Ammannia. | LVIII. LYTHRACEH (HIERN). 481 
siderably, about 2 in. long. Flowers subsessile, 3-7 together, hairy. 
Bracts leaf-like, embracing the outer flowers, or linear subulate, hairy. 
Calyx campanulate, afterwards shortly campanulate, with 4 short lobes 
and 4 longer cornua, yellowish when young. Petals 4, lanceolate, 
minute, pale yellow or wanting. Stamens 4, exserted, or rarely 8 of 
which 4 are included. Ovary 2-celled; style of moderate length. Cap- 
sule transversely dehiscent, subglobular or ellipsoidal, reddish, some- 
what exceeding the calyx. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Huilla, fl. and fr. March, Dr. Welwitsch! 
6. WOODFORDIA, Salisb.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 778. 
Calyx tubular, coloured, somewhat curved and widened upwards, termi- 
nating with an oblique mouth which has 6 small equal deltoid lobes and 
4s Many external callous points or short cornua, glabrescent, persistent, 
in fruit oval-oblong and contracted at the mouth. Petals 6, opposite 
the cornua, lanceolate-linear, acute, very small or wanting. Stamens 
12, inserted near base of calyx, much exserted, declinate, the alternate 
ones longer; filaments filiform, curved near the apex; anthers ovate, 
attached by the middle of the back to the filaments. Ovary free 
oblong, narrowing at apex into style, 2-celled, somewhat laterally com- 
pressed ; ovules numerous; style filiform, curved, exserted; stigma 
Punctiform, emarginate. Capsule 2-celled, linear-oblong, included in 
the calyx ; pericarp membranous; placenta thick. Seeds small.—A 
shrub or moderate-sized tree with opposite subsessile leaves, red 
owers arranged in axillary clusters or rarely solitary, and pedicels 
dilated at the apex and bearing 2 small bracts at the base. 
A Senus of but one species, inhabiting also China, East India, Madagascar, and 
Omorin Islands. 
1. W. floribunda, Sulisb. Parad. Lond. t. 42. Much branched shrur 
Scattered with minute black glands, especially on the leaves. Leaves 
opposite, entire, rounded or subcordate at base, subsessile, ovate-lanceo- 
ate or lanceolate, acuminate, paler beneath, coriaceous; midrib lateral 
and marginal veins depressed or weak above and raised beneath. Pe- 
dicels dilated upwards and continuous with inferior portion of ovary. 
lowers about 2 in. long to end of stamens. Calyx about 4 in. long, 
Y + in. wide, red ; lobes 71, in. deep. Stamens nearly the same length, 
ut alternate ones rather longer; anthers dark red. Style thicker than 
aments, tapering.— Grislea tomentosu, Roxb.; DU. Prod. iii. 92. 
This plant appears to be trimorphic according to the relative length of the style and 
Stamens. It reaches 7000 ft. in Abyssinia Flowers in December and January. 
Fides a. tomentosa. Leaves gris«-o-tomentose, peduncles 4-8-flowered. Petals longer 
+ calycine lobes. Grislea multiflo:a, Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. te uaa ae 
ar. §. glabra! “aves sul subglabrous, peduncle 1-flowered. Pe 
shorter g teapot erect wpe cues, Ride ws G. micropetala, Hochst. 
YSs"iian names, Fisb&aélto, Dis-bellalloo. 
Nile Land. a. and 8. Abyssinia, Schimper! &e. 8. Seunaar, Kotschy! 
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