Peddiea. | CXYIII. THYMELHACE& (PEARSON). 249 
shortly stalked, densely pubescent above the middle, with 2 1-ovuled 
cells; style short; stigma capitate or more or less saucer-shaped ; 
hypogynous disc cup-shaped, surrounding the base of the ovary, entire, 
toothed or lobed. Fruit with a more or less fleshy exocarp and a hard 
endocarp, 1- (rarely 2-) seeded. Seed exalbuminous (rarely containing 
a little albumen) ; cotyledons thick.—Glabrous shrubs or small trees 
with alternate membranous or subcoriaceous leaves. Flowers yellowish- 
green, long-pedicelled in loose terminal peduncled racemes or umbels. 
Species 10, in Tropical and South Africa, 
Inflorescence racemose. 
Calyx-tube more than 3 in. long . : : . IL. P. longiftora. 
Calyx-tube less than 3} in. long. 
Calyx-tube glabrous. 
Leaves 14-2 in. wide . ‘ : : . 2. P. Fischeri. 
Leaves less than 1 in. wide . é : . 3. P. longipedicellata. 
Calyx-tube pubescent —. : : : . 4. BP. polyantha. 
Inflorescence umbellate. 
Umbel 15-20-flowered. 
Calyx-tube less than 1 lin. wide : : . o. P. Volkensi. 
2 
Calyx-tube 14-14 lin. wide P. Fischeri. 
Umbel 2-10-flowered. 
Calyx-lobes reflexed : : : . 6. P. parviflora. 
Calyx-lobes erect or spreading. 
Style longer than the ovary . 5 : - 7. P. cyathulata, 
8. P. Zenkeri. 
Style shorter than the ovary . : é 
l. P.longiflora, Lngl. d: Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix.257. A shrub. 
Leaves membranous, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, ob- 
tuse, rarely subacute, shortly petioled, glabrous, 44—6 in. long, 1}- 
1? in, broad; primary lateral nerves ascending, much-branched, con- 
spicuous. Umbel terminal, 10—12-flowered, glabrous ; peduncle 1—2 in. 
long; bracts at the base of the peduncle crowded, obovate-lanceolate, 
3 in. long, 2-24 lin. broad; upper bracts large, leaf-like, persistent. 
Flowers green, 4-merous; pedicels about } in. long. Calyx-tube 
glabrous, with prominent longitudinal ridges, 6-7 lin. long; lobes 
triangular-ovate, rounded at the apex, finely pubescent on the margins, 
3-1 lin. long, erect during flowering. Anthers linear-ovate. Ovary 
deeply furrowed at the base ; style stout, expanding above into the broad 
circular stigma; hypogynous disc cup-shaped, toothed or irregularly 
4—5-lobed to the middle, with a crenulate villous margin, }-} as high 
as the ovary. Fruit not seen. 
Upper Guinea. Togo: Bismarckburg, in thickets near streams, Bittner, 220 ; 
wet thickets between Jegge and Konkoa, Biitiner, 481; Assuma, in thickets, 
Biitiner, 287! 
Nile Land. Uganda: Entebbe, Brown, 214! 
2. P. Fischeri, Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 310. Leaves 
subcoriaceous, shortly petioled, lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, 23-3} in. 
long, 3-11 in. broad ; primary lateral nerves ascending, much-branched, 
prominent. Umbel terminal, 8—10-flowered, glabrous ; peduncle 3-1 in. 
