380 XLVIII, ROSACEEH (OLIVER). [ Cliffortia. 
short sheathing, broadly winged by the membranous adnate stipules ; 
leaflets narrow linear with revolute margins, so as to appear almost 
acicular, glabrous, usually from }—3 in. long (in Cape specimens some- 
times shorter); occasionally the revolute margins do not meet over the 
under surface. Flowers almost concealed in the leaf-tufts. Male with 
a 4 (or 3?)-partite calyx, segments elliptical. Stamens as many as 
segments ; female with a single carpel, and 3 or 4 stamens inserted in 
the throat, the anthers of which may be effete. Nut (in the Cape 
plant) oblong-ellipsoidal, longitudinally ridged, coriaceous. 
Lower Guinea. Hauilla, Angola, 4500-5500 ft., Dr. Welwitsch! 
A form occurs with the ovaries insect-punctured and berry-like. 
9. BRAYERA, Kunth.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 622. 
Flowers polygamo-dioicous. Calyx-tube turbinate, hirsute, glabrous 
and contracted at the faux within; lobes 10, 2-seriate, in male flower: 
outer segments (bracteoles) oblong, equalling the tube, inner obovate 
concave, recurved membranous much exceeding the cuter: in female 
flower: outer ovate- or elliptic-oblong, obtuse, veined, about 3 times 
as long as tube, inner obovate, sometimes unequal, shorter than the 
outer lobes. Petals 0 or 5, much shorter than calyx-lobes, linear. 
Stamens inserted in the faucial annulus, indefinite, small or effete in the 
female flower. Carpels usually 2, closely embraced by the calyx-tube, 
distinct, ovary 1-celled, with I pendulous ovule, silky above, narrowed 
into the style, stigma dilated, capitate, rugulose. Rupe fruit. . . . .— 
Tree; leaty extremities annulate from the scars of the sheathing stipu- 
late leaf-base, rings at first hirsute with ascending hairs. Leaves 
tufted, imparipinnate ; leaflets membranous, oblong-lanceolate, acum!- 
nate, obtusely serrate, at length glabrous above, margin and under 
surface more or less pilose; stipules 1-3 or 4 in. long, adnate to the 
petiole nearly throughout. Flowers in ample terminal much-branched 
pilose or pubescent panicles, with ample membranous veiny bracts at 
each node, each with a pair of (or 3) rotundate sessile bracts at the 
base of the calyx-tube. 
Peculiar to Abyssinia. 
1. B. anthelmintica, Kunth ; DC. Prod. ii. 588. Leaflets all sessile, 
the lateral in about 5 pairs with an obliquely cordate base, varying to 
3 or 4 in. in length; minute leafy lobes are intercalated between the 
juge. Panicles varying in length to 1 ft. or more.—Bruce, Abyss. 
(Cusso or Banksia abyssinica) vii. 181. t. 22, 23; Hagenia abyssinica, 
Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 331. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia! nwmerous collectors. 
A celebrated anthelmintic. 
10. ROSA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 625 
Flowers rather large, hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube dilated, narrowed 
at mouth; limb 5-partite, segments spreading entire or pinnately 
