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3. O. senegambiensis, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg.i. 810. Stems 
many, from a woody rootstock, 1-1} ft., ascending, stout, branched, 
acutely 4-angled, scabrid ; nodes with long spreading bristles. Leaves 
a-lZim. by }-Zin., coriaceous, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, acute, 
pungent, 3-nerved, margins cartilaginous, obscurely serrate, equally 
strigillose on both surfaces; petiole 34,1 in. Flowers 3 in. diameter, 
in short terminal racemes, shortly pedicelled ; bracts shorter than the 
calyx, ovate, concave, scarious, deciduous. Calyx-tube }in., seabrid, 
with distant, short, simple or forked bristles; lobes linear-oblong, 
bristle-pointed, ciliate, as long as the tube, deciduous; appendages 
short, stout. Petals broadly obovate, ciliate, Jin. Anthers all 
equal and similar, equalling the filaments; connective not produced, 
2-tubercled. Capsule enclosed in the urceolate, 10-costate calyx-tube, 
top bristly. 
arn Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Cape Verd district, Dillinger (in Herb. 
ay.) ! 
3. GUYONTA, Naud.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 745. 
Calyx-tube hemispheric, glabrous or with a few long cilia; lobes 5, 
acute, equalling the tube, persistent. Petals ovate-lanceolate, acute. 
Stamens 8 or 10, equal ; anthers similar orbicular-ovoid, pore minute, 
connective produced at the base and jointed on the apex of the fila- 
ment with a minute tubercle at the joint. Ovary almost adherent, top 
tumid, glabrous; style flexuous; stigma capitate. Fruit capsular? 
Seeds cochleate.—Slender, glabrous, or sparsely ciliate, branched, 
annual herbs. Stems filiform. Leaves small, petioled, membranous, 
thombic-ovate, subobtuse, serrulate. Flowers axillary, solitary or few, 
rose-coloured. 
Ra ge Bea ae i G. tenella. 
lowers 4-merous . . . . Mae Sones USE pol eo ee ee 
1. G. tenella, Naud. in Ann. Sc. sér, 3, xiv. 150, t. 6. Glabrous. 
Branches 6-10 in., many, erect, from a creeping stem. Leaves 4—}in. 
long and broad; petioles 1-1in. Flowers shortly pedicelled, 4 in. 
lameter, 5-merous. 
Upper Guinea. Rare in marshes and rivulets of Senegambia, Heudelot. I have 
Seen no specimen. 
2. G. Ciliata, Hook.f. Sparsely ciliate with slender pale bristles 
on the stem and leaves above. Stem 4-angled, erect from a prostrate 
jvoting base. Leaves about 2 in. long and broad, glaucous beneath. 
Owers solitary, 4-merous. Calyx-tube with a few long cilia; lobes 
subulate-lanceolate, with long bristles. Petals not seen. 
Peper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! : i 
ossibly a ciliate 4-merous state of G. tenella. I have seen only a single specimen. 
