6 in the 
leaf-axils, subsessile, with minute bracteoles at the base. Calyx-tube 
glabrous, 14-14 in. long; lobes oblong, obtuse, minutely puberulous on 
the margin, otherwise glabrous, apparently erect during flowering, $ in. 
long. Stamens inserted immediately below the middle of the tube. 
Ovary glabrous ; hypogynous disc short, deeply lobed, bearing a few 
short erect hairs. Fruit not seen. 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Old Calabar, Thomson, 75! Cameroons? 
Buea, Preuss, 878! Bipinde, Zenker, 2132! 
2. C. Soyauxii, HW. H.W. Pearson. Glabrous. Leaves opposite, 
shortly petioled, ovate or elliptic, entire, rounded at the base, long- 
acuminate and obtuse, with distinct spreading parallel nerves, when 
dry glaucous above, brown beneath, 24-23 in. long, 14-14 in. broad. 
Fiowers not seen. Fruit ovoid, rugose, 1-1} in. long, ? in. broad ; 
endocarp bony. Seed not seen. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 263! | 
9. PEDDIEA, Harv.; Benth. et Hook. f, Gen. Pl. iii. 199. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, 4—5-merous. Calyx-tube cylindric, con- 
tinuous, deciduous. Calyx-lobes short, erect, spreading or reflexed. 
Petals 0. Stamens 8-10, in 2 whorls, inserted in the calyx-tube ; 
filaments very short; anthers linear or oblong, not exserted. Ovary 
