570 XCVII. PEDALINE& (STAPF). “Sigmatosiphon. 
Y ip 
cell. Fruit unknown.—Shrubs with a short trunk and long spinous 
branches. Foliage leaves in fascicles on arrested branchlets in the 
axils of the spines, deciduous. Flowers large yellow, in terminal 
racemes. 
Species 1, endemic, 
1. S. Gurichii, “ng/. ic. 151. A shrub, 9-12 ft. high; spines 
about 5 lin. long; flowering branches slender. Leaves obovate-cuneate, 
» lin. long, 14-2 lin. broad, deciduous before flowering. Pedicels 3 lin. 
long, greyish-tomentose. Calyx greyish-tomentose ; segments triangular. 
Corolla greyish-tomentose at first, then glabrescent, yellow; tube 25 
in. long, 2 lin. wide at the middle, 24~3 lin. wide near the base and the 
mouth ; lobes 7-8 lin. long, 5lin. broad. Anthers exserted, 2 lin. long. 
—Stapf in Engl. & Prantl, Natiirl. Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 262. 
Lower Guinea. (German South-west Africa; Southern Kaoko, at Dawib 
Kurub and between Franzfoutein and Chorichas, Giivich, 16. 
