Strephonema. | LVIII, LYTHRACEE (HIERN). 485 
Leaves sub-opposite or alternate, shining especially on upper side, 
oval-oblong, acuminate, with margins neatly recurved, midrib and 
lateral veins silky beneath and in relief on both sides, somewhat cuneate 
at base, 4—63 in. long. Petioles 4 in. long, silky, patent, thicker than 
midrib of leaves. Bracteoles about 1 line long, oblong, patent or de- 
clining, concave, silky. Pedicels about } in. long. Calyx with 4 or 5 
shallow depresso-deltoid lobes. Petals white. Ovary partly inferior, 
glabrous, 1-celled, 2-ovuled. 
Upper Guinea. Muni river, Mann! 
ll. OLINIA, Thunb.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 785. 
Calyx tubular, adhering to the ovary and exceeding it, truncate 
at apex, thickened, sinuous or obscurely dentate; the portion above 
the ovary deciduous. Petals 5, inserted at apex of calyx-tube, persis- 
tent, as long as the calyx. Scales 5, alternating with and interior to 
the petals, narrow, ultimately incurved, arising from top of calyx-tube. 
Stamens 5, opposite and just below the scales; filaments very short, 
adnate, retlexed and directing the short 2-celled anthers extrorsely ; 
connective thickened. Ovary 3—5-celled, wholly inferior; cells few- 
ovuled; ovules pendulous from central column; style straight, club- 
shaped, included in calyx-tube; stigma blunt. Fruit drupaceous, 
~—9-celled, subglobose, surrounded by lower portion of calyx; cells 
1-seeded.—A shrub or small tree with opposite leaves and branches 
and terminal or subterminal inflorescence. 
An anomalous genus, consisting of only one species including three varieties ; it 
occurs also at the Cape, but not out of Africa. : : : ; 
a Olinia Rochetiana, A. Juss.” Schweinfurth, Fl. Aithiop. 259, is said to occur in 
yssinia. It is probably identical with O. eymosa. 
2. OE cymosa, Zhunb. in Rom. Arch. ii. Pars i. 4 (1799). A nearly 
glabrous shrub 4-10 ft. high, branched from the base; branches 
acutely quadrangular, especially at the extremities. Leaves glabrous, 
shortly stalked or subsessile, oval, narrowed at the base, bluntly 
ymarginate at apex, thinly coriaceous, deep green above, paler 
eneath, pellucidly net-veined, patent; margins somewhat incrassato- 
retlexed, scarcely wavy ; 1-21 in. long by 4-1} in. wide. Bracts and 
Tacteoles imbricated over the flower in bud, deciduous, white, hair ; 
_Wers about 4 in. long, with very sweet fragrance. Calyx sparingly 
pilose externally, glabrous internally, coriaceous. Petals white, pan- 
duriform, with’ a bunch of hairs inside near base, shorter than the 
calyx, quincuncial in estivation. Scales converging and closing the 
tube of the calyx in bud, hooded, narrowly obovate, spreading _ flower 
and subsequently incurved above the stamens. Style sparingly pilose ; 
yvary usually 4-celled. Fruit red. Seeds oval; embryo spiral, coty- 
ledons scarcely distinct.—KI. Ic. Pl. Rar. 60, t. 24 (1841). 0. capensis, 
l. Le. 6. t. 3; O. acuminata, Kl. l.c. 21, t. 21. 
Grows in rocky thickets, 
