484 LVIII, LYTHRACEEZ (HIERN). [ Sonneratia. 
about 3 in. long, petiole 4—} in. long; lateral veins numerous 7 
inconspicuous. Flowers bracteate (fide Dr. Kirk), solitary at the ends 
of the stem and branches. Lobes of calyx lanceolate, Petals strap- 
shaped, } length of the lobes of the calyx. Stamens “in 3 fe 
“Style and stigma tubular ending in a cavity lined by the promingy 
ridges of the style corresponding to each carpel.” Fruit bus 
irrezularly from the base, leaving the central axis attached to the ca He 
Seeds 6 or 7 in each cell, radiating from the centre of the fruit. 48 
tyledons oily.—sS. mosambicensis, K]. in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 66, t. 1». 
Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Kirk! Peters. 
Occurs also in Tropical Asia. 
10. STREPHONEMA, Hook. f.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 782. 
Calyx coriaceous with openly campanulate tube and 4 or 5 equal 
short lobes. Petals as many as the lobes of the calyx and alterna 
with them, inserted at top of its tube, not corrugated, obovate, white CO, 
clawed. Stamens twice as many as the lobes of calyx, in 2 rows, ha : 
opposite petals and inserted just below them, the rest shorter, alternst 
ing with them and inserted at a lower level; filaments slender, lone 
tortuous; anthers short. Ovary partly adherent to tube ot calyx, , 
celled, 1—-2-ovuled; ovules pendulous from opposite sides of the top Me 
interior of ovary ; style slender, long; stigma punctiform or bifid . t . 
apex. Fruit succulent, drupaceous (?), 1-celled, 1-seeded.—Sbrubs : 
small trees, with alternate or subopposite coriaceous leaves, subtere F 
branches, panicled subumbellate inflorescence, caducous bracts #2 
verticillate bracteoles at base of umbellules. : 
This genus, endemic in Upper Guinea, is anomalous among the rest of this Family 
on account of its 1-celled 1—-2-ovuled ovary. 
Plant glabrous. Leaves not cuneate at base. . . . .....- LS. — 
Young parts silky. Leaves cuneate at base . . . . 2 . 8 Beare 
1. S. Mannii, Hook. f. luc. Glabrous shrub, 15 ft. high, with 
flowers fascicled axillary or crowded on short branches. Liane 
alternate, oblong, shining, suddenly shortly and narrowly ae 
nate, with recurved margins, midrib and lateral veins depresse 0 
upper surface, rounded at base or nearly so, 44—9 in. long by 13-33 wa 
wide. Petiole 4-4 in. long, stout, suddenly narrowed on under 0 
into midrib of leat, thus making a false articulation with it. Bu 
zlobose. Pedicels slender, 4—1 in. long. Bracteoles oblong, s™4 
Calyx with 4 or 5 roundly deltoid lobes, 4-3 depth of the caly%, 
minutely ciliate on margin. Petals spreading or retlexed, imbricat . 
in bud, longer than the lobes of the calyx. Fruit glabrous, ovate-com 
cal, curved near apex and tapering into the style, 2 or 3 times as long 
us the calyx, to the tube of which it is adherent. 
Upper Guinea. Old Calabar and Gaboon rivers, Mann! 
2. S. sericea, Hook. f. lc. Small tree, 20 ft. high with Mie 
branches silky. Inflorescence silky, axillary, panicled, sprea ng: 
